The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-20

$3.50 per ton. Generally surface water pre-
vents working from June to August, but a
drain is about completed that will hereafter
remedy that drawback. Mr.. Hooper who has
so we'll and ably filed the position of super
inteudent since the discovery of the mine,
has resigned, and Mr.. Franklin takes his
place. Parties arr looking at this mine with
a view to, purchasing, aud We may soon hear
of a sale being made of one of the best prop
critics in the country.
Tbs Whale mine, across Jordon creek from
Mt. Estes, and believed to be an extension of
the Montana, is yielding ore of great richness
and is beginning to rank as one of the bonan-
zas of the camp. Ihe metal is gold in a free
state, native and horn silver. 1t is the prop
erty of Joseph Callahan, Amos Franklin and
Sheriff Young Of Salmon City.
The Charles Dickens being so conveniently
situate! |, the ladies visit this mine frequently,
and Mr.. Norton always takes pains to show
us all the late developments and explain all
about the orkings of the mine. The Dick
ems is e eking as we'll as ever, and gains III
value as the work progresses. The new vein
on the south wall, thirty FEET from the lower
tunnel, is producing ore that shows much
fine gold as well as native silver and sulphur
cts. The new vein is two feet in width and
averages between 800 and $500 per tor.
This is mixed with ore from the main ledge
aud reduced in the a~rastra, which IS superin-
tended by Mr.. John Rohur, and by his skill
and ability is working good results. 1t
brushes from two to two and a halt tons in
twenty -four hours, and is said to be the best
constructed reducer by that method in the
territory. 1t has two beds and the usual APP
planes for working so d and silver quarlz,
with the exec ption that there is no waste a.
tached. Thd bullion taken from the arastra
beds is worth $40 TO $ll per ounce. And that
from the pans $3.50 to 81 per ounce. A large
quantity of one has accumulated a. the mine,
estimated il at 5000 to 1900 tons. . O..
Work is being prosecuted on the Paradise
and Pilot extensions Of tie, Charles Dickens,
which are really very valuable properties.
On Custer mountain the Badger and sum
duceG largely OF shipping ore in the past, are
being opened at a greater depth by tunnels.
Another season those TWO mines will be so
far developed hat the ore can be extracted
| with little expense, and they will have a mill.
There are many mines in this vicinity
that prospect well, bnt owing to lack Of
means, there is no work being done on them.
FROM what | can see and learn | am con-
WINGED the Yankee Fork country is only
eclipsed. and in the future everything will
wear a brighter look. Like the moon in a"
eclipse lie patiently bidcs the LINE Of her
returning glory.
The hydraulic mines of the Gravel Mi ming
c Dmpany, are being Systematically worked
this season. The property embraces the
bars along the north side Of Salmon
River below Yankee Fork, for a distance OF
six pr more miles. At present the work is
confined to the bars at the mouth of Yankee
Fork, but the ditch is to be extended three
miles. There has been no clean up yet, but
the gravel is said to prospect well and the
showing of gold in the fuine is very en-
couraging. The superintendent, Gen
Cunningham, has lately purchased and local
ed 40 acres on the south side of Salmon
River below Yankee Fork, including the
once famous Robinson Bar, which iii former
years produced so largely of gold by the old
method of run 1ing drifts, and wheeling out
the pay dirt. He IS putting old bitches in
repair, and w;ll soon have d hydraulic appli
auce in operation. The ground is known tc
be rich and the pay streak wide and contin-
uous. This new enterprise is a private affair
and not "a part Of the Yankee Fork Grave
Company's property. Mr. Cnnni ngham and
two or three friends being the fortunate pos
SCISSORS of Ibis gre al belt of placers.
Tie new from Saw Tooth, Wood Rivel
and the Smoky districts continue encourag
ing. The mines SO far as opened, are said tt
be looking iirst-rate, and vast qnantitie.
of ore is being taken out to the railroad. 4
New York company Is exciting a lO-stamp
mill at Saw Tooth city to work the ores o
the Columbia, Beaver, Lucky Boy and otbe
mines of the company, and the demand 70
mechanics and miners can hardly be supplied
The Pilgrim in the same locality, is also pro
ducing large quantities of good ore, and TIL
mine is to have a mill early next season
Saw Tooth is now connected with Woo
, River by a good wagon road. In Smile.
Basin. seven miles from Saw Tooth, tn
, mines are producing so rich. that a ne'
stampede to that ~section is the consequence
= The Vienna, Emma, King. and two or tire
. others are yielding largely of shipping orr
The King is a new mine, opened since May
: and is said by those who have visited it, to b
: the greatest mine discovered in that country
1t is over seventeen feet in width, and ave.
= ages upwards of S20o per ton, and much {