The Anaconda standard., 1890-04-08
MINING INFORMATION.
Interesting New. ca Miners GENERALLY
Throushout Thi. Rich Mining Region.

Interesting New. 60 Miners Generally
throughout Thi. Rich Mining Region.
The output of the Granite Mountain for
the week ending April was Al bars OF
bullion, 10, los ounces of fine silver and
l55 ounces fine gold.
Coal has been discovered on the recently
cpened lands north Of the forks OF the
Cheyenne. Chief Bull Eagle, with band
Of about thirty Indians, is cncamped In
shat vicinity. and threatens TO keep set
tiers from locating claims.
An experienced miner, i'm conversation
with a Fort Benton Press reporter last
week. said: II consider the Sweet Grass
hills the great coming copper and silver
mining camp of Montana. For the
amount of prospecting done this camp
makes n better showing than Butte ever
did in its early days of quartz mining"
A vein of copper ore, supposed also to
contain gold, has been discovered by n
prpspector about twelve miles sostheast
of Pilot Rock, Oregon. The deposit is an
excellent one, and il il proves tn bc rich,
may be developed into paying property.
At the depth of 40 feet the Yellowstone
mine was crosscut and showed a 30-foot
ore body that sampled 20 ounces I'm silver
and 5. per cent. lead, says the Husband
man. This is nearly double in lead and n
thirl more in silver than the Cumberland
ore run which yielded such an immense
dividend last fall Since leaving the 110-
foot level the shaft has been in ore all the
way and a sample recently assaycd by NJ.
Davis of this place gave 49.6 ounces i'm
silver and 20 per cent. lead.
Says a correspondent Of the Great Falls
Tribune: ''Wolf creek, perhaps, comes
nearer to being a true lead mining camp
than any yet discovered in Montana, as
several good sized veins of galcra have
been found there that rcsembled very
closely the galcna of Galcna, Illinois, be-
ing low i'm silver and other metals, but
very high in lead"
II is reported that the graders have
started for Monarch with about seventy
five or one hundred teams 10 commence
on the line To Ncihart. II is said the wcrk
will be completed in about sixty days,
and then the mines will begin 10 show
forth their rich treasures.
Emmett II. Carroll, general manager of
ihc Neihart Gold, Silver, Lead, Mining
and Reduction company, started for Iogo
yesterday To put force of men AT work
ON their copper and silver properties in
large bodies, and being high up in the
mountains, may last for half n century.
Charles Clark. of the Granite Mountain,
took up the deed in escrow i'm st. Louis
Saturday Of the Harris a Hazelton group
of mines in the Beaver creek district, and
paid the purchase price in cash, $4,000.
These mines have paid the owners $4,000
per month net for several months past.
On the West Granite three shifts are
beating their way To the unseen below.
One hundred and eighty feet In depth is
reported. Surface work engages the
muscle of about forty men. The frame
work of the hoist is up and is fast being
enclosed. The whole structure, including
the machinery, will he completed by the
end of next wcek.-Grdnite Star.
Efforts have been made for some time
by eastern capitalists To purchase the
Custer mine, located in the Cnur d'Alene
country, and which has 5000 feet on the
Tigcr-Poorman vein. Friday an offer
cf 81, 10000 was made for four months
option on the property, but was promptly
refused by the owners. The mine was
bought by Spokane parties for S50OOO two
years ago. Its products are lead and sill
yer ore,