The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-09
MINERS AND MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, New Prospects
and General Mining News.

The Lone Pine mill started up AT
Dcwey's Flat last Tuesday. II Is working
on ore from the Pctingiil mine under
lease TO the Joy Hawk Mining company.
Dillon Tribune.
Al n depth of l12 feet an cight-foot vein
of fine coal was struck in the artesian
well near Union Pacific depot In Pull
man. The action Of the flowing water
brings Jumps of IL Ia the surface.
The Near Norih,cesi says the McDer-
mott company has had two assays made
from go sacks of ore now ready for ship
mcui. Assay No. I went S33.1 copper,
81 gold and 3 silver; total. s6l.JN Assay
No. . went $40 coppcr, sls.tD gold ana
81 silver; total, S3l.l9. Two hundred adj
ditional slcks will he AT one filed and
next week - Shipment OF 80 sacks VIII
he made. Mahan q Linsley of Anaconda
have "a specimen from the McDcrmott.
which assays sl6 IN gold.
The little town Of Fort Dodge. kau.,
has been wiped of the map 10y u miners
strike. A month ago Kalo was n prosper
Gus mining town Of 800 inhabitants. To-
day not a dozen houses are occupied. ON
May ] all the coal miners struck for
higher wages. The mineowncrs refused
the demand aud shut down the mines.
The strike proved "a death blow tn the
town. Without work. all the miners were
compelled To move. Some came To Mon
tana, Others "a Dawson, Iowa, and more
To Fort Dodge, leaving kalo with empty
streets and deserted houses.
While out hunting for his horses Mr..
J. b. Rogers of kalama. Ore, found some
small pieces of coal in the kalana River.
Upon making IN investigation further up
the river he discovered that there was "A
ledge of coal seven feet thick. Mr.. Rog-
ers brought samples of the coal 10 this
city and a test of the coal showed hat il
was of excellent quality. making a very
hot fire, similar Ia Roslyn coal MIR. Rog-
ers feels proud of his find and will not
divnlgc the secret of where the coal IL
until his money arrives from Minncapo-
lis. when hc will file "A mining claim on
the land. He says the coa Is less than
five miles from kalama. Orcponion.
A Mullan, Idaho, dispatch says: SUI
perintendent Martin Curran. of the Morn
ing mine, while prospecting in the gulch
below that property found "A ~seven-inch
vein of galena quartz a few days q
Professor Russell made an assay OF the
ore and reports il as being a very rich
prospect, running 20 per cent. lead and -
silver. Mr.. Curran thinks, beyond doubt,
this Is an extension al the amous Morn
ing. The Morning mine bucket iramway
broke a few days ago, causing consider
able damage Ia the dcrricks, and stopping
the mine aud conccntrator The cable is
considered almost past using, although IL
is being repaired IN the hopes that il will
run the c-onccntrator until "a new one can
bc procured. Mr.. Husscy Is now on his
way to ~. Louis for the purpose of pur-
chasing "A new cable, which will cost up-
wards OF s. 900. All the miners have been
notified that the mine would he compelled
10 close until a new cable could arrive
and was able To carry the ore tn the con
ccntrator. by this cable breaking Il has
thrown upwards of - miners out of en-
ployment, and il is generally thought the
mine will not start up again for at least
-four weeks yet.