Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-04-08
MINES Of THE NORTHWEST
SILVER BOWS IMMENSE OUTPUT
Discosers In oregon of Rich Gold
Bearing Quartz ON Limestone
aud POrDhyry Contact-Old Idaho
C"mp-Latest Stampede From
DOWnOn.

As showing the enormous amount of
wealth produced in Silver Bow county,
Montana, some figures prepared by Flu.
gene Il. BIaden, in charge of the United
states assay Office in Helena, are of the
greatest moment. MIR. Braden has placed
the entire output of Silver Bow county
from 1882 to 1897, inclusive, at the enor.
nous figure for gold, silver and copper a t
S3s3, Os6,7T.07. The total of go .2ss. lG4
fine ounces of gold was valued at Sll.l4s..
o'o'4 The product Of silver 1866. OOl
ounces, would be worth at coinage rate.
Sl46,ss3,234. Mr.. lsraden has estimated
the value OF the copper output by com
putting copper at II cents a pound. As IL
matter OF fact the estimate is probably an
exceedingly conservative one, the average
price of that commodity having been
during the years 1882 until 1897 inclu.
slve, l3.416 cents, making it probable that
Mr.. Biadens figures are duly low But
even at II cents the product, l,S75, 462 PAP
pounds, is shown To be worth the enor-
nous sum of $225,O55, 467.O4. The most
remarkable thing about it all, as it will
strike the average student, is that all that
has been taken from within practically a
radius of three miles--the city of Butte
and it's immediate vicinity.
Recent Oregon Discovery.
The recent discovery of rich gold bear
ing quartz on limestone and porphyry
contact near APPLICABLE, in jackson coun.
ty, Oregon. is worthy OF more than a pass
ing notice. 1t used to be the prevailing
opinion among competent mining author
tiles that this formation was not favor
able to auriferous naturalization until the
discovery in recent years Of the extensive
and almost inexhaustible gold fields at
Mercur, Utah, in similar formation
This limestone dyke, in which the discov-
cry was made, is of metamOrphic char.
acter, or what be called in common par.
lance a blue black marble. and is mine,al-
lzed to greater or less degree through
out the entire mass. but as rule the gold
Is found in black, cherry impure quartz
extending through oXidized lime or mar
BILE over on jackson creek, about two
miles from Jacksonville, which has proved
to be highly mineralized in both gold and
silver, as in the Beekman and Huffer
mine. Below this calcite dyke the early
placer miners in the SOS used to pick up
some wonderfully rich gold and silver ore
in the ground sluice. and it was a mys-
terry from whence it came until the dis
covery in recent years, as above stated, in
the Beekman and Hufrer mine
Texas District.
One of the oldest mining camps Texas
district) encountered in this northwest
region is situated at the headwaters of
the Lemhi river, Idaho. In the sos it at
tracted considerable notice, and attained
a very prominent position as an ore pro-
Queer. The camp was one of the best wa
tered and timbered of any locality in Ida
no, and its accessibility and natural adj
vantages were unsurpassed. Its natural
outlet is through the fertile valley lead
ing past Spring mountain, Nichola, and
down along Birch creek, thence t. Dubois,
Idaho. Upwards of $4,000 were taken
from one of its mines alone, and altogeth.
err it has produced in the neighborhood of
$75, 900 worth Of bullion. Something like
200 mining claims were located within
the district. No great depth was ever
attained on any Of its properties, and the
shipments We're confined to surface depos-
its. 1t covers stretch of country from
20 to 81 miles in length, comparable in
all respects to the Sawtooth range in the
Wood River country. Want of capital
and the high charges for transportation
that at that period governed, held the
country in check until it was ovcrtaken
by the warfare on silver, since which time
it has lain dormant as IA mining section.
Its ores have ranged all the way from $50
to $500 in silver to the ton, principally
chlorides, which, it is urged, is against it
AS a concentrating product. Galena and
carbonates are much in evidence. But
one or two properties are now being ac.
lively worked there and these are piling
their ores to one side in wait for an i'm
proved market.
Stampede to Swede Greek.
The latest stampede from Dawson was
the one that occurred February Is to
Swede creek, 20 miles above Dawson. In
the rush four men whose names could not
be learned persisted from the cold. While
en- route from Tanana river to Dawson,
tx Mayor Wood Of Seattle, who lately re.
turned from Alaska, paid particular at,
tentiOn to the mineral district on the
American side OF the line, and his obser. i
'atioms have made him enthusiastic over |
It's prospects. There has been a great |
Zeal of prospecting along all the creeks
rom the Tanana to Forty Mile creek this
winter, and the results obtained are en-.
There seems to be general
movement OF prospectors to this section.
The lower Rampant and the Koyokuk are
promising There is a revival
N interest around Circle City.
Center star Litigation.
George Haldorn and other prominent
'itizenS of Butte are interested i'm the ont
'ome of n suit that is being tried in Van.
,ouver. The Center Star claim. which
oins the famous lie Roi mine at Ross.
and. and which promises to outrival that
amous property in time, followed its vein
Town under its side line only to find that
IRE to the value of of perhaps $4,000