The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-01-04
|rogress Acknowledgements
During the Past Year.
s3scoMraginO Reports From Every
mime That Has Been WO7Ked.
cts In Relation To The Mills
Of The District.
showing That Cannot BE Beaten In
Any Country. .
comprehensive Idea Of the Wealth Of the Sum.
nit Valley District.

KINGTON - HUNDRED THoUs-
AND DOLLARS PRODUCED IN THREE
YEARS AND A HALF.
he Lexington mill was built by Judge A.
Davis at the east end of Broadway street,
tie, in 1877. 1t was we'll and compactly
together, as is evidenced by the fact that
as run continuously since the stamps were
dropped and some new pans and settlers
linz been put in during the past month,
mill is, for all practical purposes, almost
rood as new and may be depended upon
do excellent work for years to come.
ce the mill was first started up, its ten
ms nave been necessarily busy on ore
IN the Lexington mine, of which, upwards
5000 ions have been extracted and treat
within the past three years and a half.
S amount of ore has yielded a total of
5000 in silver bullion, having also a small
he in gold. The ore product, though not
Uniform value, has nevertheless averaged
| as the following statement of average
terry sample for each year during which the
has been in operation, will show:
rage battery sample for sos. s.
rage battery sample for '7S........ 7l.22
krage battery sample for '79........ 69.36
rage battery sample for 'S0........ 63.O5
he total bullion production for the year
/, exclusively from Lexington ore, is $780,
an amount that could have been largely
eased had any effort been made to select
\ richer ores from the mine instead of eX-
kting it as it was encountered in the drifts
slopes. We venture the opinion hat be-
the close of the year 1881, Judge Davis
have to begin the erection of another
of enlarged capacity for the treatment of
ore which will be opened up by the devel-
nents now in progress in the new shaft.
Fl LEXINGTON.
Ehe Lexington has always been regarded
Pne of the greatest and most valuable prop
les Of the district, and, though the ledge
not yet been explored to any considerable
Eh, there is no room to doubt that it is
manent as well as rich and extensive.
property is situated on the brow of the
overlooking Walkerville on the south,
almost parallel with the Rainbow lode
is presumed to be q continuation of the
upon which the Josephene, Grey Rock
Bell mines are located, though it has not
nso demonstrated. The working shaft is at
Fent only 10 feet deep and from the drifts
ming east and west from the bottom has
produced all the ore which for the past
ea and a half years has kept the Lexington
in constant and successful operation.
total length of the level is 1000 feet.
a distance Of 50.feet in the extreme west
the ledge is somewhat lean but for a
IN of $50 feet, the ore body or shoot is
inuous and compact, the average width
NE vein being ten feet. Since the mine
hst opened, this level has produced up
ds Of $4,000 tons of free ore, running
$50 to $3.50 per ton, the average value
ng the past three years being $6S. 20 per
But the ore body in this level is by no
ms exhausted, it being estimated by care
measurements that 1000 tons are yet in
up This amount, however, cannot be
kended upon to furnish employment to
stamps for any considerable length of
and the owner of the property has taken
necessary steps for the further develop
/ Of the mine. With this end in view,
as begun the sinking of a three compart-
shaft ITO feet south of the old shaft. 1t
IL Intention to sink the new shaft to a
mol 800 feet with all possible expedition.
puerto facilitate this work, a large shaft
y, lOOxs5 feet has been built during the
summer, in which a 40-horse-power en-
and two 40-horse-power boilers have
placed in position. While sinking is in
pess the Water encountered in the shaft
oe hoistediwith a Knowles, but when the
loot station is reached, a Cornish pump
Auy Imported, will be brought into requi-
The expenditure which Judge Davis
inaertakeff to make for the systematic de-
; pueht of she Lexington is evidence of the
ne mas N the ~permanence, value and
" oi the property. 1t certainly has
= ~ remarkably large profits for the
~' oimoney expended in its development
nave every reason to believe, Judging
@e Indications of permanence which the
sAhioits in the surface workings that it
opeh up into an immense property when
N sase snail be crosscut at the lower levels.
I is, that such an opinion has been
eApressed in regard to the future of the
py men whose experience in mining
'neir views high above the value Of
ary speculation.