Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-19
MINING NOTES.

Durney & Company have resumed work
on the Acquisition.
Only one shift is at present working or
the Big Bonanza, owing to the scarcity OF
wood.
The Chambers Syndicate OF mines are
not at present being worked to their full
capacity.
Porter & Mullery have cleaned cut the
old shaft of the Moscow and are at present
drifting in 4O-ounce ore.
Aparty whose name could not be learned
had his leg fractured in the Mountain Con-
solidated or Sunday night.
Operations have been suspended on the
Destroying Angel, situated in the lot west
of the Central School building.
Some very valuable ore is being produced
from the Marrow Gauge, though the work
of sorting it has been suspended during the
cold SPELL
At the Parrot Smeltcr work on repairs is
progressing rapidly, though it will take at
least two weeks yet to complete the re-
pairs.
The machinery of the Mary Ann is being
removed and placed in the hoist OF the
Elba, south of the Orphan Girl, where it
will be in operation by next Sunday.
The Mountain Consolidated is some
what bothered at present with poor air,
but a raise is being put through from the
200 to the 100 that will improve the VEN
tilation.
The reels for the engine that is undergo
ing repairs at the Parrot mine are daily
expected and it is reported that work will
be resumed in the mine on or about the
first Of next month.
The new works OF the Butte and Boston
Company's Silver Bow mine have con memo
ed hosting, and sinking is continued with
the aid of the engine, the windless now
being dispensed with. The compressor is
daily expected, when it will be Immediately
placed in position.
The shaft in the Harris & Lloyd tunnel
is sunk a distance of 800 feet. Though
work is at present confined to eplarging
the stations, the engine and all the new
works recently erected are in full opera
ton.
The miners at the Mountain View took a
breathing spell on Saturday and Sunday
and The road to- the smelter so slippe. y as
to interfere with the hauling of ore. 1t was
the first rest for a long time.
John C. Evans and a party of friends
have lately paid ii visit to Boulder in con-
nection with some mining business and re-
port that a coal vein of goodly proportions
exists not far from Boulder to which they
intend to pay some attention the coming
spring.
J. B. Dietrich, one OF the ~lessees OF the
Carrie, states that the force OF men at
his mine will besincreased to a hundred in
about a month, the recent Developments
warranting it. A hundred tons OF ore are
shipped daily to the Butte sampllng works
that net SIS per ton to the ~lessees.
Fifty stamps are now in operation at
the Alice mills-tW enty in the old mill and
the thirty of the new mill that passed
through the fire and have since been reno.
waited. The other thirty of the new mill
are undergoing repairs and work with
them will be resumed about the beginning
of next month, when eighty stamps will be
pounding with all the briskness of a wear
and a half ago turning out as much bullion
as ever.
Mr.. Link Moffat. just in from Camp Creek
district, reports everything in that vicinity
in q 1%ourishing condition. He is here for
the purpose OF procuring more miners and
provisions. Mr.. Moffat is interested in a
group of mines and ships a car of copper
ore a day to Butte. The ore is very ex-
~pensive to handle az it has to be hauled a
distance of nine miles to Melrose FOR ship
ment. A prosperous season in the mining
industry is predicted for that district dur
ing the coming spring and summer and al
ready many locations are made there
daily, despite the cold weather.