Year: 1866

HELENA M. T.. September Is, 1866.


DEAR WORLD: As find upon my return to He
lena your paper occasionally in my box the pre-
sumption is that few lines now and then will not
come amiss from your correspondent. Your
readers doubtless are, ere this, aware that an
election was held in Montana notwithstanding
the adverse decision of Judges to the legality of
the law,) in which both parties participated. In
this place the Republicans worked in the dark
until the night before the election, through the
dark lantern avenues of underground societies.
We found them on Monday morning working
with the regularity of clock work-their 'spegs
all set' in every ravine. and rather lively time
followed but we took them 10 with a little over
half our force and came through easily. / notice
the sensitive Republican denounces us for charg.
ing them with exerting an influence through the
medium of their dark lantern association. But
this won't do. AS if to make assurance douhly
sure upon this point, some Of their low tools got
inebriated upon the negro whisky furnished by
the dark hued candidates, and boldly proclaimed
their intention to beat one candidate upon the
Democratic ticket because lie did not endorse the
strangling Of Daniels and opposed the action of
the Vigilance Committee. This was freely
threatened. over and over again, at the polls
But thank God the votes of such men were not
asked for nor were they needed. None were
asked to vote, nor do we believe that the Demo-
cratic candidate for Council received the vote of
single man who plotted against the life Of that
unfortunate victim to lawlessness.


Trusting that the springing ticket, setting an
army in the field perfectly organized in twenty
four hours time will be sufficient warning to the
Democracy of Montana in the future, we turn
from the subject to the


MINING AND MINING INTERESTS.


Very many of your people have returned to the
"Basin,' disappointed with this country. Many
of them declare the whole country to be "bk'
In this, however, they widely mistaken. It is
a good country and will (when capital becomes
interested in mining instead of merchandising
prove itself all that has been claimed for it,
Thousands Of acres in Deer Lodge county alone
will pay from $6 to SIS and some of it $25 per
day to the hand had they small start in the way
Of bitches There is also an abundance of water
but it must be elevated from the original channels
and taken to adjacent bars. Neither one of four
bitches covering, at least in the aggregate, twelve
thousand acres of mining ground, would cost over
SIS ,OO0 This done there is an extent of gravel
beds that would keep twenty thousand men pretty
busy for three years. How much there may be
upon this side the range have little opportunity
of knowing; but from the recent discovery of
Highland Gulch, pronounced to be very rich and
its extent, should say this part of the country
had also been heretofore but poorly prospected.-
Highland Gulch is situated abont seventy miles
from here is a tributary Of the Jefferson Fork
s1d nearly opposite the camp Of 'Silyer Bow. !"
Isome little talk about quartz as the winter ap
urOaches and considerable of prospecting.
new silver district has been discovered near the
head Of Flint Greek, that for the richness and