The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-01-06

me depth or over $50 feet from the surface and
out quartz. Theshowing of quartz is good and
the Quality has been satisfactorily tested. One
m pg =, made ts IN their FIVE stamp mill late last fall
handsome profit over all expenses The gold is
OF Of, an excellent quality, the retort coining sis
sized pile of like grade quartz. The mine. SUI
perntended by Tom Hamilton, is in fine shape
WinteT + Viii adHange9uSy IL and during this
Irask Graves also own one half interest in
me NE Wadams and Bannack lodes. The
thousands Of tons of good quartz and The
quartz quar- now in sight mills SIS per ton The Ban
iiin nafK contains an an immense body Of soft free
,> During the past season the Carhartt mill has
6a 6een .tn employed in maks prospecting runs Of
Bee Hive, and Dacota No. 1a. These lodes
are low grade; but contain large deposits OF
there is /. chambe Of quartz resembling mnnnl noun
tain In size. In the Matiamoiselle, at 60 feet
% deep, strong vein averaging six feet wide, is
Of 200 tons of this iron, pounded in a twenty
stamp MILL yielded $40 per ton. The discovery,
bY shro obn anS 1ar on the
not been worked further than representing for
couple of years The last run OF one hundred
ton. The Trask Graves tunnel of Nos. 5 and
8, now being driven ahead, viii open Nos. 3 and
a69at 15G feet deep when r deposits Of
cation of the grolnd ION the celebrated Dacota
velnl, warrants the expectation of finding ii
on No. o, west, ard continuing through Nos. s, I,
,n, ana a. 8, 1T the naeota snartz has been rich,
ed UPWARDS s of sS ii p1it gold . yield
Messrs. Joe Caldwell and p Shenon are en-
gagged IN running tunnel to tap the noted
white iron" level Of their nine He chero. a e
ah ahf rs nd
ton. On reaching the 'white iron" level, the
character of the ore changed, becoming so base
purposes, unless the ore be first subjected to a
roasting and desulphurizing process. A six-feet
nine and the tunnel is Intended lex to to
cheapIy and expeditionslv. Many fire assays Of
formly, from $685. $40 TO $50 per 1t is claimed
that $40 per ton. In gold, can be realized by
amRmng aer su6eft,ng the ore to "a slow
mel, when completed, will be over 200 feet in
length. and is pushed ahead by day and night
shifts; under the supervision of French Joe
F. Wright. IS located on the divide between
Grasshopper ana Spring Clutches So far as
opened this vein looks decidedly promising. A
shaft is sunk to depth of 40 feet where the vein
lena, assays SG in gold and si2 to 800 per ton in
silver. The mine will be further developed this
winter.
On the Underwood lode some work has been
done the past year. The quartz ground in an ar
astra, yielded fairly. This claim has produced
S grade % rock :" R'H IS vsibe Many other Claims
in the Bannack- -Marysville district are pros
pected TO greater or less degree. In the Spring
shire, Monmouth, Grasshopper and the
French lodes, large bodies of low-grade gold
will be unearthed and proftabIy mlled when
the railroad era eHvelops Montana.
THE PLAcERs OF HORSE PRAIRIE.
For a decade and a half of years the Horse
Prairie dggings (lucated southwest of Bannack)
have proven of the paying kind, yielding, in the
aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
dust taken out of these mines is of superior
quality in tineness-minting at the Phiadel-
phia and Frisco mints $50 10 per ounce. Messrs.
Wright " keppler own 5000 feet of bar and
gulch mining ground in the Horse Prairie dis
trict, which will be covered by United States
palent soon Within a few years much of these
diggings have passed intO the baneful possession
of those representatives OF chop-stick economy,
the pig-tailed Chinese me Celestlals M are year
and they have, to-day, control or the DeSt-pay-
ing placer mines in Iieaverhead county. An
other illustration of TIE folly of the white man
in dispoSi.g Of valuable mines TO those almond
eyed leccGcs on the energies of the poor white
lab0rer
TIE BLrE WING SILVER DISTRICT.
In the Blue Wing Silver district was made the
first discovery of silver bearing quartz, in what
is now Montana Territory. The time was late
in the lall OF 1862. ii few months after the dis
covcry of gold at Bannack. The district is To-
Gated three miles nor'rast Of Rannack and EN-
braces an extensive bel! of lodes covering a
large space OF teifoX tory Large fIatnhltteSd ia 1ht dio OF
tr;ct in the past. nnGtny of the mines thou
sands of tons OF good ore is obtainabl". Much
work of development mas been done iii the dis
trict. Where so many mines are clustered to,
gether, only Il condensed description OF the most
prominent, and their WORKINGS, VIII De attempt,
ed in this review for an elaborated report would
occury too much type-spacc i'll the MINER.
The Delmonte lode, owned by Smith 4
Sears. has been worked toa depth of 226 feet
grapacular formation, and the character of the
ore has been from the top to me bottom, ruby
6ut rich. and is surface opened for distance OF
100 feet. About $4,000 worth of first class ore
tirS dnction works. Ore taken from this mine 200
feet deep Went S5ou per lon An experiment at
the seen ore q The te e,c Was
Wet crushed in the Calhartt mill and put through
a sluice-boX and rocker process OF concentra-
nv prof Tate Taylor.) showed that25 to 40-ounce
ore can he successfully and cheaply turned into
what is termed ps-class M shpRhing h @ ore; lhe as
intent conclusively demonstrated that inferior
grades of ore can easily be concentrated and
made valuable for shipment.
III" The New Departure, ned by Wash. Staple
ton. but at present worked by John steger &
| 20 is a mine of permanent pretensiOns, and
has always produced high grade mineral. Ship
| ments from this mine have YIELDED results OF
s30O SIOO and 5000 per ton, ana mucn ore, there
| fore has been reduced in the Argenta furn ace.
| A new shaft, from the lower tunnel, is now be-
| ING sunk to strike the main vein, where an ore
| bndv of two feet III thickness is to be worked.
This ore assays from 200 to $50 ounces to the
| ton. Recent assays from the waste pile eXhib-
tied a ounces per ton in a large mass of the re-
| fuse or waste dump.
| 'uS Sn The Rrick Poineroy, owned by Amedc Bas-
| oattn six shafts have been sunk, ranging from
| 90 20 e5 feet deep The vein matter is from 3 to
| "a "a f,et in thickness and is too low grade for
| ~ I;nnip" Fifteen tons, selected from IL dump
| nile of 20O tons, sampled nom ia 10 lol ounces
| per ton ~, x,, h,. ,,,.le p,ssetta
| runs parallel with the fomeroy' Two nunareu
feet from the latter lode smart, nlty leet ueep
displays a strong vein OF decomposea quartz M
dmmn dn S6 IN gold, and $50 in silver per ton. -.
"RnsSette's Luzerne is prospected by shaft
| q. oont IN inpth Vein in and out, from a few