The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-11-29
Bars and Hills

, average pan, D CENTS. OdSC DiuS
pan S cents. Deep Bar, | to 3 cents,
while "Short Bar" is credited wit
having produced 10 cents per par
The districts boast vas in 1t
bitches for washing gold. The tota
cost of bitches had reached tn
sum of 100000. The number O
gulches in which gold might b
found was 40, the number of bar
and hills 18. The gulch claim!
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 thelr
identity.
The silver mines that came into
being with the discovery of ore on
the Travona claim just west OF
Montana streea received a 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
1t has ben said that DAILY took
hold of the Alice in 1876. The Alice
Gold Mining company vas 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 Don reached a point
where it was capitalized at $1O,-
100000 and had up to 1884 paid
dividends amounting to S550,O0O.
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 wasgincorporat-
ed in 1879, the Moulton 1884, the
Lexington in 1888, the Original
Mining company in 1880, the Silver
Bow Mining and Milling company
in 1881, the Mountain Con in 1881,
the 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,
but although copper was found, the
difficulties of treatment prevented
developments.
In 1884, John B. Read, in writing
Of the development of Butte, refers
to Clark's Colusa, purchased by w.
Clark in 1872, and says: "In
1872 w. A. Clark sank a shaft on it
about Soft. deep and shipped a car
Of ore to Baltimore for treatment.
The ore was hauled in wagons to
Corinne and although containing
IS per cent copper, the excessive
transportation charges prevented
further working of the mine at that
lime. In 1882 work was resumed"
While looking after the develop
nent of the Alice mine, which was
the leading mine of the Butte
district at that time, Mr.. DAILY had
lcquired a third interest in the An
lconda mine.
In the venture George Hearst,
Tevis and J. B. Haggin were
lis associates. George Hearst was
lot born to the purple, nor was
Devis nor Haggin. Like Marcus
DAILY they yer all men who had
their own fortunes.
George Hearst had been a pros
'ector accustomed to mixing his
sour dough, frying his own
aeon and splitting his pack with a
urro as he tramped the hills of
california and Nevada. f,
Fortune had smiled on him. He .
ad struck it rich. Days acquaint- ;
nee with Hearst dated from the !,
Id Comstock days. :
Haggin was an argonaut. When !;
e landed in San Francisco he was
ute happy to accept a position as
Jerk of the district court at the !
r%ganization of the first judicial |
lstrict in California. In after
ears he often spoke of how much i
lie salary of that position meant t
him in those days. a
Lloyd Tevis was admitted to |
ractICe law in the California S