The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-28

On Rim Run RUN RUN Rt'N RUN
There was steam pufging early yes
torday morning from both the derrick
engines at the south
NEW end al the Higgins
START avenue bridge and 9TH
er signs of activity
called attention tp the fact that there
was something doing after the week
of idleness which has been ~ exas-
perattng In contractors and public
alike Superintendent Joseph Joseph
III the steel crew had returned from
his hospital sojourn in Spokane long
enough To place a new man in charge
Of the work here and to install
new crew. NJ. ]. Han"y is the man
who will take charge Of the stcet
construction and he was on the job
, yesterday. testing the equipment and
getting things tined up for the work
of erection. Mr.. Haney in Il steel
man of e years experience and comes
!" MtssouIa with IA splendid reputa-
ton. with him il Il new crew and
ii II expected that there will he more
III" In the work than there has been.
Yesterday afternoon MI. Haney took
account 0f stock and found where he
was at. The boom of the upper der
rick was strengthened by the addition
Of some new braces and every man
WAS On the jump. In a few days
things Will he in snaps foI swinging
the big girders II anticipate IL lot
OF fast work now" said Supervising
Engineer White yesterday afternoon.
| Mr.. Haney il IL man who will. |
believe. make the work move as IL
should and | look for the completion
of the bridge in as short time as
is consistent with good work. Mr.
Haney has plenty Of men and there
viii be as big crew as can -
worked sto advantage. | believe that
the next weeks showing will be per-
fertly satisfactory to all concerned"
There has been considerable local in
tersst here this week in tho am
nuuncement from Hell
REAL ena that there have
GOLD been new discoveries of
gold in placer diggingS
near the capital city. Frank u.
Brown of Philipsburg. one of the
best posted plactr experts in Montana.
was in Missoula yesterday. \ Mis-
sou!ian man asked him regarding the
Helena story. These discoveries of
gold under false bedrock merely notes
AN occurrence not unusual In the OPP
eratons in gulch deposits throughout
the west and northwest" said Mr..
Brown. Invariably such discoveries
represent the most valuable portion Of
the gulch in which they ar. made: the
bedded gravel on the true bedrock rep
resents the deposition of the first
erosion and then an overlap of sedi~
mentary or erupttve sands, the various
schlSts and shatcs and states: then
comes the secondary deposition and
enrichment. The miner works this to
the hcaded clay or, AZ he thinks, the
porphyritic bedrock and then gees up
ward. obiivous To the fact that be
meath his feet lies the richest gravel
II the gulch. An instance uf this not
unusual occurrence was recently dem
onstrated i'm Windfalt gHlch in the
Cedar creek district of Missouia coun-
ty. In the ground formerly owned by
your late townsmen, Edward Miller
and now under bond To A Nj. stevens
| recently examined this ground and
suggested the advisabllty of getting
beneath the clay bedrock, as | did not
believe that was the true bedrock. al
though il had been worked as such
by the former owner. This WAS done
and four feet nf gravel were exposed.
which show value by the sluicehoS
test, nf a dollar yard. Should these 3
values continue-and placer VAULTS are
much more dependable than quartz
il in impossible tn estimate III" +:
amount ri guild lying in this and other
partially worked gulches iii Missoula
county"