This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...The first stream that flows from the mountains in this region is Wisconsin Gulch. This gulch has been only partially prospected, it being deep to the bed-rock; yet there has been found a considerable extent of placer diggings in and adjacent thereto. A few miles further up the valley is Mile Creek. Along the base of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...The first stream that flows from the mountains in this region is Wisconsin Gulch. This gulch has been only partially prospected, it being deep to the bed-rock; yet there has been found a considerable extent of placer diggings in and adjacent thereto. A few miles further up the valley is Mile Creek. Along the base of the mountains in its vicinity are a large number of rich gold and silver bearing quartz leads, this being the only place in the range where silver leads are found. Some of them assay from one to two thousand dollars to the ton, and are easy of access. Here is also the thriving village of Brandon. Rarn's Horn Gulch has many rich leads of gold-bearing quartz. A little further up the valley is Rivers's Gulch. Specimens have been taken from this gulch worth three hundred and twenty dollars. Alder Creek is amazingly rich from the source down to its entrance into the river, a distance of about eighteen miles; near its head pieces of ore have been found worth as high as seven hundred and twenty dollars, the gold becoming coarser as the head of the stream is approached. In the hills bordering the stream a large number of gold-bearing quartz leads have been discovered, those extending into Summit district being of almost unexampled richness, while in the mountains at the head of the creek is a coal field of unknown extent, which is now being developed. This is the second place in this basin where coal has been discovered, and in a country so sparsely timbered coal fields are of incalculable value. In fact, nature has placed in Montana all the requisites to enable that country to become one of the wealthiest sections of the United States. The eastern central basin is drained by the Missouri River below the Three Forks and above them by the Jefferson Fork, ...
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