The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-10-19
GOLD! GOLD!
GOLD! GOLD!
Valuable Discoveries Made This
Week Not Far From
Neihart.
RICH DEPOSITS OF PRECIOUS METAL
The Coming Gold Camp of Mon
tana is at Our Very
Door.

Whispers Of rich diggings and of
new discoveries were heard about
camp as we last went to press, but
as no authentic information could
then be obtained the HERALD made
no allusion to the subject. One
week ago the location of the great
bonanza was known only to three or
four men who happened to be on the
inside, and who had silently pros
pected the ledge for some time past.
Assays of gold were shown by these
men as high as s3360 per ton; and
then the public pulse awakened, act
ivity was quickened, and before
twenty-four hours had rolled around
hundred men were on the ground
with picks, shovels, pans, and loca-
ton blanks eagerly anticipating a
fortune with every turn Of the sod.
The scene of the excitement is
about four and half miles down
Belt creek from Neihart, on the west
bank Of the stream, although consid-
cradle prospecting is being done on
the east side of the creek. The first
claims to cause tide of agitation
were located by Jay Hazeltine, Jas.
Gam and VIM. Bonner. They were
the Poor Mans, the Jaybird and the
Little Anaconda, quartz lodes, sup
posedly located upon the same ledge
or vein of ore. Their samples of a
seven foot vein averaged about $1S
per ton in gold on both the Poor
Mans aud the Little Anaconda. I'm
mediately these gentlemen took G.
L. McGibbon and with him located
the Bonner and the Gam placer
claims along Gam creek. NJ. F.
Boland and others located claim on
a vein lying next west of the Little
Anaconda. Chas. Roberts, Fred
Sprague, Joe Brulotte, John Pay
cite, AL Bronson, Powers Bros, Err
nest Close, Waterworks Smith, Alex.
Wright, E. L. Murphy, Thos. West
gard, Dan Macintosh, DIR. Vidal, H.
B. Mitchell, Jas. Kyle, B. B. Cook,
Geo. Marelius, II. M. Wilson, Chas
McGibbon, AL. Fickes, B. O. Kemp
fer, Frank Lindquist, 7. B. Gregg,
Robt. Parry, Duncan MCGOWAN and
others at once located claims in the
district. Within three days there
we're made forty-fve placer and
quartz locations.
1t is the first stampede Neihart has
known In many year. Old timers
felt the inspiration and dreamed over
the dreams Of Alder gulch and the
Last Chance diggings. A hundred
men tramped the hills night and day,
lanterns and torches in season, keen
ly scrutinizing every rock or crevice
for the 'float" to guide the prospec-
tor to wealth. 1t is interesting to
watch the scene, constantly shifting
and changing as here and there the
restless gold hunters appear and dis
appear among the hills and ravines
always on the 60, like SO many pis-
mires about log heap in spring
time.
= a HERALD reporter visited the
scene Of the excitement Monday
The above description fits that day
to a nicely, although many changes
have since been and are still being
made. Gam and Hazeltinc that day
were making bedrock ilume on the
Bonner placer, intending to sluice
the bed of the stream. They stopped
work long enough to pan out some
gold for our inspection, the result o
two pans of dirt being fully sufficien
to satisfy our curiosity. The two
sample pans which the HERALD MAJ
himself picked from the breast of th'
tunnel on the Poor Man averaged q
cents in fine shot gold. This is suf
fcent to convince the most faithles
as regards the paying quality of th'
discovery.
On Tuesdays train these parte