The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-08-29
ON WILLOW CREEK.
The New Mining Company
Files Its Articles of
Incorporation.

pany, organized here last week,
have filed their articles Of incorpo-
ration with the secretary Of state.
The capital stock Of the company
is 100000, consisting Of 100000
shares at a par value Of 25 cents
each. The stock is worcestershire.
The incorporators are j. Fl. Grant,
and Dan Olson Of Philipsburg, and
A. Fl. VAIL and Theo. J. Hauge-
berg of Washburn, n. D.
The property of the company is
situated on Willow creek, sixteen
miles west Of Philipsburg, and con-
sists Of a group Of seven claims Of
twenty acres each. In addition
they have a millsite, water rights,
etc. An abundance Of timber for
mine timbering. building, fuel, etc,
is in easy reach upon the ground.
The property is a free milling
goldproposition. Samples of the ore
crushed in a mortar and pounded
yielded large strings Of gold. The
lead is large one and can be traced
on the surface for a long distance.
Development work on the lead
shows the value of the ore increases
with depth and that the lead is a
permanent one which extends down
to unknown depths. The property
is considered by old prospectors
one of the best in the country.
Willow creek is destined to be-
come a great gold camp, Much Of
the soil on the head Of the creek
when washed out in a gold pan
yields from twenty to fifty colors
and if Il good head of water is
obtainable hundreds and hundreds
of acres could be p%roftably worked
us placers by the hydraulic process.
Wherever gravel is found in the
bed of the creek, or bars. or along
ancient w~atercourses, it is almost
certain that prospects are obtaina-
able from the grass roots down.
Even along the hillsides hundreds
of feet above the bed of the several
little streams, the soil seems inn
pregnated with fine gold. In sew
eral places placer mining has been
successfully carried on, but owing
to the scarcity Of water, prospect
ors on rare occasions only will take
pains enough to test the gravel for
placer mining.
Lower on Willow creek where
water is more plentiful, placer min
ing has been successfully carried
on for the past twenty years and is
SO at present. Each year the Will
low creek placers contribute their
share to the gold output Of the
state.
The source Of all this gold is
somewhere along the headwaters
of the creek and every year at the
close Of the placer season, when
water becomes so low that work in
the placers must be suspended I'M
til snow will again replenish the
supply, the miners move camp to
higher ground and prospect for the
lodes. that supplied the gold which
is being washed from the ground.
Numerous veins have been discov-
cred and located and some very
high gold ore has been taken out
and shipped. The nearest shipping
point being from seventeen to
twenty miles from the mines, only
the very best of ore found will pay
to ship. Notwithstanding several
parties have done exceeding we'll.
By far the largest body of gold
bearing rock so far found in this
district is that on the claims now
owned by the Willow Greek Min
ing Company.
Mr. Grant had the claims located
for many years, doing a certain
amount Of work every fall. In this
manner the ground has been opened
up SO that there is no longer any
doubt as to the value of the mine
When the company onc gets a
small mill in operation they will
have a property as good as a mint.
Gwin and Vinegar Open Up Good Lead.
Cal. Gwin and Al Vinegar, two
veteran placer miners OF the Will.
low Creek district, completed the
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