Show MONTANA we havel have just made a two weeks trip through a part of southern montana and made some notes on the same which we ve publish for the information of the public virginia city which was the first polut point of interest visited we found in the midst of the late bevere severe equinoctial storm and under unfavorable circumstances of course it was wab duller than usual but the people appear tau and contented and still deserve the sobriquet of social 11 the tha mines I 1 along alder gulch and in other parts of madison county ure are paying and will continue to pay for many years a fair remuneration to the owners and laborers the dust finds its way to the bankers and merchants of virginia city which supports their business immensely men sely and will coutin continue ue to lo do BO for a long time timo with the present population of montana mentana farming seems to be overdone especially id iii madison county where the crops especially wheat are very grea great tand and the prices consequently low flour of the best quality was selling at sheridan for 1 60 per par pounds bat little oats oafs were sown this year and of course this crop was short aud and is scarce in that pala paid par of Montan montana fL it finds a rady ready saie sale at 2 50 per loo pounds ds corn matured very well this year on Pas page amaria samaria but most vegetables owing to the cold bummer summer were cut abort apples matured on john red Bed ferna rauch ranch and our opinion is ia clear that hardy varieties may be successfully raised iu in montana we took particular pains to become posted on quartz and quartz mining and we are more than ever satisfied bati sati sned that this interest will be very great in thia thib territory as soon boon aa M men or of capital and aud enterprise take hold we believe that when this interest is developed montana will stand at ab the bead of the list of mineral states and terii Teril territories great faith still exists in the future development of quartz mines in iii madison and beaverhead count counties les ies the fry lode on mill creek in the tho former county is ia believed to be one of the best mines in the world it has been visited by miners from nevada and utah territories who bay say it is superior to many of the tho far famed mines of these territories Me jeserer sorer serEr fry and Par pur vine the discoverers and owners have gone to work in a proper manner mahnen to develop this lode lt it was discovered at the bottom of the gulch guich in the bedrock bed rock feet below thi the tops of the adjacent mountains A tunnel feet long a strikes it sixty feet below the surface of the discovery the crevice stands at a perpendicular angle and where the tunnel cut out it it la Is fourteen feet with good pay between the wall rocks nocks which are porphyry and the rock or quartz pro prospects spedo well in rree free gold fifty tons of af ore was wag mined mom hom the lode in going through the tunnel leis it is the he opinion of the owners that from to tons of ore can be mined from the present level A small mill will be erected to work this moine bline next season capitalists from abroad should not fall fail to inspect this lode as it is probably a fair index to many others in the same district itcan it can be ba traced by its droppings crop pings at intervals for a distance of four miles 1 i 1 bannack bannock was quite dull when wo vie gie visited it still a better time is in store for this ancient and honorable camp as there thera cau calf be no mistake about the richness of the tho quartz in its vicinity the erastras Ar astras are doing very well we saw a lump of gold bullion of 40 oza from mr Shee She enaus arapatra below town produced by one weeks kunf run yun and we believe belleve without stamp stamps thid this armetra is run by water and with very little ep expense ense onse I 1 was told that the last run is about i the ille average for the season seabon the raa ria machine chine runs itself and the fender smikes his pipe pitches in the rock IL raises his hib dam a little higher and aud rests three fourths of hi hib his time geo browna brown co above bannock I 1 wai waa informed were doing even better than but owing to ill health I 1 was unable to inspect their works in ih the neighborhood of Argenta genta gonta mining is eoln eoin goti on although the em elterm eltera have stopped I 1 heard heairl that wash vash stapleton 4 was jo shipping hipping ore to corinne Cd rinne ninne by wagon from the blue wing arid arld Is prepared to run his smelter next sum mer met T i coming down to iron rod bod and silver star I 1 found that quartz mining wining is still prosecuted with vigor and that it proves rov es up better han than ban ever before at trip ai little alx aix mill we saw 1 oza of good retort worth at least 2000 cleaned up from 24 4 tons of ore from the clipper lode the iron rod hod green campbell and other old and well weli known lodes baill hold the co confidence bifid ed c e odthe of the local miners millers contracts are out for considerable mining allis thid winter from all il tho the facts and hearings in the case supported by thet the most intelligent in tolli and heat bost posted people of montana quartz mining in the future must be immense and successful at jefferson jene Jeue raon city we learned that tie tle ometter in that vicinity was running successfully aud auff constantly and that they expected to clean up i 1000 worth of silver bilven tuis this week from a weeks run they are shipping ore to corinne for reduction in the tho east from the bogul tender andia and if it will pay for the shipment of ores east it will certainly pay for their reduction ut at home 7 gazette oot 00 11 A B odd again ho firsta dalri that ato ate the first apple w m f f it being rumored that one of the crit tendons threatened to shoot mrs mra fair if sho bho was acquitted it was waa thought best for her hor to retire to her old quarters in the J jall jali all nil for a time and she is now there salo Nalo union oct 1 I |