The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-04

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: shipment to the railroad. Ore SAM
les $3.50 to $3.50 per ton.
The Huron lode, ownedby Sam Batch
der, looks well. AT the south shaft,
own IS feet, there is a large body Of rich
re exposed, which is easily mined. A
sized pile of ore is on the dump for
Many tons of shipping ore
ave been taken from the Huron. The
re, when assorted, goes from $500 to$6OO
or ton.
In this district the claims legally re-
resented are too numerous to report in
ptail. The most prominent are the
elmonte, opened 27O feetdeep; the Gar,
enetrated by atunnel about 65 feetdeep;
Brick Pomeroy, with three shafts
own so to go feet; the Bismarck is tap
ed by a tunnel; the Charter Oak, with
shaft down over 100 feet; the Black
Iawk has an incline shaft down 80 feet.
most all of these claims shipping
has been hoisted. From the Del
,onte about $4,000 has been realized.
Work, more or less, will be resumed or
II these mines during the persent will
pr. Some of them are valuable proper
v, as time will prove.
THE ARGENTA GALENA DISTRICT.
In this district during the past sum-
her and fall, two runs of ore were made
J the Tootle & Hanna furnace, operated
EMr. Smith Ball. The ore was car
|onates and galena mined from the
hines in this district. The product of
he two runs, consisting of eighty tons
) each run, resulted in the production of
6tons of base bullion valued at $3.50 per
bn. The ore paid handsomely, leaving
net profit of several thousand dollars
yer the market price and cost of reduc-
ion.
In this old district, mining operations
he not prosecuted on an extensive scale,
Eith a big hurrah, but those engaged in
Inning are steadily making money. The
district presents a good field for invest
bent, and the indications are that next
Ieason will witness a revolution in this
amp.
On the Legal Tender lode, Con. Bray
! Son have fine vein of galena ore, of
high grade in silver, with a largely pre-
dominating per cent. in lead. Two men
ire: engaged in taking out ore. The
Peepest working on the Legal Tender
has attained a depth of $50 feet, but the
york of extracting ore is now being done
bn the 60-foot level in the shaft on the
discovery claim. Ore taken from this
hine is worth from $3.50 to $500 per ton.
On the Paymaster lode, Phil. Brown
nd Booth are extracting ore worth 500
per ton. They are stopping from a drift
n a tunnel on the lode, and have a vein
f galena ore about twelve inches thick
10 break down. The ore accumulation
will be reduced in-the Tootle & Hanna
furnace next spring.
On thessdump of the Woolly lode, LATE
Scott has a large pile of carbonate and
galena ore ready for hauling away. The
Woolly ore runs from sixty to ninety
ounces per ton in silver, and goes sixty
her cent. lead.
Mr.. Scott has resumed work on the
Florida mine. This is good mine, and
at the discovery shows large groupings.
Work will be done this winter and ore
taken from the fifty foot level in the
main shaft. At this depth the vein is two
Ito three feet wide. Ore goes from 50 to
Ell in gold, forty ounces in silver and
averages 35 per cent in lead.
On the st. Joe lode, Mr. James Knapp
Is working for II. Tootle, of st. Louis.
fAtthe drifting face, about fifty feet from
ne surface, the vein is large. On the
lump pile of this mine there is from fifty
70 sixty tons of splendid looking ore,
which will be largely increased during
he winter months.
The Eaton, Tuscarora, Gov, Tildeh,
Fred. Gentch and many other lodes in the
argenta district that offer a fine oppertu-
pity for making money and prospecting,
flre now idle. One or two are in litiga-
|lon, while others are awaiting the
Ehanging into more energetic hands,
with some capital to work them in a
way to make them profitable, The two
furnaces of Tootle & Hams and Selig-
manBros. could be kept running all next
summer on Argenta gaiena ores if the
mines of the district were vigorously
worked with an adequate force of
miners.
THE CHI ASH INSTRUCT.
The Chase distKict a. located II miles
nom Bannack on SctHider Creek, a on
nuent of the Grasshopper. But one To-
|cation in this edistriet ii developed TIC any
extent worthy Of notice. The Chase
I Campbell lodeis In a contact forma-
lin, ~ I...- .1L&I M1EAsLL O.