The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-22
SWIFT CURRENT NOTES.

Swift Current will have a rail road in
side of six months! So say a couple of
Spokane men who have lately been out
here. There are others. We don't care
who puts it in, or where it comes from,
as long as we get it. These same
Spokane men invested in Cracker"
stock, and they were mighty quiet
about it
When a man goes into the Swift Cur
rent District he is left to form his own
opinion OF everything. You won't run
up against a spuller in" but you can go
and inspect the different dumps, take a
stroll into the tunnels, take a piece of
ore home with you. and ask all the ques-
tions you want. When you are through
you feel as if you must depend upon
your own wisdom in such matters. You
can buy if you have the stuff, if you
hay'nt, it is all the same.
There is not much uneasiness felt
about the running of various enterprises
when the proper time comes. We all
know the decision of the General Land
Office, 1.-THE strip is for mining pur-
poses only" Decisions are reversed
daily.
A word Of warning should be given to
that class of people who take part in
stampedes, and who fail to provide them
selves with the necessaries of life, even.
When the strip opened, we saw men a
foot without a single thing but what
they had on. Men were scattered from
Blackfoot to st. Mary's for weeks, utter
ly str anded. Those who had money
soon got out of there, and waited in a
more salubrious cline for the Is feet of
snow to get off. To men who are broke,
Or who have not enough to run them for
2 or 3 months, l would say: Keep out
! until you are sent for, there will be
plenty Of work, but you must wait until
the mine owners are ready.
If this were only a placer lay out!
but it isn't. OF cours you can take up
any amount Of SO called placer ground,
but nary a color will you find. 'Valu-
able deposits" comes under the head of
placer claims however, and there are
such deposits, such as clay and sand.
All of the many creeks from the Cana
dian line south to Birch creek have been
prospected.
In 1868 Chas. Thomas Of Robare, Jos.
Kipp, John Wren and John Neubert
prospected every creek from Birch creek
north. In only one creek were
,colors found, and that was in what is
now known as Livermore creek. This
creek is on the reservation, and heads in
the foot hills.
These same men sunk a sh aft 90 feet
deep on the Canadian side in the Por-
cupine Mountains, and didn't find
enough gold to gild the point of a pin
The late decision rendered that moro
particular attention must be given to
the description of boundaries of mining
claims created quite an excitement If
Helena and Kalispell, as published il
the 'Montanian.' The clerk OF Teton
county was asked by wire to furnish {
copy Of the location description of &
claims.
It seems you cannot state that it il
TOO feet to post number one, thence
1000 feet to post number two. You
must describe each post, give the dimen
sions of each, the size OF the. mounC
around it, what is written Upon it, ant
in fact every thing pertaining to tina
post. You see, we want to know wha
post you are talking about. There wer,
several claims jumped at st. Mary's, th'
spring the strip opened on just sue
technicalities.
There is enc thing surprising abou
the way the best claims have been take
and by whom. One would natural
think that the people Of near by town
such as Dupuyer, Choteau, and Grea
Falls, also Benton would be in here i
large numbers. They are not, | don
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in the whole works, while from Chotea
their may be one or two, Great Fal
probably 2 or 3, and Benton the sam
People from Helena, Butte, Anaconda
Boston, Spokane, and other far ava
cities are quietly gobbling up the who.
cheese Tumble?
A lorcrn n,1poLa- ~e M 1ro,orvo+iOo no,