The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-02
MINERS N MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, New Prospects
and General Mining News.

ponahue Gibson, who has been pros
pccting in Ross Hole this SPRING was III
town Monday and showed some Very
pretty specimens of float OF gray copper
ore. He has been unsuccessful so Tar III
finding the lead from which the noat
came, but has confidence IN tina i"cai''!
for good orc.-Bifer Root Bugie.
tn. news from Castle is that the stock
Of the American mine Is now meeting
with brisk sale and promises tn come
prominently to the front within a rev
weeks. Mr.. westbrook, who has done
the development so far on the property
has offered To put the shaft down another
hundred feet and take stock in payment
for his work. The lead is said To show
four feet Of ore nj the bottom OF the smart
aud the owners fee much encouraged
The mining men from the Boulder
country who have wintcred in Livingston
will start for the mines in about Two
weeks. A large number of men will he
engaged ia developing the Boulder mines
this summer and 10y next fall ~ sex
pccted this camp will make an excellent
showing. Several good -ales Of Boulder
property have been made this year, and
there are still several good claims which.
with the proper amount of work VIII sell
for "A large ilgure.-Liringsfoh Post.
B. L. See had occasion to visit Victor on
Sunday. While there he exported the
CITlew and Elizabeth mines and pro-
nounced them "a big thing. The manage
ment If these mines is 5000 ahead over
and above all expenses and thousands
of ore in sight that il left unmolesicd
in its rocky bed and that Will bc brought
10 the service one OF these days. Forty
men are al work in and about the MN"
and there will bc 100 mel At W. rk there
soon. The work Of building. a concen-
traitor there will he commenced soou. MIR.
SEES thinks IL will I've "A great mine.
Articles of incorporation were filed last
week for the Mountain Glen Mining COM
pany, with George W. Dunn, l.. j. Andcr-
son. T.. A. Stickclmau, n. Is. Pcttibone
and u. W. Badger of this place. The
capital stock is $4,000. divided into no.
40 shares of 81; 1000 shares are set aside
for treasury stock and are To he sold for
development work. The Mountain Glen
property is situated on the waters OF
Fourmile, about seven miles east Of town,
in the vicinity Of the G~rasshopper, and Is
quite a promising prospect. II has n
shaft down eighty-ilve feet and a cross
cut Of twenty-five feet nca the bottom.
The shaft is sunk In n six foot vein OF
manganese ore. and "A promising ore body
has just been struck AT the bottom OF the
shaft. A block of the treasury stock of
this company will be on the market soon,
and il will mo doubt meet with ready sale.
-HHSbdndm1n.
A Helena journal special says the
Pilot mine in the Amazon district
continues e show mp fayorably
with further development. Messrs.
John I. Murphy OF Helena, and
John w. Currin of Boulder, nave "A bond
on the property at Sa0,O0O. running Ia next
September, and are e~ndcavoring Ia ascer-
tain the value of the mine 10y development
work. They have a shaft fifty feet deep.
from which level a drift nincty.iivc feet
west runs the entire distance through "A
~six-foot vein of soft brown carbonate ore.
showing a plentiful sprinkling Of bromide
of silver. Assays from this ore show an
average Of 81. 80 in gold, thirty-one ounces
of silver and eleven and a half per cent. |
in lead. Sinking Oh the East Pilot is
being pushed rapidly and the lead con-
inues To improve.
Al the Mona mine, "A short distance
south Of the Pilot. twelve feet Of concern
irating ore was gone through at 800 feet
from the surface. They will sink 100 feet
further ia the shaft before stopping.