The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-16
GLITTER OF GOLD
PONY, RICHMOND FLAT
AND NORWEGIAN MINES.
An Exhaustive Write-up of Some
of Mad;SOn's Mines and PrOspects by
Our Vesatile Pony Correspondence
Some Splendid Properties

PONY, March 9.|(Special COrre-
spondence. Since silver-for the
time being-has been sent to the 'bow-
vows through the manipulations of
the bond-blooded gold-buggers of Wall
and Lombard streets, one can daily see
the indefatigable prospectors at work
in the old gold camps of Richmond
Flats, Sterling, Norwegian and Pony
prospecting the old mines that were
struck years ago, and also striking new
ones. The wonderfully successful de-
velOpment of the Revenue, Monitor
and Galena mines-the later two par
tictlarly. having lain idle for years
has stimulated the development of 9th
ers, and a number of them with the
most encouraging results. Your corre-
spondent has succeeded in cleaning a
few items from the Sterling and Nor
wegian mines, tO-wit:
The Galena and Midas No. /, owned
by p. V. Jackson, of Sterling, are
leased by Stewart & Co. They are
working the Galena from 100 foot in
cline, from the bottom of which level
is being run in body of high-grade
ore. Near the surface the quartz was
free-milling, and G. F. Cope, who mill
ed it in the early days, stated that it
went $50 per ton. That produced at
present is smelling ore. The charact-
of the ore is sulphurit of iron and cop
per- carrying ounces of gold and 10
ounces of silver. A shipment will be
made Immediately to Butte, Will Reel
doing the hauling to Norris. This
property is patented, and included in
the 40 acres are, at least, six distinct
veins, all, so far as opened, having the
same character of ore, rich in gold,
silver and copper. A commodious
clearinghouse and substantial hoist
are recently added improvements while
the solid timbering and appliances
Throughout the mine for handling ma
terial speedily and cheeply, betoken a
a practical miner at the helm. If this
property continues to improve, as it is
now doing, the Revenue and Monitor,
its near neighbors. will soon have to
look to their laurels.
At the head of French, a small gulch
putting into Norwegian, Chas. Finch,
at depth of 25 feet on the old "Dolly
Varden' mine, has struch an exceed
ingly rich chute of ore. In the early
days three jolly miners struck it big in
the gulch below the "DOlly''-fine
gold, coarse gold and nuggets plenty.
They worked few days and then took
their plethoric purses to the then ex-
tremely live town of Virginia City.
"Come easy go easy" was fully exem-
plified in their cases, for they had sue
cumbed to the gaiety Of the place, and
when they returned home said purses
were as fiat as the Knippenburg flag
bill after it had been sat down upon.
And, alas! they were never filled
again in French Gulch-much to the
surprise and disappointment of their
owners-for the balance of the gold
was all up in the Dolly Varden,"
which lode had not then been found.
The "B. F. r." lode, up in the foot
hills on Norwegian, is owned by AL
Dimnock. At depth of 60 feet the
crevice is 81 feet in width, six inches
of it, he says, goes $50 per ton in gold
and 60 per cent. copper. A streak, on
the foot-wall, from to 18 inches wide,
runs $500 per ton in gold and 81 ounces
in silver. The balance of the crevice
is low-grade. He will soon make a
shipment of his high-grade ore.
At the head of little Canadian,
Louis GOornier is down 25 feet on a
mine of his own which carries 1925 ore.
He and Alex Norris own another vein
near the Mound, between Norwegian
and Sterling, that they are working,
and which, at depth of 35 feet is four
feet wide. Samples s25 per ton and is
improving as depth is attained. Near
them John Fletcher and Snyder have
q mine which is developed to consid-
erable extent and assays Sl35 per ton.
The "Black Chief" has q IS foot
shaft, q 10 crevice and mills $3.50 per
ton. Rufus Barter is the owner and