The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-26
A GOOD PLACER SEASON
Prospectors Report an Unusually
Prosperous Summer.
AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER
Many OF the Miners Have Not Missed
Day During ths Entire Summer.
How the MOOSE Creek
Country Looks.

Among the visitors in the city during
the soldier-day and subsequent festivi-
ties were several prospectus and min
ers from districts in different parts OF
Western and Southern Montana. Ac-
cording to the reports they brought In
this has been a good placer mining sea
son as far as the water supply was
concerned.
George Tucker, from Moose creek,
south of Butte, said that ever since the
frost left the ground he has not been
obliged to miss a day in the ground
sluice. He is not working on a large
scale-merely ground sluicing in the
primitive way. Still he succeeded in
washing out several hundred dollars,
much Of which he intends to use in i'm
proving his methods of mining. He
will install a hydraulic system next
season, when he expects to increase the
gold output to considerable extent.
I'VE have had all the water we want
ed" said he, land if we had not been
disappointed in our plans to put in n.y.
pretty good shape this fall. We ex-
pect to work all winter. Up to about
the 18th of next month, or probably the
list Of December, we will ground sluice,
and after that we are going to drift
in deep ground until spring. There has
not been much work in the old gulch
this year, although several men pros
pected for place to work in some Of
the old ground. There is not much left
besides bar diggings, and SO far moth
ing that can be considered rich has
been found. OF course Sandy Garter
found a few nuggets and made a good
cleanup early in the spring, but he had
nt nd jtoor
to Omaha and has not returned to the
creek. We have not seen a grouse or
any game this season, and you know
the Moose creek country used to be
home for all kinds Of small game
John Canovan, who came up from
DAILY gulch, 20 miles west Of Anaconda.
to march with the G. A. r. posts of
Butte and Anaconda, reports fair re-
turns for his efforts in the old diggings
from which several fortunes have been
made. He is working for an Anaconda
company and expects to continue dur
ing the winter, when he will drift and
wash the gravel on days when the sun
shines and the water runs through his
boxes. There Is plenty of water. Mr..
Canovan did considerable work in Mill
creek, where there was no lack Of
water.
Old Highland miners report more
water than usual but not too much
LUZ slHCe tHe CITY wafer WORKS turned
Mammoth creek into the mains the
supply for placer mining must come
from the small feeders at the head of
the gulch. The Cinnamon who have
worked there for several summers are
making money, but how much no one
knows, for the Mongolians" keep their
business affairs closely tucked away
under their hats.
Placer miners up the Big Hole have
all the water required, but no dazzling
reports Of richness have come down
from that section. The copper outlook
Is better than placer prospects, accord
ing to reports.
Visitors from Madison county also
bring reports of abundance of water.
and in some parts good cleanups We're
made. There seems to be general in
+ tention to drift on bedrock during the
winter
Little if any work has been done in
the placers of Upper Homestake this
season. There are some good spots of
gravel up there, but the ground is too
fiat for sluicing and too uncertain for
stripping or drifting.