The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-12-09
MINING U MARY.
REPORT ON THE

KEPoR ON
CzAROMA, MORNING STAR. TOM. IA.
NEY, GAGNON, ALICE. MOUNTAIN,
NETTTE BURNETT, GRAY ROCK,
BELLE CORA AND HIGH ORE MINES
NOTES.
[By H. G. Olmstead, Mining Reporter.l
The CxarOmaM Milne
Is owned by George Farlin; it is orked at
present by Messrs. Largey & Armstrong, who
have it bonded. The shaft is down SO feet,
8 feet of which are used as a stump /; it is ver-
teal, and was statreG 40 feet north of the
groupings (Which are very heavy on this
mine) with the intention of cutting the ledge
at a depth of about 65 feet the water, how
ever, becoming very troublesome, a station
was opened at the depth of so feet. Two
lodges were cut by the shaft, one near the
surface a foot wide, which has not yet been
prospected, and another IS down about three
feet in width, which has been opened and a
large quantity of free milling ore taken out
of it.
On the so foot level a crosscut was run
north 50 feet; II feet from the shaft the
hanging wall was struck, the remaining IS
feet being run through q mass of ledge matter
ore and pink manganese. On the foot wall
drifts were started east and west the east
drift is in about 10 feet, coming to a heavy
body of iron ore, which, however, has gone
out in the bottom of the face of the drift, and
shows considerable fair looking quartz.
The west drift from the crosscut is in, 21
feet in the same body of iron ore shown in
the east drift. The south side of this drift
shows some very good looking ore.
The hosting is done with a 10 horse power
engine, and a No. 4 Knowles pump handles
the water, the combination making an exceed
ingly good and inexpensive prospecting outfit,
with which it will probably be possible to
sink 200 feet.
Messrs. Largely d Armstrong have also
bonded the Emma mine, which adjoins the
Czaroma, giving them 2,150 feet on this lead.
Little has been done OF the Emma outside of
running a few open cuts across the groupings
to prove the continuity of the vein it shows
the whole length of this claim. At the
' 4 Morning Star Mine
The property OF Messrs. Faraday Il Clark, the
east shaft is down 40 feet, following a narrow
ledge of remarkably high grade ore 25 feet
from the surface a drift is in II feet, showing
a ledge from 10 to 16 inches IN width; in the
Y II 10 0DOo a loOC u "A Lids uCtI
started east at this point, in which the ore
body is a little wider.
The east drist from the bottom of the shaft
is in IS feet; at one point the ore in the low
er level is 2 feet wide it will not, however,
average over - inches in the face the forma-
ton is considerably broken, although it shows
several narrow seams of ore, with a great deal
of manganese intermixed. Manganese was
first encountered in this drift about Is feet
from the shaft, and from there the ore carried
quite a percentage of it.
Fifty feet from the shaft a raise is up about
Is feet here a stope was started, from which
a great deal of ore was extracted, which, Mr..
Faraday tells me, went AS ounces in silver
and $125 in gold; thu. top of the. stope now
shows about 1SiAeles OF Tice shocking ore.
saThe west driftafrom the b0ttemssof the shaft
is in 1856 feet, whereait makes connection with
the west shaft at a depth Of "a Feet in this
drift the ledge Is somewhat irregular, in places
pinching to a mark, and again opening out to
from IS inches to 2 feet in width; it was,
however, uniformly of a very high grade the
ore from this drift averages, as per battery
sample, 90 ounces in silver and $53 in gold.
TIL west drift is down 93 feet 81 feet from
the surface a drift has been run west 100 feet,
coming on an ore body about a foot wide in
the face, however, it has narrowed cOnsidera-
bly,. A station has been opened on the SO foot
level, which it is the intention to push east
and west from the shaft as eXpeditiously as
possible. Sinking will not be resumed in this
shaft for some time, the within being unable
to handle the water.
new shaft will be started soon on the
groupings about $50 feet east of the east shaft;
some rich float was found there, and they ex-
pect to find the same body of high grade ore
which is now being prospected in the two old
shafts. The
Tom. Haney,
Owned by Messrs. Owsley & Black, is at pres.
emit being worked through a shaft 43 feet deep,
which has been 1oored over at a depth of rs
feet from the surface, and a drift started east
and west in the ledge !; the shaft down to this
point carries a heavy body of manganese ore
from 3 to 5 feet wide, which assays, l am told
very well. A large quantity of it is being ex.
tracted for shipment to the ~sinelter, when
working test will more definitely prove the
value of this mine. At the
GaSnon Mine,
The hosting engine has not yet started up
consequently it is impossible to sink. Thu
west drift, $50 foot level, IS still yielding
large quantity of very high grade ore. The
slopes on the upper levels continue to lool
well and are turning out their usual quantit,
of free milling ore. At the
Alice Mine.
The bulkhead has been removed from thu
500-foot level, and work resumed. although /
is still too wet to do much.
On the 4OO-foot level a magnificent breasl
of ore has been opened. 1t is over forty fee
wide and a great deal of it is of very higl
grade.
The slopes IN the upper levels are yielding
their usual quantity of first-class ore, of which
there still remains an enormous and seeming
ly inexhaustable body in sight. The
Mountain MINI
Is looking about as usual, the various drift
and slopes in the mine looking much a
usual.
Considerable first-class copper ore is being