The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-25
EXHIBITS.

What the Denver Republican
Has to Say About Mon
tana's Showing and
Her Mines.
Montana's exhibit at the Denver
Exposition is an exceedingly fine
one. Nearly every county in the
Territory is represented. TIE dis
lance of Montana from the ~transcon-
tinental lines of travel has long oper-
| ated as a bar to the Investment of
outside capital in that Territory, and
it is only since the completion of the
Utah and Northern line of railroad
that Eastern moneyed men have felt
inclined to inquire into its resources.
In nearly all cases, therefore, the ex-
ploration of the mines has been slow,
and their present state of develop
ment is due almost entirely to home
enterprise and the fact that the mines
in the majority of cases have been
self-supporting. But already the
shipments of copper ore and matte,
silver and gold bars have shown a
wonderful increase, not, primarily,
so much on account of the invest
ment of outside capital, but because
the importation of machinery and
mining, milling and smelling sup
plies has been rendered much less ex-
pensive. Cheap freights hav.
worked, and will continue to work a
rapid revolution in the mining in
dustry of Montana, and now that the
Northern Pacific is on the point of
completion, the people justly look
forward, not to a boom, not to an
enormous influx of foreign capital,
but to a reproduction of precious and
base metal products as the inevitable
result of an extension of operations
Dy montana mine WQoTS
THE MINERAL PRODUCT.
The mineral product of the Terri
tory last year appropriated $12,O0O,-
600 in silver, copper and gold, taken
principally from the counties of Sill
yer Bow, Lewis and Clarke, Beaver
head, Madison, and Deer Lodge.
This year the total production will
certainly not fall short of $1,000, 000,
with an increase of S., O00, 600 for the
year ensuing. Among assured enter
prizes already begun, but which will
not be finished before the end OF the
year, are six stamp mills, with re-
ducing capacity of 800 tons, and sew
eral snelters, one of which, owned
by Haggin & Tevis, will have a daily
capacity of 500 tons. The Drum
Lummon company alone will build
a s~ixty.stamp mill. They own one
of tue most productive mines in the
world-one which insures a constant
supply of SIS ore Of fine character.
The output of Butte last year was
$4,000 DOC. This is the product of
the following named companies:
THE OUTPUT OF BUTTE.
Alice, shaft 800 feet; two mills, 80
stamps; monthly product, $50, 900.
Lexington, 500 feet, two mills, 70
stamps; bullion product, (realized
value) for seven months of 1888,
STAG, 264.
Moulton, shaft 500 feet, 4O-stamp
mill; monthly product, $35 1000.
Silver Bar, monthly product, $685.
900; from mines ranging in depth
from 200 to 400 feet.
Dexter, fifteen stamps; monthly
product, $25 5000.
Boston and Colorado Smelter,
branch of Argo works, Denver;
monthly product, 100000; capacity
to be increased one-third; 10000 tons
of ore on hand and ready to reduce.
Bell, sixty ton smelter; matte ship
ments, 10 tons daily; mine, 400 feet
deep.
Parrot, fifty ton smelter; matte
daily, 10 tons; product
last year over 81, 900, 900; mine 400
feet deep.
New York Copper Company, 100
ton smelter; matte shipments daily,
25 tons; product in silver and copper
last year, $1,000, 900; shaft 400 feet
deep.
Anaconda, Haggin & Tevis, own
ers; 50O-ton smelter in process of
mine fully developed, 800
feet deep; shipping from six to ten
car loads of copper glance daily to
Swansea, Wales.
The remainder of last years pro-
1uct of 81, 200, 600 was contributed by
about twenty-five other properties,
which are now undergoing success
ul development and producing we'll.
has a population of 5000 peo-
Die, and is a progressive and we'll Or
Tered city, with good schools,
churches, newspapers, and all the
'ther concomitants of a much higher
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