The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-30
FROM THE NORTH.
What the People are Doing on the Main
Range North OF Us.

William Hyde, lately returned from Bel
mont, the Mnllan tunnel and the Carbon
Moor coal mines, gives IL the following items
| The new
SIXTY sTAMP GOLD MILL AT GLosTER
l. exp cied to start up this week with forty
stamp and the remaining twenty stamps are
to To completed in about sixty days. The
Frazer Chalm.r> improved Corliss engine
OF l5o.horse power il by far the handsomest
In th" Territory. There are three large boil
erS; also a new and complicated devic. for
altering the counter cam shafts by section
al gear fractional pully operated by simple
hand crew with clutch yoke. The ore buns
above the self-feeding batteries will hold a
thonsa and tons of ore. Five Edison electric
lights of lJ00-candle power each, illuminate
the building by night. A three track I rail
tramway, 2,S40 feet long, il built TO run the
ORES down from the mine into the mill, and
Rock Crusher il USED at the head of the tram
way before shooting the ore into the cars. A
three-compartmen shaft was down I5O feet
from the surface or seventy-tye feet below
the tunnel level and about twenty-five feet
prosecuting is required to tap the lead only
puired for taking ont ore for the forty II lnp,,
the ore in the mine being soft and IN granite
and tale formation, running east and west
The old ten-stamp mill at the mine l. to be
enlarged 10 twenty stamps and the machinery
and timbers are on til" ground To be com
menced H. soon a. the new mill IL finished
credit IL due to Mr.. Fisher for designing ami
contracting the new mill. Mr.. Swan j. fore
man at the mine which goes by the corpo-
rate name of the Boston and Montana Min
ing Company, with Mr.. w. q. Child AMI
Mr.. Netar a. superintendent
THE DRUM LUMMoN.
Mr.. Hyde was shown through the Drum
Lummon mine by Mr. Thomas Cruise, thu
owner, who said thar he could get over a
million dollars for il at any time. A 400 foot
tunnel taps the lead at the bottom of il 100
foot shaft which runs through the Ieal all
the way to the surface. The lead il said 10
be eighty feet wide, pitching into the hill at
an angle OF forty-fve degrees with granite
fcor.wall and decomposed slate hanging
wall Levels run DO feet on the lead show
an immense body of ore thai mills SO per
ton aud upward, in silver and gold Mr.
hors" power engine and ten stamp, and a
Rock Crusher which lie Intends erecting IN
the ~pring aljoining the 5stamp mill now in
operation. Mr.. III. l.. Shevrard "A mining
expert, said that he considered the Drum
Lnmmon mine equal TO any two mines i'm
Butte.
A new body of ore five feet in width was
lately struck in the lower tunnel of the Bel
mont mine.
The i0-~tamp mill at Mount Pleasant
was running on ore from the Blue Bird lead.
new AID improved one-Stamp mill is
just tin hid ami is in successful operation
at Bald Butte, near yestel, said TO crush
eight tons of ore per day. 1t II seIf-feriing
and requires only three men TO run it, Chad.
wick, Tatem x Co. of Helena, are the own.
erS.
AT THE MuLLAN TUNNEL
Active preparations are going on for COM
meneing work on the west side, but the ma
chinerv not having all arrived may delay the
ST. am drilling three or four weeks. when
light hour shifts will b. put ON. A 80. foot
shaft l. to b. sunk in the hill and work pros
ecutrd from the shaft both ways. A silver
.
have been struck while excavating for the
powder magazine and which H. thought will
cross the east end of the tunnel 400 feet from
it, entrance
Mr.. Laurence Walch, successful pros
pector attracted hthrr by these discoveries,
has succeeded III making three excellent To-
CATION within the past fortnight about a
mile north of the tunnel, in chloride and car
Donate Of silver that 90 A. high a. $1,000 per
ton. Mr.. Walch has been IN Lradvile aud
is IN most enthusiastic man he ever saw, al
though outsiders, through ignorance, look on
aud laugh at his enthusiasm.
THE CARBON MOOR COAL MISE
L. half mile from, and on level with. the
west side of Mulan tunnel. Twenty mrn are
employed on eight-hour shifts sinking n
shaft at - 80 per day and board. They are
down sighty.fwo feet and expect 10 60 80
feet to strike the black diamond 400 feet be
low the ont-crop. Steam hosting
works are used and large Knowles pump
from the penob.cot will b. put in position
when thu coal vein Il struck. Screens and
Goal bunkers arr already up from which the
coal will be shot into wagon, Mt one hand
ling. VIM Barton L. the foreman anil one
fourth owner in this valuable property.
TIL" grade from the west side Of the Mulan
tunnel 10 the mouth of the Little Blackfoot
is excellent, but on the east side and within
two or three miles there are heavy cuts ard
bridges TO b. made that will require one or
two thousand men. The first monthly pay
ment wa made on the 20th inst, when five
men quit out Of forty men employed. the
wages ~ S1.g2 per LAY and board being con-
sidered too low. This amount. with Sundays
included, makes the wages about s51 40 per
month and board.