The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23
MINING IN PARK COUNTY
A New Impetus Given to the
Industry.
A SHELTER ON THE LIST
Development Work Is Being Pushed
With Great Vigor-In the Bear
Gulch District-Rich Ore in
Crevasse Gulch.
Special Correspondence of the Standard

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Livingston, April 2o.-From present
indications it looks very much as if
Park county is soon to have what the
people here have long worked to secure,
| a smelter. Further than this, the min
ing properties of the county are to be
opened up in way that will place the
| county of Park among the foremost
counties in the state in the production
new impetus lately given to the mining
| industry in this county reads like ro-
nance, and the people are only now be-
| ginning to realize the work that has
been going on in quiet way during
the past six months and which not
only promises, but insures splendid re-
suits to the men interested in the de-
Velopment work and to the whole
county.
About the first of June of last year
there came to Bear gulch, in the south
| ern part of the county, near the Park
| line and about 60 miles from Living
| ston, party of men who formed the
Bear Gulch Mining company and pur
chased considerable number of claims
| in the Sheepeater district which was
| known to contain ore of fabulous rich
ness. Harry Bush was the moving
spirit of the party of men who came,
and with him We're A. c. Jardine. J. F.
Bledsoe and John Lewis. Bush came
| from England and the other men hailed
| from Canada. All had practical mining
experience, and their individual means
and the capital they represented made
a fortune of such proportions as had
never before been attracted to the min
al n S,f
probably not into any undeveloped
camp in the great Northwest The best
of 1t is the money is here, available
and great sum already invested with
a prudence and judgment that speaks
we'll for the future of the camp and
| the fortunes of the men who have TAX
| en- up the work of developing the world
famed mineral deposits of Park county
over s15O,O00 has already been paid out
by these promoters $4,000 will be paid
out next month and at least 81, zoe, 900
more will be required to meet the obi
cations incurred by bonds which the
men have secured on mining property
in Bear and Crevasse gulches.
The Enterprise mine, the property of
George Phelps, was purchased for $40
000 and of this sum $4,000 was paid in
cash and according to the terms of the
bond of purchase, $1,000 a month will
be paid by the purchasers for 25
months George Welcome disposed of
five of his claims to the same parties
for the sum of $4,000. The deal calls
for $1,000 cash down and $1,000 in 30
days, the remaining $4,000 to be paid
| in two months from the date of the
bond filed in the office of the county
clerk in this city. A deal was closed
the first of this week whereby the Nc
cauley mine with it's 1O-stamp mill be-
comes the property of Harry Bush.
| c tpI ,loI,
and is owned by Charles Connop,
Thompson Bros. and F. A. Krieger of
this city. Another purchase is that of
the mines owned by Sowash and John
| Howell in CreVasse and other property
in the district surrounding, the whole
amounting to something like $500, 900.
| The company and Mr.. Bush now own
two mills in Bear and Crevasse gulches
and 20 stamps are dropping on the
shining particles of gold and preparing
the ore for shipment to the smelters.
A million feet of lumber has been or
dered and is now on the way to Bear
gulch for buildings to shelter the min
ers who will be employed by the COM
pany and Mr.. Bush. and for the con-
struction of mining plant that will
| be marvel of completeness and pro-
ducing power. In six weeks the COM
pany will have so teams on the road
between the terminus of the Park
hauling lumber and sunn1ies for tho
mines and NV that time tba nav roll
of the camps in Rear and C,revasse
gulches will amount to $4,000 per
month Three boilers and steam en-
pines have been ordered with dvnamns
for the eeneration of elertrcitv to he
used for mower and 1iph+ and The ma.
chinerv for mills, with a battery of 15r
stamns. is now on the wav and will he
in oneration in six nonths, fine II
was exnected that the comnanv would
make a move to have the railroad ex.
tended over the nine miles of road he
tween its present terminus and the
minss. but Mr.. Bush is in the cjtv To-
| night and states that a temnorar y
tramWay will he Dut in and thn ore
convened in buckets from the mines
and that he is on his yay East TO az
tend TO the nrenarations for bui1dine a
smeIter. The mines will begin to shin
ore in about a month. he saws and the
company will be having dividends of
s1OO 900 per month in six months time