Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-02

4 1 from fridays Oollys tHt@E
To-day TIE MINER presents it's reader
with q budget OF mining news, both foreie
and local. The Ceur d'Alens countr,
|, while not exactly q suburb OF Butte, il q
|. close that it can most properly b etsrmed
, tributary to the Silver Hub. Besides,
great many Butte people are largely inte
ested in that section, and it is for the
! benefit AZ well as the state OF Montan
that mining news from that section shoul
be published.
The Gro Elmo district OF course belong
to this city. The road from this city NO
being built, will bind it to Butte in such
manner that it will be known only q
Northwest Butte.
IA Silver Bows New Hoist.
The Butte & Boston company intends {
develop the Silver Bow claim in q manne
that will be q credit to both the compan,
and the mining industry OF Butte. In orde
to do SO the company has found it.neces
sary to purchase q larger hoist, the ON
now In use not being adequate 10 the de
nands which win in future be made upol
it. The new hoist has already beef
ordered from Milwaukee, but will not b,
placed in position at the mine until som,
time in February. When it is in place. tn,
work OF sinkir 8 to u depth of 1000 feel
can go on without interruption ON thu
score OF impropsr hosting machinery.
A Deaf and Dumb Mans Find.
At the new strike Oh Gold creek, TX miles
below, says the Mullan correspondence Of
| the Wallace Free Press, numerous men arr
at work, and the entire country for quite a
distance up and down the or, elk on either
side has been located. Jack Enfield and
George e. Hughes are drivinsa tunnel upon
one claim, and hard by Martin Kneisch
and Allen Miller are also driving a tunnel
upon one Of the four claims they nave To-
Gated, upon which they propose to put in
the entire winter. In the tunnel upon the
Greenanthum (where John M. Smith, mute,
the man who made the discovery which
has caused all this excitement, is at work),
the prospect improves as the smoke clears
away from each succeeding shot. At 8
o'clock Thursday night 2 feet 4 inches of
solid galena wal visible, with every indica.
ton that it is V-shaped and the big end is
yet to be reached. There are indications on
either side OF this body Of ore 70 warrant
the assertion that this prospect will de.
velop into one of tho best mines yet dis
covered in the Ceur d'Alene, which lie
saying much. There is not n in
the community who ia not pleased at the
outlook for the discoverer, Smith, and only
wish he owned the entire prospect. As one
enters the tunnel he says never a word, of
course, but keeps On pounding-a drill,
-sln~<l A@n{slavk AhaA bic sL.-4-k
though small, will yield him a fortune long
before be regains his lost senses. This poor
fellow three weeks & had neither money
nor ''wherewith to lay his head" and was
subjected to the humiliation of Emporium.
ing one OF eur hotel proprietors for som :
timing to eat. He received q square meal,
OF course. Look at him now-a we'll filled
purse and a fortune in embryo. On meet
ing him one night this week in town your
correspondent was amused to witness the
change that had taken place in him. Ex-
hibiting q well-worn purse, in which were
four $40 bills. he Strengthened himself at
full length, and rubbing his both sides with /
az many hands, wrote LAS Sherwin, the !
druggist. advertises) upon a piece OF paper:
mo flies on me now!' and taking a brand |
new shovel in one hand and q. lantern in |
the other started for the best prospect |
ior the amount Of work done, here or in |
Alaska. g... $3.50. ... |
A reporter OF the Mullan Tribune on
Tuesday visited the Greenapthum, on |
which the new strike was made last week, |
Ind found that the showing more than
ully justified the reports that had been
up from there during the past few
lays. The vein had then widened out and
vas "a inches in it's widest part and taper.
ng in at the top and bottom to about an
nch. The tunnel was in q distance OF 80
eet and had gained q depth OF 81 feet.
was every indication of the vein
as the depth increases. Both
walls are uncovered and show the ledge
to be 6 feet in width. s..... ...
Assays on the ore give "a ounces in sill
Ter and 80 per cent. lead. Messrs. Has
Inns, Pulse and Finley have: onded Smiths
interest for SIC, 600, and now nave two
men at work.. a...,.--
The circumstance surrounding this mag
iicent strike aresomewhat peculiar. Last
inter when the scribe came to Mullan,
'mith, or the dummy" as he was then 4
allied on account Of being deaf and dumb,
as in town trying to get someone to grub- 7
take him. He did not intend to look for /
liver or lead as it required SO much time, q
honey and labor to develop q galena pros. 4
ect after the mineral had been found. He :.
after gold, and gold only. The snow Il
ad hardly left the ground before he was b
ut. glass in hand, prospecting the side a
ills below town for traces OF the yellow a
etal: Frequently he would bring in pieces :
rock in which could be seen pyrites of o
on, which he would always claim wereI
I'D. In April he constructed a rude log u
1t on the bank Of Gold creek, about 100 i,
lrds up from the South fork and about =.
10 yards up the creek from it he began !.
gging for gold with the result OF discover. y
what has proved to be the most prom. :,
ng prospect ever seen in the Ceur =
He found gold, but not in the 70
ape he expected. -r ~
Pioneer District. II,
The following item taken from Philips. a,
Irg Mail viii prove interesting to mining re
10: ~
The placer miners of Pioneer, like all ga
hers engaged in that industry in this 10
have suffered considerably this 9
lson for want OF sufficient water to hs
'ry on the work. At present there is he
t one company doing work.in the dis. NJ
ct, while il there vas plenty of water 81
re would be at least ten or twelve rich st,
gings being operated upon. "I
'he only property that Is now being pa
is that owned by Conrad Kohrs -,
I Frederick D. Moore, who use all the he
ter that is in Rock Creek lake with their he
ut hydraulic, and they will not be able y,
work more than q week or two longer. re-,
,he water supply is decreasing every ia
;. Their property. however, is yerv an
J. Two weeks ago they cleaned up
300 in gold and they expect to clean I'D als
east So, 900 this week. To
essrs. Tibbetts, Norris and others are M
ting on the Walker bar, a good ground,
ing about 81 a day for each man en-
red. f. r
essrs. Fowler, Brent, Scott, Haas and A
are the owners of 16O acres of on,
er diggings about z miles above Pho -
), which are known to be very rich, but, On
many others, they cannot be worked per
lout water. They are satisfied, how. anG
, that they will be able to 60 ahead W.
their hydraulic operationsjn tho early and
1g. oft1
,out one-half mile above this property ao,
kleberg d Co. are working a quartz WI
and have a good showing OF rich he !
rren & Sherry have found q quartz ;doa