The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-19
From the Daily of Sunday.
MINING
Butte's Continuous Contribution
to the Wealth of the Natien.

Butte's Continuous Contribution
to the Wealth Of the Natien.
The Alice Company and the
Olamor for Dividends.
An Eastern Report on Montan,
Mines.
Mining matters in Summit Vale!
during the past week have been no
table more for the steady routine o
operations in the mines and mills
which is characteristic of the camp
rather than by any special develop
ment or incident. The time ha'
passed in Butte when the report O.
strikes and developments possess any
special interest to the general reader
They are peculiarly the feature Of
new and undevelOped camps, which
require boom methods to attract out.
side attention. Oar camp has passed
that phase Of its career, and our
great mines ana mills pursue the
even tenor of their way, producing
their continuous contribution to the
wealth of the nation, which by the
high average and uniformity,
has already established its reputa-
ton abroad as the greatest mining
camp in the country. Great ctivity
has been noticeable during the week
in preparations for the winter.
Wood and timber men have been
busy furnishing the winters supply
of those important factors in mining
operations, and at every mill and
shaft house the yards show the result
of their work in the immense piles
of cord wood and timbers which
have been stacked up.
Bullion shipments for the week were
up to the average maintained during
the season, and were swelled by a
very creditable shipment from Phil
lipsburg to the handsome aggregate
of $751;, 1876. They are credited as
follows:
Alice, 20 bars, valued at $39, O72;
Lexington, 10 bars, $34,352: DonneIl,
Clark & LARAMIE, p bars, $3.50;
First National bank, 3 bars, $4,S4S;
Granite Mountain, 20 bars, $56, 272;
Hope, II bars, S17,776.
THE ALICE NINE.
The eastern mining press are just
now clamoring for dividends from
the Alice, and attention is called to
the continued favorable reports of
the mite and its weekly output by
the MINER, in support of the demand
for a resumr ton of dividends. If
the MINERS mining man could meet
some of these clamorous stockholders
on Wall street he would say to them,
that, virtually, there has never been
a cessation of dividends by the Alice
company, and that, as a matter of
fact, the mine is more valuable to-day
than it was when they paid So for
their stock. The money that would
have been disbursed in ten cent divi-
dends has been applied to the acquisi-
ton of those valuable properties, the
Magma Charta and the Valdemere, to
putting in new and improv. d ma
chinery, to building the great tram
way, 1900 feet long and 76 high at
the highest point; to adding various
appliances for facilitating the opera
tons of the mines, and more impor
ts ut to the development of the prop
erty, which has opened out the i'm
mense lodges from which the ore is
now being stopped, and which show a
practically inexhaustible supply of
ore for the mills. These are divi-
dends which are tangible and will be-
better appreciated by the holders of
shares when they become fully &C.
quainted with the condition of the
property. The underground work.
ings of the Alice never looked
better than they do at present.
The wesl drift from the 500 has ad-
vanced l25 feet on the ledge, which
maintains its general character,
width and grade; sample assays yes
terday yielding go ounces in silver.
The vein which has been heretofore
described as developed in the leo and
200 foot east drifts has been uncov-
cred in the 300, showing 81 feet wide
in the face nj the drift and assaying
from 40 to 60 ounces.
A accident IN the Magma Charta
shaft of the Alice works ne
cessitated shutting down for
the day yesterday. The i'm
mense amount of work done in this
mine during the past few months,
raising from 60 to 80 tons of ore
every day mad gradually worn away
the face Of the reels, which with
shrinkage cracks, weakened them un-
til yesterday they both gave out.
repairs were made and
hosting will be resumed this morn
ing but a telegraph order was for
warded yesterday for new reels which
will be sent forward by fast freight.
The Alice mills are dropping
their 80 stamps and doing extraordi-
nary work, 1884 tens of ore having
been milled in the month of August,
bullion valued at Sill, 300.
MONTANA MINES ABROAD.
A correspondent OF the the New
York Engineering and Mining Jour-
aak makes the following notes re-