The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-23
From Sundays Daily.J
MINES AND MINING.
$1,000 ORE IN THE MOULTON
800 FEET DEEP.
ington, Alice, Magma Charta,
Stevens, Belle of Butte and
Acquisition Mines.
MOUITUN.

MOUITUN.
The MOuitQu mine still maintains its steady
development. The main tllce-compartlAent
shaft had reached a depth yesterday of AGA
feet. The main shaft, owing to considerable
water and the breaking of the cross-head of
the air compressor, has made slow progress
during the past week. The pumps are now
handling the water with ease and the usual.
Roadway will be made hereafter. Yesterday
the precise state CT development in The Moul-
ton, by measurement, was: The 200. foot
cross cut, south, was in III feet; the 200 foot
cross~cut, north, was in II feet; drifts of
from the POO foot cross cut We're advanced as
follows: No. l, 81 feet; No. ,. II feet; No. J, !
6 feet. The 300. foot cross. cut, south, was III
1S6 feet, and the cross cut to the north was
in 4G feet. Drifts off from the 300 foot cross
cut were in as, follows No. } was in y teet;
n. I. II feet; No.. s, Is feet. The i00-foot
cross.cut, south, was in u feet. Aud Tie cross
cut to north was in y feet. Exceedingly
rich ore is coming out of tie Moulton. In
drifts Nos. 7 and s one Of the finest bodies Of
ore that has been uncovered in this district
10 ttth btlit INV 9oiipiCo, lFVi ibi
, the tirst-class ore in these drifts, yesterday,
gave the following results $000.07; s., 0l4O4
and 81 ,304 52 to the ton of ore. THIS rich
developing look as though the Moulton will
rank as the bonanza Of the camp. Cross
cutting at the 400 foot Level is pushed, both
north and south, with great vigor. The
north cut is run to tap the north vein, which
at 800 feet deep proven to be rich, and the
south cut is running for the vein which at
the 800 foot level is producing 81 200 ore.
Within a month it is expected that the Moul-
ton veins will be opened at 400 feet deep,
when additional strikes Of rich ore will,
doubtless, be to chronicle.
LEXINGTON.
The main shaft of the Lexington mine is
down 200 feet. The work of cutting out the
200 foot station has just commenced. The
new company has taken possession of the
mine and the operations will be conducted
hereafter under the new management. 1t
will take some little time to complete station
cutting work at the 20O-foot level, after which
the main shaft will be SUM deeper. A new
Knowles doubie-piungfng pump has arrived
and will be placed in the mine before the
sinking of the mail shaft is resumed. Al
the old incline shaft a Wine is going down,
and it has reached a depth of about 70 feet
below the old level. The Wine is on the
ore-vein, following tie incline, and is in ore
of the first quality. The ore raised from the
Wine is partially free-milling, but is
growing of a baser character as the
Wine attains depth. 30 one is COM
ing from the levels or Slopes Of the mine Just
now. Th company will, for the present, run
the Lexington t4n.stamp mill on tailings and
will clean up the ore On aump piles for mill
ing. The construction OF the Lexington 40
stamp mill will be commenced Immediately,
The Old ten-stamp mill is. We understand, tc
be remodeled to some eNtcnt and turned into
a tailings mill. Everything about the Lex.
ington is assuming the shape of vigorous &C.
tivity.
ALICE.
Of tI. Alice mine there is ~uotl.iny uuu>ua
/ 10 report. lhc mint j. showing up we'll II
all its workings, The readers of the MlNEI
are so familiar vii II the character Of ore ex,
tractcd trort Tie famous Alice mine, that {
repetition OF qualities would he of no inter.
est. In all the openings Of the mine jhc APP
pelrauCes Of the ore-DQlios are I4ylrrinG.
N2;.y. ore is taken from all the Levels, from
5 lh. 100 dow to he 1O0-fo0t level. The
quantity extracted PEI diem ~l""la!ls at 'ht
: old standard, which may be reported IS av
! erlyiMe - tons per diem. The mime cuulc
4 be made TO yield doubln l!It qu"utty i All,
, time if the ore was required Ter milling ll"
| poses. Both mills are T~Huniu, i~yulaI5 II an
t smoothly, and they ar saving IL high pc,
q, ~cclta4e of the ASSAY value + The ore ur-trt
The Bruckner furnace has arrived and W..
!, bc SCI up Immediately, This furnace has ;
Y capacity Of treating twenty tons rf uyr even,
: twcuty-tour hours.
MAGMA CIiAETA
= The sLuhing If the mrin shaft H. IT,. Mag.
= VA Gharta minc to q greater Arrth ll4t .rt
p feet has not commenced yet. Yesterday Z
p GOOD quality Ct ore Was being raised from The
levels and Slopes Of the mir,. From tie IoHe
tunnel there is considerable high gradc ore
coming cat daily. Much Improvement is no
ticahle on the ground OF the Magt.a thart9
mine, il addition to the energetic work O
'.level-driving and stogirg thar goes on dali,
4 underground. The TWO new boilers, OF I:
!, horse power each, are placed, and Will $500,
: be ready for use. 'Uesc boilers will provid,
4 steam power to drive the Magma Chart;
q hosting works and The Rowland ruIverizel
which is goins up on the ground. Work oil
n the PulveriAer isiretar!ed some ou account q
material being scarce. Both the rock-crushel
, and the PulveriSer are placed. and the othui
l. work is going forward in a very sltisfactor,