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is to buy the material, and get suine of the amiable I ladies of Junction to make it.—Ed.]; New Special C'orreMpondence—No. I.Mr. Emtor:—Having had the pleasure of a visit to the Pipestone leads, and never having seen an account of that section in your valuable paper, I I thought a few items might be of interest to yourreaders.The Pipestone creeks, of which there are two. called big and little, rise in the •• divide nearly i east of Silver Bow and empty into the Jefferson at. \ i or near the lower ferry. Un each of these streams are har diggings which have been, and are still, yield-ing good pay. These bars are some twelve’miles from the Jefferson bridge, by the road leading to the , Pipestone, but are only some fix miles from where the Virginia and Helena road crosses the Pipestone, i To this point, from the bridge, the road is very level, but from here to the leads, some ten miles further in the mountains, the road is uneven, passing l over a country liberally sprinkled with granite boulders. The hills are low, and arp covered, as far as the rocks will allow, with a growth of stunted firs and sage brush. At length, however, you come to a sort of basin, surrounded by rocky hills, covered , with a growth of pine, into which you descend, and I which you find to be a large park of some thousands of acres. It is a beautiful place, and well worthy of a visit. Messrs. Kite and McCurdy, who have resi- ! r ded in this park for the last year, took great pleasure in showing us their leads. There are opened, in all, some fifteen leads, of which, perhaps, the beat are the Lady Abbott, Geneva, and Emigrant. On 1 the Lady Abbott is a shaft sunk to the depth of twenty-five feet. This is a well defiued lead, two and a half feet in width, and prospects well in silver , and gold. The Geneva has also a shaft sunk to the j depth of thirty feet. This is seven feet in width and prospects very well in gold. The Emigrant has | been sunk over twenty feet, nnd is two feet in width. I This lead is a soft rock and prospects large in gold, i These gentlemen put up an arastra, last fall, and worked some of the rock from the Lady Abbot, and it was found, even by that imperfect method of crushing the ore, to yield $00 to the ton. The difficulty in saving the gold from this ore is great, as it is infused with sulphurets, and it was found by ac-, tual tests that there was double the gold, left in the-tailings, than they got out- of the arastra. This belt f 1 of leads seems to have rock of a soft nature, end easy I to crush.IA better site for quartz mills, it has not been my ; Sgood fortune to see. Good water-power, with thou-sands of acres of splendid timber, combined with tip j top quartz leads, ought to make a good site. We J I predict that this will yet prove one of the richest *and best quartz districts in the territory.I have not time to name all the leads, but among j. the rest which prospect well, are the Gen. Wayne, a \ i silver lead, the Philadelphia, Liberty, and Bingham- j
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