The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-09
TIDAL WAVE
A Boom Setting In-Lots of Ore
on the Dumps, and Mills s
and SHELTERS Going Up.
"A Town Started.

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on the Dumps, and Mills
and Smelters Going Up.
I "A Town Started.
SALISBURY, June 4, 1883.
To the Editor OF the MINER:
The long looked for boom for thiI
section of old Madison county Seems
about to be realized. The only
| thing thing that has held us back il
the past has been the want of proper
facilities for reducing our ores a
| home at q re asonable cost,and this oh
stacle is about to be removed by the
erection of q mill and concentratol
| by Mr.. Noah Armstrong and a TWEEN
| ty-ton water jacket smelter by Mr.. F
]. Jones, superintendent for a Phila
delphia company. Mr.. ArmstrOns
is erecting an oscillating mill for re
ducing ores, which he intends tt
| work as q free gold mill and also in
connection with the most improved
concentrating machinery. The mil
il being erected on Georgia gulch
within easy access to dozens of good
mines, and will be in operation by
the 18th of the present month. Mr.
Jones has selected a site for his smell.
ter on Wisconsin gulch, near tEe
ranch of MI. Temple, which brings ii
within easy access to the mines OF
Wisconsin and Georgia gulches; this
insures him a constant supply OF
ores suitable for smelling. He has
commenced grading for a foundation
and the machinery is now at Dillon.
He says he will be running out bull
lion within sixty days at the farthest.
The early erection of these works
has stimulated mine owners, and q
large number of them are now ac-
lively at work taking out ore, and
there are a large number of Prospec-
tors in the hills; I hear of new mines
being found nearly every day, and
new developments in old ones seem
to warrant the belief that we have a
rich and extensive mining district.
Messrs. Gideon and Root have been
working all winter on the Tidal
Wave lode, and have developed a
large and rich ore body. They have
just tapped their lode by lOO-foot
tunnel, which shows a three DOT vein
of 200 OF. ore. This ore is copper-sil-
yer glance, and their durip of fifty
tons is worth looking at.
The Magnolia is being worked by
three men. and they have a tunnel
run 12O feet on the ledge. The vein
is ten feet wide, and averages about
two feet of galena and carbonate
ore. They have now 100 tons on the
dump that assays about $50 in gold
and silver and 60 per cent. lead. The
owners are confident of developing a
valuable mine.
The High Ridge, Pleasant View,
Eureka, Van Meter and Christiana
claims are on the same lode, and are
all promising prospects. Mr.. MOrier
has a large vein of carbonate ore in
Young America, which he is now de-
veloping. He has about fifty tons of
good ore on the dump, and lots more
in sight,.
Orrin Stone has just disposed of a
half interest in the Harkaway lode
to Mr.. Amos Purdum for the sum of
$500. They are extracting consid-
cradle high grade gold quartz, which
they are reducing in their arastra on
Wisconsin Greek. They save about
$50 per ton. Mr.. Purdum has also
just purchased Of Messrs. Van Meter
and Dillabaugh the Hold Fast and
Lulu lodes, which are promising
galena prospects.
Mr.. l.. D. Porter has a force ofmeD
now at work on his New York and
Cedar mines and is taking out con-
siderable high grade gold quartz.
Mr.. Armstrong is taking out a large
amount of gold quartz from the
Melville and the Two Dams lodes,
which he proposes to reduce at once
in his new mill. He is employing ten
men and has about 200 tons of good
grade quartz on his dumps. The
Mineral Hill and Bald Mountain
lodes are located about two miles
above the mill, and are almost noun
tains of carbonate ore of fair grade.
The owners propose working them to
considerable extent this summer.
only drawback is the want of a
road to the mines, and they propose
to build one this season, When they
will undoubtedly be able to supply
several smelters with plenty of ore.
The owners, Messrrs. Ridenoux,
and Wetmore, are perse-
men and deserve the success
they are sure to achieve.
The Fusilade is a promising prospect
owned by some parties in Butte that
were prospecting here last summer.
They have let a contract to sink on
their vein, and it is now being worked
with vigor. 1t is a galena lode and
improves with every foot of depth.
They now have about two feet of ore,
Mr.. w. H. Griffith (Dixie) is deyel
oping the Whale lode, which is lead
bearing silver ore. The vein Is about
six feet wide, and cannot fail to be a
good mine.
There are hundreds of other pros
poets in the Tidal Wave district that
will at least be represented this sum-
mer and fall, and we confidently
expect to show to the balance of crea-
ton, shortly, that u district can
produce its quota of filthy lucre."
Mr.. Gamble is erecting a hotel at the
mill en- Georgia gulch; a blacksmith
shop is in full operation, and Mr.. L.
D. Porter will shortly open a general
merchandise store there. I have not
heard what the name of the new cam
lidate for municipal honors will be,
but as there seems to be no lack of
names to designate mines, [ presume
hey will find an appropriate one.
Dur district has recently been Wis
ted by several capitalists, among
whom l call to mind Mr.. Woods, Of
Chicago, and Messrs. Mitchell and
Johnson from Utah. They examined
he Tidal Wave, Magnolia, and sew
raj other of u most promising
mines, and you will no doubt hear Of
'ome sales being made in a short
iMe. More anon. NJ. D. II.