The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-17
JEFFERSON COUNTY MINES
What the North Home Has Done
to Aid tho Radersburg
District
Mines In Basin and Cataract That
VIII Make Their Owners
Wealthy.
Remarkable Rioh Fin Of Gold Reported
by Q. c. Hands From the Okanogaa
Country.

AZ ths mines of Jefferson county become
more developed and the fact that only CAP
issl 10 needed TO make them rank among
the foremost Of the noted mineral dissov-
cries OF Montana. says the Boulder Age,
they are becoming more and moro the OBJ
iect of 9ood investments. The eyes OF
mining men are just o mostly diverted
to Radersburg district, where 10 located
what ID nov conceded to be tho best mine
for The amount Of work done in the stats.
being only 1S5 feet deep on the main shaft
of the North Home. The owners have now
decided to run the mine jointly themselves.
the lease having expired. On the ssccess
of the North Home depends the success of
many other mines in the district, and will
inspire many q despairinG prospsctor to re-
new his almost hopeless explorations. The
unparalleled success of this mine will not
cause . rush into that section. for it, rich
ness was not caused accidentally, but by
hard and persistent work aGainst almost
unsurmountable difficulties. The cyanide
process will probably become an important
factor in the DEVELOPMENT OF the many
mines in the RadersburR district.
The Comet mine. at Comet. ia not yet
closed down AZ has been anticipated that 1t
would be compelled to do, and the mana
gers say that the mine will be run at least .
month more before q new method of sepa-
ration 10 introduced. Tho concentrates
from this mine are still being shipped to
East Helena.
The Silverhill mine, just outside of the
town of Comet, 10 attracting considerable
attention at tho present writing. A force
OF about twenty men ID at work crosscut-
ting at a depth of ovor n hundred feet.
The min is at present worked under q
lease to Chas. Hungats and others. The
owners are Parkison Bros. OF Boulder, ana
Mr.. Murphy. of Helena.
One of the good prospects adjoining the
tow of Basin is the MockinR Bird lode.
situated at the head of Cataract creek. 1t
is developed by . tunnel driven in 100 feet.
The ore assays from $40 to $40 per ton in
gold, with a slight trace of silver and lead.
The owner is j. Powers, and he Ia very
modest about his discoveries. saying moth
ing but VIA 10 the actual facts.
James Wall is working on the Mammoth
lode. which he says will soon become one Of
the best in Cataract district. II is pros
pected by q tunnel driven in about thirty
feet. The exact assay could not be pro-
cured, but that it will be a good mine with
further. development 10 assured.
The Saturday Night, Wall Bros, owners,
has $50 tons Of ore on the dump. They
have a large vein. eight feet being concen-
trating ore. and eight inches of it is ship
ping orc. The ore is gray copper and lead.
and four feet Of it ia pyrities of
iron and lead mixed. this making
the ore a good concentrating proposition.
Wall Bros. expect the county to build a
road up the Cataract, when they will be
enabled to move more easily. Tho lead is
situated about a mile north Of the MANTLE
mine, on Cataract creek.
One of the best lodes in Cataract district
is perhaps the HALEY lode, situated about
nine miles south of Basin on the Little
Boulder river. II is developed bv a shaft
fifty feet deep; crosscutsing has been done
to an extent of fourteen feet and the foot
wall is not yet reached. The ore assays
from $50 to $40 in gold and twenty to sew
enty-ive ounces in silver. There is also a
trace of copper and lead. The mine is
owned BY Mar. HALEY and other parties of
Basin. It will cost from IS to $40 per ton
for hauling from the mine to the station.
The ore is a tree-milling smelling ore and
will probably DO very valuable for fuxing
purposes. being so high in iron. He will
haul to the Boulder smelter.