The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12
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.


Those Securing transportation.
A dispatch from Butte, Montana.
says A 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 a
great blanket ledge eight miles wide.
A shaft has been sunk twenty-four
feet without finding the foot wall. The
discovery was made by Z. H. 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
$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 num-
Der of Duluth, Chicago, and New
York men will arrive to examine the
ledge with a view to organizing
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 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 total value Of
$44.30 a 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
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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.
In about ten days the drift will be
crosscut to the hanging wall, when the
width of the vein in the lower level
will be known.
The success attending the explora-
tons 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. It
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 are
said to have discovered new bodies Of
ore.
A letter from Dawson City, under
date of June %. says the output of the
mines of the Yukon region this year,
while it has reached between $40, 600.
900 and s15,000000, has disappointed
even the more conservative estimates
made last fall, based on the prospects
then existing. Three things have con-
tributed 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 way to Seattle FROM
Alaska. had on board twenty miners
from Dawson City with about three
quarters of a million dollars in gold
dust and drafts, mostly drafts. They
came up the Yukon in a steamer to
White Horse Rapids, where they
transferred to a lake steamer.
The passenger traffic between the
Western Pacific States is not so heavy
as it was before the war began, but il
is still great enough to make timely
and interesting the warning published
by the State Department from a recent
report by United States Consul bud
ley, at Vancouver. Colonel Dudley
writes
Care should be taken by those who
contemplate going to the gold fields IL
entering into transportation contracts
Tt appears that certain companies
have obtained considerable sum OF
money generally $500 for each per
SOM upon very ingeniously worded
contracts that the person paying
should be transported to the gold
fields in the north, with all necessary