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Phillips County has Mines as Well as Farms. 



wilder Indians predominated. Gold hunters coming here were intent on making a 

 "stake" and returning to what was then called "God's Country" from which they 

 came westward. As fast as the miners acquired the gold they went east and the 

 amount they carried can only be estimated. 



Some Yields Large. 



No accurate system of determining the yield of the placers was attempted, but 

 it is known that from Montana Bar in Confederate Gulch, Broadwater county, 

 $1,600,000 was taken out. The owners packed it in kegs and hauled it in freight 

 wagons to Fort Benton, headwaters of navigation, thence floated down to Sioux 

 City, where the railroad was reached. 



Montana bar was only an insignificant part of the rich diggings. Confederate 

 Gulch and Montana Gulch each yielded millions . in gold dust and nuggets. 



Two hundred feet of ground about where the Great Northern depot stands in 

 Helena, in Last Chance Gulch, yielded $285,000 in gold. In Nelson Gulch, five 

 miles southwest of Helena, one of the biggest nuggets ever found in Montana was 

 sluiced from the gravel. It weighed out over $2,000. 



Quartz mining soon followed the placer mining, many reefs and outcrops prov- 

 ing to be rich. This was looked upon as preferable to any other. Free milling ore 

 was the kind then sought. 



One of the most important gold mining camp for quartz at present is at 

 Marysville. One mine in that camp has paid in dividends $15,000,000 and others 

 paid goodly amounts. 



