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Show AM UNFAVORABLE REPORT. The Helena Independent publishes a statement Irom a reliable gentleman gentle-man ol that city, who has recently relumed Irom tho Black Hills. He says that although gold has been louud in the Hills, the only persons he knows of who have had any sue cess are a .Montana party of nine men, called FLOU1DA AND COMPANY, I who have been mining nine months j at the lower end of French creek, 'and have succeeded in taking out ! about $900. Tne gravel there is very ( loose, and the pay is all found on beil-jroek beil-jroek and is coarse. The creek is about thirty miles long, and at the , head of it there is not sufficient water to work. He arrived in the Hills about the middle ot December aud I left there on the 25th ot January. During this time he visited all the camps on the bouth east side, and saw ibut little mining being dune. Where-eviT Where-eviT hu went lie beaid of rich dis-(co-veritis a hlttle furthor north; but tho advent of Buchanan's party Irom .Montana reported having found NO GOID IN TUE WIND RIVER COUNTRY. The n:ot extravagant stories arc told and believed of great strikes, but the owners of fabulous rich mines are known to be on short rations. All tho ground has been laid over until the 1st of April, so but very little work has been done. |