Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-21

sty been put aside, the object of this
sketch being to present in as brief a
space as possible the facts and dates
concerning the progress Of this county.
its resources and history of its chief in
duStries.
Granite county. as constituted by
house bill No. 11o. AN act Great
ing the county Of Granite, COM
prises an area of 1.55s square miles. or
about $4,000 acres l02, 49, of which is as
sessed. 1t was originally part of Deer
Lodge county. In February. 1898. three
days before the Legislature adjourned,
House bill Ne. 10 was passed in the
house of representatives by a vote of IS
to 10. Two days later, on the last day
OF the session. the senate voted on the
bill and it carried by a vote of S to
Z. At $50 o'clock in the evening of the
same day Governor Richards affixed his
official signature and the county of GraA-
ite became an established fact.
The nav county started out With the
following set Of officers: Commissioners.
Col. Geo. w. Morse, f. c. Freyschaf and
G. B. Cain; Sheriff John H. Cole; Treas
urer, A. a. Fairbairn: clerk and recorder
Geo ]. Reek: Assessor, w. E. Albright:
County Attorney, W. L. Brown; Clerk of
the District Court. Josiah Shull: Super
in.endent of Schools. Mrs. Abbie Wilkn-
sen; Coroner. VIM. Ray; Public Admins
traitor, r. M. Ferfuson; Surveyor. G. w.
Wilson The officers We're temporarily
quartered in rented buildings. Since that
time the history Of the county is mark
ed by constant progress. At present the
county owns its own court house and
Jail buildings and is financially in splen-
did condition. It's warrants are in de-
mand at par. The county has no bonded
Indebtedness, and in the payment of gem
eral fund warrants is about five years
in arrears. The present Indebtedness.
which was incurred principally at the
time of the creation of the county in as
Suming proportionate share of the Deer
Lodge county debt. is being gradually re-
duced. The assessed valuation of Gran
ite county for the year 1900 is s., 80
and the tax levy 80 mills.
The present county officers are: Com
missioners ]. B. Frothman, H. +. Camp
bell and D. W. Hennessy; Sheriff, George
Metcalf: treasurer, OF. Frothmaa;
Clerk and Recorder, David Aims; AS
SCISSOR, j. X. Wells: County Attorney, Jo-
siah Shull; Clerk of the District Court,
A. A. Fairbairn: superintendent of
schools, Miss NJ. Z. Smith: Coroner, r.
w. Getty; Public Administrator, j. S.
Axtell: surveyor. c. +. Druyes.
At the recent election there We're over
this is far from full amount of those
entitled to vote, as in many cases voters
had to travel many miles to get their
names on the great register.
TREASURE IN OUR HILLS.
AS a mining section the county of
Granite is only second to Silver Bow in
the state. Its principal industry is min
ing; yet those of agriculture and stock
raising are carried on to a great extent
The beautiful Flint Creek, Hellgate,
Rock Creek, Willow Creek and other
smaller valleys of the county are cut up
into ranches, and more prosperous and
contented set of tilers of the soil would
be hard to find in any county. Stock
raising is conducted as a business quite
extensively, and the hills and wales are
covered with cattle, horses and sheep.
The mines of Granite county have pro-
duced upwards of $50, 900 worth of
gold and silver during the past fifteen
years and at the same time considerable
more than $40, 600, 600 in dividends has
been paid. In fact, its resources are SIM
ply marvellous and the development that
the different interests of the county will
receive in the future will make them
doubly so. The rich Moose Lake district
where great copper mines are awaiting
DEVELOPMENT, will unearth her riches tt
the WOflu, DIS VIII dlSO llic IdlIcl uAS'
trict at the head Of Bear Guch: Combin
alton, Rock creek Boulder, head of Cole
creek and number of others outside o
the wonderful Flint Creek district. Tht
latter is only partially developed, ant
the others about enough to prove to th
world their richness and permanency.
The Flint Greek mining district prOpe
IS about five miles square, Philipsburs
being approximately in the geographical
center, and it's mineral resources an'
those of the Immediately adjoining dis
tricts are probably the most varied ant
extensive in the state. In the district it
self gold, silver and copper are the pre-
dominant metals. The ores are both fire.
milling and base those of the latter elias
being most general, carrying antimony
zinc, arsenic and lead, and requirin
treatment either by fire, chlorination o
by smelling. The percentage of value
saved is highest by the latter method
which, however, is much more expensive
HOW THE ORES ARE FOUND.
About half a mile east of Philpsburs
which is built upon line foundation
runs the line of contact between the lin
on the west and Granite on the east. Th
contact has a strike little east of mort
and west of south, and dip of from
to IS degrees The country rock east c
this is a hard granite in which the min
eral bearing veins have a general eas
and west strike and dip usually to til
south of from 70 to so degrees. East {
the contact in the lines, the characte
and formation of the veins, as demon
strated principally by the developmer
effected by the operations of the HoI
company, is of much more varied an
uncertain kind. The veins are of I'll
blanket type, without continuous stril
CT dip, and the richest ore is found
pockets OF varying sizes, which are SOM
times worked entire:y out without show
ing walls or leaders, and are sometime
connected with other pockets only
stringers or small seams. Throughout IL