The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-12-05
OUR PHIL1PsBURG LETTER.
Disappearance OF Snow.-The Al
gonQu1n.-A Word to tho
Wise.-Mines and Min
ing Matters.

gonquin.-A Word to the
Wise.-Mines and Min
81 ing Matters.
An Accomplished Boniface.-A
:. Good Snake Story.
] PHILIPsBURG, Nov. %.
> Editor Butte Miner:
Under the genial influences of solar
heat the snow has rapidly disap-
peared from the billy slopes which
encompass u beautiful valley, and
hundreds of cattle are browsing to
day the rich and nutritious grasses
that but u few days ago winters
snowy raiment concealed from view.
The Algonquin mill is running
! steadily on Trout and custom 70. k.
Superintendent Inkamp shipped
five bars. the result of last weeks
run, to Helena, and will probably
make a similar shipment during the
present weeK. All of the ore treated
80 far is very low grade, barely meet
ing expenses. Mine owners and
others interested in the ore dumps of
the camp should select only their best
rock for treatment. It costs just az
much to mill a ton of poor quartz as
it does one of good, while the returns
! from the latter is much more crafty
ing to all concerned. Those interest.
ed should remember that Mr.. In
kamp will not run the mill at a loss
to himself, and if fair milling ores
cannot be obtained, he will, Of ne
cessity, be forced to close down, so "a
word to the wise is sufficient"
The Hope mill is fully equipped
for work. About 800 tons, Is ounces
and better, l.y in the ore-house
ready for the batteries, which will, if
nothing prevents, drop on December
first.
Frank L. Perkins, the Superin-
tendent of the Granite mine, informs
me that everything is progressing
we'll at the mine. The Burleigh
drills are doing good work in the
lower tunnel, but owing to the solid
and compact nature of the country
rock the advance per diem is not as
great as at first expected.
In a previous letter to your jour-
nal the com .,0sitor makes me assert
that Frank L. Brown is in charge of
this plant, and that Mr.. B. intends
to-etc., etc. This type-setter has
lived too long. He ought to be put
out of the way, Mr. Perkins, I trust
will survive the infamous, unpar-
donable mistake noted.
The San Francisco tunnel is in 400
fe t, with about 100 more to run to
finish the contract. The face shows
81 feet of ore, assaying from so to
800 ounces per ten.
M9ssrs. Napton & Larabie, gentle
men we'll known in Butte and Deer
dropped in on US during the
past week to examine some of onr
quartz prospects. Having flu ly done
this, they invested heavily and left :
the camp, enthusiastic in praises and :
predictions of the future !
awaiting it. /
Such is the potential influence of =
journalism that it effects ever the :
hide of a railway clerk. =
No sooner does he incur the ire of e
he press than by good conduct he v
endeavors to allay it, aud, for a 1on- y
Ter, the MINER and New North West \
,ome to hand less than q week old, a
md greatly to the joy of many SUBJ $
cribers. {
Herman Kaiser is the presiding
'enius at the Kaiser House bar and
rooms. This hosiery is ia
in many things. In the first
lace it is constructed of brick and S
uperbly furnished with every re- l.
.uirement Of a first-class city hotel; P
q the next its cuisine is irreproach- fl
BILE, imported wines are decanted to !;
be rich and poor alike, while the =
holcest cigars are retailed at the ri
iculously low figure of 124 cents
ach. And, as will be perceived by
glance at the advertising columns Of \
lis paper, the proprietor does not -
eem that he is the servant of the G
bt
With this complimentary digres- n
on l can safely relate the following ga
lcident: Aside from the fact that eli
2 is a most accomplished mixer of
'od drinks, he is, as we'll, a botanist
more than local repute, and when tn
comos to determining the exact sa
atus of a strange bug or reptile he ia
n drift into some learned scientific e.
ork and stope out a name and II
ass for his subject with a correct at
'ss and rapidity that would excite L.
e admiratit n of the senior Darwin. -
ad as he is.
Late last evening, while strolling
out the cliff or rocks north of the II
.n, seeking q rare and des- o oia
cable looking gramniverous bug pc gi,
liar to the locality, Herman peered De
TO a assure that attracted his atten- col
n, and beheld a sight that momen- oe'
rly paralyzed him. In this hole,
out two feet from the surface, s
eetly sleeping in q bed of granite Ba
I'd lay an immense rattlesnake, 9y
e reptile vas frozen stiff as a horn, z
!, of course, in an approachable wo
EDITION. This Herman knew and for1
be lost nc time in securing his yes
re. Reaching down into the cavi- w
by passing his hand through the are
fened coil he managed with a
at effort to null the varmint ont