Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-01


Has Not Been Properly Worked and
There is Much Gold There-Warning for
Those Securing Transportation.
A dispatch from Butte, Montana.
says: \ ledge of free-milling gold ore
has been discovered on the south fork
of the Flathead river, thirty-five miles
from Kalispel and twenty-five miles
from Coram. The ore is found in
great blanket ledge eight miles wide.
A shaft has been sunk twenty-four
feet without finding the foot wall. The
discovery was made by f. III. Seeley.
Last fall placer gold was discovered
near Burned Cabin. Acting on the
theory that the gold came down the
river. Mr.. Seeley started up stream to
find The 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 so
that the vein shows on either side OF
the river. The ore is hematite. The
shaft has been sunk near the edge of
the river to depth of twenty-four
feet Average samples of the last six
feet proved to be very rich, showing
$500 in gold and $1.6S in silver to the
ton. The ore is free milling. The
river cuts this ledge for eight miles.
and ore is shown up on both sides OF
the river. Forty-four claims have
been located, all on the same ledge.
At Mr.. Seeley's solicitations a mum
Der of Duluth, Chicago, and New
York men will arrive to examine the
ledge with view to organizing a
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.
A party of Butte capitalists have Sc
cured control of the Williams coal
mine near Livingston. which was
abandoned some years ago. A force
of men is now at work on the proper
ty. The lead shows up we'll and the
property may became an important
gold producer.
A pretty vein of ole was laid bare in
the Bonanza mine Zosel district, last
week. An assay gaze total value of
$44.30 ton, yieldiEg 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 III 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 os superior quality.
In 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-
ti0ns 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 - the time of the
miners strike two years ago, the own
efs preferring to shut down rather
than submit to the wages asked. Since
then parts Of the mine have been
worked OH lease, and the leasers are
said to have discovered new bodies OF
ore.
A letter from Dawson City, under
date of June 25, says the output of the
mines of the Yukon region this year,
while it has reachea between $4,000
900 and $15,000,000 has disappointed
eveu the more conservative estimates
made last fall based on the prospects
then existing. Thre. things have con-
trlbuted TO shorten this springs clean
up--the Canadian royalty, the lack of
men and the lack Of strengthening
food.
The steamship Cottage City, which
touched on her wa. to Seattle from
Alaska. had on bo:.,d twenty miners
from Dawson City With about three
quarters Of n millicn dollars in gold
dust and drafts. mostly drafts They
came up the YulloL in a steamer to
White Horse Rapids. where they
transferred to lake steamer.
The passenger tlaffic between the
Western Pacific States is not so heavy
as it was before the war began, but it
is still great enough to make timely
and interesting the warning published
by the State Department from a recent
report by United States Consul Dud-
ley, at Vancouver Colonel Dudley
writes:
Care should be taken by those who
contemplate going tc the gold fields in
entering into transportation contracts.
1t appears that certain companies
have obtained q considerable sum Of
money generally $.D0 for each per-
SOM upon very inseniously worded
contracts that the person paying
should be transported to the gold
fields in the north, With all necessary
outfit furnished and expenses paid. In
three cases in which men have paid