The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-11-30
Bars and Hills

PNSl, Pei pan ~ SSlAlo. iOWd La
; average pan, 3 cents. Sage Bruc
pan 5 cents. Deep Bar, to 3 cents,
while "Short Bar" is credited wit
having produced 10 cents per par
The districts boast was in it
bitches for washing gold. The tota
cost of bitches had reached TIL
sum of $4,000, The number o
/ gulches in which gold might b,
found was 40, the number of bar
and hills Is. The gulch claims
staked numbered 781 while the bal
and hill claims numbered 226, max
ing a total of 1907 claims in all.
The placers are worked out
many of the gulches have beer
filled and now do duty as city
streets. The bars have lost their
identity.
The silver mines that came into
being with the discovery of ore on
the Travona claim just west OF
Montana streea received body
blow with the repeal of the Sher-
man act and Butte might have long
since passed into the ranks of the
ghost cities along with dozens of
other once thriving western min
ing towns, were it not for that
hard-headed miner from the Com
stock, who, by the force of his per-
sonality, and his past record as a
miner, kept his associates tied to
the task of finding a mine that
would last on the Anaconda hill.
Birth of Companies
It has ben said that DAILY took.
hold of the Alice in 1876. The Alice
Gold Mining company was incor-
porated in Feb, 1873, and reorgan-
lied December 1879. This prop
erty which had been bought for
$4,000 in 1876 had under Days
management soon reached point
where it was capitalized at $1O,-
100000 and had up to 1884 paid
amounting to $55O,000.
1t was the first Butte stock to-
be placed on the New York stock
board. The producing mining
companies of Butte post-dated the
taking over the Alice by Marcus
Daily. The Colusa was incorporat-
ed in 1879, the Moulton 1884, the
Lexington in 1883, the Original
Mining company in 1880, the Silver
Bow Mining and Milling company
N 1881, the Mountain Con in 1881, |
he Amy and Silversmith in 1881 |
and the Colorado Smelling and
Mining company in 1888.
There were properties owned by
Individuals on which work had
been done beyond the silver area,
,ut although copper was found, the
difficulties of treatment prevented
In 1884, John B. Read, in writing
# the development of Butte, refers
0 Clark's Colusa, purchased by w.
\. Clark in 1872, and says: "In
872 w. A. Clark sank a shaft on it
bout Soft. deep and shipped a car
f ore to Baltimore for treatment.
he ore was hauled in wagons to
,orinne and although containing
) per cent copper, the excessive
transportation charges prevented t
working of the mine at that |
me. In 1882 work was resumed"
While looking after the develop I
lent of the Alice mine, which was t
asily the leading mine of the Butte r
lstrict at that time, Mr.. DAILY had .
,quired a third interest in the An S
,onda mine. b
In the venture George Hearst, +
lloyd Tevis and ]. B. Haggin were \
S associates. George Hearst was \
1t born to the purple, nor was :
evils nor Haggin Like Marcus :
ally they were all men who had =
lilded their own fortunes. =
George Hearst had been a pros T
ctor accustomed to mixing his -
vn sour dough, frying his own - y
con and splitting his pack with 4
Irro as he tramped the hills of :,
llifornia and Nevada. T.
Fortune had smiled on him. He :;
d struck it rich. Days acquaint- 4.
&c with Hearst dated from the ~
! Comstock days. -
t1aggin was an argonaut. When !,
landed in San Francisco he was -
lite happy to accept position as
rk of the district court at the pr
3anization of the first judicial IN
trict in California. In after
ars he often spoke of how much I'M
salary of that position meant tn
him in those days. &C
Lloyd Tevis was admitted to 10
lctice law in the California sil