Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-09
The Clear Grit. |

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pending, but until they nave been consul
mated nothing can be said. 'D~''-
The Clear Grit.
The Montana Union Railroad compar
has made arrangements with the owners
the Clear Grit mine, which has been lyil
idle for seme time, to use the water in Il
shaft for their locomotives on the hi
Heretofore the railroad company has use
water from the Monlton, but now that I'll
supply from that quarter is getting slae
the railroad officials have been looking IL
some place to get the necessary supply.
ditch for the pipes is being dug from tt
Clear Grit to the tank alongside Of the raj
road track at the head OF Dublin gulch.
pump will be placed at the shaft and til
water forced up the hill to the tank. TT
idea is a good one, as the distancefrom til
shaft to the tank is only about five hundre
feet.
South Africa.
The following letter from John Cameron
who is now at or neal Johansburg, Sout
Africa, to his brother, A. J.. Cameron, c
this city, will be of interest to those VIII
have been contemplating a trip to tn
Transvaal for the purpose of betterin
their financial condition and seeing tn
African elephant. The letter is published
through the courtesy of A. j. Cameron:
JoHANsBURG, s. A., Sept. 16, 1889.
DEAR BRoTHER-You see we have arrived
0. K. We are all well. This is not tn
.cnnnfrv If 10 cronkoI mn 70 he Thn r,:-o
are very rich, but it is the laws OF tn,
country that raises the mischief. Thi
country belongs to the Dutch (the Boer.
they call them). They will not allow &
railroad in this country, only CAT miles o
railroad having SO far been built. TIL,
mining laws are bad. There is no doubt
but that this is the richest country in tn,
world. l saw a ton of ore the other day
which went $50 ounces gold. Phillips il
working il now in the mill. All buildings
here are built of corrugated iron, there
being no timber for hundreds oil miles
Most of the gallows frames and all the
telegraph poles and fence posts are
iron. There is gold ledge
here running. 80 miles across
country. 1t is all taken up and paws big.
A claim here constitutes 100 feet along the
ledge and $50 feet across it. We were
through the Kimberly diamond mines.
They are wonderful and all the niggers who
in them have to be searched before
the mine. They are all naked.
wal among the different tribes OF blacks
here shortly. Our first introduction here
was the sight OF three Zulus stoning to
.leath one OF another tribe. Six negroes
killed and cut into pieces an engineer the
day. They jump out OF holes and
Kill a man for his money. They are a hard
,rowd. We shall remain here a month and
hen 60 to Barberron. Hughy McMullen is
here, but the timber for the mines has not
yet. There are a number of different
RIDES of natives here-the Hottentots,
julius, Cafirs, Bushmen and hundreds OF
others, and all the dress they wear is a
,reech clout. Men and women dress alike.
Wages here are not much. Carpenters and
,lenty OF work for the latter, but not for
former. No work for miners, as the
atives do it. Patsy Triggs is here and
AS surprised to see us. He is speculat. |
'g in stocks. Iron workers and
arpenters are on q strike, SO we
i'd not 60 to work, Eiobt |
ours constitutes a days work. l have
zen several Americans here and thev are
giving Africa a hard name. 1t is a
'vely climate, though. If you see any OF
lie boys tell them if they know when thew
re we'll off they will stay in America.
bard and 10 !ging is $40 a week and YOU
t little for that. Beds are simply shakes
'wn on the floor. 1t cost me $435 to get
re. We remained in Liverpool and Lon.
IN some time. Anyone contemplating a
lp to this country should not think OF
Rrtlng with less than $500 in his leans:
iay-oH can be taken on that amount,
Q were slxtt-seven days getting here.
nth Africa. Your Brother,
JOHN CAMERON. 6
From Warrens, Idaho. z
The following extract taken from the b
aho County Free Press will be found in. b
as the camp OF which it speaks ?
8 supposed to have been ''played out" q
ny years ago. Warrens is about fifty or tt
ty miles from Elk City, another old a
ap which will in a short time come to the :,
ut as a bullion producer, as a few Butte r,
4 are interested there; and if there is CT
one thing that will make a mining 81
up boom on it's merits, that one thing is W
tie capital: sc
The last pack train of the season ar ne
q out from Warrens last week and has CO
into winter quarters atJames Welch's
en-, on the Cottonwood side of the in
RE. Two OF the mules were loaded with th
, OF bullion shipped out by George RE. 4
and consigned to the San Francisco Fl,
through the lewiston National bank, ia
bullion weighed 5000 ounces, or 500 aft
hds. lts value was estimated to be to
'een seventy-ive thousand and eighty pr
lsand dollars. Its actual value viii {
} to be determined by ASSAY. The 60
is part OF the products of several is
in Warrens whose owners have had cit
OF their rock made in Mr.. Riebold,s 7
Turing the present season. The bullion wa
slightly alleged with baser metals. as der
re had been roasted and concentrated in cal
little Giant mill plant. This shipment b q
3 last OF a series hat have been made get
Warrens this year, and if it had come per
any other camp in the Northwest al B
hurrah would be maze about it. II sidt
" a fe" weeks since Riebo!d Skinned JUG
worth of gold bullion, the proceeds for1
Q mill run on ore from the Little Giant Hell
alone. Ii Wood river, or Ceur bro
ne, or any other of the hurrah camns the
make such shipments the papers Rep
! get out special editions to advertise ever
"Outu pc pdTdueu as an evidence lear
wonderful wealth OF the mines. It il II
to regard Warrens as O. played but
camp, but we wish there were a Hele
ore such scattered around in this and
~. Let it be remembered that War. ever
100 miles from the nearest wagon and
and thai every pound of freight con- tisal
there is packed on mule back a dis. very
OF 100 miles, and these bullion shin hims
take on q new and much more inn. sion,
at significance, since il the mines Sa
10 well under such adverse circum. Spar
8 what will they not do when wagon land
are built directly into the camp. We cong
3 have insisted that with wagon lead,
communications Warrens will de- espee
INTO a frst-class quartz camp, and DAILY
we spent considerable money to ter o.
its construction along. And by the craft,
ow is a good time for everybody to held
to Delegate Dubois urging him to fore
o stone unturned to have the com. Nortl
ZION OF congress ratify the wagon held I
i'll which was passed by our last to tn,
ure. The building of that road will of a.
more practical benefit to tie terri to thu
statehood. because every mine Att
rens and elsewhere along the route. Sands
IS now worthless, will have an i'm. locke,
) mnnou uolpo