The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
NElHART IN GOOD FORM.
Strikes In the Benton Group, and the
Marguerite.

Great Falls, Sept. 25.-The mining
news from Neihart and the contiguous
districts in the Little Belt mountains
continues to be cheerful. No big strikes
have been made during the week, but
development work on the various mines
Is still being done, and the shipping
mines are working as usual.
William Eccleston, Charles Stroup
and Charles Black, who have lease on
the Benton group, struck good ore the
first of the week, and in a short time
expect to be making some rich ship
ments of the ore.
A lease of the O'Brien mine has been
made to Robert Hunt, Georges Patten-
gale and John Drinville, and they have
begun work.
The Florence Mining company has
been busy during the week cleaning
up the ravages of the fire and will start
work getting out ore as soon as posi-
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M. j. Paisley, William Stark and
George Moore shipped two cars of ore
to Great Falls this week from their
lease on the Benton mine. The re-
turns are said to have been very satis
factory @
w. S. ASoule and Robert Parry this
week received ore samples from the
claims at Salmon City. Idaho, in which
they are interested. All of them run
VERY nigh III gnu. HSy nave q hdll
terest in two claims covering 5000 feet
of the vein and expect to make good
thing from it. The work is under the
supervision of Charles Soule, an old
Neihart boy. and he has tunnel for
100 feet of the distance.
]. l.. Neihart, Thomas Westgard and
Henry Sutton have returned from the
Middle Fork, where they have been do
ing development work. They are very
much encouraged and will begin the
shipment of ore this fall The ore car
ries so per cent. of lead and 80 ounces
in silver. Neihart on this last trip To-
Gated another claim at the bottom of
10-foot shaft and located some good
copper ore.
A strike of good ore was reported
from the Marguerite lode on Carpen-
ter creek belonging to B. B. Cook and
George Marelius. The streak is about
eight inches wide and consists OF bright
galena. No assay of this ore has been
made but former assays on ore taken
from the claim ran 81 per cent. in lead,
10 ounces of silver and "a in gold. They
have 20o-foot tunnel in on the lead.
Harry Crane has returned from a
tour of several months in the mining
districts of the Rockies. He was in
Idaho and saw the Hump and Snake
river. He Travelled all over northern
Idaho, and was in parts of Oregon and
Washington. He is emphatic N the
statement that those states cannot
touch Montana, so far as advantages
are concerned. He did not take up
location anywhere, and says he saw
nothing which he considered worth
taking. He says Charles Braman and
Oscar Lemon are in the Thunder noun
tain district of Washington. G. S.
Bailey and Charles Mix are still at
Concord, Wash, the former having
been postmaster of that town for the
last two months. Concord is situated
on the west bank of the Clearwater
river, with Lewiston. Idaho on the east
bank directly opposite. The two towns
are connected by a fine steel bridge,
which cost the Concord Townsite Co.
$4,000 to build.
Mr.. Crane brings the cheering news
that John r. Fitzsimmons who was in
financial trouble few months ago has
dsentangled his difficulties and is again
running his Spokane general store IN
full blast with big branch house at
Lewiston.