Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-03-07

presumably by the Bank of Fergus
County. John L. Bright next took
hold Of the property, but it again re-
verted to the bank. Bird & McCor-
mick of Salt Lake purchased it and
operated the property until bonded to
A. S. Wright & Co. Though the mine
has been operated for so long a time
and several fortunes have been ex-
tracted from it, but little work, COM
paratively speaking, has been accom-
plished. 1t is in reality only yet a
prospect. Pockets of rich ore have
been found which ran as high as
$50, 900 in gold to the ton and three or
four hundred dollars is a common as
say. The ore is so rich that one of
the greatest difficulties in the opera
tion Of the mine is the fact that it
was so easily robbed. During the
working of the mine by Bird g. Nc
Cormick, $4,000 ore was found on the
sixth level. The old stamp mill was
entirely consumed by fire three years
ago. The shipping of the richer ore
has been carried on with financial sue
cess. There is undoubtedly an i'm
mense fortune in the old mine yet,
providing that it was operated with
an up-to-date plant. The tailings of
the Spotted Horse have been worked
with success by several parties
amongst whom was Harry Kendall
who made considerable money in that
manner.
Victor Landoc owns good property
adjacent to the Spotted Horse and
has accomplished in the neighborhood
OF 1000 feet of development work on
the ground with very satisfactory re-
suits.
Henry Willard has very promis-
ing cyanide prospect short distance
from the Maginnsss ground and the
entire district seems to be highly
mineralized.
On the ridge dividing Maiden and
Alpine gulch are located several good
properties which are being developed
continually. The formation is very
broken though the ore bodies are of
considerable extent. The Black Bull
property, now known as the Globe,
carries high grade gold ores and is be-
ing developed by the Globe -Maginiss
mining Co. A large quantity has
been shipped from this property in
the past with profit to the operators.
A four hundred foot tunnel has lately
been completed. This vicinity seems
to be very prolific in lead carbonates
and on the War Eagle property some
extremely high grade gold carrying
lead ores have been discovered. The
old tunnel runs in the neighborhood
OF 400 feet and in the ore. The main
part of the work is being accomplished
in the vicinity of the former shaft.
j. L. Stewart of Lewistown is work
ing the property at present.
j. S. Warn owns some very likely
looking claims short distance below
the War Eagle. The property is
known as the Little Johnny group
and some very fair assays have been
received from the silver ores extracted
from the workings. This property
with other claims at the mouth of
Alpine were under bond to Conrad
& Burgess of Great Falls. Directly
west of Maiden and only few hun
dred yards from the town is situated
the Alpine claim owned by p. j. Nc
Adow. Considerable work has been
accomplished on this prospect with
satisfactory results and in all proba-
bility active operations will again be
resumed in the spring under the di-
rection of Adam Sager, Meadows
old foreman. The gold bearing quartz
ore is encountered in almost everty
property in this district: in some,
only in small pockets while in others
in good sized bodies
One fact speaks well for the camp
and that is, that the old timers who
have owned prospects there for years,
still work on with serene confidence
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the prosperity it deserves. There is
no doubt but that the ore is there
and highly mineralized: what is
needed is capital to thoroughly de-
velop and exploit the various good
prospects that are now at standstill
owing to the fact that the owners are
not sufficiently well fixed to operate
them.
Situated in Collar gulch on the
north side OF Crystal mountain is the
property owned by Bells Bros. The
holding consists of three groups: the
Big Horn, Reliance and the Lee Star
A four hundred foot tunnel has been
run on to the Big Horn with view
to tapping the contact. A three foot
vein of lead matter assaying 81 in gold