The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1900-03-07
acres at the forks of the South Fork.

acres at the forks of the South Fork.
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| Below them Parmenter & Wynne
have struck it rich, there are NO two
ways about that. They have piled up
large quantity of lumber preparatory
to sluicing next season.
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At the mouth of South Fork johnny
Warp has his little twenty acre tract.
He has been at work all winter and is
still working with all the confidence
in the world that his labors will be ul-
timately rewarded and there are
grounds for his confidence.
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Next in order is the site Of the old
sawmill, where Harvey, Lord & Co.
own an extensive tract. They did $500
worth of representing last year, but
because of lack of facilities for keep
ing out the underground rush of water
they failed to find bed rock.
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| Ort & Malloy have claims adjoining
which they are working on at present.
They too have been hampered by wat.
er but are about to construct Chinese
pump and will without doubt be the
first to reach bedrock and almost Ger.
tain pay in the SO called swamp dis
trict.
Right here Crandall creek comes in !.
Stearns & Walker at the head OF the
creek have done very good work but,
have not struck rich pay as yet. With
lumber at hand for sluicing though,
they will undoubtedly find mint Of
money next summer.
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At the mouth of this creek we find
Fred Chase, sole proprietor Of Bacon
Kind. He has long been an advocate
that gold could be found in the old
high channels of the creek, and his
work and perseverance have al last
proven the correctness Of this theory.
The writer has spent several days
with Chase, and has seen him take
out as much as fifty cents to the pan.
He will run a hume and ditch from
Little Boulder creek soon and the re-
suits are sure to be gratifying. Chase
was at one time an artist in Paris and
It was while painting one of the pic
lures for which he is famous that an ia.
spiration seized him and the world
lost good artist, but Hughes Greek
gained an equally good prospector.
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At the mouth of Hughes Creek Peter
Bennett, post master and hotel pro-
prietor, is doing some great work in
the way of running a drain. What
ever Mr.. Bennett undertakes is sure to
carry and when that drain reaches bed
rock it is not improbable that Peter
will pick up enough nuggets in a very
short time to pay the expenses of a
trip back to the old New Jersey farm
where his boyhood days were spent.
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Ihere are many others on Hughes
Creek and vicinity who are bound to
find their Meccas next season-in fact
wherever any claim has been develop.
ed the results have been good pay in
variably. There are many copper
prospects and free milling gold ore
here too-copper running 500 to the
ton and free free milling gold at $14
is not bad. These are only waiting
for transportation and capital and
both are sure to come soon.
Perhaps the greatest Improvement
among Hughes Creek industries is the
sawmill erected by D. v. Bean. With
lumber at hand the miners may now
accomplish what has heretofore been
impossible. Taken all in all Hughes
Creek is Mecca for the prospector, 4
paradise for the hunter and vertable
home for the disciples of Isaac Walton.
All indications are that this country
will next season becoue a rival of It's
namesake on the other side of the
range.
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