The west shore., December 14, 1889, Page 429, Image 13

WEST SHORE.
A com spondent, writing from the Maiilen district of Mon
tana, days that in tome respect the Maiden is one of the most
remarkable mining camps In the world. It it in the midst of
and claims for its mineral kingdom all the peaks and ridge
and foot hills of the Judith mountains, for all of them are lit
erally covered with vast quantities of good float and mutt be
intersected with numerous veins of rich ores. Hundreds and
hundreds of mining claims have already been opened in all
these mountains, and new discoveries are the order of the day.
Many of these discoveries have been so develowd as to show
they contain vast quantities of good ores. The ores of this
mining region are variable in both the character and quantity
of the metals they carry. There is found reg"'" qnl "Ty
ing gold and silver, good milling ores ; alio, soft material like
mud, rich in gold, sometimes silver, galena and carlwnate of
lead. Copper pyrites and carbonates of copr, carrying silver
and gold, are abundant. The lead, iron and manguiese ores
will be valuable as fluxing ores for those more refractory.
Limestone is found In all parts of this region, so there will l
no lack of fluxes and fluxing ores f jr the furnaces, l'lacera
have been discovered and worked with greater or less success
in various gulches of the Judith mountains. Water, an abso
lute necessity in all mining operations, gushes out In fountain
on every mountain side and flows In never falling streams down
every ravine and valley to supply the waters of Judith river and
Dog, Arnels, Box Elder and McDonald creeks. These streams
were full In the summer and fall of 1H8II, the dryeet season
known to the oldest pioneers. Forest of pine, fir and spruce
coverall these mountains and will furnish timber In abundance
for all mining purpose, and fuel where wood I hotter than coal.
Coal bods have leen discovered and opened all around the Ju
dith mountains, six miles north, near Fort Maglnnls, at the
base of Moccasin mountain and on the tributaries of the Ju
dith river. There are two ton-stamp mills at Maiden now run
ning on the ores of the Knotted Horse. These mills have con
contractors tor condensing and saving the rich tailings for the
smeller. A railroad I all that Maiden needs to make It one of
the most extensive and productive mining canis In the state.
Speaking of the iiiccesg attending the working of old mlnri,
the San Francisco Mining and Scitntijle Vttu has the follow
ing : When two men take out $100,0X) in less than a year from
a quarts mine, they are doing a pretty big bualnes. Yet this
Is what two young men, Messrs. Grant and Appel, have done
In the Chlpp flit pocket mine, lietween Moore's fUt, Nevada
county, and Allegheny, Sierra county; and they have no mill,
either, simply pounding the rich rock up In a nmitar by hand.
The mine was abandoned over twenty year ago and lay Idle
until these men took hold of It. They ran about twenty feet
farther in the old tunnel ami etrmk It rich. Since then they
have made a numW of bullion shipments, the )at bar weigh
ing l:'5 pounds. Should we read of an occurence of this sort
In a distant region, hundreds of men would U anxious to go to
a locality so favored. Yet here It ha attracted no sclal at
tention. The same may be raid of the llonensa claim, a k
et mine In Tuolumne county, which has yielded very largely of
late. In pocket mining there are great chances to I taken, of
course, but if the chance Is a hi. ky one there I great reward
for labor. Donbllcsa many other of th abandoned mine In
the older districts of the Hat will I worked again In course
of time, when people come to a realising sense of their good
fortune in living In a region where there are such golden
(ihditic. Merr and Tu.dumn are not the only mountain
countie where thore are oppoitunitle for energetic and perse
vering men In quarts mining.
The Seattle A Northern Railway Co. la alwut to close a con
tract for the delivery of 00,000 ties on the line where It propose
to build. These tie are to be delivered at the rate of 20,000 a
month. It It expected that the trick will be rapidly lald.on
the thirty mile of road between the Skagit river and Ship har
bor which was graded lust summer. Two thousand tons of
steel rails were received last season for this road and they have
been stored on llallast bland since. The object of the com
pany, which was Incorporated a little more than a year ago
with a capitalisation of $.000,000, Is to construct a railway and
telegraph line from Seattle In a northerly direction through the
town of Whatcom to a point on the northern boundary line of
Washington at or near Ulalne, a distance of 100 mile ; to con
struct a railway and telegraph line from where the last describ
ed line crossc the Sksglt river In an easterly and northerly di
rection to Spokane Fall, a distance of 300 miles ; to construct
a railway and telegraph line from where the first-mentioned
line crosses the Sksgit river westerly via Fidalgo Island and
Deception pass to Admiralty head, on Whldby Island, a die
tance of twenty-five miles. Thus It will I seen that the total
length of railroad which the comny coiilemplalea building la
42.1 tulles.
A late circular Issued by the Nevada, California A Oregon
railway states that the construction of the projected road north
ward from Iteno, Nevada, through I'lumaa, l.assen and Modoc,
counties, California, and through Oregon I being pushed stead
ily along. " This nd is owned by a private party and nut by
a corKratlon. It Is proJt'd to run from Iteno, Nev., to the
Columbia river a distance of 4N1 mile, and seventy miles are
completed and In owration. There are no towns near the line
so fur a constructed nor as far as located, 12.1 mlea north of
Kuno. No contract are let, but the work Is done by the com
pany under direction of Its own foreman. The route la over a
mountainous country, with grade of Ull feet, and curves of IH
degrees; but the work I not lnvy so lar as II has progressed.
The line Is graded for twenty mi lieyond the northern termi
nus, and tie are on the ground. Of lb portion In oerllon,
twenty-eight mite are In Nevada, and forty two mile in Cali
fornia. The line from Iteno runs northwest for twenty-eight
miles, then enters California, and thence rune In a northerly
dim lion from ten to twenty mile west of th line between Ne
vada and California."
The Virginia City Knitrrin says that California should soon
show a large Increase In her annual yield of g 1 1. More rich
strikes are now lielng reirted In that stale than for year.
The strike are not confined lo any one section, but are taking
pi In all parte of the stale. The Csbfomlans seem to have
taken a fresh atart In proectlng and they are making no end
of valuable discoveries. Not a few of these " find," and
some of the most valuable, are Mng mads In mines abandoned
yeara ago alter being prospected In the half way manner then
praetliwd, In these day a miner doe not throw up the sponge
If the rt of the vein tapped by lata tunnel falls to s'u.w paring
ore ; be drifts along It until he Hud a chimney. A quart vein
that prospecte sulhVlenlly well on th surface lo Justify the inn
ing of a tunnel I pretty sure lo contain pm kels, or chimney,
of paying ore at some point 1,1 ,,a ""'''a' ""w
seen In quarts mining throughout California many big paying
mine will undoubtedly I added In lb already lung hat of re
liable and steady producer.
In the Sheridan claim, In Mudlaon county, Montana, tun
nel ha been driven depth of 1,100 feet at a coat of over 1 10,-