The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-06
MUNICIPAL AND MINING.
The New Administration Mt Great Falls
barker Mining News.

The New Administration Mt Great Falls
BARKER Mining News.
GREAT FALLS, May 5.-[Special. Mayor
Dickerman was inaugurated with much
heartiness this evening in the presence of a
large assemblage. The new council also
organized, with @. M. Webster president.
Jerre Leslie was chosen unanimously as
city clerk. In his message Mayor Dicker-
man referred chiefly to matters of local
concern. He recommended the extension
of the water mains to meet the growing
needs of the city and the appointment of a
board of health or medical inspector. He
spoke approving the tree culture which the
city has undertaken and referred to the
efficiency of the fire department. The
mayor nominated George Treat for city
marshal and j. G. johnson, formerly of
Helena, for street commissioner. No action
was taken thereon.
Judge Benton opened to-day the May
term of the district court here. On the
calendar there are eight divorce suits.
A dispatch from Barker says mining
property in the Barker mining district has
taken quite boom in the last few days in
consequence of the big strike in the May
and Edna mine. The sills of the last three
sets of timbers are set on ore, all of which
is first-class carbonates, mixed with fine
grade of galena. The ore body is about
twenty feet wide at present and is about
40 feet from the incline shaft The shaft
is 100 feet deep, with tons of irst-clas5
carbonate ore on the dump. The miners
are still sinking OH the incline and are also
driving the header of the tunnel with three
shifts. There are now about fifty tons of
ore on the tunnel dump. The ore is all
clean carbonate. There is no waste, as the
ore is in clear contact.
Across tho West Fork of Galena creek
from the May and Edna mine are group of
mines owned by Geo. Allis, John Castne,
and others that bid fair to be second to
none in the camp. On the Paragon and
Ida May of the above group there is fine
body of sand carbonate and galena ore all
the way down the shaft. In the bottom is a
regular bonanza. The owners now have
about eighty tons of ore on the dump
There has been four-foot vein of ealena
ore struck on the Liberty and Wallace
mine. Mike Wilson, Hank Hortham and
Jasper Burrell are sinking winze on the
Cosmopolitan and Wyandotte. They are
down about forty feet, with every prospect
of striking the main ore body in one of
their levels. Hughes d Hedrick are driving
their level ahead on the Hopeful mine
owned by Oatey & Hayes. This mine is
only short distance from the May and
Edna and is in exactly the same formation.
They have struck carbonates, but not yet
in paying quantities.
The surveyors of the Great Northern sys-
tenn have run preliminary survey up
through the camp. They ran their line
above Hu9hesville as far as the Honsberger
discovery, to the side line of the Defiance
mining claim. They then went back to
Monarch and are now cross -sectioning the
line into the Barker mining camp.
Butte's New City Officers.
BUTTE, May 5.-[Special. The first
meeting of the new city council was held
this evening. The council is almost unani-
mously democratic and a caucus was held
this afternoon at which general agree