The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1889-10-24

Purtle & Lynch shipped a carload OF
ore from the Butcher Bros claim, near
Black Pine. this week.
The Inter Maintain is the only news
paper in s;ontana that pays any atten-
ton to mining news.-Butte Inter Noun
tain. Rats!
The Blue-Eyed Nellie mine is shipping
three cars of ore per day to Omaha.
Three cars of iron ore are shipped each
week from there to the East Helena
smelter.
The dividends of the mines of Montana
for the past year aggregate $2,9U,OOO, OF
which the Granite Mountain alone paid
$2,O0o,OO0- two-thirds of the total
amount.
The Golden Messenger Mining COM
pany, New York gulch, on Trout creek.
began to run their 10-stamp mill last
Monday. They have 1000 tons of ore on
the dump and will keep the mill running
all winter.
T. j. Jeffries came over from Elliston
on Sundays train, where he had been
for several days, looking after his mining
interests IN that vicinity. Mr.. Jeffries
is of the opinion that in the course of a
few months there will be some startling
developments in that district, but as yet
there is nothing to justify making a
report.
The contract for sinking 5O-foot shaft
on the Georgetown Mining Il Milling
company's property. which adjoins the
Red Lion, has been finished, and, much
to the surprise and qualification of the
owners, the vein has already made its ap-
pearar CO in the bottom of the shaft. It
was thought that it would rot be reached
in less than 70 feet.
BLACK PINE NOTES.
Some fifty odd houses have been
erected since the recent fire, and all the
residents are now lacking is city govern
ment.
Miss Eva Williams, an artist of con-
siderable merit and resident Of Alham-
bra Springs, is guest of Mrs. NJ. w.
Bullard.
The new shaft house of the Combina-
ton Co is nearly completed. The hoist
being in place, steam was to have been
applied last Saturday.
The new shaft of the Combination was
sunk by contract 40 feet, and they have
been waiting for co'ple of weeks for
steam in order to finish the shaft, which
still requires sinking of IS feet.
Grading for the new roasters at the
mill is progressing rapidly. A night and
day shift is pushing the work to COM
pletlon. The stone and brick masons
are already appearing on the scene, and
Supt. Akers is in hopes of having every
thing IN running order pefore snow flies.
A most enjoyable entertainment in the
way of a dance took place last Friday
evening at the new residence of B. G.
Ballard, foreman of the Combination
mine, at Black Pine. The town turned
out en- masse, the ladies having on their
best bib and tucker and the gentlemen
who were fortunate enough to have an
extra suit of clothes, took advantage of
the maiden opportunity of airing them.
The music was excellent, being furnished
by Billiards. band.
They danced who ne'sr had danced before,
And they who always danced, danced the more
The supper as furnished by E. Christi,
but under the immediate supervision Of
Jos. Christi, was simply delicious. After
supper was over the dancers once more
assembled at the hall and kept up the
dance until morning. Before they
separated they concluded that for man
who had lived for Fifteen years in the
rocky chain and never saw beaver
dam," BY was undoubtedly an enter
tainer.