The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01
MlNINGAND MILLING

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The Leggat Brothers, mill is finished and
ready 70 make il iirst run As soon is the river
fecedes from the great rise Of the past two
weeks. The low ground bordering the river
being overiowed the roads are at present i'm
passable, and will reinain'so while the freshet
lasts. 4 4&s%
a spur starting from the Banker lode, to-
waids the east line Of Messrs. Smith 4 Kess-
ler's claim, and bearing off in a southwest
erly direction, was struck last month. "A
shaft sinking on II is IS feet deep, following
the vein which dips southwark at the same
angle as the main lode. The spur carries IL
inches OF very good ore.
The Silver Bow mill has taken a trial con-
tract Of reducing 100 tons of Lexington ore.
# the experiment be found satisfactory to all
parties interested it 10 probable that the mill
will be employed on the same ore for an in
definite period. In that case the Lexington
force willbe increased and at least 1000 tons
Of ore per month taken from its slopes.
Thu main shaft Of the Alice at date is 4SO
feet deep, and is going down very slowly
through extremely hard syenite. Thirty feet
Of sinking must yet be done to reach the 500
foot station and give the ten-foot stump re-
quired below tia task which cannot be COM
pleted much before the first Of next month.
At the estimated rate Of progress the ledge
will be reached on the 5OO-foot level some
time in, October. m
Last week j. b. Meredith's train brought
in 70 tons of freight for the Alice Mining Co.
The lot comprises a large quantity of salt, a
1Ox16 Blake crusher, weighing 1s,400 lbs,
manufactured by Fraser & Chalmers, of Chi
cago, and two large boilers, together of 800
horse power. The mill is to be shut down
to-day whom the old boilers will be replaced
with the larger new ones. The old boilers
will then be added to those in use al the
hosting works, increasing the number to FIVE.
By those five boilers an abundance of steam
will be furnished to work the mammoth
pump to be in operation when the ledge is
cut on the next level. ..
On the west LOCO. feet Of the Late Acquisi-
ton lode, lately purchased by Messrs. Belk
& Co., some very favorable developments
have been made within the past week or two.
In the first shaft, sunk 18 feet from the west
ern end line of the claim, the lode did not
look very encouraging, but shaft number
two; 200 feet further east, and now 40 feet
deep, is being sunkion a 26-inch vein of very
high grade ore. The vein goes down almost
vertically, but dips . little southwark. No. 2
shaft will be driven to water when levels will
be opened and stopping commenced.
The new engine and boilers lately brought
from Virginia City for the Burlington have
been put in place and the mill will be started
up again some time next week. The ANAL
gamating facilities have been increased by
the addition of several settling watts and of
one ~amalgamating pan. With this improve
ment the amalgamating room is equal to the
demands of the battery, and hereafter all
the stamps will be kept steadily at
work. Up to this time, the reducing capacity
the mill having been far in advance of its
matchmaking capacity, the battery has been
run only on about half time.
The Clear Grit claim, on the hillside north
of town, and a short distance north of the
Late Acquisition Spur, is worked under lease
by Messrs. Wallace & Price and Mr.. A. C..
Witter. The lode strikes in the direction
from northwest to southeast, and dips to-
wards the southwest, but at so steep an an
gle as to be nearly vertical. An inclined
shaft sunk on the lode reached water at 60
feet. At that depth a cross cut showed the
lode to consist of a 3O-inch vein of very high
grade ore following the foot wall, and a body
OF low grade about ten feet in width, towards
the hanging wall. The latter yields ore rum
ming from 20 to 26 ounces per ton, which will
be valuable only in the days of railroads. At
water line a western level, opened on
the high grade vein, is in so feet from the
shaft. The ore taken from it mills something
over 30 ounces per ton.
The Josephine claim, located on what is
believed TO be the eastern extension of the
Lexington, is owned by the Silver Bow Min.
ing Company. The main shaft sunk som
time ago, is 10 feet deep. At that depth the
vein is four feet wide of ore of a very fair
grade. A within house is now being put up
and a box within constructed for use at the
main shaft. As soon as. the within is in ope-
ration the shaft will be sunk as far below
water level as may be practicable without
steam levels opened east and west and the
claim thoroughly ~prospected to that depth.
Should deeper developments correspond with