The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-01
MINES IN DEER LODGE,
Better Showing for q Large Output
Than There Has Boon for
Several Years,
What ia Being Accomplished In
tho Orc Elmo, Zosel and Flint
Creek Districts.
The Push to tho Seven Devils Country
Still Kept Up ny Idaho Prospect
ors-Notes From Jefferson Co.

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Still Kept Up ny Idaho Prospect
ors-Notes From Jefferson Co.
A gentleman who recently visited a num-
ber Of mining districts in Deer Lodge
county gives IL al his opinion that the out
look there for a prosperous year was never
10 good as now. On all the prominent
mines work 10 being carried on. and the
properties are showing up exceliently. On
tho Champion drifts are being run both
ways on the 600-foot level, and thso ore,
which has been of a low grade, is getting
better right along. On the line the drift il
now $40 feet
Thursday of last week the incline shaft
on the Carbonate Extension. Zosel district,
opened a chute of ore fifteen inches wide,
says the New Northwest. In character the
ore is identical to that found in the Emery
mine, of which tho Carbonate is an extern
sion. No assays have yet been made. but
Prof. Traphagen believes it will return
from $40 to $50 per ton. The incline ia
now down lbs feet, at an angle of about
forty-iv degrees. This gives the workings
q tAC AcPu4 "a ACnAty ASoes LAW
vein shows a disposition to straighton up,
however. and from now on the depth will be
gained more rapidly. Holders of Carbon
ate Extension stock are greatly elated at
the showing, and confident of a permanent
and paying proposition will push develop
ments as rapidly as possible.
OF the mines in another section of the
country the P%hilipsburg Mail says: About
a year ago it was rumored that the Granite
company intended to run n tunnel from
their works at Rumsey to connect with the
mine at Granite. At that time very little
oredence WAS given the rumor. but it now
t%ranspires that this enormous piece of work
is actually under way. The company have
put a large force of men at work in the
mouth of this tunnel at Rumsey, and more
arc engaged running it from the eleventh
level in the mine toward Rumsey. The
length of this tunnel will be, as near as can
be estimated, one and tive-eighths miles.
It will tap the Cleveland shaft, which is
midway between Granite and Rumsey, at a
depth of about GOO feet, which will give ven
tilation to the tunnel. The Rumsey mill is
to be enlarged with twenty additional
stamps, which will be put in at once. The
cooling floor will also be heightened, and
it appears that the company intend milling
a great deal more of their ores at Rumsey
in the future.
The new pump on the East Granite that
has lately been placed in the shaft at the
255-foot station was put in operation last
Friday, and they have commenced sinking
to the 50O-foot level. The east drift is
seventy-ive feet and the west drift seventy
feet from the pump station. The vein IN
the cast and west drifts is twenty-five feet.
with eight inches of ore on the hanging
walls and eighteen inches on the foot wall.
The balance is ell vein matter. The east
drift will be continued to the Montreal line
while the shaft is being sunk to the 800.
They expect to have the vein in the shaft
at a distance of twenty-five feet from the
255-foot station. The cross-cut to the north
will not DO made until the 500-foot level is
reached. The face of the east drift now
shows eighteen inches of ore OF the foot
wall. The balance of the drift, which is
i've feet wide, shows two to six inches of ore
in streaks, indicating that they will catch
five to six feet of ore in this drift by con-
small streaks in the east drift have assayed
IS high as ninety ounces in silver.
Last Wednesday the Puritan company
started to sinking in the shaft, and it is
their intention to sink it forty feet deeper
than the present depth, which is ninety
feet. They will take out ore from now on
to pay all expenses of sinking. The vein is
eighteen inches wide now, and is expanding
as they continue to sink on it. The ore is
galena, carrying $50 to 800 ounces. Last
winter a carload of ore was shipped that
went 260 unces in silver, with 40 per cent.
lead. There seems no question of doubt
but that the Puritan is the extension of the
Speckled Trout, where nearly one million
dollars was taken out in early days, and
many leasers nave since made mug for
tunes out of it. It ia reasonably estimated
that there is now $4,000 worth OF ore in
sight in the Puritan, which can be stopped
out in a short time.
Operations were resumed in the Marie
shaft last Thursday, and the crosscut to the
north vein was begun. The new machinery
has not yet arrived. but is expected daily.
Ten or twelve men are now employed on
the work, and the force will be increased
soon.
TIL output of the Granite Mountain COM
pany for the past week is forty-fve bars.
containing 7O,50O ounces of silver and 1872
gold.