Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
THE SUNSET,
Option OF THE WONDER.
ryTENT OF THIS MINE.

or Ore Thirty Miles Long by
rr.0ty wide-The surface Groupings
,,cate It to BE the Largest Silver
I'D Lead Body of Ore on the Coast.
Willis K. Everette, of Tacoma, Wash.
w. ~. Territory, o OF the most eminent
pgO; sts Of the west, arrived in the city
1sy evening from the Ceur d'Alene
',tains where he examined the Sunset
p owned by the Clark Syndicate of
Butte.
~ha Doctor, II very pleasant and affable
'tIemsn, WIS interviewed by a MINER re-
.tor Yesterday concerning the country
ltod lust visited. To the reporter he
"a that he had examined only the South
s'rt lead and silver belt and considered it
createst lead and silver mining district
= tbe Pacific coast. The amount OF both
these metals existing there, he said, was
;,,nly marvellous, and that it was doubt
sJf it's equal existed anywhere. The prop.
Nv which he examined specially is the
S,nset. mention OF which has already
,~o made. This, the gentleman said, he
Ip'ntei upon as the best aud most promis-
aoC silver and lead proposition in the
~ aoSnntry, and certainly in the Ceur d'Alene
sSOnntains. The surface Groupings, he
lated, Indicated the largest body Of lead
md silver ore on the Pacific Coast. Tests
lode showed tue ore to contain 60 per
,ant. of lead and 45 ounces OF silver.
With proper facilities, he said, the Sunsets
ontuut could be made to exceed that OF
tbe famous Bunker Hills ullivan Con-,
poorman, Tiger, Custer, or any other sill
rsrlead mine in the United States.
The mine was located but recently, and
Dothing bnt preliminary work has been
dome upon it. At present the snow there
IL TOO deep to allow of much being done
mon the claim, but as soon as springopens
artive development will be prosecuted. A
nsruIiarly Of the Sunset, the Doctor said,
VAS that it required no extensive pros
netting, such as adits, shafts and other
laboratory work to find the ore body, as
te latter existed il quantities so great as
to give rise only to one question, Where it
was best to begin exploitation.
The Doctor exhibited a profile OF the ore
belt on which the Sunset is located. This
is about thirty miles long by about
twenty miles wide. The formation is best
as undulating. Three great fs-
sure veins running parallel to each other
ross the country diagonally. These veins
are cut by three immense quartzite dykes
At extreme right angles, causing four faults
and pushing each Sc 'tion Of thesefaults out
d = true line with one another. The main
or true tissure veins, are in the form
IF inverted wedges and there general trend
4 west of north and south OF east. The
angue is quartz, quartzite. slate and spar.
The deeper development is continued the
arger the ore bodies become and the more
cad and silver they carry.
DR.. Everette spent a month in the dis
and would have examined the North
FORK also but was prevented by the depths
snow which covered the peaks and ridges.
he South Fork, however, he examined
losely, and as has already been stated, is
most enthusiastic over what he saw. The
nil of the Poorman Company, for a small
me, he unhesitatingly pronounces the most
silver concentration in the United
and says that the splendid and sys-
ematic manner in which the mine and mill
ire managed by the superintendent, Patrick
lark, Commends itself to every mining man
the camp.
The Doctor will be in town for q few days
nd j. stopping at the Windsor.