The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-01
SWIFT CURRENT NOTES.

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striking the st. Mary's river. A route
has already been ridden over from
Shelby, and also from Carlow, both
routes have been reported favorably.
The men have been compelled to stop
work on the Bull Head. An immense
snow slide has covered everything, and
it will require an enormous amount of
labor to get things into shape again.
The Cracker is being worked right
along. They are in over 200 feet and
have about 100 feet yet to run. This
lead has a width of 80 feet, all good ore
and is getting better every foot of the
way. The Bulls Head has about the
same width, and the ore in both mines is
of the same class.
A piece of float was picked up in this
district last summer, and just for curl
osity the finder had it assayed, it went
$40 in gold. There will be a great search
made the coming season for the parent
lead. Assays of copper run all the way
from Z to 8 per cent.
The best time of year to go into the
Swift Current is right now, the creeks
and soft places are all frozen, the road
from Blackfoot to Mains on the st.
Mary's is fine with the exception of large
snow drifts, and in nearly all cases these
are hard enough to hold up an ordinary
light rig and a man horse back can go any
where's After you get to Mains, you
will then want a sled or toboggan on
which you can haul larger loads than
you will bring in the wagon. You will
need supplies of all kinds to last until
June any way, and / almost said you will
have to furnish your W wood. You
will strike the Coded Strip at the foot
of the lower lake, the first lake you
come to, and this viii also find you on a
forest reserve. This is the place where
we are saving water for Canada. This
is the place where you cannot cut you
own hay, if you are lucky enough
to have a ton or so on your twenty acres.
This is the place whereif you havea little
garden patch, you must leave it to the
mercies of every herd of horses which
come along, for you will not be allowed
to fence it.
TIL ere have been several "Globe Trot-
tiers" up the Swift Current and ST.
Mary's, and all agree that in all their
travels they have never seen such
scenery. So vast is. this mountainous
region, that it is said there are hundreds
of mountains and peaks and glaciers,
"where the hand of man has never set
foot
For a long time Grinnell Glacier was
thought to be the big glacier of the
Rockies, Another which is called the
Belly River glacier lays claim to the title
OF chief of the glaciers. This is at least
a mile and a half wide, and fully as long.
1t is not a late discovery, but peohle
seem to have Just found out that it is
the biggest thing il the mountains out
side of the mountains themselves.
There can be seen hanging from this
glacier icicles as big around as a barrel,
and $50 to 200 feet long.
There is a lake away up in the noun
talns partially surrounded-about two
thirds--by Il perpendicular wall 1000 feet
high. During the summer months can
be seen floating around in this lake ice
bergs as big as a house. Part of it the
sun never strikes and here are glaciers
from which the icebergs are formed. On
the north side of the lake, about n
third the way up the wall is a hole which
does not look any larger than a mans
head. During last summer could be
seen a small herd of goats entering this
hole. They would stay in there for hours
at a time, then would come out and
down to grass, and feed around in plain
sight of the miners who had a camp
there. A young fellow came along one
day with a rifle and a camera. He
caught the fever, and emptied his rife,
but didn't get a color. The goats never
came back much to the sorrow oil the
Artist(D who wanted a picture of the
wild Billy on his native heath.
The Ptarrnigan lead can be seen from
Iceberg lake. 1t looks like it might he at
least a foot wide. and crops out on top of
Ah-pi kun-yi mountain. The miners
camped at the lake noticed the little
black streak, and decided to investigate.