Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-02-14

The assay Office at the Barnes-K King
which is under the charge of Mr..
Kelley, is the most complete in the
mountains and those of natures secrets
that gentlemen cannot wrest from
the rock brought to him for treat
ment are unsolvable.
| A disc crusher has been lately added
to the outfit and a crusher for the pur-
pose Of breaking up hard rock has
also been installed. Mill tests are
made by the use of miniature tanks
and a small agitator which give the
same results a tif the ore were run
through the mill
Some work is being done on the
Mason Group of prospects which are
located in Mason Gulch in north
westerly direction from the Kendall
property. This group is owned by a
pool consisting Of w. u. Bishop, Gay
lord Mccoy, Chas. Banke and John
Richards.
Some surface prospecting has been
been in progress with the result that
cyanide ore has been encountered
which assays $3.50 and ore Of the free
milling variety which goes as high as
500. No regular ore bodies have been
been located, but the owners of these
prospects are trying to make arrange
ments to have some drill work done
on the ground in the spring in order to
define the ore and ascertain exactly
what they have.
The owners Of this property own
the Mason water right which was or
iginally the source from whence water
was brought to the Kendall mines.
Armstrong, Stanton, Conrad and
others are working on a valuable
group Of prospects on Dog Creek and
| in spring a considerable amount Of
exploitation work will be accom-
pllshed.
W. WOcasek is opening up new
coal property about half a mile from
the forks Of the main road to Maiden
and New Year. A four foot lead has
been uncovered close to the surface
and the samples of fuel obtained are
first-class considering the proximity
to grass roots. Mr.. Wocasek is sink
ing on the lead and says that the coal
improves as the work progresses.
Pay day on the tenth of the month
is a lively time in the town of Ken
dali, and jolly crowd OF miners come
in from the mines in order to swap
notes with their friends and generally
enjoy themselves. One good thing
about the "boys" working in that
section is that they have habit of
paying their debts and as fair pro-
portion of their trade goes ION the
books" it means considerable to the
merchants with whom they do busi-
ness. The monthly payroll is in the
neighborhood of $4,000 and goodly
portion of this money goes to the
local merchants.
A wild and woolly rancher from the
regions in the vicinity of Bedrock,
armed with a six-shooter of large di-
mensions, landed in Kendall last week
full of mistaken ambition to con-
sumo all the whisky in town. The
ambition was gratified beyond his
widest expectations, and the incident
would have passed unnoticed if he
had not shot the atmosphere full of
holes as he left camp and expressed
his defiance of all law and order by
regulation and blood-curdling war;
whoops. Deputy Dennis went out
after him and brought him before the
justice, who dampened his war-like
aspirations by the application of a
$40 fine with costs. Mr.. Dennis says
that the ''gun man" must leave his
arsenal at home.
Kendall is we'll fixed for hotels
and eating houses and the travelling
public are able to obtain all modern
| Accommodations. Indeed with the good
grub and the invigorating mountain
| air, the part of Kendalls population
who patronize the eating houses haye
no excuse for not looking prosperous.
The Historical society of Kendall of
which w. A. Shaules is president,
cite the case of ''human skeleton
who escaped from one of the dime
museums in the far east and landed
in Kendall some months ago. He was
so thin that he had to look several
times in a looking glass while adjust
ing his clothes to find out exactly
where he was at. Driven to the point
of desperation by his extreme thin
ness ee made arrangements to board
at the Shaules Hotel. He gained
flesh SO rapidly that he had to go to
work in the mines owing to the fact
that he was In danger ofsudden death
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