The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-16
MINERS N MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, New Prospects
and General Mining News.

The Queen of the Hills at Ncihart Is TO
he started up in a short time.
big strike Of ore Is reported IN the
lower level of the Dakota at Neihart.
The Granite Mountain output for the
week ending June Il was foriy-six bars OF
bullion, containing 1885 ounces hhe
silver and l61 ounces fine gold.
Edwin smith has discovered a quartz
vein on the summit between Placerviiie
and Garden valley, Idaho that carries free
vold and also silver. An assay of the
silver ore showed 43 ounces per ton
All the large timming companies IN
Alder gulch are running with fhii
forces and the season promises To he one
of the most ~remuncrativc ones Tor 'i''i
that they have had for several years
large chute of high grade carbonate
ore was struck last week on the LeR
Tender ground while ~excavating Tor the
foundation of the new 4Niiorse poWer
hoist which is being placed i'm position.-
HusbdHdD,dn.
preparations are being made to resume
work ON the property Of the Senate Min
inc and Smelling company at Galena.
Last summer about twenty men were en-
ployed there, but operations ceased carry
In the fall.-Haiieg Times.
Shipments are being made right along
from the Princeton in the Boulder district
and the lessees are making a very NICE
thing ont OF il. Two carloads of very good
orc will be shipped in a few days. one
carload recently shipped from this prop
erty netted the lessecs s5U per ton OH the
average.
The old city OF Virginia is asleep Just
now, but she will rise again at an early
day. The railroad is getting nearer every
day. and by the Fourth of July will only
Inc about IS miles from there. Before the
people of Virginia will he able TO harvest
their next ice crop there will he daily
trains running Ia the city, and travellers
from Butte or other places can ride by
rail via Pony and the beautiful Ruby ana
Madison valleys TO old Alder Gulch.
The Pine Grove correspondent oil the
Elmore Bulletin says: This camp Is
rapidly coming TO the front, despite the
fact tina the Gold Hill Mining company,
by their crookedness ~ refusing to pay
their miner, have set ms back at least
TWO years. But we are going ahead on
our own merits, and capitalists should
not be deferred from paying us a visit ana
seeing for themselves what we nave got.
Since the new management began
operations the 30 stamps OF the Elkhorn
mills have turned out Si2i,0OO that being
the gross output. After the dividend was
~,
declared there remained f3,5O or $780,,
which will he added TO quarterly, and II is
probable that by next Christmas the COM
pany will pay a handsome dividend, be-
sides the regular quarterly dividends that
will follow from now on. The results oi
the mast three months show n profit OF
Sss,6U for that period, which is certainly
creditable to Captain Plummer's manage
ment of the company's affairs independ-
cnt.
The monster copper lead discovered by
Dennis Dcford in the foothills OF the
Olympic mountains, about twenty miles
west of Hoods canal, is to he developed
at once. The ore will he taken out at
Hoods canal and sent 10 Tacoma for
smelling for the present, and smclters will
he erected on the canal MS soon as possi-
BILE. Chunks of pure copper ore weighing
as high as Is pounds have been found and
the lead Is claimed To he without end.
Prospcctors are fiocking into that part OF
the country. and several parties have been
out for some time searching for the pre-
cious metals. A party In Shelton has
shown the editor Of the Journal fine spe-
cimens Of ore bearing n large per cent. of
silver. and he claims 10 know where To
find the lead.