The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-31
THE MINES.
A Fine Showing Of the Mines Ex-
amined.
Moulton, Alice, Lexington, Magma
Charta and Amy Silver
smith.
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The main shaft is rapidly going down,
having reached a depth OF 35S feet. TIE cross
cut on the 200 foot level is now in 95 feet,
and the 300 foot crOss-cut is run in 45 feet.
Forty miners are employed, with Patrick
Clark as foreman, besides a force of sixteen
men around the buildings, consisting of en-
gineers, carpenters and blacksnishs. Daniel
q. Holman, the head engineer, is just putting
the finishing t. uches uEon the $50 horse
power (Babcock & WiIcoXl water tube
boiler.
The air compressor is expected to be de-
livered to them, after a detention Of six weeks
ty the railroad was|rcuts, in g few days.
FIfty-six men and ten teams are working
on the mili-grade under the direction OF
Samuel II. Stuart, and the grating will be
| completed i'll a few days.
Mr.. G.. G. Thurston is pushing the stone
work for the new mill rapidly with a force of
sixteen men and six teams.
The masonry is done iii a solid and sub
stantial manner, rejecting great credit Oh lie
workmeA.
The brick work will be commenced in
about seven days. There are twenty mill
WrightS at Work framing timberS and they
have nearly one half of The material ready for
the erection of the main building. The whole
mill construction is under the personal super
vision of Mr.. Posse.
L ne grazing TOT Ltle WaLeI-uIicil. "iltIl Viii
be four and a quarter miles long, is already
we'll under way, aud over 100 rods of it being
ready for the tiume to be laid which is being
made of substantial pla,iks. twenty-five men
are employed by the company blasting the
immense boulders and removing timber,
under the direction Of A. II. Mallory.
ALICE.
Everything at the Alice is much as usual,
work progressing in all the levels, and rich
ore being daily extracted. While all of the
levels are looking splendidly, the 700-foot lev
Ell is particularly promising. We were shown
!, Il Specimen by Mr.. Hall, taken from that
level, that will assay m the thousands, and
! they are now in very rich ore. About IS
, tons of ore are put through the mills daily,
} the output of the Alice being between Is and
!: so tons. and The remainder coming from the
Magua Cnarta. y.-s
LEXINGTON.
, At the Lexington the three compartment
shaft is now being sunk at the rate of about
$ eighteen inches per day, going through very
contract granite. The water is under easy
! control, and is causing no trouble. Since
{ sinking was resumed about eight feet has
been added to the depth of the shaft, it now
Y being down 100 feet. The present intention
is 10 go 300 feet before running a level.
MAGMA CHARTA.
At the Magma Charta an experiment is
; soon to be tried in the shape of a How'll nd
i PuiVerizer. 1t will be a new thing III this
Il territory and its workings will be CLOSELY
4 watched. The one to be put in at this mine
is to be of n capacity equal to a 20-stamr
Q mill. 1t will probably be at work within sly
Il weeks. In the mine everything seems to imr
d prove. and splendid ore is being taken ont.
AMY-sILyERsMITH.
9 About a week ago sinking Oh the two com
V partment shaft Of the Amy-Silversmith wa:
commenced, and they are now down so feet
making about four feet a day. They intenC
to sink 800 feet as rapidly as possible, anc
then run a cross-cut at lnaJ depth through
the main ledge. Both compartments are 10,
hosting, as the mine will be drained by thu
i Moulton. frey are daily expecting thei
Q new hosting machinery which was shipped
n from GAINESVILLE, Ohio, OF thu 29lh of April
o NOTES.
y The Stevens hosting machinery. is dali,
being looked for. Nothing of importanc,
e can be recorded Of this valuable property I'm
= til its arrival.