The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-06-10
PLACER AND OTHER DISTRICTS.
&romising Claims Near Placsr-1n the
Cataract District.

8E0mlo1n9 Claims Near flACof-An tn0
Cataract District,
Awritsr IN The Boulder Age, referring to
Ohe mines In the vicinity Of Placer, says ten
miles south Of town is q group Of claims
cwaed BY Rosa Deegan and Thomas A.
Moran, which are Of = very promising char
aoter. The Carbonate Queen isl blanket
Had lying about the same and looking about
the same % the famous old Iron Age.
They are developing the lead by an incline
tunnel and driving ahead - fast as posi-
Bic. The lead ID about Ter inches thick
and will run from $40 to $50 per ton in
sold and silver. This blanket lead seems
70 ~ the main lead Of tho hill. yet there are
leads which show on the surface from Fifty
10 one hundred feet apart for q distance of
several hundred feet. with q showing of
from two inches to one foot OF ore which
Mr.. Dsegan says will run from $40 to $40
per ton.
The Lizzie lies west Of the Carbonate
Queen md is a queer combination. At the
discovery shaft the ore ia about thirty
inches wide; the character Of the quartz is
hard and white. carrying gold, silver and
tellurium. Al another place on this claim
there 10 a reef Of quartzits which crops out
Of the ground about five feet wide and
shows horn silver in the ~crevices and black
%sulphurets of silver all through the rock.
MI. Dsegan says the samples he had as
saysd ran from $500 to 81, 100 per ton.
James Thompson has q fine lot Of ore IN
che dump Of the Blue Eyed Nellie mine,
Cataract district. the last assay from which
went swenty-fve ounces In silver, 81 in
gold and 1011 per cent in lead. He is wait
ing for she boulder snelter to begin opera
tions TO haul the ore here. He has eighteen
inchss Of ore in the face of the tunnel,
which 10 now in 225 feet. Atkinson & Mil
ler, of Helena, are now endeavoting to
bond the property TO eastern parties. Mr..
Thompson's price being SIG, 600.
Sam Corniok is opening up some placer
ground in Overland Rulch, beyond the
Copperbell mine. and believes he has a good
property, in which belief he is sustained BY
this opinion of some old time miners who
Are acquainted with the ground. He may
have to run a bedrock fume. but ia 80 oon-
Adsnt Of finding pay dirt that he will not
hesitate to do that.
Two cars of ore from the Coppsrbell
mine. Cataract district. nine miles from
Wickes. were shipped from Wiekes laet
week. The Copperbell is u constant yielder
and promises to produce more largely soon.
The mine is a mile and q half from the new
road from Basin up the Cataract, and
when that road ia completed the ore will be
hauled to Basin instead of Wickes.
Gaskell and Gswrie are running a CROSS
Cut tunnel on the American Flag mine.
Cataract district, which will strike under
the shaft on the lead at a depth of 200 feet.
The shaft is down about forty feet. They
have three carloads Of good ore on the
dump.
Beck Barteau visited the Pilgrims Pro-
gress mine, Woodland Park district, last
week. He reports lots of snow there, but
thinks 1t will soon go off. As soon as the
snow 10 gone, five men will be put at WORK
on the property. under the charge of Pete,
Larson, who had charge of the work las,
year.
A report comes in that the Schreiner.
nave struck a rich body of native copper in
ehe Crystal mine. Rocker district.
Merssrs. Berry n Brown, two coloret
men. have bonded a prospect on Redrocl
creek, " miles from the Boulder river, t,
9. A. Ballet and other Helena parties To-
$4,000.
Fred Marks is taking a ton Of ore dali,
from the Amazon mine. Amazon district
and II ID pay ore at that.
1t 10 stated that the Peck Montana com
pany IL about to erect another c~oncsntratol
1t Corbin.