The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-02
TRAIL CREEK IS ALL RIGHT.
Prominent Mining Men Enthusiastic
Over Its Prospects,
GnpcfaI 80 tI,

ONtF us prospects,.
Special Correspondence OF the Standard
SPOKANE, WASH, Feb. 27.-Geu
Charles ). Warren, the Butte minin
man; j. A. Coram and &. II. Paine
of the Butte & Boston company, and |. I
Merrill, the latter company's expert. re
turned last evening from Trail Greek
where they spent a week looking over il
prospects. Negotiations for the contro
OF several properties are now in progress
as result of the visit. The members OF
the party spoke in terms of praise o.
what they saw.
ut is the best camp / ever saw" sale
General Warren, land have lived in anc
around Butte for 20 years. 1 am comm.
back inside of 20 days. l don't believe
ever felt so sorry because had to leave q
place in my life. The surface indicatio ion.
are tiptop, and the development worl
thus far performed is encouraging. Trail
Creek is going to be the best camp for
| Spokane that was ever started"
Mr. Coram said he, too. was pleased.
but there is one thing" he added. shat
Is going to retard the development of the
camp materially if it is persisted in. ]
refer TO the disposition shown by SO many
holders of claims to hang onto their prop
erty In the hope of getting a large cash
PNSiAA1hN DSlOIS suOWluR mas Decn maQe.
Who do you suppose is going to pay a big
price for the privilege of spending IN ore +?
Mining men are not doing it any more,
and suckers are getting scarce.
with railroad facilities, and UNDER
stand they will be provided for, Trail
Creek has fine prospects. There is a
large quantity of low grade ore that will
be worked up when the means of trans
portation are provided
The Osburn, Idaho, correspondent of
the SpokeSman-Rerieio says: There is evil
dence of improvement in the Occur
a. Alenes, and merchants say that sales
are larger now than at this time last year.
A hopeful feeling pervades the camp. In
the gold belt especially is the improve
ment noticeable. Several properties will
be heavy producers this year that were al
most unheard of year ago.
The Daddy mine at Murray is proving a
bonanza and gives employment to nearly
40 men. In this vicinity is the old reliable
Golden Chest, richer than ever before and
now getting ready to double the capacity
of its mill. Supt. II. C.. Gregg is having
100000 feet of lumber sawed at Copeland's
mill and building operations will begin
during March. Besides the bullion turned
out at the Chest several teams are kept
busy hauling ore and concentrates to the
railroad at Wallace and Osburn.
Marins ii. Randall of St. Paul is expert
ing the old Idaho, across the gulch from
the Mother lode. and there is chance
that this mine, too, will be q producer this
year. Much money has been spent devel-
oping the Idaho, but the ore thus far
found has been of rather low grade and
Gould not be profitably worked. Mr.. RAN
iall, however, says 1t can be operated.
Frank Jenkins has made a splendid |
howing on the property near Delta,
bonded by him last fall, and upon which |
lie has had a force of men at work all |
winter. He will erect mill. Gordon & |
1oulson are now putting in mill for the |
purpose of saving out his bill of lumber,
IS well as manufacturing lumber for hy- |
Iraulic miners in the vicinity of Delta. |
Much work will be done on new ground |
Iround Myrtle and Delta this year, and a
prosperous time will be experienced by
hose towns.
At Carbon, the little camp at the foot of
sunset mountain, w. c. Hill and a Min
eapolis syndic ate are having patented
everal hundred acres of placer claims, as
'ell as several good quartz claims. A
lumber of men are working on various
laims, on which are many rich ores, in
he vicinity of Carbon; in fact, develop
lent work has been done on more claims
round Sunset peak this winter than in
lany years past.
There has been one new strike reported
1 the South Fork silver-lead district so
lr this year. 1t is by James Brady and
artner on n claim near Burke. So rich
as the strike, in fact, that the owners
adj no trouble in bonding the claim for
100000.
Col. l. \. Muncy of Pasco, and later of
sburn and Columbia river fame, has
gain appeared on earth. this time on the
olqullle river near the dividing line be-
yeen Oregon and California. He is work.
lg sandbar near the mouth of the above
yer.
j. L. Blalock of Walla Walla has filed
18th the county auditor of Whitman
'unty, Wash, notice of an appropria-
on of water right, claiming water from
ock lake to the extent of 1000 feet per
'cond. The notice states that the water
i'll be stored in Rock lake, which is to be
;ed as n reservoir, and the water is to be
'nveyed In bitches and natural channels
n southwesterly direction, where it is to
; used for the purpose of irrigating lands
Adams and Franklin counties sucL as
ay be accessible to said bitches, to be
,reafter located.
We Are stilI Giving Them Away.
Every person visiting our store receives
handsome souvenir. +. Wertheimer
rug company, 10 West Granite street. f,