Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05
FROM THE GOLD REGIONS.
Bodyof Free-Milling Ore Eight
Miles Wide is Found in
Montana.
KLONDIKE CONDITIONS.
Output of Gold on the Yukon Said
to be Much Less Than Was
Estimated.

Twenty Returning Miners Bring out $3.50,
900 However and Other Successful Parties
Are Reported-Much of the Alaskan Field
Has Not Been Properly Worked and
There is Much Gold There-Warning for
Those Securing Transportation.
A dispatch from Butte. Montana.
says: y ledge of free-milling gold ore
has been discovered on the south fork
of the Flathead river, thirty-tiye miles
from Kalispel and twenty-five miles
from Coram. The ore is found in
great blanket ledge eight miles wide
y shaft has been sunk twcnty-fOur
feet without finding the foot wall Tho
discovery was made 10y +. II. Seeley.
Last fall placer gold was discovered
near Burned Cabin. Acting on the
theory that the gold came down the
river. Mr.. Scelcy started up stream to
find Che mother lead. He was re
warded when he found this tremen-
dous ledge of quartz cement carrying
both gold and silver. At the point OF
discovery the river cuts the lead 50
the river. The ore is hematite. The
shaft has been sunk near the edge of
the river to a depth of twenty-four
feet Average samples of the last six
feet proved to he very rich. showing
$500 in gold and s1.6S in silver to the
ton. The ore il free milling. The
river cuts this ledge for eight miles
~ nd fg h,t asfI ,,n
the river Forty-four claims have
been located, all on the same ledge.
At Mr.. Seeley's solicitations a mum
her of Duluth. Chicago. and New
York men will arrive to examine the
ledge with a view to organizing n
company. The neighborhood has been
organized into a new mining district
which is styled the Gold Reed mining
district
LeaSers are taking out some good
looking copper ore from the Clinton
mine in Butte.
\ party of Butte capitalists have Sc
cured control of the Williams coal
mine. near Livingston. which WIS
abandoned some years ago. \ force
ty The lead shows up well. and the
property may become an important
gold producer.
a pretty vein of ore was laid bare in
the Bonanza mine. Zosel district last
week. An assay gave Il total value OF
$i4.30 ton. yielding a high percent
age in lead and silver, with little
gold. The vein is about foot wide.
The south drift Of the 500 foot cross
cut tunnel of the keystone mine in
the Yahk district. is IN nearly 100 feet
on the lead and shows the best ore to
be found anywhere in the mine. The
development work now in progress
promises that this will become one of
the big mining propositions of the
state The ore is of superior quality.
III about ten days the drift will be
crosscut to the hanging wall, when the
width of the vein in the lower level
will he known.
The success attending the eXplora-
lions at the Liverpool mine in Lump
| Gulch has stimulated the reopening of
some other mines in that locality. The
Little Nell will resume at once 1t
was closed down at the time of the
/ miners strike two years ago. the own
ers preferring to shut down rather
than submit to the wages asked. Since
then parts of the mine have been
worked on lease, and the leasers arc
said to have discovered new bodies Of
| ore.
/ a letter from Dawson City under