The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-08-15
OUR MINES.
about the Permanencv Of
Silver Lodges.

In the issue of the MINER of yesterday
morning, in our regular weekly report
on the mines of this district, the following
sentence in regard to the Anaconda mine
appeared:
.'When the !, ,OOO-foot level of the mine is
reached, and it is proved that our lodges are
richer and wider as they 60 down which has
been the experience heretofore; then there
will be no doubt OF this city being far more
prosperous twenty years from now than it
ever has been as yet"
The innocent at present in charge OF the
editorial columns OF the Inter Mountain,
did not like the above allusiOn to the per-
manency of the ledges OF this district, and
in labored editorial in that journal last
evening the young man delivered himself OF
the following
THE MINER should know that our silver
ledges do not grow wider and richer as
they 60 down. This is preposterous
proposition"
If there ever was an instance OF the noun
tain laboring and bringing forth q mouse,
the above undoubtedly is the one. Why
The MINER should know that our silver
ledges do not "grow wider and richer a.
they go down" is something we do not
quite understand. In the August number
OF the Vest Shore, an article appeared that
was written by the young man who ruhs
the editorial department of the Intsr Noun
tain on the Camp OF Butte" In closing
up this very readable and truthful article,
Mr.. Read says:
'In conclusion, it may be said that Butte
is the most productive and permanent
mining camp in the world The lodges are
regular in dip and strike the ore bodies
f"2sn ttfwh tfhsi xty teet wide with well de-
Mr.. Read subsequently ridicules the idea
OF our silver lodges growing wider and
wider as they 60 down. The history OF
silver ledges is, that they grow richer and
wider as depth is attained, especially when
those lodges are found in a granite 1oI-
nation.
The famous Ontario mine OF Utah is one
of the grandest silver mines that was ever
opened up by man. This is q silver mine.
it's ledge is in a granite formation, and the
experience of this mine has been that the
ledge has been found to be far richer and
wider at far greater depth than that
attained by any OF the mines in Silver Row
county. -,
granite formation, and although they have
been sunk to depth lof over 5000
feet, there is no sign OF the ledge ''petering.'
On the contrary the lodges grow richer
and wider as they 60 down." 1t might also
be added, for the information OF the young
prince, that there is not q tin ledge IN
Cornwall but bears q certain percent
age of silver The silver mines OF Old Mex
ico are all in granite formation, and al
though they have attained depths ranging
from 9, 900 to $500 feet, it is being proved
that the deeper they 60 down the wider and
richer the lodges are found to be. Many o1
the ledges on the Comstock, in Nevada, are
| found in what is called granite lorna
ton, and yet our young friend
! knows that the largest and richest
ore bodies ever found on the Comstock
| lode we're discovered nearly one thousand
feet deeper that any mine in this country
| But why multiply examples? Take the
Anaconda mine of this camp, the one more
| particularly referred to in our article yes
| terday morning. The ledge in this mine
was only about four feet wide on the sur
face, while on the SOO-foot level it is touno
| to be eighty feet in width. When the mines
of Butte have been sunk several hundred
feet deeper than they are at present it vii
| be found out that our young and esteemed
friend of the Inter Mountain knows al
much about the permanency OF silver Ledge,
in granite formations as COW does about
| holiday.