The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-11
VERY RICH IN MINERALS
Exploration Work in the Great
Slave Lake Section.
GOLD QUARTZ DISCOVERED
There Is Likely to Be a Great Deal of
Prospecting in the Region North Of
Montana the Coming Summer.
Some Good Claims.

Great Fails, May 1O.-Now that the
rush to the Klondike has subsidized it is
likely that more attention will be given
to the exploration of the fields to the
north of Montana, where already many
finds of copper, gold iron, lead and sill
yer have been made and at least one
Montana party, the Mclaughlin, seems
to have struck good thing. The Great
Slave lake section is presumably rich
and as yet has been explored but little
DIR. Hallwright of London, England,
was a member of the Helpman expedi-
ton of 1897, but left the party and came
down the Peace river to Great Slave
lake in the spring of 1898, spending the
summer in prospecting. He has now
returned to Edmonton. He says that
shortly after his arrival at the lake
gold quartz was discovered by man
named Mclean and that, after Nc
Leans discovery and location of rich
gold bearing quartz on the northeast
ern shore of the lake, interest was
aroused and several members of Dr.
Hallwright's party made prospecting
excursion to the region in the vicinity
of McLean's discovery, and on the way,
at Pipestone rock, discovered quartz of
such richness that they at once located
claims. The ore, samples of which they
brought back to Resolution, was assay
ed by Charles Holt and found to be
very rich Some of the samples yielded
SO large a percentage of gold that the
party are content to consider them
merely pockets" and base their caleu-
lations on the more moderate assays of
some of the other samples. Their as
says conceded with those of the Yukon
Valley company, made in Chicago, and
showed the, quartz as rich or richer
than was shown by the Chicago assays,
which ranged from 5000 to SIS, 900 to the
ton. Mr.. Holt, while being a practical
asayer, did not have the appliances ne
cessary to test the ore for all minerals,
but in the specimens assayed he discov-
cred besides gold and silver, copper,
graphite, iron, tin and magnetic. After
the discovery was made a company was
formed under the name CT the McKin-
lay Barren Land Prospecting and De-
velopment party. The members are:
James McKinlay, DIR. Hallwright,
Charles Holt, E. H. Simpson. Gustave
Hansen, Ed Maggie, James Hislop, John
Yates, Frederick Yates, J. S. Camsell,
F. Gaudet, Francis Heron, F. C. Cam
sell, John Sutherland, J. C. Bannister
and John Hall. The first three consti-
tute the managing board. A number of
the members are prominent Fl. B. Co.
officials. j. S. Camsell is chief factor
of the Mackenzie district and Messrs
Gaudet and Heron are in charge of the
company's posts at Forts Resolution
and Rae respectively. Messrs. Hislop
and Maggie are well known traders The
company staked in all 20 claims, all on
Pipestone rock. This rock, which is
mentioned by Warburton Pike and the
geological reports, is one of the features
of the lake 1t rises sheer from the wa
ter to a height of $4,000 feet and all
along its base the party were unable to
reach bottom at a depth of a thousand
feet. The company having it's members
situated at different points in the north
is in, position to keep posted on all
| discoveries and some of the members
are now exploring for possible placer
diggings northwest of the lake and to-
ward the Barren Grounds, where DR.
Hallwright is confident rich placer de-
| posits exist. II.
In order to get; other assays DR.. Hall
wright brought out rs pounds of the ore
but on the way up the Athabasca his
supplies gave out and his dogs starved
to death, compelling him to cache the
ore about 80 miles below the landing
A messenger has been sent for it and
it will reach town in few days and be
forwarded to Ottawa,