The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-24
MADISON COUNTY MINES.
" S"i"erous Bonanzas OF that Section.


TT1ncapleS.
Editor Butte Miner.
In former letters you have been told of PONY
ana It's surrounding mines, so l will not en-
large, but your booming Butte and bio
oonanzas may have caused you to forget us
ehurely; So, at the risk of being called a
Faber waster, l send you a few items. If the
style IS not Macauleyan, the substance shall
not be Munchausenish.
Minerally speaking, Mineral Hill district
three years. ago was full of men whose muscle
mostly was their capital, and many a hard
blow was struck by them in the numerous
large lodes that seam the maintain Sides
before they discovered that the ore At differ-
eht aepths was generally base, requiring
capital and certain processes beyond their
reach to save the precious metals which ASSAYS
have proven it to contain. Several of the
lodes, though, carry free milling ore. among
which are the Ned and White Pine. both of
which have produced a large amount of cold
the past season. The former is owned by
MI. AL. Mason, who is running a tunnel to
tap at a greater depth, and the latter is owned
by Mr.. Thomas Carmin. The first lode
found was the Strawberry, and .sGcorccv'
Moreland was the happy man. Eight feet was
TIE width, and the quartz, using "Georgey's'
language, was 'just the cheese" ''punglcd
plenty" and 'therG was millions in it. YOU
bet " Then he put up a 10 stamp mill close
by and sunk a s. foot shaft on discovery: The
quartz didn't 'purgle' sufficiently to suit his
towering ambition, and now by virtue of a
capacions mortgage, Henry Filing owns the
mill and mine, and Morcland is of looking
for more millions. He also struck the Grew
ice mine, a feeder to the Strawberry, look out
about $4,000 and thought that was ali. But
Messrs. McKaskpl & Metcalf ashort time ago.
leased it of Mr.. Filing, and now, at a depth
OF 70 ieet, and hear where it will interscct
the Strawberry. they are extracting, from a two
and a half foot vein, plenty of high grade
quartz. Mr.. E., having caught the chute, in
tends to soon put a force of men at work on
the Strawberry. The Atlantic and Pacific,
owned by Messrs. Mood X Schmallhausen
and the Sultan, owned by Mr.. VIM. McKas-
kel, Gall very wide and well-defned lodes,)
are bonded to Mr.. c, b. Weeks. The bond
expires July list, and then up will 90
a smelter, 1t is thought. In a few weeks the
White Pine, Cub, Tilden, Big Jesse, Custer
and other lodes, all owned by ~rustling parties,
will be worked vigorously and soon our camp
is expected to waltz to the front and remain
there.
Red Bluff district holds It's own. The
Boar, Herman Grey d Co., ~lessees, and the
Grub Stake, owned by Pope, Bayliss & Nc
Zee, are yielding all abundance of good
quartz (gold) and the various other lodes
there with few exceptions improve as they are
developed.
Potosi is away up--tcn miles at least at the
head of Willow creek, and venture to pre-
dict that in the near future she will be ..awav
up - as a silver bullion producer. Loyelace
Bros. are successfully developing some of
their fine property there this winter, and in
the spring some more of You" rustling Butte
boys will be on hand to assist in bringing to
pass the above prediction. Mr.. Hathaway,
Of Alder Gulcl, who had Il test run of some
of their Potosi ore made in your city last fall,
the result of which was beyond their most
sanguine anticipations, intend t" resume
operations extensively in the spring. !
The Norwegian pIacers which have hereto
fore yielded handsomely, will be worked by
three hydraulic companies the coming season.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS season crops on the
two Willows-both grain and vegetable
were much over average, aud farmers Nhanks
TO the l~eniency Of grasshoppers, and partly to
the Butte market) have done we'll; but min
us emicranls with wings, and plus those with
out them. and with the increased demand in
your market and the possibility Of better
one than formerly here, they will do much
better the coming season.
Observation-Disclosures have weatIered it
bravely So far, with nat few losses to owners. +
An animal that can stand OH a snow bank for
il week at a time (the average Montana steer
has lone much of that same this inter) |
a~dmire-admire his toughness, provided said
quality doesn't remain after the butcher grabs
him. Horses as a rule look gaunt, and some
of them have worn the hair off roofing, SO
much so. that some youngster in Harper's
Dyurry ought to say they had bald headed
noses.
Observation-Disclosures frontal chronological
bumps of the thirty school children here, un-
der the tuition of G. V. Lake, Esq, are en-
banding wonderfully. while those of the
thirty or forty older Inhabitants increase
from an outw ard pressure of quartz, politics.
ribbons. railroad and :" horse Physically.
We are healthy. lirligi"usly-We hav"
no preacher. Morally-We don't need one.
Surialk lave halls-daice balls and