Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--Corundum and Its Occurrence and Distribution in the United States (A Revised and Enlarged Edition of Bulletin ) . ent to Eng-land. This company also controlled or owned French Bar and DanaBar on the west side of the river and Eldorado Bar on the east was reorganized in 1897 as an American company, known as theEldorado Gold and Gem Company, with A. X. Spratt, of Oakland,Cal., president, and Frank Spratt, of Helena, Mont., manager. Xo « Mineral. Mag., vol. 9, 1891, No. 44, p. 396. 108 CORUNDUM, ITS OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION. work h
Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--Corundum and Its Occurrence and Distribution in the United States (A Revised and Enlarged Edition of Bulletin ) . ent to Eng-land. This company also controlled or owned French Bar and DanaBar on the west side of the river and Eldorado Bar on the east was reorganized in 1897 as an American company, known as theEldorado Gold and Gem Company, with A. X. Spratt, of Oakland,Cal., president, and Frank Spratt, of Helena, Mont., manager. Xo « Mineral. Mag., vol. 9, 1891, No. 44, p. 396. 108 CORUNDUM, ITS OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION. work has been done at any of the bars by the present companA?This bar is shown in fig. 15, the bhiti rising from the river being 8ito 50 feet high. Directly across the river from Spokane Bar, but about threefourtlis of a mile from the river, is Metropolitan Bar, which waworked during the summer of 1890 by different men who had stake(out individual claims. The gravels are from G to 20 feet thick, aniare washed in hand rockers, the water being obtained from shallowwells. Several of the claims were owned l)y Robbin Bird, CharleJohnson, and John Durrant, of Helena, tf^^^..:4>s^*»A- ^* ^i/,V^pM;t ^-l Fk;. 15.^—Spokiino Rnr sapphire deposits, and Claris County, Mont. Above Spokane Bar, at French Bar, Cheyenne Bar, and Emera]Bar, no regular mining has been done during the last fcAV years, bifrequently different persons have worked in the old drifts for a fedays at a time, washing by hand the gravel obtained. A large part of the work done at Emerald Bar has been undiground, by means of shaft and drifts. Henry Crittenden, of Cany(Ferry, has done a large part of the work here, and still controls t)deposits. Below Spokane Bar, at Dana Bar, Eldorado Bar, and AmericsBar, there has been no mining for sapphires for a number of years. As mining investments these sapphire deposits have not thus fbeen financially successful, partly on account of the heavy capitaliztion of the comp
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