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randa, famished me by Mr. A. J. Malin, deputy recorder for Gallatin 



County, Montana, will give a very fair exhibit of their present status, 

 and may be of interest to those desiring information on the subject. 



There are in all about 180 claims located and recorded, the more im- 

 portant of which are as follows : 



On Republican Mountain, immediately south of the camp: 



Great Republic mine. — Silver, tunnel 15 by 8 by 6 feet, in limestone ; 

 yield, 80 to 1,500 ounces silver to ton of galena ore. Pour tons of this 

 ore were packed out on mules, and sold on a basis of 350 ounces of silver 

 to the ton. Mine now sold for $50,000. 



Houston, extension of same ; shaft 22 by 6 1>\ 1 feet. 



Greely, extension of same; tunnel, 25 feet. 



Oh Streeter Mountain, immediately north of camp: * 



New World, silver mine : 4 feet vein of galena in limestone, dipping at 

 high angle; average, (JO ounces of silver to ton of ore; shaft, few feet. 

 (The description of this will serve for nine others under various names 

 in same group on same ledge.) 



On Henderson's Mountain, 2 miles north of camp: 



Lake Superior, silver and gold; shaft, 25 feet, in vein of mica schist, with 

 cubes of iron pyrites; yield. 850 gold and 8 ounces silver to ton. 



Home Stake, sanns shaft 20 feet. 



Little lllue, same ; shaft. 25 feet : vein extends north and south at high 



angle. 



War Eagle, similar, and also very rich vein of galena ; shaft, about 60 

 feet. (The tellurium reported from this mine proves, on examination, 

 to be load.) 



On Crown Butte, head of Soda Butte (reek, 2i miles north of camp : 



Black Warrior, silver and gold; shaft, GO feet, in vein of galena ore, 

 feet thick ; average, 8 L00 to the ton ; $50,000 oifered and refused for hall 

 interest. (Several others prospected in same group.) 



Time was afforded to make a personal inspection of but one of these 

 prospect holes, that of the Great Republic. It is situated in a limestone 

 ledgG on the mountain side 450 feet above the creek. A good road leads 

 ttp to a point where preparation is being made to shoot tin* ore down. 

 The limestone of undetermined thickness lies horizontally, and at the 

 point where the tunnel begins shows a blackened, burnt appearance, 

 Which is the indication of ore. The first stroke of the pick brings the 

 silver-bearing galena to light, and from that point to the end of the tun- 

 nel, 15 by 8 by <; feet, directly into the bank, the walls on all sides con- 

 sist of a sort of modified limestone and galena, mixed in nearly equal 

 proportions. Nothing could be finer than the prospect there presented, 

 so far as it goes ; but what is beyond, above, below, or on either side, m 

 unknown. The bodv of ore shows no sign of thinning out, but there is 

 nothing to indicate its direction or extent. 



A few hundred feet further along the ledge there is a shaft 22 feet, 

 -and still farther a tunnel of 25 feet, whirh show the same dark-looking 



