Show MINES NEAR TWIN BRIDGES great showing in in bear gulch goodrich gulch and rochester gulch the monitor of twin bridges montana contains the following account of the splendid mineral resources near that place and it will interest local readers to know that W I 1 higgins who was prominent in mining circles at mercur utah during the early history of that camp is making good in his mining operations in bear gulch the moni tor says that twin bridges is soon to become a mining center of distinction is a conclusion now held and logically defended by expert mining men who have during the past eighteen months personally examined the goodrich gulch gold zone the bear gulch copper gold silver lead belt and the older camp of rochester painstaking research and exhaustive hau stive tests of ores by men of wide experience peri ence and technical knowledge possessing accurate judgment of productive possibilities bili ties have invested in local mining camps and inaugurated a campaign of development and equipment involving sufficient capital to insure extensive productive operations big mines in bear gulch at this time the bear gulch district is riveting the attention of heavy mine operators due largely to the successful development and mill operations of W I 1 higgins and N bielenberg men of large personal wealth who possess a thorough knowledge of every phase of the mining business geological requisites desirable vein systems and methods of ore treatment when they acquired about two years ago the property that is now giving bear gulch the stamp of reliability butte and other outside mining men became convinced that the heretofore obscure district contained ore deposits of length and depth and that values could be extracted with large marginal profit to operators higgins and bielenberg have in brief space of time developed a really great property opened up big ore bodies and expended approximately on equipment which includes the most modern amalgamating ga and concentration plant the character of ore making desirable such equipment the ore carrying gold copper silver and lead values although this splendid progress has been made it is a safe assertion that the higgins bielenberg mine is far from its bonanza producing stage it has the earmarks of immense ore reserves and deeper development and consistent lateral exploration is yet to give this mine its greater fame and its owners the premier profits the same history that has marked the career of all the worlds noted metal mines the day is not far off when the higgins bielenberg elenberg Bl mine will require upwards of one hundred men to operate with the probability of increasing this payroll twofold two fold within three years the florida giant Glant mining company is another bear gulch property that is making good manager C M lane is now enlarging the cyanide plant the ore being amenable to this process of treatment the saving of values being of high percentage manager lane has been increasing the ore reserves which justified enlargement of the mill the ore is strictly gold bearing the stockholders of the florida company include J B foraker jr son of senator foraker of ohio and general charles warren of butte who has made several fortunes by fortunate mine investments mr air foraker in company with manager lane visited the mine last week and complimented mr lane on the excellent condition of the companas comp anys mine the moffat tunnel company is pushing development work under the supervision of joe C moffat with a degree of success that assures a producer that will rival the higgins elenberger Bi bonanza the development is both systematic and extensive a vast tonnage of copper ore having been blocked out this property apparently has a great future merchant erchant Al bert paige and other local people are doing preliminary development on different claims most of which have good mineral showings some of these will undoubtedly become profit earning producers goodrich mines in limelight the goodrich gulch district is also in t tie ne limelight by reason of the phenomenally rich gold ore being extracted by M R and joe Os some of which yields a thousand dollars a ton in the royal metal taken from a narrow parallel vein of the little goldie such sensational values has started development work on several other quartz properties along and near the gulch the grand view mining company is driving a long tunnel on its property on baldy mountain at head of gulch the company is composed of H schmidt dan Ai mannier lannier jack cloudius and associates james galavin is taking ore from his claim and will soon make a shipment joe richmond and J J ohara are working their claims august and joe urbain are among the pioneer prospectors of the camp and are exploring a large number of claims dr jordan and N J have bonded the barrett claim and will begin development at an early date although the carolina has yielded much rich ore operated by leasers leaders lea sers it is now idle this property is owned by mr ar Hoff hoffman manof of bozeman and associate ss who intend resuming active operations in the near future it may be incidentally stated that nick is working a claim on dry georgia gulch a parallel gulch to goodrich and will soon make a shipment of ore but goodrich gulch besides its chain of quartz properties contains a large area of placer ground that will soon be producing a stream of the yellow metal the estate of N of new york and L G adams and frank C lavigne of spokane owns 21 feet along the bed and rim of the gulch the width covering the richer portion of the placer area of the entire gulch the gulch has an average descent of one foot to every ten and being free from large boulders furnishes conditions for ideal hydraulic operations the improvements and equipment embrace feet of flume and ditch giants 1200 feet of hose feet of sluice boxes tools cabins and other necessary buildings costing a total of sixteen thousand dollars this however represents but preliminary operations and expenditures next season will be expended and property s career of production started the property and aind title to all is in proc process ess of patenting claims will wil 1 soon be perfected is the work enterprise this placer mining 0 of f mr lavigne a successful mine operator of high repute who is cognizant of the fact he and his associates that in the goodrich venture socia tes have an ultimate big money maker rochester antedates by many years the bear gulch and goodrich gulch cairins cai rips the first miner mineral locations allocations having been made in the late sixties for years the Wats ecca lead ore with a was a producer of gold credit mark of more than a in million illion dollars owing to water trouble at depth this pioneer P producer producer closed down nine years ago with large ore reserves in the lower workings the corbin copper C company amp an y of butte ceased operations six months ago on account of the water problem but this difficulty will be mastered for rumor asserts that at this hour agents are negotiating the purchase ol 01 the two big properties referred to and th the holdings of several claim owners if the pending deal should be consummated the old camp will witness an era of mining activity involving large capital and the employment of hundreds of men cook and hanson G R hardisty J E dickey joe diebold and mrs H M mccauley are continuing work on their respective properties with most encouraging results the fact that this district has large deep seated ore bodies is sufficient reason for asserting that sooner or later big operations will be carried on As none of the camps briefly reviewed is more than ten miles distant from twin bridges it is readily conceivable that twin bridges is to become and remain their chief trade and commercial beneficiary hence the future looms rosy for this town |