The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-28
WANTS TO SELL OUT.
c. y. Freeman Of Philipsburg Anxious to
Leave the Country.

| special Dispatch 10 the Standard
Philipsburg. May &c. N. Freeman,
the veteran prospector, silver miner
and violinist, desires 10 sell all his min
| eral holdings in this county and leave
the country. He first came to Philips
burg In 1867 and made many quartz
| locations, to which he has since tenac-
| lously chung, doing the representation
| work each year! none being yet pat
| ented. The value I'm his ground and
the value in his mind taken together
is enormous; he is truly one of those
! people who are worth millions in his
| mind He has frequently refused Of
Iefs varying in amounts from a months
| board to $3.50. 600 for a single claim,
/ feeling sure that his own development
| was even then in wonderful ledge of
rich silver ore, but he has at last be-
come disguised with the financial and
social condition of the country and
fears thatif the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver does not prevail his prop
critics will be of no more value than the
bl-Metallic or Granite, and therefore
he wishes to sell all his mines in the
Flint Creek mining district and only
asks 100000 cor the lot
To investors, the old gentleman will
give his personal guarantee that they
VIII be repaid a million-fold and have
the world at their feet by just run
ming the tunnel in a little further, that
the pay ore is almost in sight and that
when uncovered it will prove to be the
most wonderful silver mine in his
tory.
The ancient doesn't go much on the
modern assayer: in fact, the assayers
and he have always been at outs. The
trouble seems to be that the assayers
cannot get the value out of his sam
pies, II being common occurrence for
them to take a sample that goes as
high as $1,000 per ton i'm silver. $3.50 in
gold hn halu g q he 81. In,
platinum, and give him a return of
a trace in silver and not even trace of
anything else, and they further agsra-
Nate the old man BY refusing to return
the sample, thus depriving him of an
opportunity 10 show it to his friends
and prove the falseness of their alleged
assay.
He has a platinum mine on Hope hill,
four feet wide, which carries just what
you would notice i'm silver. copper and
gold. say in round figures about $500
per ton and the. rest and principal
value is platinum. 1t was here where
the discovery was first made that the
tape lines around Philipsburg were
wrong, for according to measurement
by them the vein was only six inches
wide, and again the assayers proved
their Ignorance by failing to find any
thing in several Samples furnished
them except rock ~
MIR. Freeman was born on Black riv-
er, in Jefferson county. New York IS
years ago, and has been pioneer all
his life moving gradually westward
away from civilization and while he
supposed he had reached the most un-
civilized part OF the habtable globe.
and fully intended to remain and end |
his days in luxurious thought over |
his wonderful honanzas, he has been |
uneasy and wavering for some months |
past over the social, political and re- |
ligious diversions here, ana has at last |
concluded to sell out at a great sacri- |
flee and leave the country.
He offers all Of his claims for half a |
million dollars. silver preferred but /
gold or currency will be received at a /
slight discount; he will then leave for |
discover some more mines and /
grow up with the country.