The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-11-11

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cut is now in 100 feet. Seven hundred feet
east OF the main shaft an incline is sunk to a
depth of As feet in the ledge; the streak of
ore at this point is not over 2 feet wide. Drills
have just been started east and west from the
bottom and will be pushed forward vigorously.
Three hundr d feet southwest of the incline
there is another shaft down about 70 feet.
ms shaft opened up a very fine ore body,
which has, however, mostly been stopped out.
There are three more shafts on this mine;
none OF them are being worked at present.
The prospecting is principally confined to the
main shaft, where the work of sinking and
drifting is being pushed.
From . to 10 tons Of free milling ore are
extracted daily and shipped to the Silver Bow
mill. NO base ore is taken out. 1t is all left
standing in the mine, probably awaiting in
creased facilities for reduction.
THE MOUNT EoR1AH
is owned by the Silver Bow Company. 1t is
worked through two shafts the old shaft is As
feet deep from the bottom a drift has been
run east $50 feet. This drift shows a body
of free milling ore 81 feet in width in the
face it has narrowed down to 20 inches. The
west drift, 45-foot level, is in $50 feet; the ore
body here is of about the same size and char
acter as in the east drift in the face it has
pinched to about 2 feet.
The new shaft (vertical) is down Is feet.
The west drift, 15-foot level, is in in 115 feet;
showing a ledge about 2 feet wide its whole
length although it is not so wide as that in the
face.
The east drift, 75-foot level, is in about 20
feet; the face of this drift is in vein matter
with some good ore running through it.
About 5 tons of ore are extracted daily,
which are shipped to the Silver Bow mill.
Both shafts have struck water, and sinking
is for the present suspended in the old shaft.
All OF the ore taken out up to the present
time has been free milling.
THE KIT CARSON ZINE
is owned by Bernard, McCamstead & Co.
There have been three shafts sunk on this
mine, all of them of separate lodges.
The first is down about % feet, and shows
a very wide ledge, which is, however, low
grade-not giving over 20 OF. to the ton as far
as prospected.
The second shaft, lying south of the above,
shows a foot vein Of ledge matter and low
grade ore.
The third shaft, still farther south, carries a
narrow streak of very promising looking ore,
about 10 inches wide. About 10 tons of ore
have been shipped to the mill from this shaft,
but the returns have not yet been received.
THE FLAG MINE
owned by the Silver Bow Company, lies south
Of the Josephine, and runs parallel with it.
The incline is down about 40 feet in the
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free milling ore.
A drift from the bottom (west) is 80 feet,
showing about four feet of good ole in the
face. About five tons of ore is raised daily
and shipped to mill.
THE BELCHER
tunnel is about 20 feet and no signs of the
hanging wall Of the ledge yet. The face is in
ledge matter, with some low grade ore mixed.
AT the
NATIONAL MINE
they have been engaged for the last week in
re-timbering the $50 foot level. Upon COM
pleting this the extraction Of ore will be re-
sumed. 1t will probably take q week longer
to get the level in good shape. At the
ALICE MINE
everything is running smoothly, connection
between the center Wine, 300 foot level and
the raise from the 400 foot level has been
made. Here a Slope has been started and a
breast of ore IA feet wide opened out.
The east drift, 400 foot level is now in so
feet. This level is run in Or the foot wall.
The west drift 400 foot level is in so feet
and looking well.
The face of the east drift, now in At feet, Is
unchanged. Twenty-Five tons of first class,
and Il tons Of second class ore is being raised
daily.
The slopes on the 200 and 300 foot levels
are looking fully as well as when last report
ed. At the
MOUNTAIN MINE,
the work Of sinking the main shaft is being
vigorously prosecuted it is now down 90 feet.
The whole bottom is in copper ore of a very
high grade. As the ledge has not yet been
cross cut, at this point, it is impossible to de-
termine the width of the Gre body.
The stope on the 70 foot level, east, is look
ing finely and yielding a large quantity of
fine ore. The breast is about four feet wide.
They are raising and shipping about Is tons
OF copper ore daily.
The new ore house is completed, and the
Wine will be working in the course of a
week. At the
COLUSA MINI
the shaft is being sunk as rapidly as possible,
this is about all the prospecting that is going
on here. There will probably be no ore eX-
tracted from this mine before the 100 foot
station is opened. AT the
CORA MIMI
considerable work is going on. Although it
will be several days before sinking can be re-
sumed.
a winze will be started about &c feet east of
the shaft in the large shute of ore mentioned
last week. This body of ere on the 65 foot
level is about Is feet wide, and it is expected
that the winze will develop a remarkably
large and rich ole body.
Considerable fine ore is being extracted
from the old working near the surface. where
there was a fine stope of ore it is now mostly
worked out.