Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1890-01-16

Mining Items Of Interest Selected From the
Holiday Edition Of the Helena yoarnal.

Mexico's production was S35, 900,
900 last year.
A "winze" is an interior shaft con
Meeting two levels.
The Ontario, of Park City, Utah, has
paid ten millions in dividends.
A full mining claim is 500 by |. 500
feet, and contains twenty acres.
The Calumet copper mine, of Michi
gan, has paid S3i ,s5O,OOO in divi
dends.
The Con. California and virginia, at
Virginia City, has paid $50, ,OOO, 900 in
dividends.
The most important improvements
IN mining machinery have been made
by CalifOrnians.
Butte is now the biggest mining camp
on earth, supporting nearly thirty
thousand people.
Common miners wages are 81 "a day
in Virginia City $3.50 in Butte, and
S:s IN leadvIlle.
Figures show that the profit in min
ing IN Montana is greater than that OF
any other country.
The Drum Lummon has paid 49,
10000 M dividends and the Granite
Mountain 81, 500. 900.
The largest manufacturers i'm the
world OF mining machinery are Frazer
X Chalmers, Of Chicago.
The cost Of mining and milling an
ounce Of silver at the Granite mine is
between IL and | 3 cents.
1t costs less to develop u gold than
q silver prospect, and less to develop
u silver than copper mine.
The ores of New Mexico and Arizona
assay big. but the veins are narrow
and do not go to any depth.
The Broken Hill properties in Aus
tralia produce 100 900 ounces OF silver
and 40 tons OF lead per week.
\ Mexican miner is the best Judge
and sorter OF ore, but an American is
he most intelligent of all miners.
The greatest specimen" gold mine
IN the United States is the Atlantic
Cable, Deer Lodge county, Montana.
The output OF the Treadwell mine in
Alaska is SlOO,OOO Il month. The
rock Is low grade-betwee 50 and 81.
The Eureka, Nevada, mines, now
produced 7O,OOO, 900 in
gold and silver, and 300, 900 tons OF
lead.
The largest gold mine in the United
states Is the Idaho, at Grass Valley,
Cal. Ii has paid $1,000, 900 in divi-
lends.
For every million ounces OF silver
hat was taken from the Comstock
mines u million feet OF lumber has
gone in.
The term "stope" is of Cornish
origin. \ stope is IA block OF ground
between levels from which ore is ex-
.racted
The Omaha smelter makes more
he exception OF the Anaconda and
;rante Mountain
The expense OF stoplng is slight com
pared with that OF driving u tunnel,
md the cost OF tunneling is less than
hat of sinking IA shaft.
\ horse" is mass of country rock
'nclo>ed IN vein matter. Country
'ock. " the rock traversed by or ada
ent To an ore deposit.
\ mining patent j. superior to all
titles. II Is absolute and cannot be
overturned except when fraud il used
II obtaining the same.
The largest smelter in he world j. ai
swansea, Wales, but the greatest
melting plant uuder one management
: at Anaconda, Montana.
The Granite Mountain mine near
'hillp-burg, Mont, pays more divi- |
lends than all of the mines Of Idaho. |
\rllona and New Mexico combined.
There are thousands of acres of
,lacer ground in Montana that are ~
lcl as the diggin.s of Alder gulch, !
,hich cannot be worked lor the lack |
II water.
The superintendent of the Drum
.lmmon gets So "A year: the |
of the Blue Bird 81 D.
100, and the superintendent Of the
'ranlte, 50 900.
The greatest combined mine mana |
er, superintendent and stock manipu- |
ator that ever lived. was Senator Jim |
'alr oi the Con. Virginia and Cali |
ornla of Virginia City.
1t costs ten dollars Il foot to sink n |
90 foot shaft in average ground. At |
900 feet it costs between thirty-iive |
md forty dollars "a foot according to |
iIe nature OF the ground.
The tramway connecting the Bi- |
lt,. l..
Il Phllipsbura. l. two and onehall |
niles in leneth-tne longest in the
World. The saving OF cost. compared |
With hauling ore by teams is ninety |
,er cent.
I.eadville Is producing more than |
Yer, but on account OF the low price |
II silver the value of the output is |
ess than that OF former years. The
lush days of Leadville are over. |
property has deprecated two-third> |
IA value.
The output of the Con. Virginia and |
'aliiornia is about $3.50 900 month |
hall gold and half silver. This j. the |
MY mine on the Comstock that j. |
'aying dividends, and it is only n |
~ :" ~" sN"i' ~ VIII
euse to pay.
4 true fissure vein" is vein or |
-sure that Is not confined to any |
'articular rock or bed. and which |
xtends or may extend into adjoining
ocks. 1t il usually marked by its ore
eing deposited in ribbon-like or
anded structure.
The largest salary paid to "A mine
superintendent is S3O.OOO "A year.
lven to the superintendent OF the
'roken Hill properties in Australia,
As. Patten, who was formerly con.
ected with the Con. California and
'irginia at Virginia City.
As near as can be learned. Haggin
WIS one-half OF the Anaconda prop
rites, Marcus DAILY "A fourth. and
'evis and Hearst IA fourth. The out
ut OF this great mine l. in the vicinity
/ fourteen millions and the trptit-