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Show I , Good News I From The m Goose Lake Mines $40.00 Gold to I . Ton H Pete Forte wlurlins some claims f ill the extreme west end of the isiiV ' UW Kew World Mining Djstnet, is H'., in town and shows assay returns H from his property carrying 1G8 HtL ' o..' silver and .t-U).0O gold to the ' ton. This is the first valuable hs ' deposit found in that immediate vicinity, which is about 20 miles M west of Cooke. The New World Chamber of B'j Klines lias sent to various cities H and organisations about 1800 or Hy I i000 lbs. of ore specimens, within ''i the last two months. Siuce tak- H j iiig two first pmes (silver and lead) at the State fair in October of this year, the ores of this district dis-trict have been in gret demand for exhibition purposes. The owners of the "Rosebud" group of claims on Miller mountain moun-tain ate sinking on their property proper-ty juul while they have hHd splendid indications all the way, are now, at 40 feet coming into a body of rich galena ore, characteristic char-acteristic of the famous "Sbooil" and "Stump" mines, which this property joins. Kay Holland, who has the contract to drive a 200 foot 'tunnel 'tun-nel near Goose Lake creek iV in town for supplies. The "Tiger" tumielflfTder the management of Charley Holm is being pushed into Miller' Mountain Moun-tain at the rate of 4 feet per shift.' A Hillings piper has this to say (if Cooke City: Samples of ore from the Coo"kc City mining district have been received by Secretary Decker of the Billings Chamber of Com-merce Com-merce and will be placed on display dis-play at headquartcis as soon ms necessary arrangements can be made. The exhibit camo from the New World Chamber of Mines, and the ores were taken from about GO t different mines. The specimens include copper, gold, silver, lead zinc and iron ores, all of which are very rich. The exhibit weighs about 700 pounds. The Cooke City mining district covers an Area of more than 600 square miles, is virtually undeveloped, unde-veloped, and is believed to be one of the richest in the entire west. 'At'the present time there are said to be several million tons of ore. which has been taken out, and piled up, waiting for some method of transportation to smelters. "There is no way of getting it out of the camp except by means of pack mules." said a gent!.- man to a reporter for The Journal "and that method is very expensive, expen-sive, in fact, it would cost at least .30 per ton. "As soon as tljo Billings and CNnUe City electrio line is completed, com-pleted, thousands of tons will be hauled out of the district every day. I have often visited the dis-trict, dis-trict, and know it to be one of the greatest in the entire coun- try. "When the railroad, which can be built with comparative case up the .Stillwater valley to the place, is in operation, you will sec a big rush of miners and capitalists to the district. Many of the old timers who went there 30 years ago. arc still holding. 6n to their claims and waiting patiently pa-tiently for the coming of a railroad. rail-road. In this they are wise, for when, the ore can bo shipped out and the region thoroughly dovel- ( oped, it will mean a bonanza for them, as well na nil other persons who have claims there." |