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Montana Oil And Mining Journal
Great Falls, Billings, Cascade County, Yellowstone County, Montana
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Historical overview of gold mining in Lewistown's Fergus and Moccasin districts, totaling over $25M from antiquated methods, highlighting untapped potential and success stories of prospectors like Harry Kendall and McAdoo.
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The Lewistown mining district, little known to the modern-day miners, has produced more than $25,000,000 worth of gold, through antiquated recovery methods, pointing to the possibilities of the future, when modern mining and milling methods are introduced.
In the Moccasin district of the Judith Mountains are some remarkable mines. Their names and the amount of approximate production follows:
Spotted Horse 7,500,000
Kendall & Barnes-King 10,000,000
Maginis Mines 3,000,000
Gilt Edge 5,500,000
Other groups 750,000
This does not include small mine shipments and placers. These areas have had relatively little prospecting. Operators recall the Kendall property where the assays showed $2.50 at the grass roots, yet successful prospectors passed this up for years.
Harry Kendall bought one or two of these claims for $600 and sold out a short time later for $700,000 and a big block of stock. He had introduced the then-new science of cyanidization.
The Spotted Horse mine produced a fortune for McAdoo and then he sold to Downs & Allen and had to take it back. Thereafter he took out another million dollars and the possibilities of this mine have not been exhausted.
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The Lewistown mining district has produced over $25,000,000 in gold using old methods, with potential for more using modern techniques. Key mines include Spotted Horse ($7,500,000), Kendall & Barnes-King ($10,000,000), Maginis Mines ($3,000,000), Gilt Edge ($5,500,000), and others ($750,000). Harry Kendall bought claims cheaply and sold for $700,000 after introducing cyanidization. McAdoo profited from Spotted Horse but repurchased it, extracting another million.