The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-09-20

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The quartz lodes at the headwsters OF
Rock creek may be fully as good az those
OF Gold creek, but they have not yet been
exploited to the came extent and wers
not visited by your correspondent for
want OF time These, too, are in Grant.
county--which comprises, probably. the
finest patch Of mining ground in these
United States.
The first group of lodes encountered
we're those of Sullivan & Burrier, two "a
bona tide and genial prospecting mlners
as ever polished drill-heads or dulled
pick points. Their six claims almost at
the head of Gold creek-nine miles from
Prlnceton-but readily Accessibility form
compact body Of mining ground, tho
contguration Of whose surface and tha
unusually bold groupings indicate large
bodies of gold bearing quartz underneath
1t, which presumption is fully borne out
by the extensive development they have
put upon their main (the Eldorado) lode
This consists in shaft 60 feet deep and
tunnel 27o feet in (well timbersd) ana
a crosscut showing the lode to be 81 foot
wide at one point and 19 at another.
That the lode carries high grade pay
anyone can satisfy himself by panning
handful from the hundreds OF tons OF
quartz on the dump. Their assays range
between s5 and $3.50 per ton, gold, and
only one or two ounces silver. These
assays are with reference to very larre
and smaller, but still appreciable ore
bodies, for they get as much as $500
from selected specimens. A very valu-
able feature of their ore is Especially
after the recent experience of tho Royal
Gold company, whose 200 tons Of con-
centrates yielded s2O,OOO)-the adapta-
bility OF it's sulphurets for concentration.
but the bulk OF it free milling.
Your pilgrim next came upon Oscar
Smith, Gustavus Forsell and company's
Tiger lode, which, with it's parallel con-
sort as mate, forms another compact
body OF mining ground 1900 feet wide
and 5000 feet long in the heart of Mount
Rose This mountain rises from tho
level OF Gold creek at an average grade
OF about 65 degrees from the horizontal.
or say Is degrees off the perpendicular.
to hight Of 1,50O OIL more feet. "What
a splendid tunneling chance" is the first
impression made upon the locker on, and
the beauty of 1t is that there il some
thing of value to tunnel for: three power
ful lodes ~ to 5 feet wide cut Mount
Rose (Whose trend is north and southl
from east to west, besides every 100 fest
or so smaller lodes OF from six to twelve
inches in width, divide the eternal
granite into SO many perpendicular,
sometimes diagonal layers. # would
almost seem as if the "master workmann
OF the universe had deposited these i'm
mense blocks of granite one by ore. then
bound them together with the cement of
the gold bearing quartz lodes. The whole
OF Mount Rose is one vast network Of
gold-bearing lodes. The 800-toot doubls-
track tramway leading up to the Tiger
tunnel would be study Tor many m
engineer. The Rocky mountain eagle
perched upon the perpendicular cliffs
500 or 1000 feet above the tunnels
mouth must look with admiration upon
the diminutive forms of the men busy
below FOR their daring and enterprise ia
thus invading his heretofore undisput>d
domain. Smith, Forsell and associates
(some eight or ten in all, mostly in Ia
terest in the mine) have made bold
break for material prosperity, which now
looks as within easy reach in tho near
future. Soon they will make regular
clean-ups from the plates Of their four to
five tons per day mill and the concentra-
tor to be added thereto; then Gold
Greek district will owe them debt Of
gratitude for having built the first quartz
mill there, with nothing more than few
hundred dollars (perchance thousand
or tWo) but any amount of pluck and
perseverance, to stand with. The under.
taking ls fine instance of intelligent,
and it would seem successful Cooperative
mining.
Sullivan & Burrier Of the Eldorado
lode, mile or 80 above, intend to run !
hundred or more tons of their high grade
ore through the Smith, Forsell & Co.'S
mill.
The underground openings on the
Tiger lodes-all tunnel work-agQreQate
some zoo feet, the extreme range Of assays
is $40 and $4OO to tho ton, gold. Soon
the mill will establish the milling grade
OF the ore, which is likely to be some
"nere between S4 ana $5U per ton.
The writer then visited King g. T1bbats.
James Carten, Hughes & Robbins, tho
Lookout Mining Co.'s claims, and many
many others, but their description must
be deferred for another lssue
=, Mining men OF enlarged views and
liberal means at command will find tho
Gold Greek gold mining district exceed
1ngly interesting ground to look over.
Mining hobos should give it a wide berth
In the interest OF my prospecting friends.
r. Z. RoHBAUER.
Awarded