. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . s miningcommunities exist in various parts of the Territory. Deer Lodge leads in placer mining, and has since the days of AlderGulch. It also possesses veins of gold, silver and copper. The greatAnaconda Reduction Works are located in this county, and are con-nected by a branch line of railroad with the Utah & Northern. Theircapacity is 500 tons per day, and the cost of the plant was a round$1,00
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . s miningcommunities exist in various parts of the Territory. Deer Lodge leads in placer mining, and has since the days of AlderGulch. It also possesses veins of gold, silver and copper. The greatAnaconda Reduction Works are located in this county, and are con-nected by a branch line of railroad with the Utah & Northern. Theircapacity is 500 tons per day, and the cost of the plant was a round$1,000,000. Silver Bow is the pride of Montana. Its population is from 15,000to 20,000, of which Butte City claims 10,000 to 12,000. It is situatedbut a few miles from the terminus of the Utah and Northern RacineRailroads. The freight handled in 1883 was 169,000,000 pounds, andin 1884, 250,000,000 pounds. It is one of the greatest quartz miningdistricts in the world. Two hundred and fifty lodes have beenpatented, of which but twenty-five yield a monthly sum of $300, number of stamps at work aggregate 200, and fifteen furnaceslikewise are in constant operation. The mines of the Helena and. STRUCK IT ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 639 Bowlder districts are quite as valuable as those of Butte district,awaiting solely the hand of development. The completion of branchlines with the Northern Pacific will provide an available market forthe medium and low grade ores, of which there is a quantity sufficientto surpass the net results already attained in those of the higher grade. Central Montana, through which extends the Rocky Mountainsystem, is a region of lofty ridges and lower spurs and ranges, inter-spersed with beautiful and fertile valleys. This is the great silver andcopper mining region of the Territory, and its product of the preciousmetals since the first discoveries of 1802 have alone been surpassed byCalifornia and Nevada. Granite Mountain is the richest silver
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