The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-09-27
Granite County's Rich Min
ing Properties.
THE GOLD CREEK GOLD MINES
A Review OF the Mining Operations
mi That Wonderfully Rich Min
eral Belt-The Work on the
Lookout Company's Claims.
Our Correspondent Wis
Its Many Properties.

PRINCETON, Mont, Sept. 24.-Mount
Rose, mentioned in the previous letter
in THE MAIL, seems to be the particular
locality on upper Gold creek where the
hardy prospector has more than at any
other point concentrated his energies;
but there are any number Of promising
locations both westward and eastward.
In the former direction, Andrew Engman
and associates have group OF five
claims, and to the eastward, James
Carten is under bond for one. half
interest at 1926, 900 in four claims bearing
gold and silver-some very choice rock.
Since bonding these claims, Mr.. Carten
has made the strike OF another lode six
feet wide, and like all the rest in that
locality this lode, too, carries gold.
The next mining enterprise OF some
magnitude on Mount Rose-in addition
to Sullivan 4 Burrier's Eldorado and
associate lodes and tho Smith, F'orsell &
Co.'s Tiger lodes and mill (mentioned
last week lis the Lookout Mining Co.'S
group Of nine claims, q compact body Of
mining ground with splendid tunneling
opportunities. Nearly all that has been
said Of the Smith, Forsell & Co.'s prop
erty with this regard in last weeks letter
is also applicable to the Lookout Mining
Co.'s claims. They carry two powerful
gold bearing lodes Of from six to eight
feet wide with numerous smaller ones.
The underground openings on this group
are said to aggregate 275 feet--mostly
tunnels-and the assays range between
$3.50 and $85 per ton, with much higher
results on cabinet specimens.
The Lookout Go. is Phil1psburg In
corporation. George A. haywood is
president and general manager, Frank j.
Wilson, v1ce-president, and Charles e.
Hyner, secretary. They will employ six
to eight mon during the winter and ex-
pend something like $4,000 in develop
ment work. Louis Lindner is the
original locator OF most of these claims.
He is "stayer," having camped with
them through good report and evil, too,'
for fourteen or fifteen years. Success on
this group is only question of time and
intelligent application OF means in it's
further development.
Other quartz claims were not visited
by your correspondent in that neighbor-
hood because their owners were not upon
the ground
Heading down stream, James Carten's
cabin was struck, and interesting
"reminiscences of former years exchanged.
In this neigborhood, some six miles
from Pioneer but still in Granite county,
Peter Fowler and associates are hydraul-
licking some slate bedrock presumably
with good results though no particulars
we're obtained.
Not far from Mr. Fowler, on the west
fork Of Gold creek, Hughes & Robbins
are just engaged in opening up some
new ground. Besides "right smart dab"
OF coarse gold, they had neat nugget Of
the value of $675 to show for few days.
work only.
But, "oh N.Y." is not King & Tibbets'
Ivanhoe gold, silver and lead-bearing
lode "charmer.' Just such ono as,
next to charming woman, your indomit-
able prospector is most likely to "fall in
love with" not very large; "petite," in
fact, as the Frenchman would say; but
from the chloriders point of view, "just
lovely:" two clean walls with "clean pay"
(not an ounce OF waste) between them;
1923 IN gold, $50 ounces silver and 20 to 30
per cent lead, and no water to handle;
stands up pretty straight, too, as if to
say, "come, follow me-" why, it's "ten
times better" than one of last years
national bank accounts. King & Tibbets
are surely in luck. Jack says it was 45
years coming.
Granite county should look to her
interests in that country. It is among
the best Of its mining ground. The
county commissioners OF Deer Lodge
county have shown commendable public
spirit in appropriating $4,000 for road
to connect with the Royal mine, and
more is to be added by way Of private
in Deer Lodge to take it
beyond the boundary line OF Granite
county; in fact, they "are carrying tho
war into Africa" as Sclopo OF old did in
Rome.
The country described can readily be
reached by several routes-two or moro
passing through Princeton, and others
DETECTION from Stone Station. Several
surveys by, a competent
engineer would indicate which is the