P a g e 4 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r REVENUE which undoubtedly has the Legal Tender vein exposed in its area, with two additional veins. Up to the present time the development on this mine has not been great, excepting for the large amount of cross-cut tunnel work that has been driven in the form of two tunnels, the lower one being over 400 feet long. Neither of these veins are yet sufficiently into the mountain to have struck the Legal Tender vein, however, two excellent veins were struck, besides many smaller ones, along which drifting has been prosecuted and ore is being shipped daily to the mill for treatment. Many other veins are in process of development, proving the same success as the previous ones according to the degree of development. THE ORE is largely an altered schist, viz: it is largely the country rock, altered by mineralizing solutions which precipitated their ingredients of silica, iron and arsenic, as well as the gold contents. Little other metallic mineral is present other than the arsenopyrites and the gold. Two thirds of the ore, as it comes to the mill, is altered schist, the remainder being largely made up of hard, glassy quartz. About four-fifths of its value is in free gold, while the other fifth is a concentrate which is about forty percent arsenic, with the balance iron. These concentrates assay from $45 to $50 per ton, gold value, while some of the veins produce a similar material of as high a value as $400 per ton. The crude ore, as it comes from the mine to the mill, assays at from $8 to $25 per ton, while the cost of mining and milling is exceedingly low on account of the soft nature of the ore as we find it. A 950-pound stamp is capable of crushing five tons per day. JARDINE, the metropolis of Bear Gulch, on the 28th of July, 1898, consisted of four log shacks, inhabited by Mr. and Mrs. George Welcome, and two others. As soon as Mr. Bush took possession of the place plans were at once made for the building of an up-to-date mining city. The first new building was that of an immense hotel for the accommodation of the laborers required to carry on the work. Thus, building was rapidly pushed ahead, and in one year one hundred and thirty comfortable buildings have been added to the original. Among these are two hotels, with a third under construction, three mercantile establishments—one in particular, the Bear Gulch Mercantile company, is owned by Bush and Welcome. The building has four departments, 24x80 feet, and carries one of the most complete general stocks in the country. All modern conveniences for a city have just been completed, such as telephone, electric light, waterworks and sewerage. A handsome new school house graces the town, and will accommodate two hundred pupils. As Mr. Bush has owned and promoted mineral properties in all of the great mineral countries of the world, there is no doubt but that he will make this district his crowning success. What he has already done here George Welcome
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