The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-29
Great Activity in Park County
49,. Mines.
BEAR GULCH PROPERTY
Rich Ore Is Being Produced-Severa.
Commentators Will Probably Be
in Operation Soon-Prospects
,. Excellent.

been many day since the mining bust
ness took a tumble here and the brok-
ers' offices were closed and mining
progress came to standstill. About
six years have gone since then and the
tide is turning again. Another month
will witness the organization of sew
eral mining companies and stock will
be on the market once more. The men
who are taking hold of the new Ven
lures have plenty of experience now.
There was time when they supposed
that mining consisted largely of stand
ing on the street corners and telling
what fortunes lay untouched in the
tunnels of the mines they owned. The
untouched fortune is out of date
Nowadays fortunes have to be touched
and touched hard before mining COM
pany can be considered successful The
Bear Gulch Mining company at Jardine
is making money, and plenty of it. The
ore is rich and the men employed at
the 20-stamp mill operated by the COM
pany understand how to save the min
eral. The stock of this company is not
for sale. Neither is the stock in the
| new company operated by M. A. Buckle
Of Kelso, B. c., which has recently be-
gun operations at the Crevasse group
of mines in Crevasse mountain.
There will be five stamp mills in Bear
gulch and on Crevasse mountain by the
1st of August. The Bear Gulch mill.
| with 20 stamps, the Buckle outfit, with
20, the Revenue MILL owned by Harry
Bush, a 40-stamp affair, and the Nc
Cauley mill, with battery of 20
stamps. This will aggregate 100 stamps
and it is altogether likely that several
COMMENTATORS will be in operation in
Do VII INV hot he in
Park county is wonderfully rich. In
no part of Montana will stamp mill
or concentrator yield better returns
| than In the mining districts at the
headwaters of the Yellowstone or in
the Boulder region to the southeast of
this city. The stimulus of industry
here can be seen in all the affairs of
trade. Every business is picking up
and merchants, professional men and
in fact people in every walk of life rep
resented here are feeling abundant con-
fidence in the future of Park county.
Money is becoming more plentiful every
day and work can be had by any one
who is willing to take a job. And while
the present is confident and secure, the
future seems to grow more fiattering
every day; New discoveries of mineral
are being made and there is every evil
dence that the present current of pros
perity will continue until it reaches
the high water mark of mining devel-
opment
The mining ventures in this county
are following in the wake Of the work
done by the Bear Gulch Mining COM
pany. This concern has pay roll of
$4,000 per month and pays out an i'm
mense amount of money on the bonds
they have secured on valuable mining
properties in Bear gulch and on Gre
vase mountain. They are buying Park
county lumber and employing Park
county labor, and the work which is
done under the management of this
company is doing wonders for all the
business interests here. One of the
latest moves the company has made
is the purchase of the Gardner town
site, and this is the preliminary step
| toward securing a railroad for the
camp of Jardine, situated in Bear
gulch. The railroad known as the Park
branch runs only as far as Cinnabar
II miles from Bear gulch al present,
and has never been extended to Cinna-
bar, where the grade was made, be-
cause the town site could not be Sc
cured by the company for anything
like a reasonable price. According TO
an agreement which was made between
Harry Bush, president of the mining
company, and President Meiln of the
Northern Pacific, the railroad will be
built on condition that the Bear Gulch
pay the NDTlHsIH IA
citic the sum of $2S, 300 as a guarantee
that the camp will not go under after
the road is built.
This fund will be cheerfully fur
nished by Mr.. Bush, and it is stipu-
lated that after the road is built and
the patronage reaches certain month
ly sum, the guarantee will be paid
back to the mining company. 1t is
certain that the railroad will be ex-
tended to Gardner. four miles from
Cinnabar, at once. and will be built
to Jardine, six miles further on, be-
fore the snow flies. Satisfactory ar
rangements have been made regarding
freight rates between the mining COM
| pany and the railroad and the freight
and passenger rates on the extension
of the Park branch will remain fixed
while the contract is in force.
The town of Jardne is named after
A. C. Jardine, secretary and treasurer
of the Bear Guch Mining company.
The place contained only five houses
year ago. and to-day is thriving
hamlet of SO houses and has a popula-
ton of $50 people New houses ara
going up on every hand, and they are
all substantial structures. -Four COM
pany buildings are being put up, and
each has a substantial stone founda-
ton. The mills are all sp,endidly
equipped with machinery and built in
LIE very pest SlSlt. Lie bGdf IuICn
mill is run by water. but steam power
has been put in and can be used in
case of emergency. The mill on the
Crevasse group of mines is also run
by water. while the McCauley and
Revenue mills have steam power.
In Bear gulch only the Tip Top and
Mountain Chief claims are patented.
The Legal Tender or Blue Bird claim is
in litigation and Is one of the richest
claims to be found in the gulch. There
is an action pending in the district
court here which will determine the
title to the claim. On Crevasse noun
tain a group of patented claims, II in
number, are owned by the Park View
Mining company. N. J. Malin, F. s.
Pratt and ]. w. Hulse are the officers
of this concern, and when these claims
are bonded the big deal in mining in
Park county will be made. They have
sunk shafts and run tunnels into the
mountain and these excavations have
encountered remarkably rich veins of
ore. A great quantity of ore is on the
51pons now and b;,s