The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-07
From tn . Daily of Wednesday.
OUR PHILIPSBURG LETTER.
Mountain.

A Few Words About the Granite
Mountain.
The Wenger No. q and Hope
Mil.
Social Matters and Home Affairs.
Regular Correspondence of the Miner.
PH1LIPsBURa, May 4, 1884.
THE GRANITE MOUNTAIN NINE.
Nothing particularly new or inter
esting can be presently written about
this property. The work Of develop.
ment continues daily and uninter-
ruptedly in tunnels Nos. 2 and 8.
The Wine connecting these adits Is
steadily approaching completion de-
spite the disadvantages Of hard rock
and very bad air. No ore is being
stopped. In fact, it is solely q matter
of conjecture what will be done with
the immense amount now on the
dump. Enough milling rock Is in
sight to run . 20-stamp mill q num-
Der of years, and the vein is constant
ly improving. The foot wall has
been cut out by a granite horse com
ing in, which narrows the vein up
some and necessitates q little dead
work, but as such Instructions are
frequently met with in large assures,
doubtless in my next letter l may be
able to chronicle the disappearance
Of this one. Work will be commenced
OF the Little Tom during the present
week. This claim adjoins the San
Francisco on the east, and has a
large body of extremely rich ore in
sight on the 50-foot level.
WENaER NO. 2.
Angus Mcdonald 4 Co. have about
so tons of high grade rock out on the
Wenger dump and yesterday a very
rich strike was made in the shaft.
This mine is in the lime formation
and lays close to Philipsburg.
HOPE MILL.
Capt. Plaisted has the new battery
about completed and will commence
to put it in during the week. He has
done what he always does, q good,
first class job.
SOCIAL MATTERS.
Mr.. Christopher Hart, of Butte, az
ter a very pleasant visit of two days,
left for home this morning via Deer
Lodge City. Miss Maggie Ward, who
for the past month, has been the
guest of Miss Allie Caplice, accompa-
MED Chris. to the River City. We
shall be delighted to welcome the re-
turn of Miss Maggie and Chris. to
our mountain home again.
Patrick Dooley, the horse and cat
tie king of Lower Flint Greek.
looked in upon us during the past
week. Pat stands the wear of time
we'll, one of the oldest of old timers,
he has still the energy Of q young
man, and when he backs up a friend
in a political strength he is ito be both
appreciated and feared.
1t probably may occur to some of
those who claim the Anaconda couu.
try az all of Deer Lodge county
worth speaking of, that the decision
of Galbraith J. on the court house
question will be favorable TO the
court house side. What then, will
it be builtp Gentlemen more slowly:
Morgan Evans, Esq.,, while simply
testing the legality of the commits
sioners' act, and doing something
any citizen has q right to do, still
forgets. or maybe oyerlooks the fact
that if the decision Is unfavorable to
his side, that his friends will kick all
the same. AS the law is laid down !
cannot see how the commissioners
can be downed. I am satisfied
that if the people Of this
county thought the court
house could be built for $15.-
900 they would cheerfully agree
to 90 in debt for that amount, but
like the Butte G. H., it might be a
whipsaw of $3.50, 600. and that would
entirely demoralize US. I almost for
got to say that the few people outside
of Anaconda in this county would
like to know if the present Board OF
Commissioners couldn't be displaced
and their places flied by some good
men abont the big smelter. Gal
braith, J., might suggest this In bis
remarks on the subject. 1t strikes
me that this is q question solely az
fecting the taxpayers, and when left
to a vote, should not be decided by
men who may sleep in this c~ounty:one
night and in Missoula or Silver Bow
the next, and I trust that our highly
respected District Judge will IF his
views are favorable to Messrs. Batter
ton, Helm and Vineyard) find some
1aw-makirg property qualification
the test of q voters eligibility. Should
he do so, then the remainder of Deer
Lodge county might be considered
worthy of attention.
NIOBRARA.