The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-08-29
From the Daily of Sunday.
HAMMER AND DRILL.
III Eli ANU UklIL.
Our Weekly Resume OF the Stu
alton in Mining Matters.
Development and Production the
Corner Stone Of Prosperity.
Custom Mills q Necessary Auxil-
larry to Both.
What the Mines are Doing.

What the Mines are Doing.
The twenty-eight steam hoists an
hundred or more of whims and wind
lasses Of Summit Valley district hav
been steadily hoistinge the preciou
metals from the bowels of the eartl
during the past week and the tw'
hundred and thirty-6ve stamps hav'
been as busy pounding the ore int
bullion; while the blasts and rever
beratories of the four smelters hav'
produced their steady stream o
molten wealth. The bullion ship
ments Tor the week amounted to $751;
S64, credited as follows: Alice, $685.
$50, Lexington $35, 40S and Moulton
$40, 776. The consignments of matte
and copper-silver ore at the U. & N.
freight Office aggregated $40 cal
loads, $40 of which were copper
matte and $50 ore.
Development and production are
the chief corner stones Of prosperity
in the field of mining, and every
thing that stands as an OBJ
stacle to the progression of any
mining district, in that direction,
should be removed by every Influence
within the command of the mining
community. The principal obstacles
to development in the Summit Val
ley District are the high prices set
upon mere prospects by excited hold
ers, which drives investors to other
districts, and the lack of custom
mills, sampling works or a market
for cur ores. The first obstacle can
not be removed until owners have
been taught by bitter experience that
capitalists will not buy a pig in a
poke, or pay ND for a ,uine than its
actual value. The second difficulty
will be obviated only when capitalists
can be made to see that custom mills
and ore samplers would be a profit
able investment in Butte. There are
i'll the district upwards of 200 mines,
which are more or less developed and
which the owners believe would pay
large profits if facilities for reduction
were at hand. Why might not the
owners of these properties organize a
reduction company among them
selves? A few hundred dollars from
each would aggregate a large capital,
and the success of such an enterprise
would convince capitalists of the
feasibility of the venture and result
in the establishment of custom mills
of large capacity. Mine owners will do
well to ponder this proposition
TIE mines contain a good grade of
ore. Why not convert it into bull
lion? They may wait until the day
of judgement if they Macawber-like
wait for something to turn up,or for a
boom excitement in which they can
make a sale. Capitalists will not pay
a big price for a closed down mine
that will require a large outlay to
make it productive. and mine own
ers must stir themselves to place their
on the list of active mines
in order to attract a customer.
WHATTHE MINES ARE DOING.
At the Moulton work is being Wig
orously prosecuted in the west work.
ings and the slopes are looking better
than ever. The winze from the 300
drift is down 10 feet and in
3 foot ledge of 40 to so OF. ore. The
extensions of the cooling floors at the
mill have been completed and a great
Improvement is already noticeable in
The facility with which the pulp is
handled and IN the increased yield
produced by the better chlorination
and thorough cooling obtained by
he greater length of time which the
pulp lies on the cooling floor.
Atthe Alice no special developments
aave been made during the week.
Work is prosecuted with the activity
which characterizes the operations
# this great mine, and the usual
mount of ore has been extracted
rom all the levels, Slopes and drifts
# the Alice and Magma Charta. The
vest drift from the 800 has advanced
05 feet, the ledge maintaining it's s
grade and uniform character 8
8 heretofore reported at the bottom ,
f the wiDze from the 700. The 80 F.,
at the mills are dropping +
teadily: and the ore houses are full. +
The Pollock is being successfully h
by the Clark Brothers. The t
lnnel has advanced 40 feet on the t
'dge, which is from two to three feet z
'ide and yielding from six to ten d
ms of l2O ounce ore per day. 8
The Amy Silversmith, under the v
nergetic management of Superin- U
'ndent Cary, is showing up in fine t
rape. The new shaft has alta. ned a l
epth of 4O-ft from which IRE is being g
Used that furnishes dump samples il
1eraging 100 ounces in silver. 81
Iu Ciark's Fraction the Wine from p
le 800 foot level is looking remark '
lily we'll, recent samples assaying u
70 ozs. The east S0-fo"t drift shows e
feet of ore in the face, and the o
opes are producing a large amount IT
high grade ore. u
A force of men ace working the
eptune, which was recently pur- r,
Iased by w. A. Clark. Some ore is :,
ing taken out of the old shaft at a ~
'p,h of 40 feet. A central Shalt is "
ing SUM and has attained the same "
pth. The mine will be thoroughly
o,l Iovo1O~nI .