The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-01
PLACID PONY.
ENCOURAGING Prospects for Mining
interests in the Old Camp.
A Good Man Has Passed Away.

PONY, Madison TO-, ~.
Pony is happy, for she don't sigh
for q $3.50, 0sO tax house till she gets
the county seat; nor for John Robin
sons circus till we have enough
small boys to crawl under the tent;
mol Beecher's lecture till there is q
more extensive "Reign Of the Com
mon People, than exists here at
present. The town is but little
larger than it was a year ago, and
about the same number of mines are
being worked in the district but be-
yond q DOUBT the mines are good.
The Willow Creek, which is devel-
oped by tunnels on the ledge to a
depth of nearly 200 feet. has an ore
body from IL to Is feet in width,
averaging $24 per ton, with almost
700 tons Of quartz on the dump.
The upper half of the Ned has two
tunnels on the lode, the lower one
200 feet in depth and its face produc-
ing from a q foot vein ore averaging
$35 per ton, of which there is several
hundr I'd tons on the dump. The
lower or east portion of the same
lode is crosscut by Messrs. Cornell,
Christnot & Nelson, who are rum
ming a level on the crevice, which
looks quite encouraging. Y
Tue White Pine has q two foot
vein of $45 ore, and il developed by
shaft and levels to q depth of over 200
feet, and the 500 ton dump pile is
rapidly disappearing through the TO-
stamp mill Of Thomas Carmin's be-
low town. The Boss Tweed, with
its 80 foot body OF fair concen trating
ore, is at pr sent locked in the close
embrace of six or seven separate and
distinct owners, who won't do this
and who won't do that, while some
are in favor an | others "stand pat"
The most Of the above property is
owned by Henry Filing, Esq, who.
under the general supervision of Mr..
Cove, with Mr.. n. Kemper as mas
ter mechanic, is erecting q 2O-stamp
mill, in which will be four Fruevan-
n+rs, with Blake crushers, etc., the
whole to be run by Leffel turbine
wheel power. The mill will be r sady
for crushing about the first of Octo-
Der, and q great success Is predlctet,
not only for that but for other mills
and smelters that may be erected
here in the near future. Mr.. Filing
ha, shown a commendable spirit of
enterprise in the working of his
mines and the erection of his mill,
and has expended a large amount of
money in the camp. He is about to
construct a tramway a part of the
distance from his mines to his mill,
Which are two and q half miles
apart. ALI this is very good.
Yet we sigh for more capt.
ital to develop other promising-lOok-
ing lodges in this as we'll as the sur
rounding camps.
The Potosi silver mines, ten miles
from here, are being represented by
their owners. The mines assay we'll,
but their owners generally have not
the means (neither have they the en-
enlargement on account of lack of
machinery to treat their ores) to de-
veIop them to any great extent.
Messrs. Cummings & Williams are
erecting a five-stamp mill in Hot
Springs District, and are likely to le-
generate the degenerate quartz region
about Sterling.
Norwegian gulch is being success
lully WI ~ d uuIlIC- AAooA "
Co.-and several surrounding lodes
are being developed more or less by
their owners.
The farmers of Willow Greek re-
joice over good crops, barring a
couple of nights of frost, and would
like 10 substitute a railroad or two SO
that the companies could better af:
ford to give the farmers decreased
rates for shipping their flour and
grain into Montana.
AT the house of his son, MI. S. T.
Fletcher, on Norwegian gulch, on
Thursday evening last. Samuel
Fletcher departed this life at the ripe
old age of 81 years Although he had
| passed the allotted time of life, his
loss is deeply felt, for a good man has
passed away. He was a true chris.
tian all his long life and as such Was
a true gentleman-genial, social, con.
scientieus-always 'doing unto
| others as he would be done by"
Yours truly,
w. O. X.