The daily miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1879-1885, 1882-01-01

Hill mine have just received the fol.
lowing notes in regard to some of them:
The Boss Tweed with a D foot crew.
ice) has an open cut ut discovery 30 feet
in depth. 100 feet below is a tunnel OH
the ledge CD feet long and the same dis.
tance from surface ut the breast. The
ore is base and samples $40 in gold. On
the surface ut discovery the ore was
mostly free milling and several hundred
tons were run in the Getchell mill, By
low Pony, which was erected purposely
for said lode. Since the ore turned base
the mill has been running principally
Oh White Pine quartz.
The greatest depth yet attained on the
Willow Greek il llOfect. -Four men are
at present running tunnel on the ledge
and will continue it until Il depth Of 1jA]
feet has been reached. The crevice IL
from to II feet in width, with base ore
in the present workings. One thousand
tons OF $50 quartz was taken out during
the past summer and fall, and crushed
in the Mallory mill, above Pony, leav-
ing 4'W tons yet in the mill and on the
dump. About 500, 900 in gold has been
taken out of this mine.
The Central, 500 feet Of the Ned, is
owned by one party and the other l ,tNN
feet by another. The lower 500 feet is
untouched, the central portion has a 2(Nl
foot tunnel tapping the ledge ut Il depth
of $50 feet, and on the remainder there
is IL $50 foot tunnel tapping the lode lis
feet deep which tunnel will be extend
ell OH the ledge this winter to an indefi-
mite length. There isanother tunnel on
the same ground l75 feet along the ledge
and the same distance from the surface
ut the bre.ist. Two bundled and forty
five tons OF S45 ore have been stopped
from this level the past summer, with
now an excellent shaving in the face
and bottom. The ledge is 3 feet wide
and the quartz is free gold, no base ore
having yet been encountered. S7755,OOO is
the yield Of the Ned mp to date.
The White Pine mo buse) has 100
foot shalt on the west end. On the east
end Il tunnel is ut present being run to
tap the lode ut IL depth OF l2O feet. The
quartz ut the west end mills $50, while
ut the surface OH the east end it yields
$40 per ton. This lode has yielded about
$50 900.
The Keystone has fine body of good
grade blse ore from 3 to 5 feet in width.
An upr,lisc Of l3O feet il now being run
from the end OF the level to the surfoce.
The Atlantic, Pacific and Custer are
all large, well defined lo,les of fair
grade.
Some good runs have been made from
the Cub and Hidalgo. The latter is ut
present being developed by a tunnel.
Not much work is being done in the
South Boulder district ut present, but
there are several large, we'll defined base
ore lO.les over there which promise much
to their owners.
The Potosi district is in the Tobacco
Root range, at the head of South Will
low, about II miles from here A trail
up the creek leads to the camp, but
there are enough good miners there to
justify the building of wagon road
along the creek, which it is estimated
will cost Sl,5ND. The district contains
an immense body Of timber (which ex-
tends for miles both above and below
on the south side of the creek and has
great watcr-power facilities. The camp
when properly developed will no doubt
Justify the erection of smelling works.
but whether they will be built there or
ut the mouth of South Willow Creek
canyon, three miles from PONY, is a
question. Forests of timber abound nm
the canyon and If one or two smelters
only should be needed for the PONY.
potosi, Norwegian, Sterling and Red
Bluff districts, the canyon would evil
IDENTIFY be the best and most central To-
cation for them.
The Keystone lode in Potosi has 4
foot vein Of 100 ounce silver ore, with
some gold. There are 2OO tons on the
dump. A tunnel strikes the ledge at a
depth OF 10 feet. The Peerless, on the
same location, has an Is inch crevice of
llO ounce ore, with 50 tons on the dunn.
A tunnel is run on the lode to n denfh
OF I'D feet, and there is also 40 foot shaft
on it. The chm raofor nf thu 90 T. 49,