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Henry A. Ward and the Midas Mining HENRY A. WARD AND THE Ward was a well known geologist and geology at Williams College, he was so dedi- MIDAS MINING COMPANY, naturalist. He scoured the globe for such eso- cated to that one subject that he neglected all MONTANA TERRITORY, 1865-1869 teric things as bat's hair, porpoise blood, of his other studies, so with failing grades, he human skeletons, mastodon bones, fossils, fish dropped out of school to become a clel k in his by Rzchnrd 0 Rets~rn scorpions, and tarantulas. He created the uncle's insurance office. It wa.; a job with little On January 4, 1848, gold was discov- largest and finest collection of meteorites in future and of absolutely no interest to young ered at Coloma, California, 60 miles east of the world. In his search for treasures, he Henry. Finally in 1863, he was enrolled in Sutter's Fort. It was the beginning of the great braved remote jungles and deserts, met poten- Temple Hill Academy where he applied him- gold rush in America. Hordes of Americans self to achieve a more fully rounded education left their humdrum lives in the great rush to while still pursuing his all-con~uminginterest, capitalize personally on the discovery. The mineralogy. Then, Louis Agassiz, the rush was well underway by the end of 1849. renowned professor of natural sciences at In 1850, there were enough people in the ter- Harvard University, discovered the budding ritory of California to make it a state. The genius in Henry Ward and started the boy on Pikes Peak gold rush in 1859 opened his road to fame at Harvard. Soon after, in Colorado to settlement. And in the years that 1854, Ward found himself in Paris attending followed, it spread to Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, the School of Mines, the greatest school of Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, mining technology in the world. So, what way and Wyoming with varying degrees of success more natural than to enlist Henry Ward, who for prospectors and mining companies. had been trained as a mining engineer at the best school anywhere, to study the Montana In a new book, The Mecl'~anicsof Territory and discover land s~~itablefor acqui- Optzmzrm: Mznzng Companies, ~cl'~nolo~,and sition and the establishment of a mining com- t!?d 'YtOf 5$+;;;: GCO/C? 13,J7, ~"f072t~2~fiEn ito?~, pzny 1864-1868, author Jeffrey J. Safford writes, Henry A. Ward at age 29 years. Two years ''When the richest gold strike ever made in Later he was the superintendent of the Midas Because Ward wanted to consult some Mining Company in Montana Territory. Montana, some say in the United States, took geologists in San Francisco, he chose to travel place on May 26, 1863, in Alder Gulch-15 to Montana by steamship from New York miles of mountain gulch and streambed situat- tates and savage chieftains, rode camels across City, cross the Isthmus of Panama by rail, sail ed on the we\t side of the Madison and vast deserts, and crossed the Andes before aboard another ship to San Francisco, and Jefferson River divide in southwestern there were railroads. So, when he agreed to finally ride a stagecoach to Montana. Ward Montana-it was only a matter of time before check out the mining claims, he also had in arrived in the Montana goldfields at the age of the surrounding terraln would receive the mind an opportunity to acquire specimens of 31 in June 1865. As for Sperry's holdings, same kind of frenzied attention. The extraordi- western wildlife. Ward determined that they were pretty much nai y values extracted from Alder Gulch, an valueless. But concerning his reaction to a par- estimated $30 to $40 million in 1863-1864, Rocks, fossils, and shells fascinated ticular area known as the Hot Spring District, produced a stampede of thousands of gold Henry Ward from early youth. When he was author Safford supplies a Ward quote: MA pret- hunters who, in the words of one observer, three years old, he found a pebble of gneiss ty thorough examination of the several gold were so plentiful-like 'bees around a hornblende on the Ward property on Gibbs producing regions satisfied me that the lodes hive'-as to appear hopelessly in 'each other's Street in Rochester. It was only about four of Hot Spring District were, in point of rich- / way."' inches long, but its glistening surface was ness and superior facilities for working, marked by a checkerboard of black lines, like a unequaled by those of any other part of the The Montana gold rush did not escape Scotch plaid. He preserved the pebble careful- Territory." the attention of Rochesterians. One of them, ly and finally it became part of the collection Moses A4. Sperry, purchased several mineral of geological specimens that became the prop- Ward's enthusiasm for the possibilities of claims in Montana and offered some of his erty of the University of Rochester. the Hot Spring District caused him to write a holdings for sale. In May 1865, potential buy- letter to Hiram Sibley, requesting financial sup- ers asked Henry Augustus Ward (1834-1906), Henry's attraction to geology found no port, specifically $20,000 to $1 00,000, to form who had been trained as a mining engineer, to support from his family. His mother wanted a mining venture. Sibley, the founder of travel to Montana to evaluate the claims, and him to be a clergyman; his father deserted the Western Union Telegraph Compan): was the Sperry agreed to pay his expenses. family altogether. Although he briefly studied wealthiest person in Rochester, but Sibley didn't receive the letter . It required deep tal railroad wasn't completed until 1869, and because he was vaca- IS that required tim- by that time the Midas mill had closed for tioning in Germany. ber~ng.1 he collected rocks had good, having commenced operations on Instead, the letter was to be hauled to a steam-or November 15, 1867. intercepted by \XJard's water-powered mill where the uncle, Judge Samuel stone was crushed, separated, Although the Midas mill was the finest Lee Selden, who was a in Montana and was, major shareholder in as Safford points out, Western Union. "by far the most sig- nificant company to Judge Selden commence work in became an enthusiastic the area," it had supporter of Ward's unbelievable compe- mining-company idea, tition. One of the as did George many mills operating Huntington Mumford, in the area was the a prominent Rochester Seneca Falls Gold attorney, who was also Judge Samuel Lee Selden Mining Company of active in community was the chief supporter of Seneca Falls, New Wardi Midas Mining Company. affairs, an officer of sever- York. Safford writes, al banks, and helped to "Wlthin it were 15 stamps in addition to tables, blankets, rit- il boulder that Heny Wardfound zn Georgzan Bay, Canada, szts fles, sluices, two arras- atop Ward; monument zn Sectton G, Mount Hope Cemetey tras, a crugher, and a Photo by Frank A Gzllespze settler. A 60-horse- power engine operat- ed the stamps." (An arrastra was an early Mexican device used to crush ore-a heavy stone dragged around a circular ?tone bed by mules, horses, wate~wllcci,or ol;l~~~ULIL iil power. It was the most primitive invention for crushing quartz.) Ward had high standards for his mill. He built a company town consisting of five --- ---- buildings, which was called "Midasburg." Geor~eHz~ntzngton Mumford was a Included were comfortable workers' quarters, prrnczpal trustee of the Mzdas A4znzng Company. EPITAPH finance the start of Western Union Telegraph Pz/bhihedqf~nrf~r~411 the Fri~~d-of Company. Selden, Mumford, and several other Moznt Hop? Cmtteg/,Rorh~stei; trustees collectively invested $100,000 and Nezu York f4620, n nor.pojj member invited others to buy shares at $10 each to o~~~~infro~~~~~d~din1980. raise a required additional $100,000, enabling @ 2006 The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery the formation and operation of the Midas Rzchard 0. Reisem, Editor Mining Company. Judge Samuel Lee Seldenj tombstone in Section G, ]an W/yland,Associate Editor Mount Hope Cemetery. Photo by Frank A. Gillespie. Frank A. Gillespie, Photofrapher-. After that, very little went smoothly. Dan Malczewski, Art Director Author Safford unfolds a fascinating tale of and amalgamated to mercury before releasing Lucille Malczezuski, Editorial Assistant mining tribulations. Prospectors mined the the precious gold. Basic annual membership is $20. Call (585) surface of the earth, such as streambeds and 461-3494for a fief pocket guide to Mount Hope Cemetev and a membership applica- gulches. But hard-rock mining that involved The mills require amping, tion. See 0111. rolorfil and informative web excavation of veins of gold-bearing ore was far crushing, and separating equipment, most of pa'q-e: u~zuw$mh.org more complex, difficult, and costly. And it was which had to be manufactured thousands of the huge, potential profit from hard-rock min- miles away and then transported on waterways ing that the Midas Mining Company planned or primitive overland trails; the transcontinen- far superior to the ramshackle facilities at reach even furth as an internationally THE MIDAS MILL AS DESCRIBED BY other mills and mining camps. Midasburg also famous person. THE MONTANA POST, NOVEMBER 16, had the finest milling equipment rhat money 1867 could buy in those days, while competitive Ward's far tended to the general mills operated on inferior machinery that populace, espec~ incident in 1885. abstract andphoto !f the inill ruins often broke down or His name was broad- by Je& J.
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