The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-05
UP ON TRAIL CREEK
George HaldOrn Is Favorably In
pressed With the Country.
A HOME FOR MANY BUTTE MEN
Mr.. Heinze IL Erecting a Large
Smelter There-The Character
of the Ore-How Claims Are
Located-The License.
A HOME FOR MANY BUTTE MEN

George Haldorn returned yesterday
from a trip to the Trail Creek coun-
try, where he is interested, with a
number of other Butte men, in some
rich mining properties. He is very
| much impressed with the mineral
wealth of that district, but the coun-
try Is reached with great difficulty.
From Northport, south of the interna-
tional boundary, transportation is by
stage to Rossland, the principal town
of the Trail Creek district, over a new
mountain road with a grade Of 1890
feet in Is miles. Rossland is a re-
markably well built town, says Mr..
Haldorn, and has a population OF sew
eral thousand people. The town. while
1t is full of mines, is as quiet as any
Sunday under Roosevelt. There is no
open gambling and there are very few
saloons. Liquor licenses are hard to
get and can only be obtained in con-
nection with a hotel or boarding house.
The most notable thing about Ross
land is the almost total absence of
Englishmen and Canadians. The popu-
lation Is composed almost entirely of
Americans and Canadians who have
lived in the United States for years.
Mr.. Haldorn met about 100 former
Butte men in Rossland. Butte miners
are in great demand there, but they
country as wages are only So a day.
Living Is comparatively cheap. the
best day board being only $3.50. Among
the Butte men in Ross1and is Daniel
Shaw, formerly of Shaws Main street
cafe. He is proprietor of the PRINCIPAL
hotel dn that town. Patsy Clark is
manager of the War Eagle mine and
Phil Hickey is superintendent of the
Crown Point. T. ]. Moffat is superin-
tendent of the Pilgrim and Charles
Cluett is running an assay office there.
George Breckenridge and Scott Nagus
are running the stage line from North
port to Rossland.
Butte men are everywhere in the
new mining district. Mr.. Haldorn
says there is no doubt but what the
mountains in the vicinity of Rossland
are very rich in mineral, but from the
character of the formations IL will al
ways require companies of large capt.
tai to work the mines successfully.
The country is hard to prospect. IL
being covered with dense timber and
The mountains are very steep, but the
groupings, OF iron cappings," as II is
called there, can be seen all over the
mountains. The Iron camping and
the country rock are extremely hard.
1T is almost impossible to work a
claim with hand drills, and machinery
for the work is being shipped in as
fast as transportation facilities will
allow. The quartz, as a rule, carries
gold and copper and prices asked for
claims are beyond all reason. Mr.
Haldorn examined three claims, one
of which was developed to the extent
of 12-foot shaft, in which was shown
a few feet of ore. The owner asked
$4,000 for the property. There was
considerable talk at Rossland about a I
strike in the Boundary district. but
the reports brought in were that the
ore was of low grade.
The War Eagle, Josie and LeRoi have
quite extensive plants, and are shipping
a great deal of high grade ore. At the |
Iron Mask, which adjoins the Center
Star, while excavating for a turnout in
the road, a seven-foot vein of very rich
ore was uncovered, which is one of the !
sights of the camp In the Homestake |
the vein has been uncovered in three
places and makes great showing. The |
Lee and Maid of Erin are putting din ex-
tensive hofsting works. The Colona.
which was recently purchased by Lin
nemann & Schmidt of Butte, shows |
very rich ore, though the work of de- |
velopment has just begun. They are
about to start "a tunnel to crosscut the |
vein. The Colona is located right |
among the big producers, and is count |
ed one of the most promising properties |
DIN the camp. The West LeRoi and Jo- |
sic Consolidated are extensions of the /
1T is believed. Judging from the out
groupings and the strike, both veins |
come together or consolidate.
great deal of work has been done
on the Center Star and buildings have |
been erected for the machinery, part |
of which came down on the boat last |
Saturday morning. The Center Star is
the mine of which p. "A. Largely Us pres
ident and in which Alex Tarbet and /
other Butte men are interested. This
is one of the few claims located be-
fore the law was changed. in 1892 and
on the Center Star the vein can be fol-
lowed, therefore. on the dip. Under the
new law. locations are 500 feet square
50 acres of surface ground /
and bounded by vertical lines DOWN
ward. Under the law no person. Meth
er native nor alien, can locate a claim
or buy an interest without first having
what lis called a free miners
license, for which a IS fee Is charged.
When locations are made the number
of "a license must be placed on the loca-
tion notice and also on the certificate
OF Improvement and application for a
crown grant or patent. Mr.. Haldorns
license was No. 64,479, which would in
dictate that the governments revenue
on miners licenses in the Trail creek
up to date has been about $780,
s95.
Seven miles down the trail from Ross
land F. A. Heinze of this city is put
ting in an immense smelter. He has
splendid location, right on the river
bank.