The daily miner., 1882-01-01
bANNACK CITY.
It's Surrounding Mines and Bril-
liant Future Prospects.


Bannack City IL about twenty seven
miles southwest of the Z. and n. rail-
nence by the rich placer mines in it's
immediate vicinity, discovered In May,
1862, and by its attractive geological fea-
lures. The country rock Is limestone,
quartzite, synite and eruptive matter,
the latter assuming the form of dykes
and crossings which shoot out in vari-
GUS directions from an innumerable
body Of synite running through the
centre of this great mineral belt. The
ore deposits above the water level are
strongly impregnated with oxide of
more or less Of silver, lead and copper.
THE PRINCIPAL MINES
are the Blue Extraordinarily Dakota
Madamoiselle, Washington, Excelsior,
French, Wadams, Golden Leaf, Spring
These mines have been protitably,
though impracticably, worked by mex
perienced parties, who were, no doubt.
better adapted to other branches of
business. These mines await the pres
ence and action Of experienced mining
and mill men to make them great
producers. Hosting works, mills and
other necessary plants should be put In
place to reduce the immense bodies of
free milling ore with which these mag
nificent mines abound. When this
shall be done Bannack City will as
sulne that rank among Montana min
ing camps which her great mineral re-
sources entitle her to receive. l know
from personal experience in reliable
tests that there are almost inexhausti-
BILE bodies of rock in place that will
yield from $S to $40 per ton. These are
free milling ores. There are other bod
les of ore which contain iron pyritcs,
after the water level is attained, that
would pay immense profits to parties
who would erect smelter of large ca
pacity for their reduction. Notably
among mines carrying such ores are
the Excelsior and Madamoiselle. The
former shows well-deflned l0fONt
vein of high grade pyrities which as
say from $38 to $165 per ton in gold.
The latter is a much larger vein whicl,
. yields on an average $42 per ton in gold.
These results I know and the knOwl-
, edge Is based upon indisputable facts.
have also before me memoranda and
receipts of shipments of gold to the q
S. Assay Office, at New York, from q
! few of our mines easily handled
: These shipments cover those made dur
j lHS VIC Ptssv Ola ySes1o "1AU es36A SSesCS
$872, 900. This amount was produced
by the aid Of the most primitive o
mining appliances, such as wooder
8 stamps, arastras, hand mortArs, etc. vi
# to this date q 8-stamp mill comprises
- the extent of mill machinery in any
. one place along the course of the Grass,
t hopper, one of the finest streams in th'
+ Rocky Mountains for water power
f This stream, in my opinion, cut
. through the centre OF q large belt o
good paying, gold-bearing quartz lodes
which in the near future will be exten
sively worked.
THE BLUE WING
i mining district IL about four mile
d northeast of Bannack City. The coun
+ try rock is limestone, gray sinite an,
n trap; the character of ores IL carbOnates
IL chlorides and sulphurets. The Hurol
|s and Wide West mines, owned by Sam
|s uel Batchelder, are now under lease t
r parties who have struck large bodies q
le high grade ore assaying from Al ounce
rs ol37 ounces In silver per ton. Charlie
l. Bowman has resumed work on his Biz
ls marck, from which he has In past year
.. realized large profits. He is now rail-
ing ore from depth of l20 feet, whicl
averages lis ounces per ton. TIL
Charter Oak, operated by M. 5. Her
& Co., bids fair to become one of th
te best silver mines in the district. TIL
le vein Is continuous and strong from th
u fsufface to its lowest levels, $50 fee
or deep, and assays from IS to l8O ounce
1t per ton. The celebrated Brick POmeno
-, NINA Ia nvavnSaf1 and nvI.Ak h1sy x,un,tr1,