The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-03
GOOD NEWS FROM MINES.
The Outlook All Over Missoula
County Is Better Than for
Many Years.
The Curlew and It's Concentration
tho Pride Of the Bitter Root
Country.
I'm Spring ~Guleh-The Deep Creek Coun-
try-Work on tho Iron Mountain
News From NeihArt.

M1ssou1A. Aug. 2.-[special. THE out
look in Missoula county mines just now
unusually bright. The Carlow concentra
tor is pounding away with its usual regu
larity and producing the monthly dividend
that are 30 pleasing to the fortunate stock
holders. This is the pioneer mill of tn
county, and its phenomenal success ha
done much to silence those that doubted
the mineral resources of the Bitter Root
On the Cliff mine, located Oh one of thu
highest mountains Of the Bitter Root range
ore 10 being taken out and crushed. Tn,
trail to the mine was completed last weel
and a carload will probably soon be or til,
way to the smelter. The ore runs from
50 to IS per cent lead and from ten to thirty
ounces Of silver.
In Spring Gulch considerable activity
prevails. Nsssrs. Wing and Cromie, leases
Of the Keystone, are taking out = great deal
of ore. Tive car loads are on the way to
the smslter and there are between three and
four car loads on the dump awaiting sacks.
Those who have recently seen the property
state that the leasees certainly have a
stake in sight, Three feet of shipping ore
are exposed in the bottom Of the fifty foot
shaft and along the level as far as they have
been run. The ore is said to be high grade.
This property, like several other locations
in the camp. has lain idle for two years.
There are other claims in the district which
woald probably pan out as we'll did the
owners 20 to work in q business like way.
: Thu Ben Lomond tunnel Is in hard rock
and is virtically beyond the groupings.
The ledge, it is expected, will be struck in
q very few feet.
On Deep creek, which empties into the
Missoula between the mouth OF Spsing
gulch and Flat creek, more work is being
done than at any time past. On the Little
Anaconda three shifts are working. The
breast of the TUNE continues in ore. 1t is
thought that the connection between the
shaft and tunnel will be made during the
next twelve days. The tunnel is now in
about 800 feet, and has q vertical depth at
the breast of 175 feet. Ore shipments will
be RECOMMENDED as soon as tie connection
Is made.
The e. S. Treasury is working two shifts.
The new shaft on this property is now down
over thirty feet, and shows q strong vein
carrying considerable ealena.
On the May Day, belonging to Messrs.
Butler, Cove & Crane, work is progressing
rapidly, and the mine is reported to be
looking we'll. A barren spot. which was cut
last week, has now been passed, and ore is
0K2lA 6uOWlIR III llO0Idl QuAQGlGl6S IN IAH
breast of the drift.
The miners of this section appear to be
be somewhat indignant that their mines
should be ciassed as belonging to the
Spring Gnlch section, when in point of fact
it is a separate and distinct camp, ana
there is considerable difference in the char
acter Of the formation and also of the min
erals in the two camps. They are not more
than two miles apart.
At the Iron Mountain mine but twelve
mon are working, most of these with the
machine drills, at purely development work.
No men, however, have been discharged
but those taken from the mine have been
put to work on the company's c~oncentrator
on Flathead creek, two miles below. This
is being pushed as rapidly as possible. The
teams that have been employed hauling ore
have been kept busy bringing lumber and
Their material for the mill. The Iron
Mountain mine has an immense quantity
IT concentrating ore In sight and there will
OF DO any difficulty in keeping the mill
Implied with ore. We'll posted men say
that 1t is not SO much a question of ore as
of water supply for the jigs, and that a lar
yer mill would probably have been built
lad the available water supply been create.
In the Camas Prairie section the pros
poets are looking well. Last winter con-
siderable excitement was occasioned in this
district by a find of rich ore on the Gowrie.
Several small interests in the property were
'OA~ "N 5'SN duo q oUCCh GoIlpGLy
organized. Men have been kept at work
on the shaft most Of the time since, The
results have not been equal to the expecta-
tlons OF the more sangulne oynere in the
company, owing to the broken mp nature OF
the formation. There is, however. every
indication that III the near future the mine
Will pay we'll for the money invested. Thu
ore Is IS rich az any silver GRO ever discoy-
cred IN the state and large rieces were
found in considerably quantities on the
surface. While small fragments of ore
were found in sinking and also in drifting
on the thirty and si1ty-foot levels, no con-
hnuous streak of the ore has as vet been
encountered. The miners working on the
DRIFT think that the appearance in ths heart
Is now more favorable than at any previous
time IN the progress of the work.
Three miles south of the Gowrie is the
property generally spoken of rs the Lopue
mine. Work commenced on tins during
the early part of june, since which time a
shaft has been sunk seventy-fve feet and a
road built connecting the mine with the old
road to Wallace (Montana). Two teams
are now employed hauling ore to the rail
road, = distance of ten miles, and the min
erai ls being extracted as rapidly as it is
hauled away. There has been more than a |
ton of shipping oe taken out for each foot !
OF work in the shaft. The ledge is in lime !
STONE ana the mineral n heavy carbonate of
lead and enlena. So quietly has all this
been done that many living in the vicinity
had scarcely heard that good ore had been
strnck, and are much surprised to learn
mat another shipping mine Is working full
past WITHIN twenty-five miles of the city of
Mlssorla.
Inc sale of one-quarter interest in the
Silver Cable group of mines in the Ameri-
can hoonts nai, has been followed by the
stockinx Of the property. Members of the
boasu OF trustees are prominently identified
with the banking and commercial interests
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