The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-01-12

granite formation, and in fissure veins.
trending north and south, parallel with
those in and about Neihart, but separat-
ed from them by quite a wide belt of
granite, which is apparently barren of
mineral deposits.
The reporter found the prospectors at
their cabin near the old charcoal pits.
where w. ]. Smith is still manufacture
ing this form of fuel to supply the busy
FORCES at the Broadwatcr and other
mines at Neihart.
Regis Provost, Joe Brulottc and John
Payette received the paper man with the
usual cordially and offered him what
ever assistance they were able to give.
We went straight to the mines.
THE IMPERIAL GROUP.
"A visit was first made to the Imperial
group which is nearest the cabin, and IN
which they are interested. After going
over this ground and gathering such in
formation as seemed of value, the story,
set together reads as follows:
The group consists of eight claims,
known as the Imperial, Pascoro, Black
Fox, Silver Fox, Virginia, Franklin. OF
tawa and New York. The principal
work has been done on the Imperial,
where there are $50 feet of drifts. cross
cuts, spurs, etc, besides Il winze in the
main drift about 35 feet deep. The OF
tawa contains a shaft 40 feet deep and
the Franklin a tunnel so feet long.
The Imperial presents a vein so to 80
feet in width. 1t is filled near the sur
face with quartz stained throughout with
oxide of copper. Occasionally a samp-
lie of ore was found in the vein which as
sayed well in copper, besides carrying a
few ounces of silver. But in all the
drifting and prosecuting the owners
failed to find ore in any considerable
quantity.
They finally conceived the idea that Il
Wine should be sunk in the tunnel, and
that they might encounter an ore body
after attaining greater depth. They nc
cordingly chose a spot in the m ain tun-
mel about 100 feet from its mouth where
the indications of ore appeared best and
after cutting a station started to sink. At
a depth of about 20 feet they found a
body of ore which they sank upon 20
feet further, when an immense flow of
water forced them to quit work.
At the bottom of the Wine the ore is
eight or nine feet wide. 1t consists of
copper pyrites, streaked here and there
with gray copper. A sample of this
vein was sent for analysis to the assaycr
Of the Boston & Montana company at
Great Falls who returned n report up
on it which, with the consent of the
owners, we print in full:
Copper, 1873 per cent; silver, O.6 Oh.
gold, $3.50; iron 2G per cent: silica, 30
per cent.
Upon this information they calculate
that the ore will net them at Great Falls
about Sl2 IA ton gbovc all expenses of
mining, shipping and reducing. Last
Monday was started a tunnel 10 feet
lower down, with the intention of driv-
ing toward this ore body, thus to drain
the winze. This completed they can De
able to stope out an immense quantity
of ore and secure the means with which
to buy necessary machinery to more full
ly develop the ground. 1t is estimated
that at days pay the work already done
here would have cost $1,000 or $4,000.
THE LITTLE JOE GROUP.
This interesting group of claims lies
about a mile east of those above describ-
ed and in sight Of Marelius' slaughter
house. 1t consists of five claims and is
the property of Messrs. Gregg. Boland,
Brulotte and Bergeron. The principal
claims are the Little Joe and Albina, the
latter of which has a IS foot tunnel and
the former tunnel 325 feet long. The
ore body on this group has not yet been
found intact, but specimens of fine ore
have been taken out from time to time.
one of which, upon analysis was found
to contain II per cent copper and 4 on.
of silver per on. The indications ere
similar to those on the Imperial. An
extremely widevein is filled every
where with copper stains and low grade
copper ore. The belief is general by
those who have examined the ground
that the ore will be found when water is
reached and that a very little depth will
bring it to light.
THE ROYAL GROUP.
About a mile above and still west O
the Imperial is the Royal group o