Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-04-27

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Hon. E. w. King, of the Barnes
King, who arrived in Lewistown this
week to look after his extensive in
terests in this section, thinks highly
of the Zortman district, where the
Alder Gulch property is located. He
says:
Il have no stock to sell and l have
been too long in the west to pay
much attention to mining boomers
or to get into their class. However,
l can say-and the subject justifies
the assertion-that there is no more
promising region for hunting gold than
the Little Rockies at the present date.
Chouteau county is already second on
the list of gold producing counties of
Montana-now say that over again,
because that is news to thousands of
people within the confines Of the
state, to say nothing of the millions
outside, who have an idea that all
there is in Chouteau county is sheep
and sheepmen. So far as have seen
there is nothing that compares with
the Little Rockies district in the mat
ter of further prospects, unless it be
the Kendall district in Fergus coun-
ty. Bear this in mind: No company that
has so far attempted exploitation in
the Little Rockies district in a modern
and comprehensive manner has failed
to secure revenue that meant sat
isfactOry profit. Our own company
has been particularly fortunate, but
ours is not the only pebble up the
Little Rockies by any means. My own
opinion is that what our company has
been fortunate enough to secure is on
ly tith of what other prospectors
and investors will obtain"
1t is announced that one of Elijah
Dowies representatives has denoun-
ced an old Spanish mine in the Etz-
allan district of Guadalajara, Mex
leo, and that the prophet" will seek
to revive his financial fortunes
through Mexican mining. Be the facts
as they may in regard to this partic-
ular exploitation, the history of Mex
lean mining shows even stranger
facts than it would be for Dr. Dowie
to strike it rich. The public has in
mind the we'll known example of
BOSS Shepherd of Washington, like
wise "discredited prophet" in his
own land, who, through his Mexican
investments at Batapo1is, restored
his fortune and made great wealth
for his associates. More recently one
Gillett, former cattle king of the
central west, who was dragged under
by the flood of his financial opera
tons, found return of fortunes
smile in Mexican mining investments.
Only few years ago we'll known
brought to the ground by the failure
of his extensive iron onerations in
Lake Superior, went to Mexico with
a very small capital and succeeded in
a very short time in restoring his for
tunes and his financial name Not
all the adventures who seek the dis
tant regions of Mexico to get a fresh
start succeed, but with the examples
above referred to it is possible to be-
lieve that even Dowie may find that
Mexican mine is more satisfactory
and fully as profitable as his much
talked of Zion.
The smelter of the Pittsburg &
Montana company at Butte has been
closed indefinitely, on orders from
Pittsburg. The smelter was puilt
three years ago, at cost of half a
million dollars or more, for the pur-
pose of utilizing new smelling meth
cd, known as the Garreton process.
According to the management of the
company, the process proved a COM
plete failure, and a lot of changes
and experiments were made by Ralph
Baggaley, then manager, and he evolv-
ed new process, which he named the
Baggaley process. and for eight months
the smelter has been in operation.
The process pretended to do away
with the concentration and to make
possible the treatment of / per cent
copper ore at a profit. The system