The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-06-11
WHOLE NO. 1896.
AMONG THE MINES,
PROPERTIES OF DEER LODGE AND
SURROUNDING COUNTIES.

A Breakdown at the Champitn Mill-The
| Carbonate Extension Shut Down-Flint
Creek District Propnrties-The Cyanide
Process-NIneral Patents.
An accident to the engine at the Cham
| pion mine necessitated short shutdown
a day or two last week.
The Alice MILL at Walkerville, which
OF late has been undergoing repairs, was
started up last Monday and is crushing
ninety tons of ore daily.
The Carbonate Extension, at Zosel, has
entirely shut down, pending the legal
formalities necessary to an increase Of its
capital stock, recently decided upon.
The contract for the rebuilding of the
Butte = Boston smelter has been awarded
to the Gilette-H erzog Manufacturing
company of Minneapolis. Manager Pal
mer hopes to see the new structure all
completed BY September !.
| It is said that rich streak Of ore has
been encountered in the Salt Hill tunnel
near Philipsburg, ol grated by Charles
Clark, and that the pay streak is about
eighteen inches wide, averaging in the
neighborhood Of 200 ounces per ton.
The Balmaceda and Last Chance mines.
~ Rattlesnake creek, about three miles
from Missoula, owned BY Salton Cameron,
have been leased and bonded to A. E.
Barton, of Butte, who has gone east to
negotiate with capitalists for the sale Of
the properties.
Edwin Simpson returned, Thursday,
from Maiden and Neihart, where he has
been on mining business the past several
weeks. He speaks in the highest terms
OF those camps and predicts they will be
numbered among the greatest producers
in Montana at no distant day.
| A meeting Of stockholders Of the Red
Lion Mining company was held in Ana
conda, Saturday. The meeting was called
for the purpose OF electing officers for
the ensuing year, and the following were
elec.ud: Trustees, P. A. Largey, DR.. O.
Lesser, J. B. Losee, D. NJ Beck and J. R.
Boyce, jr. j. R. Boyce, jr, was elected
president; NJ. ]. Fitzpatrick, secretary;
&. B. Winston, attorney. 1t is the inten
ton of the company to do a great deal of
development work on the mine this year
and only take out enough ore to keep
their lO-stamp mill in operation.
The Engineering Magazine for June
contains an article that is of interest to
mining men, 1t speaks highly Of the
McArthur-Forrest cyanide process for
saving gold, and gives the report of the
superintendent Of the Mercer mill, Utah,
where amalgamation proving a failure
on the base ore, the plant has been con
verted into cyanide teaching one. His
summary is: "Fifteen hundred tons Of
our ore treated BY anal gamation gave an
average extraction Of 20 per cent st d
cost OF S4.25 per ton; 1000 tons of our
ore treated i'll the past ninety days by the
cyanide process gave an average eXtrac-
tion of S9ls per cent. at cost Of $2.25
per ton." 1t has been suggested that the
process may not be applicable to ores
containing appreciable amounts of cop
per oxide, which decomposes the cyanide
and goes into solution. ONidized iron
and manganese do not decompose the
solution. Whether the process will work
upon ores in which the gold is chemi-
cally combined with other elements, as,
for example, with tellurium in the tellu-
ride ores, and other possible combina-
tions, is Il question Of very great impor
I tance.