The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-08-28
Remarkable Activity in the
Libby District.
QUARTZ AND PLACER
Claims Showing Up Well.-New Ma.
chinery to Be Pot In--Other
Items of Interest.

parts OF the camp, and many new and
promising discoveries are being made. A
large number of prospectors are in the
Miller Creek district where parties from
kalispcll in company with others of this
place, have recently unearthed what ap
pears to be by far the best gold bearing
quartz lead ever discovered in the camp.
Remarkably rich float" has often been
picked up in the Miller Creek country,
and prospectors have for years been
looking for the ledge which was at last
found by Birmingham Bros. and N. b.
Nye. The richness of this discovery,
coupled with the already rapidly grow
ing interest in the West Fisher district,
may precipitate general rush to the
new Eldorado.
| j. W. Allen and VIM. Williams have
found another large pay schute of good
shipping galena ore on the Great North
ern group, and have also unearthed a
gold bearing quartz ledge in the same
vicinity
| Mr.. Whitworth, another of the stock
holders OF the A. X. Mining company
from Cleveland, is looking over the com
panys property in West Fisher with the
general manager, w.. j. Beager.
Il. l.. Grenough and Mr.. Larson of the
Morning mine in Occur dAlene, were
distinguished Libby visitors the first of
the week, and were here for the purpose
of determining plans for future opera
tion on the Buzz Saw group on Shaugh-
messy hill. 1t is intimated that they
have decided to put in air compressors
and apparatus for sinking to depth
of 700 feet from "a point in No. tunnel
on the 400 foot level. Messrs Larson e.
Grenough hold a bond on the group
which is owned by w. A. Hills, w. E.
Lindenborn, E. A. Goodchild, Tom
Shaughnessy, John Willis and r. S.
Wood. J. r. Spencer, II. P. Birmingham
and others have some adjoining claims
which are showing up we'll.
Paul d. Pratt, L. H. Faust and DIR. O..
S. Crowder were in Kalispell Saturday
to attend the teachers excursion on Flat
head lake, but owing to "conditions'
their naturalization was not effected at
the boat landing. The rainy season no
doubt made the process too difficult.
G. A. Ottawa was at Kalispell Satur-
day, and while there purchased very
neat outfit of household furnishings for
his commodious dwelling in South Lib
by. His mother and sister are late ar
rivals from the east and will join him
in his new home for an indefinite time.
Wilbur f. Criderman and Zip" have
been given contract for tunnel work
on the Choteau for the Choteau Mining
Co., who own one of the big lead prop
critics of the camp
Jim Long has lately returned from
Nome, where he went on one of the first
boats from Seattle in the spring. Jim is
glad to get back and does not give a
very flattering account of the Cape.
The Vaughn -Greenwell placer ground
is increasing in richness and the opera
tors are now taking out large quantities
of coarse gold which runs from 10 cents
to $3.50 to the color. This, of course, is
mixed with finer gold. The bar, which
contains several hundred acres, is esti-
mated to be so feet in depth and will
run 81 per cubic yard from the surface.
Such placer find, if discovered in some
almost inaccessible country, would pre-
cipitate a stampede equal to that of Cape
Nome. Several thousand dollars in pla-
Ger gold will be sifted from the sands of
Libby creek this season in very primi-
tive way. Messrs. Greenwell and Vaughn
are preparing to put in an hydraulic
plant to cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
Among this seasons gold finds on
Libby creek is one owned by G. r. John
stone which shows big gobs of the yellow
metal, visible to the naked eye. John L.
Scarlett, an English gentleman of some
note, is interested in the property and
plans are already being perfected for the
building of stamp mill. 1t is fissure
vein and is located near the falls of
Libby creek. About mile further up
the creek is another lead, owned by the
same parties, which is 40 feet wide and
assays 80 to S13 gold all the way across.
1t is limited on good authority that
London syndicate is now negotiating for
the purchase of the latter claim.
Rumor has it that the Pacific North
west Mining company is to resume oper-