The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-09
Correspondence.
LETTER RROA LION CITY.


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Mines, Ese, Ese
Correspondence OF the MINER.l
Lion City and its location have so often
been described that it is unnecessary to o.
cupy your valuable space by repeating them
here.
During the summer q large number Of
families have arrived and located in this
camp, while others are obliged to stop in
Trapper until houses eau be built in the new
town for their accommodation. Cabins have
sprung up on all sides and knolls that but a
few months since were covered with heavy
timber and underbrush are now enclosed and
cabins built thereon.
Several new and spacious business houses
add much to the appearance of our Main
street. Jos. Arbonr has a new two story
building occupied by r. r. Miller for board
ing house. b. NJ. Du Rell & Co. have in
course of completion a store 22x3l with fire.
proof cellar in rear. Hamilton Il Cartier
uovC q X" sIoulC u1C0% lila e uOIu0
Armstrong & Co. have a new front on their
old stand. The other firms have been pre-.
|ieHslyy mentioned and are ktfowtt to most
persons acquainted will, the camp. All are
doing a fine business and the outlook for a
profitable winter is very fattering.
Wednesday last Lion and Trapper came
very near sharing the fate of Alta and other
W by their dread enemy-fire. About
twelve O'Clock all. hands were summoned
from the mines by an alarm, and looking
towards the Cleve mine q dense smoke was
seen rising from the timber that bounds the
Tiapp-r road. Buckets, axes, ETC., were
speedily collected and all fastened to the
rescue. About three hundred men were
fighting the flames with but little encourage
ment. The towns seemed doomed. The
hosting engine in the Cleve shaft house was
loosened from its bed and at . moments
notice would have been lowered into the in
cline. The flames crossed the road, and in a
few minutes were raging IN top OF the hill
and almost surrounding the shaft house above
mentioned. The wind had been blowing
towards town with unusual strength, and
fears were well founded for the safety Of the
buildings. About half past two the wind be-
came changeable and soon after became
steady, blowing down the canon and from
town. It then became an easy matter for the
to keep the fire from spreading and at
six o'clock all returned home exhausted with
their afternoons work. A nice snow storm
set in next morning and continuing all day.
extinguished all smouldering fires.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Parfet and Mr.. and Mrs.
D. Remnant arrived here last week and in the
evening received their friends at their new
homes near the mountain, where the health
happiness Of the happy couples was
pledged in generous wine.
The Hecla Company are rushing everything
since the sale was declared of. Grading is
progressing rapidly on the line of the new
Contracts have been let and it is
to be completed at least two miles this fall.
VIM. Thompson will bring one of his mills
within half a mile of Lion and furnish lum-
Der and ties. The rails will be of iron and
weigh eleven pounds to the yard. The ties
are to be two feet apart and the track of three
feet gauge. The cars will hold abou, two
tons of ore. There will be a passenger car
run and a ride in it will be much more com
than in an ore wagon on these roads.
A new warehouse 1Sx6O is about completed
near the Superintendent Office and beside
the track.
Now let Us take a look into the mines.
Commencing at the top of the mountain the
first mine being worked at present is the Sill
yer Quartz, employing about fifteen men.
The ore from this mine is sent down over
the open tramway, 755 feet long in boats
loaded with from ten to twenty sacks at each
trip. The incline is down $50 feet and driv-
ing through ore body.
Next in order is the True Fissure, working
about thirty men. The main incline shows
. depth of about 800 feet.
Next comes the Mountain Sheep, immedi-
ately below the Fissure. Employs about sew
enty men,. The main incline is about $50
feet deep. About $50 feet from the mouth Of
the incline an ore stope is driven to the right
and the car in going to the bottom of this
unwinds the rope to the 70o-foot notch. A
cross-cut is being driven from the Sheep to
the Fissure, tapping the latter about $50 feet
below present workings and from the Fis-
sure another cross-cut will tap the Silver
Quartz about 500 feet from the surface, 80
that when these connections are completed
ore from the upper mine can be sent under
ground to the Sheep and from there a double
track tramway under cover will deliver the
ore at the foot of the mountain. A large
cave was recently opened in the Sheep mine,
about so feet long by 20 wide and 20 high.
Ore was found on both sides and some very
pretty specimens were brought to the surface.
ABOUT hfty men are accommodated with
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