Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-07-09

is now completed, and a number of par
ties owning claims i'll that vicinity will
utilize it for taking i'll supplies while they
do development work.
John tThiard has located the Lion lode
claim near the head of Trail gulch, near
Delta, and thinks in it he has one OF the
main sources OF the gold with which the
gravel of that gulch was filled. The ledge
where discovered Is but half an inch thick,
but is full of gold. He will develop the
property as fast as possible and learn Just
what it is. Some of the small veins of
the gold belt have been very rich, but it
is believed to be the smallest one on which
Il location has ever been made in the
camp and Mr.. Thiard believes it is the
richest 1t is located up about the head
of the creek which runs down the guleh.
Another Cnriboo Dividend.
The Cariboo, Mining, Milling & Smelt-
ing Company, operating claims in Camp
Mckinley, b. G., paid its 10Th dividend
last week. The payment was the usual
amount, 2 cents per share, or total OF
$4,000 A dividend for similar amount
was paid early in May. This payment
swells the total dividends paid by the
company close to the quarter million
mark, the exact figure being $220,965.
Lake Chelnn Mines.
There is considerable mining activity
around Lake Chelan. \ great deal of work
is in progress on Railroad creek, whie!,
I, .h
is producing much high grade free gold
ore. Two outfits have recently gone into
the Bridge Creek district, one from Walla
Walla and the other backed by Connec
ticut capital.
There are busy times at Lakeside.
Where one steamer year ago ran on the
lake when it found business enough to
warrant trip, two steamers now ply
regularly, with plenty of business. Judge
|. A. Navarro of Lakeside has lust ul.-
covered a vein of free milling ore near
that place that is said to assay SOL per
ton The fruit crop around the lake is
simply immense. Orchards and mines
make Lakeside a prosperous town.
On the Methow a great deal of assess
nlent work is in progress, but little de-
velopment work is going ON aside from
that That section, like all the rest,
awaits capital to make it profitable. The
district lust now suffers on account of the
Republic boom, which occupies the public
mind to the exclusion of all other mining
camps in this part of the state and which
owes its prominence largely to the fact
that it is cheaper to develop than is the
Okanogan country. With as much atten
ton given to Okanogan mines that part
of the state would doubtless become as
famous as the Colville reservation.
lxootenai Business Growing.
AS an evidence of the growth of the
business of the Kootenay country in the
past few years, the figures showing the
increase of the government revenue from
the New Denver, b. c., district since 1887,
might be of interest taken from a gov
ernment document: lSS7-SS, $26,425;
lsss-S9, $22,995; lsS990, S4S,939; 1890
81, $43,0s6; ls9lo2, S67 AGO; 1929,
sol ,o5o; lsea-o4, s67 ,923; ls94-95, Ss22,
lO6: 1895 Oe, S1lO s42. 1S06-07 S2eI SOL
DR.. G. w. AveriH, of Grand Forks, b.
c., and Isaac Evans, who have both
claimed the wellknown Minnie claim, a
few days ago settled the matter out of
court by each taking half of the property
The Minnie has over $1,000 worth of
development work done on it, and has a
pay-streak that assays $50 in all values
1t is situated in Browns camp, about II
miles from Grand Forks
Notes of Mines.
1t is reported that recent work on the
Idaho in Greenwood camp, B. c., discloses
large body of fine ore. 1t lies between
the Brooklyn and Knob Hill. G. Rom
berger owns it.
A center of attraction for prospectols
is the upper main Kettle river. Several
parties have gone into that almost un-
known district and some encouraging re-
ports of locations have come out.
1t is reported that so much freight is
piled up at Republic lading waiting to
be hauled to the camp that 70 wagons
could not transport it. One Republic
1t is said that one of the contemplated
changes in the working of the lie Roi
mine after the present difficulties are set
tied is the sinking of a vertical shaft to
the southeast of the present skipway.
While deepening an old shaft on the
Big -Four in Kimberly camp, Boundary
Creek district, rich strike of good ore
IL
said to be in solid ore assaying about $50
in gold and per cent copper.
Downey brothers are working on an
other contract on the b. & b. mine near
Troy, Mont The fourth level is in 5Cs
feet and is to be driven $50 feet farther.
The ore is clean galena and the property
is reported looking better than ever.