Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-21
MINES ON THE
CEDEO STRIP
BLACKFOOT COUNTRY COMING TO
THE FRONT AS A MINERAL
DISTRICT.
BONDERS OF HEGENER
GROUP ARE AT WORK,
West Fisher Encouragement-The Red
Bluff Mines-To Reopen Polaris
Mining Notes.

The little cOppe camp of Allyn, In the
northwest corner of the Blackfoot reser-
walton, in Teton county, is just now feel
ing a little of the old-time excitement
over a rich strike of copper made there
Saturday says the Great Falls Leader.
James RI. Harris, of the Michigan and
montana Copper Mining and Smelling
company, was in the city today. He left
the camp last Sunday, bringing with him
some specimens of ore from the newly
vein, and if the average holds
up to the samples there is now in sight
IN the new digging a tWo-foot vein Of
grey, peacock and copper pyrites that
will run from 40 to go per cent
But little has been heard of Allyn
Camp, yet it was opened a year ago last
spring. At present it has a population Of
about 300, which is receiving additions
every day, owing to encouraging surface
indications found on nan claims. Until
this week, however, but little work had
been lone on most of the claims than the
law required. The Michigan and Montana
company had done considerable work., the
others evidently waiting to see what luck
it had before setting to work in earnest.
On the Cracker mine, in which the strike
was made. a unne had been run in
about 200 feet. While the workmen were
prosecuting Saturday afternoon the
strike was made. and when Mr.. Harris
left it had been uncovered to a width Of
two feet, but was not then fully shown.
AMI he believes il will run somewhat
wider. He came in for a carload of camp
supplies, and brought with him orders
for a lot of building material for pros
pectors who will now put up houses and
go at the work in earnest.
Mr.. Harris has great faith in the new
district. He say he predicts that within
five wears if will have hpnOma the hipDpSt
mining camp in the world. He has known
of the mineral indications there for a
number of years, and was one of the first
to go there when the section was opened
for mining exploration. The government
bought it from the Blackfoot Indians for
a forest reserve. 1t covers a section
about seventy by twenty miles on the
eastern slope of the Rocky mountains, $50
miles northeast of K%alispell. A daily
stage runs from Blackfoot, and just now
travel is brisk. Mr.. Harris says the min
eral deposit is evidently very large, as
o~utcroppings can easily be traced for 20
miles. The claims so far located-abou
125-are in a very deep canyon, through
which runs Canyon and Goat creeks.
which will furnish an ample supply of
water for mining purposes.
Allyn already has a saWmill with a
capacity of 10, 900 feet a day, a blacksmith
shop, two barber shops, a general store,
l"o oo"A la AAo0oAS 90 1~AoSA
lard hall. Last Saturday evening, in
celebration of the Cracker find, the first
ball of the season was given. About
twenty ladies graced the occasion, Mr..
! Harris says, and social functions will be
a feature of camp life hereafter.
Among others prospecting in that re-
gion are State Commissioner of n
and Agriculture J. H. Calderhead, and his
chief clerk, Oliver NJ. Holmes, who are
operating under a lease on the lands OF
Dan Doody, on the Boulder side.
The A. M. Esler Mining company, OF
Helena, has a hundred ton concentrate
about completed near the Cracker mine.
and the Michigan and Montana company
| has made a contract with it for concen-
! trating 400, 900 tons.
At an international convention of geo.
| logists in Paris about l years ago it was
expressed as the c]oncensus of opinion that
in this portion of the Rocky Mountain
range would some day be found the
greatest mineral deposits on earth. The
! Altyn people are beginning to believe
that they have about struck the spot.