The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-10-05
THE MINES.
SALISBURY.


From the bottom of the vertical shaft,
which is 60 feet deep, tbs drift running east
has been extended $50 feet. The ore body.
three feet wide, has of late improved consid-
eraply ID quality and now averages 40 ounces.
me oulk OF that now being extracted is from
the slopes, which are yielding perhaps ten
tons per diem. One hundred feet east Of The
Old shaft a new shaft has been started, which
VIII be s,nk to the depth of 100 feet, pro-
Vlded the water can be handled that tar be-
low the surface. This shaft will of course
lead into base ore, but as there is 4 probable
lty OF roasters soon beng put up in the Bur-
lington mill, where the free ore is now being
worked, its reduction will be an easy matter.
The mine is now under lease to Rouda-
bush, Young & Anderson, who have 10 men
employed.
NORTH STAR.
This PROPERTY, owned by Murray ct al, and
Immediately adjoining the Salisbury, has not
been developed to any extent. and its value
Tor some time can only be a matter of con-
lecture. A shaft 60 feet deep was some time
ago sunk on what seemed to be the main
ledge, but as the ore discovered was not very
high grade and the rock was found to be ex-
ceedingly hard, work was abandoned. Lately,
however, the developments in the Salisbury
have been of such an encouraging nature
that an impression was created that the old
North Star shaft was sunk IN a cross vein,
and since the property has been leased to
O'Brian & Co., who have started a new shaft,
this theory has been apparently verified, as
the character of the ore is identical with that
taken from the Salisbury near the surface.
1t is the intention of the lessees to sink this
new shaft 90 feet, at which depth they will
probably be into the same ore body as is in
the Salisbury.
ALEU-. SCOTT.
Preparations were yesterday begun to hoist
the water out of the incline and to begin the
working of the mine, which has been leased
to Rowand, Belk & Ingraham. The resump-
ton OF work has been caused partly by the
conviction that a rich body of silver ore will
be found by driftinga short distance west of
the shaft, and by the assurance that the body
of iron ore struck before operations were last
suspended will find a ready market, a con-
tract having been entered iuto with the Colo
RADIO Company to take a certain amount of
iron ore for fluxing purposes. As soon as
the water can be hoisted from the shaft, whlci,
is 1O4 feet deep, a station will be put in so
feet from the surface, and a drift started west
in the hope of striking a pay shoot of silver
ore, of the existence of which some lndica-
tions have already been given. At one time,
while sinking the shaft, several tons of copper
silver ore, assaying up in the hundreds, were
extracted, and the lessees are confident of
discovering some more.
NsELMo
Some excellent ore is being stopped from
the drifts running east and west from the bot
tom OF the new shaft, and it now looks as
though the newly discovered vein will prove
equally as productive as the old one. In the
main incline everything is going forward
satisfactorily. The seventy-foot level is be-
ing driYen ahead on a well-defned vein OF
high grade base ore, and from the stope near
the shaft some excellent free ore is being ex-
tracted which assays several hundred ounces.
In the bottom of the shafts the working force
are employed in extending the two drifts and
extracting the magnificent ore encountered in
so doing. About 25 tons of ore is on the
damp.
BELL.
In the two shafts on the main ledge devel-
opment is progressing as usual, and about 10
tons OF yery high grade siIyer-copDer ore is