, 1901-10-03
THE HEAD OF cow CREEK.
An Active Mining Centre-More Money
and Drawn Invested Than in Any
Other Mining Locality--An Interest.
ing Letter.
HEAD OF Cow CREEK,
Sept. 1901,

Sept. 1901,
This section of the mining district
has become unusrGily active of late.
Nearly a score of claims are being ac-
lively developed by good live com
panies and some six or eight of these
companies have already completed
arrangements for continuous work
this winter. Within the radius of
prehaps two miles, thirty odd mining
buildings have been built during the
present season and several more are
now in the curse of erection.
The Battle Lake Tunnel Site Com
pany, whose property is on a saddle
between Cow and Spring creeks, has
an AL. plant of machinery at work,
while the Blackfoot and Cow Creek
Companies expect to install steam
1 plants before October 18th. The
Haggarty-Jordan people, operating on
the southwestern slope of Mt. Vul-
can, the quartzite twin of Bridger
peak, are finding some large rich
chunks of copper glance and some
high grade carbonite ores. VIM. Jor-
dan is manager of these companies
affairs, and he has a number of miners
at work in sinking a shaft and a num-
Der of carpenters busy building shaft,
ore, bunk and mess houses. Devel-
opment here will be carried on all
winter.
The Tunnel Site folk, with manag-
er Stegemann again ON the ground,
are hustling away at the foot of
Bnidger peak. The tunnel is now in
about 470 feet and the work is prog
ressing at a four foot a day rate. A
change of formation is coming into
the breast of the tunnel and some
stringers of pyrites of copper are
showing up. The work is now being
done in schist.
On the Blackfoot the very richest
copper yet found is elating Manager,
H. NJ. Shields. This company has
just finished a large bunk house and
Office and is now building a shaft
house into which machinery is to be
placed at once. The entire bottom of
the Blackfoot shaft, forty-five feet
from the surface, is in pyritic ore,
which Manager Shields belives is pay
stuff even for quite a wagon haul.
Two shifts are sinking on the Jay
hawker, owned by the Cow Creek
Company, and the last round of shots
broke forty tubs of ore rich enough
to treat profitably at the smelter. An
ore streak over two feet wide on this
property is yielding ore almost iden-
teal in appearance to the Ferris
Haggarty. Col. II. G. Rider, treas
urer of the company, is now on a
hurried trip to the east for the pur-
pose of getting adequate machinery
for extensive development.
N. G. Bowen, who has a bond and
lease on the Lena Shields, adjoining
the Blackfoot and Jayhawker, is at
work with four men on a lead of bog
iron that at present seems to be a
blanket formation. In some respects
this vein is the most peculiar mining
proposition in the entire country. 1t
is nearly eighteen feet in width at the
breast of the present workings and is
soft and red and resembles somewhat
the iron and paint mine at Rawlins.
Mining men look upon MI. Bowen's
new venture with much favor al
though the belief is general here that
the vein will be found more vertical
} before pay ore is found.
Otto Dahl, owner of the Matte
Gibson, which is a patented property
with a fine showing, is now at work
on the Ruth Anderson where some
excellent copperis being encountered
This claim lies between the Matte
Gibson and the Jayhawker and is
owned by the Wagner-Gr Com
pany.
John Drummond is at work on
some of his Mt. Vulcan claims and
reports copper by the wholesale
Mr.. Drummond is a pioneer in the
Head of Cow Creek country and has
the wellwishes of all his neighbors
here.
Woodruff, Hunter, Jones and Kuy.
kendall with Nebraska people bacl
of them, are arranging to place g
steam plant on their Eclipse, and to
work constantly. This new company
is believed to be a live one and the
showing on the Eclipse is worthy o.
their best efforts.
Taken all in all no similar area O