The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
THE GARNET DISTRICT
The New Reduction Works Will
Soon Be Completed.
SPLENDID MODERN PLANT
Complete in All It's Details-A Great
Thing for the District--Its Min
eral Resources and
Opportunities. q

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Garnet, Oct. THE Garnet district
is nearing a turning point in it's his
tory and seemingly period of great
| prosperity is at hand
| The Montana & Denver company has
its new reduction plant almost COM
| pleted and in few weeks will begin
the purchase Of low grade ores From
one end to the other the new plant
is a model of perfection and mechani-
cal skill, and a credit to the great
mining region that surrounds it. Every
part of the machinery throughout is
the very latest improved and the best
that could be purchased. No cost has
been spared to make every detail per-
feet and complete.
For this splendid achievement the
laurels rest on the brow of Arthur b.
Browne, whose persevering energy has
pushed the enterprise from it's Begin
ming. In a mild degree the Standard
can justly claim some credit for the
new conditions in this district because
in these columns was first discussed
and agitated the need of a custom
works to handle the low grade ores
from Coloma and Garnet. 4.
1t remains now for the prospect and
mine owners to keep the reduction
works well supplied With ore. task
that would be comparatively easy il
a spirit of progress and industry would
but supersede the present state of
seeming indifference. In certain sense
the opera ton of the custom works will
throw a search light over the district,
distinguishing the good claims from the
poor, as the refusal to operate a mine
ore will be equivalent to a notice that
the property has no value.
AS the orator says: THE time for
talk has passed and the time for ac-
ton has arrived" Henceforth the
mines must stand on their merits and
be able to show bullion receipts from
the reduction company.
No doubt the shipment of ore from
the numerous mines and prospects
throughout the mineral belt will ex-
plode many theories and shatter many
long cherished dreams. Even this
should have a Statutory effect on the
district. AS the value of mining prop
erty should be measured by what it
will actually produce, it is clear to
any one blessed with the gift of COM
mon sense that the quicker the pro-
ducing value of the mines is demon-
strated the better for all parties con-
cerned.
Koruna tely, so Tar IN us history THIS
district has been free from the blight
ing curse of wildcat mining stock
schemes and Inscriptions stock job
bers Up to the present all develop
ment work has been done honestly and
with a legitimate end in view, and in
a majority of cases has paid well for
the money expended. In this respect
the Garnet district presents the rare
spectacle of a mining region that has
been developed from within-in other
words. no outside capital has contrib
uted to any great extent to it's devel
opment and upbuilding. And while the
mineral belt covers miles and miles
of promising undeveloped territory,
there is absolutely no room for the
individual who is merely seeking an
opportunity to swindle somebody by the
sale of worthless mining stocks, and
any attempt at this character of min
ing operations will be promptly ex-
posed and stiaed at its inception. But.
to the legitimate mining man. to the
Industrious leaser or to the capitalist
seeking an investment with a margin
of safety assured, to this class of peo-
pie the Garnet-Coloma mining district,
with its vast resources of undevelopS
ed mineral wealth. with a firm mars
ket for low grade ores assured by the
new custom works, the field holds out
especial inducements and an investi-
cation will prove it to be SO.