The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-04

ROADS TO THE MINES
Camp Creek People Are Agitating the
Important Question.
THEY OUGHT TO HAVE ONE
The Country Is Being Prospected-
How the Cataract District Was
Benefited-Ceneral Mining
Notes of This Section.


Notes of This Section.
The people of Camp creek are again
agitating the great need of a wagon
road from that place to Butte by the
way of Moose town and Basin gulch.
Such a road, II is claimed, could be
built at an expense of less than $1,000,
and that less than three miles of new
road would have to be built and very
little repairs would have to be made
on the Basin and Bear gulch road to
Moose creek. Such a road would bring
more trade to Butte than all of Jeffer-
SON county could furnish. The distance
from Butte to Camp creek would be
reduced to about four hours, while at
present. going by the way of Melrose,
nearly two days are taken up in max
ing the trip. At least 500 men are EN-
ployed in prospecting and representing
around Camp creek and about 400 more
in the Rochester district.
]. w. Murphy. who is largely inter-
ested in Camp Creek properties, came
in from that district yesterday and re-
ports the camp bustling with activity.
The Anaconda company has about $50
men employed on development work.
and ts paying out about $4,000 a
month in the camp. A two compart-
ment shaft has been sunk 240 feet on
the Banner and another OF the same
depth on the Columbia. Most of the
other work by the company is being
done on the Clipper. A lot of large ma
chinery is being put in and ore bins
being built and the supplies put in to
accommodate 300 men this winter.
+. A. HeinZe, of the Montana Ore
a G inc h.oC
bond on the Twin Pine at the mouth OF
Wicky-Up creek and is down $50 feet
and drifting on promising vein. Mr..
HeinZe also has a lease and bond on
the Maggie, adjoining the Twin Pine,
and is sinking on 1t. The shaft on the
Maggie is down only SO feet but a con-
tract was let yesterday for sinking $50
feet. The Maggie is the property that
was worked by Major Hornbrook in
1893.
Louis Des Riveres and Joe Herman
are developing and taking out ore on
the Bonanza, a claim that was located
by them only last July, and UP to the
present time they have realized $17 900
in profits.
The Hecla Mining company is devel-
oping It's mines in Soap gulch and on
the King and Queen flats. The COM
pany Is also doing some extensive de-
velopment work on one or It's proper
ties between Wicky-Up and Corral
gulch.
Mr.. Mueller. formerly superintendent
of the Colusa. has leased his mine, the
Buffalo, in the Rochester district. to-
gether with the mill to a company of
Butte men.
Mr.. Murphy feels confident that some
day the Camp Greek mines will be as
great producers as those of the Sum-
mt valley distinct 1t has been but a
very few years since the real value of
that country was discovered and active
development work begun. though the
district itself has been prospected for
about q years. Among the first men
there were John Trainor, Captain
Brannigan. Mr.. Bowman, Billy Brown.
ana Andy Grubb. Bowman was the or
iginal locator of the Clipper. and Is at
present diving on a ranch at the foot of
the-Highland mountains on the Camp
Creek side. Trainor is still interested
In the Crown Point group of mines be-
tween Camp Creek and Soap gulch.
Brown sold out his interests in Camp
creek and is now located in the Vipond
district, on Quartz Hill, below Dewey.
The first work done in the district
was all surface prospects for gold. they
being worked with an araster by a
man named Bell. Jack Roberts and a
man named Ingraham made the first
=
trict' about seven years ago. and came
from the Clipper. on which they had
lease and bond from Bowman. GrutJb
ana others. The ore was shipped to
New York and averaged 80 per cent.
copper. A short while after that the
Monat Brothers also made a shipment
or ore to the Lewishons In New York
w. A. Clark at one time had a lease
and bond on the Clipper property and
ran 200 foot tunnel and then surren-
dered the lease. 1t is said he could
have purchased the property at that
time FOR very few hundred dollars.
The Cataract road has been COM
pleted and teams nave already conn
menced to haul ore down from the
mines and supplies up to them" says
the Basin Times. This road has been
the one most sought for by the people
on this end of the county. There were
none more posted as to the wealth of
the Cataract country than were the
miners who proSpected the country and
knew just what was cor,tair<>, in n. n
was not the large mines thai Were 10
receive the greatest benefit, IL was the
smaller onAs. those which were not
prospected TO any great extent and be-
longing to poor men who believed they
had good property and did not pro-
pose TO give IL away. These poor pros
pectors have held their claims for many
years in the hopes that the people OF
the county. and more especially the
commissioners. would realize the value
OF the Cataract country and assist