The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-22
r,un s.adsyb Daily.
n1lgIl00 RUVuW.
s rnding March 70. 1852.

,.,rtions Of the winter are now or
YER, ~ At once started up again. New
"" Ill.,. works are being built, and new
DO h;ncry set and put in operation.
D.. coming six months promise such .
I'st,;n. development Of the number,
s :sn.-. and productivencss Of the min
ns ,..,,,s in this district US to place It ut
e.. hs,d Of the mining regions Of the
~" -,h American continent. A gentle
fro,n New York, who has been
n'- n,ttp for some time inspecting its
u , n wealth, has come to the conclu-
:an after visiting the mines Of New
, Colorado, Nevada, California,
.S-on, and south America, that in the
.'.h., and value Of tie veins to he
n"nl in given area, this exceeds any
v..;ot II. has ever visited. He conn
.., 4 to the Potosi mines, Of Bolivia.
IN the meantime the great producers
:, putte add their increasing weekly
49,. to tho bullion product with clock
NE regularity; while many newly-de-
..,oned mines continue to give evidence
.ftheir prsductiveness.
-ur ALICE AND MAGMA CHARTA.
,,.,t TO the works and mines Of the
.,;.e company yesterday showed Con-
timed development and gratifying re-
salts.
-, feet. and the new hosting works
.u;,dipg was being raised yesterday.
rhe new hosting engines will probably
!. !, MACE by April LIT, when sinking
I'm he n commenced In the new shaft.
!, the west, or old Magma Charta
,h.ft. sinking was again begun yester-
1.yat the 4OO.foot station, under con-
mat BY which the shaft will At once be
INK TO the 500 foot level.
he Hawkeye shaft, on the ff.stion
- .outh Of the Alice y now down 100
ut. :.
During the past week both mills have
mn regularly, without stoppage, save
.tmpoeary suspension Of five Of tho
dghty stamps.
The mines have been worked - usual
.,d have produced the regular quanti-
8es Of ore, keeping eighty stamps In
continual moeton.
The tramway from the Magma Charta
ho,atine works to the mills, viii be
hortly completed, the T rail not having
vt arrived.
Since last Sunday the Alice Company
~ shipped twenty bars Of bullion,
weight 1890 pounds av., value about
$4,000.
The richest recent developmentin the
Fink Noulton mine has been the cut
a,g Of the grade vein On the aoO-soot
level, "a feet south q the SHAFT At
Iii peirt the vein b four and halt
set wide, with . streak fFom twelve to
sehteen inches wide aveGag1ng nom
&c to two hundred ounces.
Raiaing and Stopping On the Two ana
three hundred foot levels between the
ao,,cut and the Alice line continue
aetivs and supply tho mill with ore
he west drifls arc being pushed On
18th these levels.
On TIE Aoo-Soot level work has moi
besn recommenced, - It has not ye'
Aeroughly dried since the Corn1sn
pumps drew OF the water. When the
min lead il tapped on the I'VE hundred
tot level thi, the four, viii b thor
s1ghly drained.
On the 500 foot level Cross cutting
ssth was begun again yesterday tne
kvel being dry, 1t . peint % feet sootn
4the shaft.
The forty stamp mill has run - asaa'
during the past week. A temposaiJ
aoppaee was made yesterday to az Gle
vatoss, etc.
On the 18th the Moulton company
shipped five barnof bullion, AZ pounos
and on the 18th four hans, 30 pounos
aggregatisg between eleven and t~eiS'
thousand dollars in value.
MOUNTAIN CONSOLIDATED.
The shaft h now timbered to the deptI
x3o feet, and has been sunk no "l
TIER during the past week. The nee
hosting plant win be started up shoru!
being now in place, and cross-cutanl
south from the 200-f foot level Will tne'
be begun vigorously.
THE NODOC.
The mine continues to Product guam
tity Of rich copper silver ore. the sns'
sdown about 2O4 feet, with . ten 100
dump. There are some 200 tons OF OF
On the dump averaging frsm twent
TWENTY-FIVE per cent. In copper. IN
eross-cut south which has recently zee
begun is in about twenty feet II u e
peeted that It will strike the lead
about distance Of 50 feet south nei
'he shaft. The lead dips to the sous.
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