The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-05-17
From Thursdays Daily.l
THE MINES.
AN INSPECTION OF SOME OF
OUR LEADING MINES
The Acquisition, Lexington Magma
Charta, Alice, Moulton, Amy
'Silversmith, and COL
den Rule.
ACQUISITION.

ACQUISITION.
At the Acquisition workmen have been
busily engaged in getting the new pump in
working order and they are nov ready to
commence pumping. The water will all be
out in the course of three or four days, when
sinking on the main shaft will be Immediate
ly commenced. Mr.. Menary, the %superin-
tendenl. informs us that the main shaft will
be sunk $50 feet with all possible ~rapidity,
and at a depth of $50 feet a cross-cut, to tap
the vein, will be run
LEXINGTON.
AT the Lexington We were Informed
that the pump would be in working order
by Monday. They are now putting down the
eight-inch pipe. Next week sinking the
shaft will be commenced. Everything pro-
ceeds as usual at the old incline shaft. Twelve
men are extracting ore from the east level.
and are sending up eighteen or twenty tons
per day.
MAGMA CHART
There is il temporary stoppage of work at
the main shaft, in order to make some
necessary repairs on the engiue. The
sinking of the wiI'ze from the long tunnel
is being rapidly pushed downward, following
theIich vein on the bonanza chute spoken of
some time since, and will connect with tie
work in the main shaft to the north. The ore
that is being taken out is of high GRACE and
improving.
IrE
The Wine being run from the 800 foot
level Of the Alice is nearing the 600 foot level
and is still in ore Of high grade. They are
Stopping in the 100 foot level, and furnishing
Work is going Oh, day and night
in the 100, 200, 300, 400 ana 5OO-foot
levels, and the 100 men employed under
ground send up about 50 tons of ore daily.
This ore. and tie ore from the Magma Charia,
keep the 50 stamps Of Tie Alice mills pound
ing day and night.
MOULTON.
\ large force Of men are engaged in grad
ing for the foundation of the up
per part Of the new MOull0n mill, and
the masons are al work laying foundation
stones. This mill, which is be "a 40 stamp
one. will be, next to the Alice,
the largest dry crushing mill in the
world. In the main thlee.compart
ment shaft they have reached "A depth of $50
feet. and are sinking at the rae of IRON
twelve to fourteen feet per week, The granite
being moderately hard. On the 200 foot level
the crOsscut, which is being driven to the
south to tap the veins. is ina distance of sixty
eight feet, going through hard. compact gran
tie. The BOO. foot crossc,lt is in about twelve
feet.
AMI-SlI.VERSMITH
This company ordered hosting machinery
last week from W. II. II. Bowers, of Salt
Lake. They are now driving a level to the
west, and are in about forty feet, having a fine
vein of ore five feet wide. The intention is to
develop the NINE from a 3OO-foot level. and if
the indications are favorable they will sink to
a depth Of 900 feet.
GOLDEN RULE.
Work on the old shaft of this mine has
oeeli temporarily suspended, and they are
now sI king a shaft $50 feet southeast of the
old one. They are now down thirty feet. and
will tap the main ledge at forty feet, and The
shaft is intended to strike the north ledge at a
depth OF $50 feet. A blind lead was struck IN
the shaft, the ore assaying, where first struck,
from twenty to twenty-five ounces per ton.
They are running day and night.
The attempt recently made to evict tenants
at New Pallas, Ireland, was successfully re-.
sisted by al armed mob.