The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-23
JEFFERSON AND WICKES.
Plans ana Purposes of the Alta
Montana Company-Wealt1
in the Bowels of the
Mountain.
Some Flattering Prospects in the
Vicinity of Wickes.
Incidents Of the Prickly Pear
Stage Robbery.
Chivalrous Knights Of the Roat
Special correspondence of The MINES.

JEFFERSON CITY, June q, 1853.
The Wickes works are running at
present under the management of
S. T. Houser of Helena. This is gen.
orally understood to be only a test run
the object being to successfully reduce
tie ores of the Alta and Comet
mines, and also to determine the
value of the same.
The plans Of the Alta Montana
Company, if any definite plans have
been perfected, r not generally
known, consequently we are, as yet,
all in the dark as to the future OPP
erations Of this company. 1t is the
general opinion, however, that prep
aratiOns will soon be made for extern
sive operations in the near future.
Teams are passing through town
daily loaded with bullion from
Wickes and Gregory, to load the fifty
car train, all loaded with bullion,
that is to leave Helena for the east on
the Fourth of July.
THE ALTA MINE
is one of the best and most extern
sively developed mines in the Terri
tory, having five tunnels, each from
six hundred to one thousand feet in
length. The lower tunnel will tap the
vein about one thousand feet deer. Ore
has not been found in the tunnel
yet, from the fact that work was dis
continued before it reached the vein.
From all the other tunnels immense
quantities of ore have been taken,
and thousands of tons are now in
sight. The lode runs through a very
high mountain, on the western slope
of which is located the Custer and
North Pacific lodes, believed to be
on the Alta vein. The centre of this
mountain has never been reached by
tunnels or otherwise, and it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that when a TUNE!
is run through the mountain, con-
Meeting the Alta with the Custer and
North Pacific, immense bonan3as
will be uncovered.
SINE FINE PROSPECTS.
One mile west of the Alta and two
miles from Wickes. are some fine
mining prospects, the property of
Messrs. Sites and Dunges. two gen
tlemen who have been engaged in
mining in Homestake Gulch
tor nu>.'r u years. The Minnie
louc is /. q ..iliy one of these locations !
to any considerable extent.
On this mine are four shafts, twenty, |
ninety and one hundred
md eighteen feet, respectively. Lev
Els have been run along the vein a
distance of thirty to forty feet from
he ninety and the one hundred and
eighteen foot shaft, exposing d vein
If ree-milling ore two feet wide, as-
in silver seventy-five ounces
o the ton. Assays in gold have been
obtained as high as twenty-seven dol
to the ton. It is undoubtedly a
plendid mine, and the owners will
urely realize handsome profits from
heir ores as soon as there is a market
or them.
There are a number of promising
ocations in the vicinity of Wickes
tut to describe them all would make
longer letter than you would care
o publish.
A BOIL STAGE ROBBERY.
News has just reached Jefferson
hat Gilmer Il Salisbury's coach was
obbed on the top Of the range be-
ween Jefferson City and Boulder
bout 4 o'clock this afternoon. It
ppears from statements of the driver
nd passengers that two men, parti-
lily masked, sprang into the road in
ront of the coach, stopped the team,
nd ordered the driver and passen-
.rs to throw up their hands, and
ass over the treasure. box and what {
pose change they happened to have
bout their persons. This modest |
aYuest was at once complied with, I
emphasized by the presentation i
a pair of u~gly-looking s~iX-shooters.
lfter possessing themselves of the :
box and $40 or $50 dollars in :
hange from the passengers, they $
I'D the driver to drive on. and that
as the last seen, or probably ever ,
ill be seen, of them. One little in :
ident of the robbery will, for ga]lan- :
y, compare favorably with some OF :
ne acts of the famous London high ,
'aymen, Claude Duval and Dick j
A lady passenger had in I
er possession a gold watch valued j
! $500. The watch was taken, but
he lady wept bitterly, being very |
luch distressed at the loss of her
time piece. Seeing this, the ]
>bhers politely handed the watch
ack to them, with the request that {
he keep it in remembrance OF Il 9
livalrous knight Of the road. So
luch for the lady's tears and the
allantry of the bold brigands. A. r
q IT XII I