Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-11-23
-AMONC THE MINERS :
Latest News from the Mining Camps
Of fergus County and elsewhere.


The Perth, West Australia, cores
pendent of the Mining World, says:
The royal commission, which has for
some weeks been inquiring into the al
legged prevalence of gold stealing, has
concluded it's sittings and the report
will shortly be made to the govern.
ment. The evidence taken disclosed
much illegal dealing in gold, and the
Misrepresentation as to where much
of it was obtained. Steps will prob
ably be taken to increase the detec-
tive force and suppress illegal deal
| ings and treatment plants. The enor-
nous sums dealt in by these have as
tonished the general public and prac-
tically confirmed the statements made
which led to the commission being ap-
pointed"
A great amount of development
work is going on in the Butte district
and a large amount of new territory
will be open for mining during 1907.
Sinking is being done on the Parrot,
Pennsylvania, West Colusa, Cora,
North Butte, Badger state, Granite,
Mountain, Leonard. Blackjack Elm
Orlu, COlusa- Leonard, on three claims
of the Butte & Bacorn, on the Tri1e
of the Butte Copper, Ida-Montana,
East Butte, East Butte Extension, Oh
pr, South Butte, Farrell and Alliance,
Greenleaf, Pittsburg & Montana, Dav-
is-Daly on four shafts, the TuOlumne,
Anaconda and on number of other
properties.
Native lead is almost rarity.
Sweden has produced the best spec
linens. in fact. the only ones wherein
the grains are disseminated through
the rock. Probably the only occur
renee of native lead in the United
States Is at Franklin Furnace, New
Jersey. where a few specimens have
been found. showing the metal in
small grains.
What are believed to be the finest
crystalized specimens of cinnabar have
recently been received at New York
from China. The specimens, dozen
or more in numebr, are from one-half
inch up in size, and some Of them
show the crystals protruding from the
matrix of quartz. One specimen was
sold at SITS, and the others, which
were purchased by museums and pri-
vate collectors, brought from $50 up
A few will be exhibited at the Aneri
can Museum OF Natural History in
New York.
A chimney connected with a gold
smelling furnace in Vallejo Junction,
California, had been filling up for the
past year, and finally became so troub-
lesome that the managers of the plant
ordered it cleaned. The refuse was
afterward treated in the gold room,
and was found to contain gold dust
worth $1,000 The directors immedi-
ately ordered appliances attached to
the chimneys to prevent refuse from
passing out into the air.
In contest by adverse claimants
over the discovery and location, in a
case recently decided by the supreme
court of Utah, the following PROPOSE
tons and points of law were decided
says the Chicago Mining World: Cd
That a discovery of a vein or lode
on unoccupied and inappropriate
mineral lands of the United States is
a prerequisite to valid location of 2
mining claim. (2) That location
based upon a discovery within the linn
its of an existing and valid location
is void. 90 That what has been 10
Z Gated once under the law shall no
be relocated until the first Location
has expired, until the rights of thu
former owner or locator have COM
y to an end, and until in law he ha'
e forfeited or abandoned his claim ant
% left the property open for another t.
take up. Until such abandonment o
forfeiture the ground is not subject t.
.e relocation, for it is essential that a
b the time of the location the ground lc
Gated should be a part of the publ
domain. Hence, a relocation on land
e actually covered at the time by ar
other valid and subsisting location i
void: and this not only against tn
prior location, but all the world, be
cause the law allows no such thing t
be done. (4) That when forfeitur
has been occasioned the claim or min
upon which such failure occurred sha
be open to relocation in the sam
y manner as if no location had eve
y been made, provided that the origins
locators, their heirs or assigns, or Il
gal representatives. have not resume
work upon the claims after failur
and before such location. 90 Ths
a location to be good must be goo
when made, and that each claimaI
must stand on his own location an
can take only what it will give hill
under the law.
Gold, silver and copper have bee
the royal money metals ever sine
money was devised as a instrumel
Of trade and commerce.
Gold was always supremely indi