The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-03

the owners Of the propsrtY ars pushing de-
veIopements rapidly. and purpose cutting
across the lead % the hanging wall in . few
Montana, and the chances for developing
great mine here arc favorable.
On Wisconsin creek considerable work r
being done. The tunnel ON the Noble mine
- in about 800 fest and Il still being driven
By hand. ln9ersoll machinery has been
IL ssc @ e tso
work will be greatly sxpedited This tun-
mel, when completed. Will be about 1880
feet in length and will tap the lead about
1000 1et below the surface.
The Company mine, IN extension of the
Noble. is under lease to Stewart 4 Lewis, Of
great deal Of ore. and are making money
right along. Eight tons Of orc shipped to
the Parrot smelter, returned 81, 212 net. The
assays show from seven to ten ounces of
gold to the ton, with some silver. Ore
worked through the Noble mill returns
fire vanners and the concentrates shipped.
The vein averages about six feet wide, with
pay ore from ten inches to two feet.
The NcCranO4 company il running its
mill on ore extracted last winter. and have
let contract to drive level 200 feet on
their property.
At Virginia City times are little better
VA0A VACy WOA0 low AAO4AVA0 0kOs AO
New York and Montana Mining and Milling
company have quite q number Of men at
work on the Alameda and Elfaleda mines,
and the mill il running full capacity night
and day. II. j. Conner is pushing work on
his Summit properties and will have new
boiler here in few days. The old one was
found insufficient to do the work required
place.
The Bertha mine is being developed a.
faSv as possible, and the new shaft has
reached the lead at depth Of ninety feet.
This 10 one of the most wonderful mines in
the state. The vein is about fifteen . fsst
which is in the rock in perfectly free
state. The gold il 30 light and daky, how
ever that all attempts to save it on plates
have 80 far failed. Messrs. Manning and
Kellogg have mill on the property which
has run most of the summer, but is idle at
has been ordered, and will Be reads to treat
ores by the first of June next. In the mean
time the development of the mine will 90
on.
Madisonian: Superintendent 7. ]. Con-
nor informs us that work on the tunnels he
is running to strike the Orc Cache and
Satisfactorily. The one on the Apex win
tap the lead at about seventy-fv feet
below the deepest work on the old shaft.
The ore in this mine lies in three separate
veins, two extremes about one hundred feet
apart, and the center one nearly
osneas and 'r0 the e sunne % be
driven to cut all three. When this work is
completed the Apex will be one Of the best
developed quartz properties in the country.
There Is no doubt that the Orc Cache 10 q
rich mine. It has been a rich producer in
former years, when only the crudest meth
DDS were employed for the reduction of its
ores. With modern appliances it must be
be vastly greater, and when Mr.. Conner
gets through with the development work
which he is now systematically prosecuting,
it will come to the front as bonanza, and
old Summit will again be the scene of ac-
tivity and busy life that characterized it
when its placers were yielding up their mil
lions annually.
"Jim" Wardner Heard From.
J. F. Wardner, the Fairhaven banker and
we'll mining man, after whom the
town Of Wardner, Idaho, was named, is at
the Tacoma. 1t was he who negotiated the
sale of the Boston mine by Rouse Bros, the
owners, to NJ. E. Downs. manager of the
Jay Gould properties in Montana, for the
sum of $3.50, ZOO. The trade was concluded
yesterday, and is one of the most important
mining deals ever made in the state. The
mine was discovered on the 18th of Septem-
Der last. 1t Is located in the Cascade noun
tains, about 100 miles from Fairhaven, and
at an elevation of $1,000 feet above Bel
bingham bay: It is twenty miles
from the Skagit river, about one
mile from the Fairhaven Southern
survey and $500 feet above Rouse city. Mr..
Wardner, whose Judgment in such matters
is good, regards it AS one of the greatest
galena properties in the northwest. rivaling
even the famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine in the Occur d'Alenes. Az. Mr.. Ward
ner expresses it, "the ledge has glacier for
a foot wall and granite hanging wall and
shows five feet of solid galena which will
average SIS per ton" The work of devel-
opment is to be prosecuted on an extensive
scale and until better means Of TRANSPORTS
ton are afforded, the high grade ore will be
carried by pack animals to the Skagit
river and shipped by water to smelling
Works.-Tacoma Ledger.