Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-02

! following the best grade and plainly
blazed. The view from Monument peak
where a fire guard is stationed, and
where there is a telephone, rivals that
from Tiger butte.
A man can walk from the min to
Tenderfoot with a pack on his back in
four hours il he is trail broke or in
five, allowing for "s~top-overs."
Saddle horses and pack animals for
the trail to Tenderfoot or any Of the
other streams in this vicinity can be
obtained at the Logging Greek camps.
The fifth stream readily accessible
from Logging Greek is the Dry Fork
of the Dry Fork of Smith river. This
stream abounds in native trout and is
the least-fished stream of any in this
part of the Little Belts. 1t is reached
by Mill creek canyon, just above the
Taylor mill both on the north side Of
upper Logging creek. The last named
route is probably the best
The trail is over the west shoulder
OF Lost Mine mountain. across the
/ hog-back and down the west side. This
trail is marked to the shoulder Of the
mountain only at present. The creek
mill and the trail is not an easy one,
being exceedingly steep. However,
those who make the trip viii be re-
warded by some fine sport-and bulg-
ing creels.
Logging Greeks "Lost Mine"
1t Is a poor mountain locality which
has no lost mine" The Logging Creek
country has its lost mine on Lost Nine
mountain.
Quite a few years ago a prospector
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Ing a sack filled with gold. He TOOK
sick and died, but before he died he
told his son that he had found a gold
pocket, had scratched" it some. and
had left his pick and shovel where he
found the gold. The son went to what
is now called Lost Mine mountain.
found the tools but failed to find the
gold pocket. One or two have gone in
search of this pocket but didn't sue
coed In locating it. The story is sub
stantiated by w. 81. Taylor, who has
lived many years on Logging creek and
who knew the original prospector.
At Taylor's mill there is a fork Of
Logging creek called Big Timber creek.
which flows through a canyon from
the southwest At the head of this
canyon is the Randall mine. There
are few fish, if any, in Big Timber.
shtAVSs Tue uAtlu5 dDONe tue ha0Ua
mine is Placer creek where Indian"
Joe is washing out gold every day. in
eluding Sundays. in q sluice. Two
miners from Neihart also are inter-
ested on Placer creek and plan hydrau-
lie operations there this summer.
This is a horse trip" with a close
up of gold placer mining as its re-
ward. Tenderfoot creek can also be
reached from Placer creek.
For that matter two prospectors at
this writing are panning gravel along
Belt cree kbetween Logging creek and
Pilgrim creek searching for pay
signs.
But all is not gold that
Take the walls of the Sluice Boxes
as an example. There are times. when
sun and sky are just right. that the
limestone CLEANS almost with the sheen
of gold: and in the moonlight these
sheer walls are as white as polished
silver.
The Sluice Boxes of Belt creek lie
between Riceville and Albright. two
miles below Logging Greek. They can
not be reached by automobile, but must
be approached either from Logging
Creek or Riceville via. the railroad
track.
Sluice Boxes a Deep Canyon
The Sluice Boxes consist of s. deep
canyon worn in the limestone by
water. Pool after pool. deep blue
water. marks the curse of the creek
through this canyon. The walls are
sheer, and the celors being in LAYERS
along the lmestone-gold and amber.
delicate browns and tints Of crimson,
pinks and blues and cleaning splashes
of white. with the green of the pines
on the sharp slopes above, and the
sparkle of clean water below.
There are many very large trout in
the Sluice Boxes and a catch of a
dozen rainbows weighing from one to
three pounds each during a favorable
evenings angling is not uncommon.
Contrary to some reports 1t is not
to fish the Sluice Boxes on
q raft or some other kind of craft.
There are scores of places where the
can climb down to pools
and rifles. The whole distance from
miles, can be whipped easily with
a fly rod. This part of the creek is
"pie" for the bait fisherman.
The best fishing in Belt creek 10
from a point one mile above Logging
Greek to the tunnel below Albright;
and the stretch between Logging Creek
and Albright, two miles, is excellent
and abounds in large trout.
Those who camp in Logging Greek
canyon find themselves amidst some
Of the finest scenery east of the Rock
les. The mouth of the canyon is wide
with great, rolling ridges and shelter
ing it on NIL sides. Lying in this basin
is the SIX ranch with its green fields
grazing white-faced cattle, Stately
rottonwoods and weaving willows line
the creeks at this point. The slopes
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