Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-02-27
An Ore Similar 10 That Worked at
Gilt Edge Plainly Traceable
for Miles.
SOME OF The SMALLER CLAIMS
The Mammoth Has Tunnelin One
Hundred and Twenty-Five
Feet, All in Ore.

The impression has in some way
gone abroad among mining men aud
those who are seeking To invest capi-
tai In the mines that the ore bodies
Of the Warm Spring mining district,
In the vicinity of Gilt Edge, are EN-
braced within very limited area OF
country contiguous to that camp.
and that there are now no properties
of any promise In that immediate 10.
cality except those owned and being
operated by the large companies
which have acquired control Of the
few developed claims Of that part Of
the district.
The idea that the deposits Of cyan
ide ores of the Gilt Edge region are
limited to the small area now under
going development is entirely erron-
eous and the day Is not far distant
when the plants engaged in re luclng
the ores OF that camp will not be con-
fined to two gulches. ns IL now the
case, but will be distributed for "A dis
tance Of more than six miles in
northern and southern direction
along the line of what has been DEM
onstrated to be the line of these de-
p0sits.
A great amount of prospecting has
been done the past two years for the
purpose Of verifying denomination
of the ore along the rim of The noun
tains at what is practically the scme
elevation, and In many places, both
north and south Of the old Gilt Edge
mine, which we tnke as the initial
point from the fact that it was the
first property developed in the region.
the prospcctur's Efforts have been
successful even beyond his most san
guine expectati ns. Thegeneralchar-
actef oi the ore Encountered in these
recent discoveries is almost Identical
with that found in the Gilt Edge and
Chlcadee mines of the Great Northern
Mining and development company,
and though at no place has any cx-
tensive development been executed, on
several claims ore has been exposed
aud In one or two instances the show
ings give favorable Indication Uflarge
bodies Of ore that only await devel-
opment to become dividend paying
mines. The abrupt nature OF the
formation IL such that all these prop
critics may be worked by tunnels,
which, of course, is the cheapest
method Of development, and they are
all easily accessible as regards loca-
ton.
On the north side Of Virginia gulch
and Immediately adjoining the prop
perty Of the Great Northern company
on the north Is the White Elephant
claim, the property OF Royal Is. Mat
thews, which. with but a small
amount oi work, shows u good grade
OF cyanide ore, and just above 1t on
the same hill Kendall and Flanagan
have the Manila, which also has ore
OF the same character. Continuing
north OF the White Elephant IL the
Mammoth claim Of Jones, Matthews
& Co., which has more development
than any Of the Others we will men
tion. The Mammoth has one tunne!
Ia the hill l25 feet, all In ore, with n
second tunnel hundred feet lower
down the hill, on which the owners
are now working, that has been
driven iiity-fve feet, the last thirty
five feet OF whi,h IL In ore. Some
time ago the owners OF this claim
erected tanks and rs an experiment
"cyanided" thirteen tons of ore, oh.
tanning Sl32 therciron, which Is for
an average OF cyanide ores considered
u high grade. Ia the same group
with the Mammoth are the Nam.
moth Extension, Black Eagle, 18th
Century and Cricket, on all Of which,
with the exception Of the lastnamed,
some ore has been shown.
North Of the Mammoth group along
the same line Aubrey Brown & Go.
own three clnims-the st. Louis,
Warh0rse and Jewel-on which ore
similar 10 that in the Chlcadee has
been uncovered, and yet north ofthis
group IL the Alabama, owned by the
Mammoth people, that isthefarthest
north Of any claim on the rim. The
north end line oi the Alabama reaches
to Maiden gulch, fully two and hall
miles mort Of the Gilt Edge mine, and
In the entire distance there Ia not
claim on this same line ci altitude on
which ore has not been exposed with
a little development work, and some
Of the claims not directly on the line
have fair showing Of ore also.