The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-03

smelters are model structures. The
former is equipped with jigs, Frue
vanners and Rittinger tables. and
the smelter has twelve calciners, Elk
mattingIfurnaces, and one blast fur
mace. Within the past season the ca
paclty of the works has been
doubled, In tho month of September.
1884. before the new concentration and
blast were started, the matte output
was 1,4l8, 975 pounds, containing
8s5, 957 pounds Of pure copper. The
total matte output for the year was
Ii, $3.50, 1923 pounds, containing 1884,
sos pounds of pure copper, the value
of which, adding the silver contents,
was about 81, 25O,OOO
MAGMA CHARTA.
This mine is west of the Alice and
separated from it by the Fraction
claim. 1t has q vertical shaft 900
feet deep and contains four separate
and distinct lodes, of which three are
south and one Is north of the
shaft, all of which are worked,
and the aggregate product Is
about sixty-ive tons a day.
MOUNTAIN VIEW.
The shaft of this mine is 600 feet
deep. The 500 foot ros cut was
driven through vein matter for over
100 feet, = portion of which contain
ed concentrating ore with occasional
streaks Of copper glance.
The 500 foot north cross cut shows
the north veln to be sixty feet wide.
In the face of the east drift of this
vein q breast of ore is exposed six
teen feet in width, carrying eighteen
per cent. of copper, a considerable
portion of which Is of q grade high
enough to ship. The cross cut in the
800 level has not yet penetrated either
of these veins. The ore on the dump
is estimated at Is 100 tons, Of q grade
susceptible Of concentration.
LEXINGTON.
The recent declaration by the Lex
ingt,n Company of dividend Nc. 3,
aggregating In American money
about $l65, 600, which was preceded
by two others, one $500 600 declared
in February, and one of $3.50, 900 de-
clared last summer, has brought the
Lexington mine into deserved promi-
nence. The lode, as far as exposed,
contains three ore shoots, one east
and one west of the shaft. aud the
third about midway between, and
they are all remarkably uniform.
The one east is 200 feet long, the mid
die $50 and the west 200. Tie ore
production of the Lexington is about
1850 tons per month. The width of
the pay ore averages about three feet.
and the quartz is solid and clean and
OF a refractory character, like all the
silver-bearlng ores In this district be-
low water.
ORIGINAL.
This mine adjoins the Gagnon on
the east, and is owned by q stock
company of which w. A. Clark is
President. Its Shaft is the Oldest in
the district, having been sunk to a
depth of ninety feet in 1864. It Is
now 400 feet deep. and the extraction
of ore from the 800 and 400 foot levels
progresses steadily though not with
q large force.
ORPHAN GIRL.
During the summer and autumn of
1884 this mine supplied the fifteen
Dexter mill with thirty tons
of free are daily, the bulk of which
was extracted from above the water
level. The pay shoot proved to be
800 feet long and from twelve to
twenty-five feet wide, and all of it of
quality. During the last
seven months of the year the bullion
product was $249, O00, of which $685.
coo was clear profit
GAGNoN.
A dozen men have made them
rich out of the Gagnon. 1t Is
one Of the oldest mines in the camp,
and has produced since 1876 over
100000 tons of ore, Its present pro-
duct being forty tons per day. The
vein is forty feet wide aud the ore
assays $40 to 500 per ton as a rule
and carries about eight per cent of
copper. Its shaft is 600 feet deep and
levels east and west have been ex-
tended at intervals of 100 feet.
POSER.
During 1884 fully 5000 tons of $35
ore has been extracted from this
which embraces q section of
famous Rainbow lode. The vein Ia
from twelve to twenty-five feet wide,
and though It's product Is generally
Ut low grade, q rich streak assayinR
from SIS to 500 per ton, and having
. width of three feet, extends
through the entire length of the
claim. The shaft Is 200 feet deep.
and development il vigorously pros
ecuted.
LIQUIDATOR.
For the past year the daily product
ot this mine has averaged 100 tons of
ore, the irst-class assaying
rom 80 to 40 per cent. and the Sec
ond class 20 to Is per cent, and these
have either been shipped or
'melted under contract, while the
ow grade ore has been allowed to &C.
,umulate on the dump until fully
1900 tons are on hand, averaging is
er cent, valued at 500, 600. Three
evels have been run in the Liquida-
or from a three-oompartment shaft
'OO feet deep, and the pay ore in places
9 40 feet wide. A breast of ore 20
eet wide Is now being extracted.
CLEAR GRIT.
In 1872 this was known as a rich
no productive silver mine. but it has |