The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-24
SOME PROMISING HOLES
Madison County May Have Q
Klondike Of Her Own.
GOLD is BEING FOUND
State Senator Metzsl Tells About Pros
poets the Returns From Which Are
Eucouraging-Says the Omaha
Exposition L. All Right.

According to State Senator Alexander
Metzel. Montana may have a little
Klondike Of her own over In Madison
county. Senator Metzel arrived in
Butte yesterday on his return from an
Eastern trip. and will remain a few
days before returning to Fuller Springs.
In conversation with a Standard re-
porter last evening Senator Metzel said
there are excellent prospects for a re-
newal of placer operations in Madison
county. and that Alder gulch may again
be made to yield many thousands of
dollars in placer gold. In relating the
history of the most recent operations,
Senator Metzel said:
About rs years ago John M. Will
Jams. who was herding for me, sunk a
prospect hole about IS feet in the
second canyon on the Upper Ruby,
thinking he might find gold, but the
water came in and stopped him and he
quit. The hole has been there ever since.
About a year ~ H. L. Childs got an
idea there was gold yet to be found in
the region inc interested a friend back
in indian The necessary equipment
for prospecting was purchased and
Childs went down six or seven feet FUR
Their in the old hole dug by Williams. He
got a dollar to the pan and he reported
the result. His Eastern friend came to
investigate. Before going any further
with the work in the old shaft they de-
cided to prospect In other places and
sunk two more holes, the three forming
a triangle about 200 yards apart. They
got equally as good results in both in
stances as they had in the first and at
about the same depth, and a company
was organized. The past year has been
spent in bringing in water and the
company is 10Y ready to go ahead. MI.
Childs told me a few days ago he
had stripped a small piece of ground
from which he got three ounces Of gold.
Since Childs and his people COM
menced working others have come in
and IN every case good results have been
obtained. The firm of Moore e. Sloss has
recently purchased Phil Conroy's
ranch, just below the mouth of the can
yon i'm Alder gulch, paying $50, 900 for
it. They paid $40, 900 for another piece
of ground Of l60 acres and are building
dredges and going in on a big scale.
Some Butte people, / understand. are
also going in and there are prospects
that we shall have quite a little excite
ment. There has been considerably
prospecting done and there are good in
dications that pay dirt will be found all
the way from the canyon to the mouth
or the Alder, where II emptieS into the
Ruby, and for % miles up the Ruby. If
this proves true, 1 shall invest In 1t my
self. as l own three miles and a half
on the Ruby"
Senate Metzel visited the Omaha ex-
position while East and says Ii is a
splendid show. I'm some respects
said he, 'it is better than the worlds
fair. One feature in particular is ahead
of the Chicago exposition. They have
what they call the Colorado, skirting a
lagoon in a semi-circle for half a mile.
1t is a broad covered wall, where people
can walk or rest in the shade and en-
joy a beautiful view. which is something
the worlds fair lacked. Then, too, |
like many of the buildings better than
i did those at the worlds fair. Our own
building, which cost $5,0 900 or Sc, 900, 1
like better than 1 did the one tina cost
about $16, 900 at Chicago. 1t is a very
handsome structure and when our ex-
hfbit Is all installed we will have a
splendid showing. All the states are
much better represented than I ex-
pected to see them and, in fact, the
is a tremendous affair. 1t seemed
to me before the opening they were bit
ing off rather more than they could
chew in making it so big. blu the at
tendance mas been large and is increas-
ing all the time, M the fair will be a
grand success"