The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
PARK COUNTY CAMPS
Gold Discovery in the Crazy
Mountain Range.
BEAR GULCH STAMP Mill
Quartz on Boulder Creek, and Placers in
Emigrant Gulch-Excitement at
Independence-Gold and
Coal.
Special Correspondence OF the Standard.

special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Livingston, Sept 24.--The latest SEN
sation in mining circles in this city
amounts to a small stampede. The
Crazy mountains, northeast of town,
have never been prospected for gold.
There is gold in the bars of the Yellow
stone, which flows through the gate
way In the Crazy range east of Liv-
lngston, but there has never been any
gold found along the shores of the
Shields river, an important tributary
of the Yellowstone. and consequently
no one expected to find gold in the
mountains above
Now comes David Barren, an old
miner, and man prominent in Park
county affairs, and files on a quartz
location in the Crazy range. Barren
ayers that he has found the richest
quartz he has ever seen. The find is
on the east side of the range-the side
opposite the river-and the quartz spec
linens shown are rich enough to con-
vince the most skeptical that the mine
is good one and as valuable as any
in the county. Barren has been three
years prospecting in the Crazy range.
Park county mines and mining never
had better prospect than at present.
Every portion of the county where
mining is done is enjoying an unprece-
dented boom. At Cooke City several
new strikes have been made. Hundreds
of dollars is being taken out daily at
the Daisy mill. William kearnes of this
city made a rich strike on some prop
erty he owns in the camp and several
we'll known mining men have gone to
Cooke for the purpose Of stalking out
claims near the fortunate holders of the
rich leads. Each year, when the rep
resentation work is done on the rich
claims at Cooke, new and valuable finds
of ore are made. Some Of the speci-
mems brought down are rich with vir-
gin gold and nothing but inadequate
transportation facilities prevents he
camp from being one Of the richest in
the world. A cyanide mill is also IN
operation there and netting it's owners
a handsome fortune. Cooke is reached
by road leading through the National
park and is about 100 miles from Liv-
ingston.
1t is at Independence, 40 miles to the
southeast of this city, that the excite
ment seems to center at present. Bear
gulch is owned by company, and this
fact robs it of the romance which
by a local miner, E. H. Cowles came
in from his mines on the Boulder this
week, bringing more gold in a fruit jar
than has been shown on the streets of
Livingston for many moon, and far
more than many man has brought
out of the Klondike. Cowles is typical
miner and has a good stamp mill OH
the Boulder. He states that the select
ed ore is so rich that $1,000 was taken
from one wagon load drawn from the
mine-the pick of three days mining:
. A Mr.. Snyder of Denver is in the
camp at work for Denver parties who
are Interested in chemical process
which Mr.. Cowles has had put in as an
adjunct to his stamp mill. The man
from Denver is said to represent Den
yer capital as we'll as the owners of the
chemical process and is stalking out
claims which are located in the names
of men prominent in Denver mining
affairs. The camp has every prospect
of being fully as good a camp as Bear
gulch, and the more sanguine of the
owners predict even more for this Ia
vored section.
Emigiant gulch is a placer camp near
Chico, % miles up the Yellowstone
from Livingston. A great deal of the
yellow metal is sent to the banks every
year from here. Most of it is in large
nuggets, which abound in the gravel
washed there and which responds to
the crude action of the washers in a
very satisfactory manner There are
vast acres of paying placer ground
here which offers golden brides for in
vestors in the fascinating and remuner-
alive work of placer mining.
The coal camps, Horn and Aldrige,
are booming as they have not doomed
in years. An aerial tramway is being
constructed between these two places
and work is being pushed to completion
upon it in a way that proves the vim
that characterizes these camps lately.
A new shaft is being sunk to tap sec
ond and third vein of coal and many
other improvements have been plan
ned by the company which just now
is ENJOYING unprecedented prosperity.
Trail creek. the new coal camp near
Fridley, nearly opposite the gold de-
posits in the placer ground of Emigrant
gulch, is coming to the front. There is
a 12-foot vein of coal there and as fine
a prospect for promising mine as can
be found.
OF course Bear gulch is the star camp
of the county. No camp in the west
can show such mill as the new 40
stamp affair now being erected on the
Revenue mine will be- Residences are
going up in the camp which cost from
s3, 600 to 81, 900 and there is every evil
dence of prosperity to be seen. Water
works have been erected and an cleo
tric light system will soon be in opera
ton. A pay roll Of $4,000 per month Is
bringing prosperity to the miners there
and the country adjacent. and not
little of the wealth which is taken from
the hills finds it's way to Livingston.
The best of it is there is ore enough in
sight, cut by the miles of tunneling, to
keep the new stamp mill running tor
so years, and consequently Bear gulch
is counted as one of the most perma-
nent and valued industries or the
county.