The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-23
NEWS OF THE STATE IN GENERAL
The Grist as Gathered by the Standards Special Correspondents
in the Prosperous Smaller Cities and Thriving
Towns and Villages.
READY FOR THE SPRING FLOOD.
The Great Northern Doing an Immense
Amount of Work in the Vi
cinity OF Libby.

cinity of Libby.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Libby. Mont. March 20.-The Great
Northern has been doing a vast amount
of work in this vicinity during the past
80 days. repairing the damage don by
the fall and winter freshets. and get
ting ready for the spring rise. A large
force of men has been at work on the
approaches and cribs for the crossing at
the mouth of Libby creek. and the steel
for a span of $50 feet has arrived on the
grounu and is being put into place. 1t
IS hoped that all further difficulty at
shis crossing VIII be averted by the i'm
provements now being made. A gang
Of 80 men are at work blasting and
hauling rock To fll up the cribs. Five
miles west of here 60 men are at work
pn the grade and bridge at the Cedar
creek crossing. and a large number are
also at work on the big slide several
miles farther west. Men are also
strung out all along the Cascade divis-
ton. and it Is safe 10 say hat the usual
spring delay To traffic will be greatly
1essened this year. The freight and
passenger traffic is and is
handled In splendid shape i'm spite of
the improvements under way. The mail
Is being put through on schedule time.
no matter what happens. In the event
of any delay to a passenger train the
mail and baggage and express cars are
nttdCUtu lIOfn tine Train ana run
through on schedule. An extra mail
car is kept at the end of every divis-
Con to make a mail transfer, i'm case of
slides. The west bound train runs in
two sections every day, and the low
rates have made east bound travel
very heavy. Last nights passenger
train east had to split up into three
sections.
4 New District.
One of the new and promising min
ing districts which the increased activ-
1ty of 1898 In mining affairs seems likely
10 bring into prominence is the Fisher
Greek country. Of which no general de-
scription has ever been written for the
outside world. Fisher creek Is a tribu-
tary of the Kootenai river. ana falls into
the later stream at Jennings. IL miles
above Libby. While the mouths of he
streams are thus far apart. their
sources are very close together. and the
Fisher creek district is a ~ntinua
OF the Libby district to the south In the
main range of the Cabinet mountains.
The creek is about 40 miles long and ls
in a slate formation principally, though
there is some lime and porphyry i'm diff
ferent localities. The sanis of the creek
show colors Of gold for its entire length.
though but little placer mining has been
done on the stream. For % miles above
Its mouth but little prospecting has been
done. The first locations going up the
creek are about opposite the mouth of
Swamp creek. and were made by A.
Davidson. Olof Bergman and others last
year. These men found rich float i'm
sthis vicinity. and the veins which they
located are small. but the rock in them
is rich. They have as yet done but lit
tie work aside from that required by
law 10 make their locations valid. Not
far above these locations Fisher creek
forks and the mineral country lies along
the west fork Several miles further nm
West Fisher Albert Beager, formerly of
Butte. has a small lead located. on
which he has run a tunnel 60 feet. The
lead is small and contains white quartz.
which assays well in gold. there being
mo trace or any other metal. Close by
John Carney has a location. made last
year, OF which he has a very good opin-
ion. its general character being much
the same as that Of Beager's location.
MIR. Carney is also considerably inter-
ested in the Rainy creek district, and
Is one of the original l~ocators of the
Roya Gold mine. which has had such
a successful career in Deer Lodge
county.
Above Swamp creek Miller creek puts
5n as a tributary of the West Fisher.
and at the head of the stream quite a
number OF locations were made last
year, John Vest. Albert Higgins. Thorn
as Dunn. II. +. McDaniels of Anaconda |
and Hans Peterson being among the To-
Gators. These locations on Miller creek |
being recent. there has been but little
development on them. The veins are
small and lie quite flat, as do most of
the leads in the Fisher district. and the
quartz Is free milling gold rock. These
claims are not far from those on Stand
ard creek. which is also a tributary of
West Fisher.
More work has been done on Stand
ard creek than In any other part of the
Fisher district. The pioneers on this
creek were a party of four men from
Anaconda, r. Il. McDaniels. Hans Pet
erson. Charles Carlson and Peter Euien-
dorf, "A Dutchman, a Swede. a DAM
and a white man." as old McDaniels.
VINO Is something of a josher himself. |
used to classify them. These men dis
covered some small leads in 1898 on the
head of and creek, only about a
mile from the top OF the divide between
Libby and Fisher. and the top rock gave
some enormously rich assays in gold.
The locations made by them are called
the Independence and Monte Cristo,
most of their work having been done on
the former claim. A shaft has been
sunk on this ground $50 feet in depth. |
and some 800 feet of tunnel has been
driven. The lead is widening from the
surface and at the bottom of the shaft
referred to is 20 inches in width. The
property Is a very promising one and
would probably be in production now
II IL were not for complications in the
ownership caused by the suicide OF
Eulendorf. The latter was I'm bad /
health in 1894. and being naturally of
a Respondent temperament. blew the 1
top OF his head off with a rife. He had
mo relatives In this country. and his in
ferests in the claims fell into the hands
OF h public administrators who is
merely authorized TO represent the
ground and cannot put UP for more ex-
tensive development. When this COM
plication is finally ~untangled. the Inde-
pendence and Monte Cristo will be /
found to be good properties.
The standard Group.
Just below these mines on Standard
creek lie what Is known as the stand |
ard group. This group consists OF four
claims, the Standard. the Colonel. Gen. |
.xoIfsefuo and Elafhead and they mara Il