The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-09
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Several Rich strikes Reported General
news of Interest to Miners.
The deepest shaft i'm Montana is that OF
the Lexington, i'm Butte, which is now
down 1.500 feet.
The Deer Lodge Mining and Smelling
company made a shipment OF two car
loads of ore last week, which melted Sl,3t
per car.
The mines at Bannack are looking well
and the coming season promises to he a
lively one for the pioneer mining camp OF
Montana.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Champion Mining company is called for
the 10th inst. al the office OF the company
in Deer Lodge.
The Georgetown Mining and Milling
company will likewise commence opera
tons on their property near the Red Lion
as soon as the snow goes oil.
The tailings in the dam at the Parrot
smelter contain copper that will run be-
tween IL to 3 per cent, and at some
future time they will all he reworked.
McAlister's new ''Dry Lode" claim Is
now the center of attraction among min
ing men AT Bannack. A strike was made
there last week that develops ore that as
says from 20 to $50 ounces.
Everything is nj n standstill just now ut
the Red Lion camp, says the PhilipsburR
Mail, but as soon as the roads are passa-
BILE the work will again m The
mill has been laying idle for nearly three
months. hut the latest developments In
the mine have exposed n very rich body
Of ore, which they will soon begin hosting
To the surface.
Reports from Spring Gulch continue to
he of the most favorable character. Drifts
are being run on the ore body on the 30
foot level Of the q. r.. & \. These have
already demonstrated the permanency Of
the ore shoot and the mine To he Of
the bonanzas of Montana. The ore streak
rs SO far developed is fourteen feet wide,
ten feet Of il being clean, high-grade
mineral.
A dude came from San Francisco n few
months q with letters of recommended
ton to a mine superintendent which
amounted To an order to put him to work,
says the Virginia City Enterprise. In some
way unexplainable he learned the hour to
go on shift, and reported for duty. Accost-
ing Tho foreman, he said: "Ah, wot ahre
the wcquiahments ?" Brute strength
and ignorance said the foreman; "Irl
do all the thinking around here"
The Franklin company, which is de-
~veloping the Jumbo and Mountain Rat,
Orc Elmo district, has tunneled Gospel
mountain, a distance of 1,047 feet. giving
the workings a vertical depth Of 39l feet,
the deepest in the district. The result,
while encouraging, is not as good as an
ticipated, but sufficiently good TO warrant
a continuance of development. The pres
ent work represents an expenditure OF
81, GU.-Heiend Journal.
Work ON the Deer Lodge Mining and
Reduction company's properties in the
Western part of Deer Lodge county, a few
miles below Philipsburg. has been sus-
pended, owing to inadequate facilities for
handling the heavy body of water re-
Gently encountered. An assessment has
been called for, and when this is collected
heavier and better pumping machinery
will be put i'm. A depth of 2l0 feet has
been reached on the lead.
A Wyoming prospector who is called
'Crazy Kelley" and has been at work
most of the time the past five years on a
lead al the read Of the Canadian, in the
Medicine Bow range. has at last struck il |
rich. Kelley himself cannot he induced
TO talk about his lead, and those who nave
visited his cabin for the purpose of I'M
speeding his prospect nave always come
away disappointed. He never permits /,
any one To enter the tunnel, and IL he has
richore il is carefully sorted and hid away |
from the eyes of the curious. Those who
have got as far as the mouth of the tunnel
say hat no rich ore can be found on the |
dump. but a good quality of quartz Is
there in abundance, showing that Kelley
is on a lead sure enough. Kelley is said
by miners who have talked with him To
he a well-informed man ON practical
mining as well rs Ia show considerable
of handling and treating
ores. The act that he has worked so
OH this lead would cause one to
naturally believe that he has something |
good there.