The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-20
Written for the Christmas Bee,


inducements mining the
northwest the inducements which
by but few the many
mining districts region
OF the international line making
the peculiar
rave occurred and which chgeabe against the of the
of time intervening between the first
me and moment mining operations
IN the entire district practically sndst
these difficulties criticisms those who
were at time interested Libby mining
ether enterprises are more promising
devoped semeveope
one single district the northwest
mining in expenditure of certain sums Of
lines Of the working
bond" permit individual description of
portion of the MANY claims which are +h .;
safely
above mentioned and any one Of the anv wou1d m
reasonable
in Libby
small
among many claims there are fifty
which give promise of becoming
upon that point readily that
" ana VINO nave seen the growth Of places incident
development of the mining imagination
considerable location Of flourish
ing city Or cities at points convenient to the several
cutting taking the latter as
basis it is quite we'll operation ten mines Of
almost capacity would afford employment
place OF considerable importance wealth.
The Libby district northwestern part Of Flat
head
found within the boundaries county probably one of
the largest known mineral districts extending miles
length following generally the of the
places 1t is probably 25 miles
maey 40 continuous miles found the great
Cabinet ancna the largest
a ho Apex and others
this country to the other are found
mineral bearing of deeoped into
mines and location work done mon them
going the immensely Of the district And IN h at
practically all Of the minerals speaking the
Libby district has the reputation and
this comes from the fact that until the attempted
the development those two
metals and from the further fact that dollars practically
which the district has produced
ton Of svead mine
80 ~, - ch mas produced anything to speak Of outside
OF 'e stamp mill which running last
San gold property the West gold mills at sv
both which have been idle
the ton all values into
IN the entire district there four gold stamps
5oton Saw mine last year hut
financial dlhcules the machinery practically
before complete test property OF
~ Helent mills there but one which be
Gnu ~ the iosmp gold mill erected the past
kootena Mining section in which
part OF the district there has been season.
ana hee reason to believe that the claims
large producers of god the past have
been extremely gratifying those properties The
west Fisher gold belt town Libby
about 10 by miles blanket veins and the ores arc
low grade and practically milling carrying small amount Of sill
and with that portion Of the district
Is ore enough sight of
number of small stamp mills which are already in
operation there
Reference has quartz mining features Of tho
district There mining portion which is located IN ihbv
creek, which confined at present n tho i, '
ucng These paces their dis.
ers nave peen continually producers
me quite rich OF late produced wages for
those operating them Along large number Of high
which
worked with quite heins tho
% STEADY producer Tor over third of century there
more gold in these bars than bottom
possibilities
m district the possibilities of the yield of
be nintoa account - ~ ~ ~
quite well known allowed in the
"pov district They and
working in the pacers About caught rob-
ong the sce boxes of white
twelve hours from the detection who however was
the Cinnamon
acme at Thompson Falls and the
who had owe brohy love and had tr;od St.