Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-05-25
WESTERN MINING NOTES.

&C. S. Robertson has just sold a groun
Of copper and gold-bearing claims near
Patterson Pass. Lincoln county, New, to
New York syndicate for $4,000.
1t Is estimated that $4,000 600 worth
OF gold ore is in sight in the Kendall gold
mines near LewiStown, 100 miles north
east Of Helena. Mont. This deposit is
the largest in the Northwest.
colorado Springs reports that the
Smeiter trust has advanced rates 81 80 to
- ton for mill grade ores. A like add
vance bds been made on smelter ores.
The Eri:e now is 81 and SIT respectively.
William La Rean, former Helena
policeman. has made n rich copper strike
in an abandoned 14-foot prospect hole
nine miles southwest of Helena, Mont.
Assays show value of $5S.14 ton In
copper it runs about 20 per cent
Sixteen thousand dollars was taken
from a pocket in the Victor mine i'm
fuba county Cal. The ledge recently
uncovered is said to be filed with fine
gold. with occasional pockets of great
richness.
The Bear Gulch group of gold mines
in Park county. Mont. has been bonded
to a Colorado and London syndicate for
S2.000,0OO, Carl Werngren represents
the purchasers. The property includes
twenty-seyen developed and undevcoped
claims.
"A rich gold strike is reported from
the West Gallatin River country, Gal
latin county, Mont, where Red Wetzel.
prospector. in driving tunnel into Il
mound which had apparently broken off
from the side of mountain, found gold
ore half pure.
The Cripple Creek April production.
S2,400,00O. brings the grand total weld
of the great camp TO 500, $40. $50. The
record for the first four months Of 1901
Is Sl0,6lS,69O. Al this rate the years
output will be 100000 against So. :
32S.2OO for 1900 and $40, 143, 40 for the
previous year.
A discovery of oil is reported on
Butcher creek. twenty miles west of Red
Lodge. the county seat of Carbon coun-
~, Mont. The report is that the pros.
pect hole. sunk only few feet. yielded
fifty barrels of petroleum in one day with
an ordinary pump. and that some places
Oil was found Oozing to the surface.
Port Arthur, Ont, reports that the
West End Silver Mountain mine active
after long years of idleness, has made a
very rich lind of native silver and SUI
phldes N a large pocket, and neral is
being taken out and sacked for shipment
TO Omaha shelters by ship to Duluth
The native silver is coming ont iii very
large pieces and the sulphide is very rich
"A valuable iron deposit is being de-
NtlOlPl III int sweet NTfdSS district, near
Great Falls. Mont. The ore body is from
fifty to eighty-fve feet wide and carries
a considerable percentage Of copper. and
being a fuXing ore makes it very vaIH-
able for smelters. i vein OF copper ore
was also found, some selections running
a high rs 10 per cent, and carrying 100
ounces Of silver and some gold.
The most important silver discovery
near Chloride, Ari.. in recent years is one
just made by Fred Mitchell on his claim
about one mile from that town. The shaft
in which this remarkably rich body Of
horn and chl0rides of silver was found
is down about ffty-fve feet. and the ore
body is more than fourteen inches wide
No assays of the ore have been made. as
it is 50 rich that it is useless to put it
10 this test.
The Stockton Mining company. oppr-
ating in the Cle0ra district. Col. recently
encountered a true vein Of copper meas
uring fourteen feet and lying on gram
lite foundation. This extraordinary find
spurred on further research and the lode
was traced over the mountain into Long
fellow gulch. distance of over mile.
1t was there uncovered and found 10
measure twenty feet in width This is
considered to be perhaps one of the larg-
est copper propositions in the country.