The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
Bear Gulch Company Is Pushing
Improvements. taaf1
ORE IS FABULOUSLY RICH
Phenomenal Results Shown in the Rich
Placer Mines-Eighty Stamps Will
Soon Be in Operation.
Houses Are Going Up.

able and every sign is suspicious for
the rapid advancement of the mining
industries of this district The Bear
Gulch Mining company paid off it's men
as usual the 18th of the month ana over
$4,000 was required ITO cash the checks
of the pay roll, which every month
grows larger. Extensive improvements
are being rapidly pushed to compile
ton at the camp of Jardine, where the
population steadily increases, and every
building which has been erected is
constructed with a soidity which
speaks volumes for the confidence the
owners of the mines have in the future
of the camp. Stone foundations prevail.
and nothing in the way of building ma
terfal is too good for the houses and
stores which are going up on each side
of the long street of the prosperous
camp.
The sound of hammer and saw gives
little rest to the visitors to the camp
who wish to sleep late in the morning,
and day and night shift of miners
Keep the hum of industry sounding
merry music to THE camps advance
ment.. New strikes of ore are made
every few days, and by the first of next
month eighty stamps will be dropping
richest to be found in Montana. A
wide zone of mineral stretches through
the southern part of Park county from
Bear Gulch to Independence, cropping
out in the two mentioned places in
fabulously rich ore. The quartz is
mainly free milling. some of the ore be-
ing shot full of the giittering particles,
and this, subjected to the rude chem
istry of the mountains, yields to the
miners efforts to pan the precious
product as readily as u the placer
holdings in the valley below. In the
Legal Tender mine part of the ore is
easily crumbled with any hard sub
stance in the bottom of a pan, and this
holds gold in quantities that reward
the work of the miner as the product
of few gold mines can.
Bear Gulch has rich placer grounds
as well, and phenomenal results are
shown in the development work done
on the King Solomon placer. where
ditching and prospecting goes on apace.
On the hillside above the camp the
Revenue mine is being tunnelad and
timhered and prepared to furnish ore
to a 40-stamp mill, which will be the
finest stamp mill in Montana when
completed The owners of this prop
erty have connected all their tunnels
by uprises, thus insuring sufficient
circulation of air for development work.
During the past week several good bod
les of ore have been discovered and
the most sanguine in the camp predict
that the big find is yet to be made. The
stone work on the foundation, of the
Revenue mill is now completed and the
work of raising the frame work has
begun. This will be a steam mill and
the brick work for the boilers is being
pushed rapidly to completion to pre-
pare for the starting of the mill the list
of September.
An organization known as the Bear
Gulch Mercantile Company" Is oper-
ating on an extensive scale in THE camp.
They have finished a store building
that would be a credit to a town of
5000 inhabitants and are, building a
warehouse in connection with this that
is 25x60 feet. They have an extensive
stock of goods and there is every in
dication that the owners and managers
of the concern have reason to believe
that the camp is to be a considerable
city and the center of supplies for a
great mining district. The company is
also preparing to erect 50 three and
four-room cottages for renting to the
residents of the thriving camp. A saw
mill has been erected to supply the
great demand for lumber in the camp
and it is purposed to run this mill night
and day. A string of teams is con-
stantly on the road hauling lumber
from Cinnabar. ten miles away, and at
least half a hundred houses will be be-
gun soon which are now waiting for
the building material. A new hotel
twice the size of the hotel erected when
the first boom struck the camp will
soon be completed and ready for occu-
patton. A steam laundry plant will be
installed to run in connection with the
camp hotel Grading is being lone ON
the roads connecting the different parts
of the camp and in IA very short time
every part of the town will be supplied
with excellent roads. The survey has
already begun for a water works and
drainage system and a school house is
nearly completed.
Harry Bush, president of the COM
pany, has erected an elegant and COM
modious residence, and another very
nice appearing building shelters the
family of A. C. Jardine, who is pom
inent officer in the company These are
English people, and their homes in
the heart of the viii AMI inh1spitabie
mountains are models of elegance an1
luxury and are furnished and appoint
ed as If their owners intended to make
the place their residence for the re-
mainder of their lives. The general
Office of the company, where Harry
Bush. the leader of the mining enter
prise, rresides, is nuIlt on "A stone toun-
dation and is solid and substantial
structure. The assay Office is equipped
with the very best appliances to be had
and there is nothing about the camp
that does not bear evidence of unlimit-
ed capital back of the enterprise so
well begun, w. A. Buckle, one of the
company officials, recently made a trip
to Marysville. where he inspected the
workings of the cyanide process at the
Drum Lummon mine at that place.
The Bear Gulch company will have use
for the information gained by the visit,
for they expect to use this process of
extracting gold in treating the tailings
of the stamp mills which are now being
caught in huge settling dam erected
across the bed of Bear Gulch creek.
1t is safe to say that the work of de-
veloping these properties could not have
fallen into better hands than they are
in now. The work done so far has been
carefully mapped out in advance and
executed without a failure. Already
the work of securing the lumber and
firewood for use next winter has been
arranged for. and every slwmill in
the Yellowstone valley is running night
and day to supply the demand, and a
number of wood camps, unused for
have ctsa yrtad nm anayx