The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-06
OUR PHrLrPsBURG LETTER.
The Drift Of Events as Caught on Sand BAR.


The Drift Of Events as Caught ON a Sand bar.
Especial Correspondence Nep North Westl
PHrLrPsBuRa, December 81, 1Ss1.-Mining
matters In the Flint Creek district continue
improvingIy onward Recent developments
in the Salmon have exposed in the lowest
workings of the No. shaft large body Of
very high grade ore, the output per day be-
ing from twelve to fifteen tons.
At the Algonquin the pumps are holding
the water to the stump. Nothing new TO re-
port OF the lower levels. Output of ore
about as usual
Work of an exploratory nature IL for the
present temporarily stayed on the Emerald.
The mill started up last week for Its accus-
toned sixty-day run. Everything running
smoothly aud well. As an item for mill men
generally, they are gratutiously informed that
the tailings assay for this mill for the week
past of 2SS-i00 per cent shows a saving of
H.12-100 per cent of the battery assay. This
striking piece of information win have no
beneficial effect upon quartz men in Butte
or Jefferson. They win simply declare the
whole business a --- lie. and the writer an
accessory before and after the fact. can
imagine some bloated mineral expert of the
Summit Valley scornfully surmisng 100 per
cent. of chlorinization. Exactly. In fact, bet
ter than that Hopkins, who, ~ a rooster, is
probably unequalled in the Territory, informs
int that not infrequently ores aSsaying from
the battery seventy-fye ounces will show,
after teaching on the cooling floor, n value
of eighty ounces, with 100 per cent of chler-
imitation. This il, indeed, remarkable, and
considering my authority may not be taken
cum groao sails.
AT THE TROUT.
The present depth of the main shaft is $40
feet vertical, the last 100 feet being carried
down in the compartment. The pump sta
ton in the 800 foot level is completed and
pump in position. The header of the level
is in fifty feet, with probably 100 feet more to
60 before reaching the ledge. The country
rock Is easily worked, being highly decom-
posed limestone. No men in the stope, and
consequently no ore to hoist.
THE HOPE MINE
Produces all the mill demands, fifteen tons
daily. Any amount of good rock on hand
below is within twenty feet of the vein.
When the connection is made work of every
description will be expedited. A new shaft
On the undeveloped ground west of the tun-
nel on the Hope mine, will be started short
~. Superintendent Perkins is q practical
miner of much experience, and the most
merciless of all critics. "The working
miners" declare him to be the best under
ground miner ever in the camp.
THE GRANITE MINE,
Up in the snowies continues there. 1t has
more ore in sight, and of better average
quality than can be found In any mine else
where in the West. A visit to it would pay
the anxiogsly inclined.
James Patton & Co. have the Orphan Boy
tunnel within fifteen feet of the vein, with
four feet of ore between the walls. All pay.
number of remarkable mines IN the
camp are now being opened up, and pros
poets hitherto considered worthless are be-
ing located and worked on. The curse of
this camp is the poverty of its inhabitants.
Men hold on and cling to valuable property
by yearly representation that If capital could
acquire control of would make a paying and
productive investment. Thousands OF tons
Of silver rock lie as quietly at rest here as do
| the dead In the cemetery in the valley below.
Poor men own it. Let any good business
| man who has had experience In ore-working
come into this district and patiently inspect
the mineral deposits. He will unhesitatingly
| affirm them to be immense in value and in
| exhaustible in quality. And, Mr.. Editor,
| If fruth laS I'm tha avian hat nvaip MR.
events cast their shadows before, you ma Y
| within THE next two years see here Butte du-
plicated.
SOCIAL MATTERS.
Socially we have had little to interest us
since my last letter to the New NORTH. WEST.
Kaiser gave Christmas ball, which, OF
| course, was grand success, and the remark
able coincidence of events which precipi-
tated the genial host of the Silver Lake
House and Thomas Ward, Esq, of Caplice &
Smith, into earthly existence at precisely the
same moment, minute, hour and day, led to
the discussion of n supper, which the friends
of these two gentlemen, in confidence, de-
clare was too majestically utter for any brief
description. As plain expression of opin-
ion on my part. two more high minded and
honorable and handsome young men than
these two IL would be hard to find west of the
Rockies.
1t was the desire of number of our young
men to take New Years dance at the Scott
House, in Deer Lodge City, but combina-
ton of untoward circumstances prevented
this pleasurable arrangement. In other
words, it overreached their pile. AS one of
| the Butte Princes (who was so fortunate as
TO meet and be seen in conversation with
during my recent visit to the county seat
patronizingly observed to me- You fellows
are slow, understand. I've been poor myself,
understand, as anybody, understand, but q
close attention to business and Butte, with a
little patience thrown in, understand, and"
here a choice selection out of Shakespeare,
| applicable to such slothful and indolent COM
munities as this and Gable, being happily
thrown in, left me to understand that God
made every man but this particular person,
who owed his existence and prosperity solely
to opportunities aud Silver Bow bonanzas
Nevertheless, dear Prince, in time our own
checks win be as good and our presence as
dignified ~ thine. We will develop political
strength. We are running levels into BUSH
ness channels that may expose brains on the
hanging wall. But come, satirist, we wish
] you we'll Poet, rustler and chevalier sans
| pcur ct sans reproche. We salute you. Under
stand2 SAND BAR.
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