The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-09-19
THE PARROT.

About a month ago, the New York Engi-
neering and Mining Journal published what
we believed to be an unjust and misleading
article in reference to the Parrot mine THE
MINER at once sent it's mining editor to
look at the mine and report upon it: and
in conjunction with that report made some
structures upon the Journal for it's antago-
nistic attitude toward this camp. In re-
Spouse to this the Journal says:
THE BUTTE MINER, which is a reputable
paper and one that generally serves the in
terests of it's constituency in a manner to
inspire confidence in and respect for it's
statements, thinks the Engineering and Min
ing Journal, or one OF it's correspondents,
is in error in a remark made that the ore
above the 3O0-foot level of the Parrot
Company's mine is mostly extracted, and
it gives the report of a visit to the mine by
one of it's staff. We respect The MINER,
which endeavors to ascertain facts and to
use them as arguments in answering such
statements. For billingsgate takes the
place of argument in the columns OF some
of it's neighbors. Now, in answer to The
MINER, and with full respect for it's interest
ing report, we would say that it's represent
alive was not and did not pretend to be an
expert, and while he says there are at least
10000 tons OF ore ready for extraction
above the 33O-foot level, we nave a linger-
ing suspicion that The MINER reporter
never measured up 49, 900 ons OF ore and
saw it weighed, and that his ideas on that
point are a little misty. We believe
that the Parrot has still large
bodies If ore in it's mine, but we are
not yet convinced that the estimate OF
The MINER reporter is as close as one more
familiar with this and other Butte mines
would make it. Our correspondents state
ment was on excellent authority, and
through perhaps the expression ''mostly
extracted" may have been interpreted to
mean altogether, or nearly all, this is not
our fault. Thu large output Of the Parrot
has come from above the $50 level, and
we do not think that those who know the
from that ground anything like the guam
tity OF copper that has already been taken
from it. We have no wish to injure the
Parrot or any other mine, and would
much sooner like to indorse The MINERS
sanguine statements than to defend our
correspondents figures. We can only re-
peat hat they were based ON excellent
authority, and, SO far Us We know, were
not made with any intention OF bearing
this or any other property.
The Journal then gives, in a fair and i'm
partial manner, the sgist OF our report on
the mine. We have only to say that after
considerable experience we do not ''go"
much on what are called experts. The
gentleman who visited the Parrot mine in
behalf OF THE MINER has been a practical
miner for twenty years, working from Corn
wall to the Comstock, and we nave fully as
much confidence in his judgment and more
reliance upon his honesty than we would
for any so-called Eastern expert that we
have yet seen.
The Journal has, however, done all it
could to correct the injustice it had done
the Parrot management, and we are pleased
to see that it is not IN the pool with our
neighbor, the Inter Mountain, to "bear"
the properties of the camp, with a view OF
freezing OUT poor holders.