The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-16
AMONG THE Lodges.

Mountain Lion is quoted at 1ascents OF
thc st. Louis exchange.
The ground on which Helena Is bull
yielded sO,OoO,0o in gold when II wa
mined.
w. $. Dodds, of the Granite Mining
company. purchased A.. ID. McMillan's In
terest in a lode adjoining the Granite
mine last week, the consideration being
500.
The discovery of the YankceG Girl mins
the San Juan is reported to have fount
another big bonanza in what Is called the
Rio Hondo mining district, Taos county
Colorado.
Work has been resumed on thc Dia'
mond Hitch mine below Burke, Idaho
The tunnel will he extended a distance o'
100 feet, and IL the showing continues as
good as al present reduction works VIII
be ordered.
IL is reported that Leo A. Scowden, for
merly superintendent of the Idaho Mining
company at Murray, is now Lord Scow'
den, with a S2OO,OOO Inheritance. He is al
present in South Africa in the interest oil
nj English syndicate.
correspondent from Castle says that
the recent strike made OH the Top Lode
promises to be one of the most important
yet made in the camp. Its assay Is 20 per
cent. copper. The Cumberland is sunk
10 $50 feet: 1000 shares of its stock sold
las, week for Sl.25 per share.
The monument erected in memory OF
James W. Marshall. the discovercr Of gold
in California will be unveiled at Coloma,
Eldorado county, California, the latter
part of this present month. The monu-
ment has cost 5000, will be- forty-one feet
high, consisting of a bronze statute OF MIR.
Marshall eleven feet high surmounting
granite base thirty feet high, and will he
placed in the lot in which the d~iscovercr
Of gold is buried.
During the past ycar the following sales
of mining property have been made In
and around Pony: Filing 4 Morris 10
Pony Gold Mining company, Is leads,
consideration s5OO,OOO. Olis d Hickman,
Golconda lode, to Eastern company, $780,
Col. J. II. Johnson, To New York cap
i~talists, Revenue group, $&OO,UO. Major
n. j. Isdell, jefferson Bar placer, to
Michigan company, S50,O0O. McKitrlck q
Mood, Gilded Age, TO ST. Louis syndicate,
10000.
The report OF the director of the mint il
now almost completed, and from the fig.
urcs now compiled il is evident that the
gold output will he practically the same
as last year, 100000. The silver out
put Of the United States will he about 90,
10000 ounces, nm increase Of 4,00O,OO
ounces over the output OF last year. In
addition, 7,OO0,0O ouncc more were
snelted from imported ore. California
maintains its position AS the leading gold
producing state, and Colorado will he
closely pushed by Montana in the silver
output. The report will he submitted To
this month.
The quality Of the iron ore in Kittitas
county, says the EllensburRh Register, is
said to be Of the best for the manufacture
Of steel. The tests made Of il for this pur-
pose are very satisfactory. This has
awakened an interest in the iron produc-
ing districts of Pennsylvania, and men
engaged in thc~p production there look up
this as a very significant value. The
mountains. west Of E~llensburgh
and less thar forty miles distant. have
vast beds Of %praphitc, enough to supply
the world.
OTle HuSbdadman says that the import
ance Of White sulphur Springs as IA min
center is daily increasing. New
are being tloatcd every week,
and there are ready takers for all feasible
undertakings. The Rircr Press Is happy |
10 note the same condition Of affairs at |
Fort Benton, Whose people are taking
hold Of mining enterprises in the Sweet |
Ncihart, Barker, Yogo and other |
districts. Some of them are di- |
siding up dividends from mines which |
are already paying handsomely.
We understand that the Summercamp
group of mines Is growing richer daily |
that u large quantity Of shipping ore
$ In sight, hich is being extracted and
The gold bearing lode is pro-
lucing ore that will mill from $40 To
so per ton, which. considering the size of !
he lode, is "A bonanza in itself. From
lccp development work IL has been
that the mines of Wagontown are
rot only rich hut large, and that the
mines should be worked by deep shaft.
cross-cuts. or tunnels, which
the lode at great dcpth.-Siirer CITY
ltdahOl Araionche.
The Pony Express says the Red Chief
mine at Red Bluff will be worked by quite
a large force of men this season. Sam |
and A.. NJ. Hotter are part owners
this property. State senator Odds. who |
is also a part owner, will supcrintend the
work. A branch road will bc built from |
The main track Ia the mine, "a distance Of
about a mile. The Golconda mine al
Red Bluff will also be worked extensively.
Ii j. one 81 the finest properties in the
Upwards Of 900 Ions of ore are on
lie dump and will he millcd as soon as
,ln lsr,a. mill - .,,s Il, ,... III.