The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-10
MINERS N MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, New Prospects
and General Mining News.

The Anna coal mines Of Wyoming,
yield 40 carloads q day.
The Wyoming oil fields cover an area oil
about 35 500 square miles.
The Chloride Belt says a vein of ore five
feet In width, assayinR $50 per ton, Ii de-
veloped I'm the Columbia Consolidated
mine near Candelaria, Nevada.
On accoun of bad air, work has been
suspended on the Golden Chariot, OF Mad
ison county, but will be resumed again rs
soon as n blower a he put in. The re-
cent shipment OF IL tons from the Golden
Chariot returned Sls6.M per ton.
II is expected that the new furnace at
Sylvania mine, OF Nevada, will be ready
for work about July 10Th. At least a
thousand tons Of ore are on the dump,
and more is being added daily. In h bot
tom of the main shaft the ledge is sixteen
feet widc-all OLD ore.
Over i'm the Green Creek county, says
h Homer, Nevada, Inder, they are max
ing some good finds. Last week we saw
several hundred pounds of carbonate ore
from there which was said TO give assays
of S1OO per ton and upward. 1t was sent
to San Francisco for practical test.
The new hoist on the Aqua Frio, Beaver
creek district, is now AT work and good
progress is being made i'm the new shaft
hich has attained a depth of something
over 100 feet. The mines new owners
evidently meal business and are deter
mined, III possible, To make the property
even more OF a producer than il has here
tofore proven.
Word has reached Laramie of a rich
gold strike in mn oil well being drilled on
Twin creek, about twenty-five miles south
east of that to wn, by a Dakota company.
E..ll - 49,. L.a "a =.
said that the drill penetrated n rich, gold
hearing lead to the depth of thirty-four
feet, tue pumpings showing plenty Of free
gold.
The Galena Mining company OF Pony
has leased the D-stamp mill of the Pony
Gold Mining company for the purpose OF
crushing 300 tons of their low grade ore.
Samples of the ore now being treated in
dictate that Ii will run not less than S15 per
ton. Upward of 80 tons of a high grade
ore from the Galena were shipped last
week to the Butte concentrating works.
The working force on the mine will be in
creased.
The mating furnace was running down
Tuesday night and Wednesday the COM
pany commenced to take out and change
TO a lead furnace, says the Clayton, Idaho,
Press. The amount of matte has been
six carloads OF bullion run out of the lead
furnace. The matte runs even higher
than the bullion, although the bullion is
running To an excellent grade. Furnaces
never could run better than Clayton's are
dong this year.
Homer, New, fnder: A number of pros
pectors will visit the Lee vining creek
placers in the early days Of July, and
''givc them n good rattle' for a month or
so. There is gold along the creek and
for some distance on each side. No finer
opportunity for hydraulic mining on an
extensive scale can be found on this side
of the Sierras. There is plenty Of water
and the fall is just about right.
During the month ending June 10, si
cars, containing l,0iG,0O0 pounds of ore
were shipped fromsHailey, Idaho, TO Dem
yer. The ore being worth an average of
Sl25 per ton makes "A value of at least
s65, 900 worth of ore shipped for the month.
As some Of the producing mines have not
begun Ia ship while others could not be-
gin until about the middle of June. owing
To the latencss of the season, there is no
doubt but that the shipments during the
ensuing active months will be heavier
than during June.