The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-07
HARD ON PROSPECTORS
Deep Snow Prevents the Perform
ing of Necessary Work.
LOCATIONS MAY BE LOST
More Reports Come In From the Buffalo
Hump Country Which Indicate
That the District Is Very
Rich in Gold.

The severe ceid spell has placed some
of the locators Of abandoned claims in
an awkward position, and it is more
than probable that one or two reloca
tons that We're made on Jan. not far
from this city will be allowed to lapse,
on account of the impossibility to do
the required work to hold them 1t is
said that at least two reocations in dis
trcts in this county Will revert back
to the government and be subject to
location. because of the failure of the
parties to do the work on them pre-
imnary to recording. This however,
may not be the case if the test be APP
Piled. The law requires that certain
amount of work be performed in order
to make good the location and this is TO
be done within 20 days after the location
notice IS posted The ocators of pros
pect holes who have failed to do the
required work owing to the depth of
the snow and the inacessihility of the
property are in qunadary. They are
wondering if they can claim first OUT
when upon returning to their prospects
they find some one else in possession of
lIlell II Is DtlitNCti that udlS NEW
Years jumpers of claims in the state
have failed to perform the work that
is required to insure protection of the
law The very cold weather following
the heavy snowfall in the mountains
has rendered outdoor work well night
out of the question.
More reports come from the Buffalo
Hump country, which is rapidly COM
n a 1rn
Ore that assays more than 50, 900 is being
taken from some of the mines. The
Spokane Chronicle learns that ore has
been secured from the Cracker Jack
claim. in the Robbins district, that is
said to be so rich that the dots of gold
in it are perfectly perceptible to the
naked eye. This valuable claim shows
80 feet of solid ore and prospects we'll
the entire width.
Through this mammoth ledge runs a
rich streak of quartz that is said to
average about 10 inches wide and from
which average samples show by assays
value of $2,457.61 per ton. What the
value and width of this immense ledge
will be at greater depth can only be
surmsed, but fon the surface besides
the main vein of 80 feet there are crop
pings of seven parallel veins ranging
in width from 20 9inches to four feet on
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The mine belongs to Hawley, Smith &.
Co. A half interest in it was recently
sold by William Hawley to Rufus
HaWley. as
1t Is rumoredf that the leasers on one
of the outlying claims on the A. d. and
M. group. which is called the Huron. at
Gibbonsyille. after doing several
months dead work prosecuting and
drifting for a lost ore chute that had
been<cut out by afault, finally cut into
the coveted ore body last week and
made one of the most important strikes
that has been recorded at Gibbonsville
for some time. The ore%is three feet
thick where it was first struck They
have already drifted on the course of
the ore body 20 feet without finding any
signs of its weakening, and have piled
up so tons of ore on the dump, ready
for shipment, that gives an average
sample value of $3.50 per ton.