The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-27
MINING NOTES.
Items of the Great Montana Industry.

1L4Un4 OF INC OTNHC 4AOHlAUA 1nuu6tIys
Mr.. Kelley put a half dozen men at work
on the hosting house this week, preparatory
to sinking on the "Lily,'' of the Champion
Consolidated Co.
The Mountain Lion Mining 20. met last
evening and elected Trustees, who organized
as follows: James III. Mills, President J. N.
Fox, Vice President; James B. McMaster,
Secretary; H.. s. Reed, Treasurer, and VIM.
Coleman.
The Cottonwood Company has put in a
station at the 15O-foot level, and are now
cross-cutting east for the vein. As the shaft
has been run down in the country rock, there
is nothing to report except progress until the
vein is struck. Manager McMaster has been
SO busily occupied in town this week that he
has not been at the mines. Next week we
trust to have later reports.
The latest report we a. from the Noun
tain Lion mine was last Friday. The mine
then showed 40 inches of ore-12 inches high
grade. Assays made from two grades of the
other ore were:
No .......4ls gold. ct OF. silver sos g q Is
No. 3........1.O3 153 lO'56
No samples were sent of the high grade,
Us Foreman Jones merely wished these
assays for ''sorting" purposes. The tunnel
was progressing about four feet a day, and
everything favorable.
Saturday evening the mines Of the Cham
bers syndicate-the High Ore, Wake-Up'
Jim, Modoc, Bell, and one or two others
were closed down and the miners laid OFT
- ,.x 1910 l., -o< rondo p,,11ip hlf if is
understood it was for the reason that SO
much ore was on hand that it was necessary
TO stop the output until the works at Ana
conda shall reduce the supply, thus making
room for further production, and mat the
shutdown is only temporary: The mines
were never looking better nor the output SO
great Inter Mountain, 23d.
The Salt Lake Tribune publishes an inte-
resting extract from a letter written by a
miner from Utah now visiting in England
II Il written from Cornwall to a brother
miner and was not intended for publication
He saws: "Miners are working here for sixt,
to seventy cents per day, and board them
selves and support their families on tna'
The boarding houses Of Utah would De con
s,dered luxurious here, where beef IS worlf
10 cents eggs are wortn oceu'S oe
Times are very dull" Doesn't this show tne
necessity of a protective tariff on iron' leae
and other metals if our mines are to o.
worked at all and good wages are to be pa'e
tn onr miners?-Herdld. M.....
speakine of the Dunkleberg mines tne
Philipsburg Mail of the 10Th says: FRAN
Cairns and DR.. Mitchell, owners OF the fores
Rose, intended to put up steam no's'l"'
works last fall but were caught oy CO."
weather, which has compelled them to deie
work until spring. In the meantime IN
onerations of development are being carries
IN hv hand, The main working is an incln
shaft. now 200 feet deep. The ore IS a nm
Grade of ealena, running about 40 per CEN
lead and carrying from 70 to 80 ounces u
oliver and the indications are all favoraol
tn = mine of magnitude. The Rose lies y
,;n,e south of the contact. The Stone~a'
Jackson 1900 feet to the south OF the Ha.ta
ia being worked by its owner, Dave Dunk.s
hero. who has an incline down l4o iees W. w.
h,oh,v favorable Indications. At the 10y 100
,ans, a drift of a few feet has uncoveleu
: ,.roa body of high grade lead ORE ~n'c
Glands now ready for Stopping to the sul'''''