Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-06-10
A w.Il AdvertIsed Country.

A Well Advertised Country.
An observing mining man from ar
outside point who was in Lewistowr
this week, in speaking Of the Fergus
county mines. said: There are few
sections In the country which are bet
ter known now than your gold fields
over here. Although it may have fal,
ed to go through, the talk of that 'big
deal caused the eyes of the mining
men the country over to open up &c
the magnitude of the mining interests
of this county. Few bigger deals have
seldom ever been discussed In the
west, and the very fact that the pro
moters of Lewistown could succeed
in interesting such men as Gates and
Drake and demanded such an amount
of money for their properties convin
ced us all IN the outside that you
must have something worth investi
eating here. Since coming here
must say that even my highest expec
tations have been exceeded. The
Kendall mines are the most wonderful
| ever saw and | have been all over
the west and in South Africa. This
will probably never be a boom camp
and it is well for Lewistown and Fer
gus county that it will not Booms
bring the riff-raff of creation into Z
country, and it is better by far that
the country should be developed more
slowly, by hard working, legitimate
miners and business men, than to be
exploited in a year or two and have
that undesirable class in with the rest
Many good mining men have their az
tention directed this way and think
that the mining business has been but
fairly started up, and that another
year or two will see many new prop
critics opened up and producing golt
bricks"
Investors Best Safeguard.
The best safeguard and protection
to the investor in a mining enterprise
is the honesty of the men promoting
it, and the investors intelligence am
knowledge of the property. The las
item can be secured by the services
of one competent to make an exac
report OF the property. The fact tina
the special property mentioned ad
joins a paying mine is not considered
an absolute assurance that it alst
would be a paying property. Thi!
fact is readily understood by mining
men, but sometimes Is a little hard II
be seen by people who consider thu
subject solely from a real estate stand
point.
New Metal Discovered.
Berlin, June AT today's session
of the chemical congress, Prof. W
Markwald, of Berlin, showed to thu
electro-chemical and physical sectio,
a smudge Of dark powder on a piec,
of paper which was the first time tina
any of those eminent scientists hat
seen the metal polanium, discovered
by Professor and Madame Curie o
Paris. The latter doubted whethe
polonium was a primary element, o
related to Bismuth, but Prof. Mark
wald demonstrated that 1t was indee,
a primary element. He exhibited
bit of metal weighing 1900 of a grain
which was produced from two tom
of uranium at a cost of SIS. II is NOR,
sparsely distributed in Uranium thar
xenon, the most rarifed gas, is in thu
atmosphere. Prof. Markwald pro
ceeded to give a marvellous exhibition
of the powers Of his speck of polo
mum. 1t intercepted a strong curren
of electricity passing through the ali
from the generator to the received
the air ceasing to be a conductor TO
the flasher. The room was then dark
ened and pieces of barium, platinum
and zinc blende placed near the polo
mum, glowed with a bright, GREEN'S,