The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-07-02
An Important emelter and Con
centrator Enterprise.
New Properties Coming to the
Front.

AAOt equAlly uOtADlc III the greater OcpIn at
tained, thousands of feet of new drifts driven,
immense bodies of ore uncovered, improved IA
cilites for extracting and handling the ore, and
additional machinery for its reduction at the
mills and smelters. An estimate based upon
the pay rolls of the leading companies shows an
increase over last year Of the number of miners,
top-men and mill-men employed amounting to
over fifty per cent, and that the total number of
men now employed in all capacities in the en-
tire district is very near four thousand. This
general activity has resulted in an increased
output from our mills and smelters which bids
fair to place Butte City at the head of the worlds
great mining oenters when the gold, silver and
copper statistics for the present year are re-
ported.
During the past week the product has been up
to the average, the shipments through the Office
Of the Pacific Express Company being sos?
pounds, valued at $50, ,9O4, which were credited
as follows:
Alice, $50 lbs, valued at $1,000
Moulton, ,455 lbs., valued at s2s.2sO.
Lexington, ,45O lbs, valued at $685.
Dexter, 474 lbs valued at 1854.
The shipments of fcopper-silver ore and matte
were 1O7 car loads aggregating over 900 tons,
and valued at sl2S,OOO.
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE
which will add greatly to the reduction capac-
ity of the district has been inaugurated by
Franklin Carroll and A. F. Migeon of the Parrot
Company. in the construction near the Parrott
smelter of blast furnace, with capacity of
$50 tons per day, with a concentration and SIX
-, h,,S1l Coo, <I,o
centrator and calcinor are rapidly progressing
toward completion, the former being 40 by 10
feet on the ground and the latter 80 by 200 feet.
Work will be commenced at once on the blast
smester, and it is the intention to have the
worHs in operation by August 1st. The new
smeiter will reduce ores from the Parrot and
Parks mines and the plan of the promoters in
cludes the purchase of ores from other mines.
THE PARROT
mine continues to produce its quota of copper
silver ore, of which the reverberators at the
smelter are reducing from 5000 to 5000 tons per
month, from which is produced about 100000
pounds of matte, equal to 10000 pounds of fine
copper. The ore supply is now obtained from
the s3O and $50 foot leads, but exploration will
be Immediately commenced ofthe lower ground
by sinking 200 feet deeper and drifting east and
west on the ledge. Three hundred men are
now employed at the mine and smelter and
quite village OF comfortable houses has been
built this spring IN the vicinity of the smelter
for the accommodation of the employees
THE ALICE.
The properties of the Alice Company have
perhaps been more prominently before the pub
lie during the past two years than any other
mining enterprise on the Pacific coast, and the
clamor for dividends which was raised by east
ern stockholders last winter is still fresh in the
memory of readers of the MINER. The manage
ment of the Alice has always been a strong one,
and although stockholders at distance may
fail to comprehend the wisdom of its course in
acquiring at cost of several hundred thousand
dollars, the Valdemere and Magma Charta prop
critics and the incurring Of heavy in
debtedness in increased facilities for the
extraction and reduction of ores, those
who are familiar with the operations
at the works have always recognized the etii,
cacy of the far-seeing policy which influenced
the company to protect itself against the al
most inevitable failure which would have re
suited from the attempt to handle low grade
ores with contracted facilities for extraction
may well be satisfied with the comprehensive
policy which has given the Alice her present
inexaustiD'e supply of ore, which is reduced by
the largest dry crusher mill in the world,
policy which resulted in the comfortable bal
ance OF $4,000 in the hands of the treasurer at
the end of the last quarter, after paying all ex-
penses and $4,000 on the old Indebtedness. At
the present time ore is being raised from every
level OF the Alice proper and the eighty stamps
of the two mills are dropping steadily 100 tons
of ore per day, tho major portion of which is
just now coming from the 200 and 800 foot
levels of the Magma Charta. one of the acquiI ed
properties The average ore assays for the T. es-
ent month has been $4S, as against. 81 last
month. The average amalgamatiou
has been 81 ounces. and cnlorinations
IS or. On Friday the north crosscut from the
600 foot level in the Magma Charta penetrated
the north vein, which developed five feet wide
and assays A OF.
Among new properties which have recently
come to the front asproducers, the
ANDY JOHNSON,
situated southwest of the city, is one Of the
most promising. The property is worked under
a lease by Hoar Bros. & Co. 1t is developed by
a shaft 100 feet deep, with east and west drifts
from the 60 and 100 foot levels. Stopping is being
from the 100 to the 6Ofoot from eight
to ten tons of high grade gray sulphuret ore
being raised per day with force of nine men.
The ore is reduced at the Colorado smelter, and
returns from 100 20 200 ozs. per ton,
THE BLUE WING
adioins the Allie Brown mine, below Main
street in walkerville, and is another promising
property recently opened by Walker Bros. The
shaft has been sunk 50 feet and west drift
driven IS feet, at which point winze has been
sunk 2, feet and is now in "a feet Of sulphuret
ore assaying 1862 OF.
Messrs. Walker Bros. are also working the
RISING STAR,
. newly opened property, situated Immediately
west of the Meulton mine. The property is
supplied with shaft house and steam hoist.
The two compartment shaft has attained a
depth of 200 feet. from whence south cross cut
has been started to intercept the south vein of
The great Rainbow lode, which was pierced by
he shaft at depth of 60 feet, where it showed
! width of 30 feet and pitched at an angle of 45
degrees Assays were obtaiued from the ledge as
high as l5o ounces and fine ore body is ex-
pected to be developed at the intersection ofthe
;outh drift from the 200 with the ledge.
KANSAS LODE.
An important discovery was made by J. A.
Farlin near the head Of Blacktal creek Last
week which bids fair to turn the attention Of
to- >H~A m