The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-05
What II Being Done in the Mineral
Country Tributary to
Placer.
Development on the East Pacific
Bonanza and Adjoining
Properties.
Trial Run a tl,e Boulder smclter Salts
factory-Wa Dump at Butte.
Rochester output

Lying about nix miles 6outh OK Tlaoet =
tha East Pacific mine, owned by winston
Bros, OF Minneapolis, and worked unde
the local management of w. :. Dodge a
superintenaent Dan Peterson as foreman
and r. Peterson MS shift-boss. says tn
Boulder Age. The development work con
sists OF three tunnels. No. / l,60O feet long
No. Q 1900 feet long and No. 3 LOO long
two drifts, one $50 feet and one LOO feet
one winze seventy feet deep; two shafts on
400 feet deep and one 200 feet deep. Ihel
employ about seventy-fve men at present
and have shipped about 5000 tons OF orr
from the mine, which Melted about Sl.Wa
per car, and are finding some galena ore
which runs as high IS 1880 per ton IN goid'
This ID q bonanza of a little mine ana a
good dividend payer.
Adjoining the East Pacific on the west Is
the Little Giant, Monitor and Raltlmore
lodes, owned by Mr.. Andrew Stewart. Mr..
Stewart il working hard to develop these
prospects into paying mines. lie mas a
shaft fifty feet deep on the Little Giant
and from two to four inches of fine ore In
the bottom OF the shaft. and wherever he
has made an opening he has found good
ore. the same in character az the East IA
citi0 ore.
Living east Of the East Pacific is the Spo-
kane. Bismark, Freiberg, and Extenslon'
owned BY Louis Ziekler. The FreiberR has
three tunnels and a shaft; some orc taken
out OF the shaft run over $500 pei ION. IN
the tunnel where they are at work at pre-
sont there is about ten inches OF very good
looking gold ore in the oxidized iron form
which MI. Ziekler says will run about 500
per ton in gold This tunnel Is in $40 feet.
He has taken out some ore in this tunnel
which runs $500 Z ton in gold. The foat on
tho Bismark runs from SIS to $50 per ton.
The Spokane is located on the same hill ss
the East Pacific. and has a large showlne
on the surface Of oxidized iron, eight feet
thick. Mr.. Ziskler thinks this will be the
boss mine in this part of the country rs
soon AZ he can get it developed enough TO
show it up.
The Sunrise lode. owned by J. w. Rogers,
of Placer. and under lease and bond AZ
present to Helena parties. lies q half mile
south OF the East Pacific. There are two
tunnels on this claim. one $50 feet, from
which he has taken some very rich ore: Be
low this 10 the second tunnel which 10 oJO
feet long, with about two feet Of ore Ill the
face. Mr.. Rodgers says he has shoots OF
ore that we're dix feet thick in drlAlng IN
WIN Nuuu0k AAu ~ OAU SALA W0o
$50. 600 in cash for the property.
About one mile south OF here Dave Jon
non is working on the Estray Horse. He
has a shaft thirty-ive feet deep with ore
from the grass roots. and about four inches
Of ore in the bottom Of the shaft. and one
tunnel4 400 feet long. The hillside 10 Gov
cred with float that will average 500 a ton
aud has dug ont and shipped eight m a
half tons of his float tat runs $50 per ton.
John Tool and Pat Gallagher have dis
a ledge of Raiena cropping
of the ground about feet in thickness
On Beaver creek, about two and ore-nslf
miles southwest of the East Pacific mine.
They brought in some blocks of galena
which were very rich, and if they have a
foot of such ore they have a bonanza.
Messrs, Foster and Ben jamin and part
nors have about twenty-five men at work on
their big iron mine above Elkhorn. They
have a contract for 1000 tons of the ore for
the East Helena smelter, they expect
to supply that and other smslters with LOCO
tons q month. |
The trial at the Boulder smelter the past
week has been very satisfactory. The fires
we're withdrawn last night and in the pres
ence of all the officers the test of the run
was made. The results are far better than
were expected and after a few more changes
are made the smelter will start up again.
Beck Barteau and partners have four
men at work on the Pilgrims Progress, II
few miles above Eikhorn. The property is
a blanket lead and 1t has been stripped a
distance OF LEO feet, showing from two to
six inches OF ore which will run from 400 to
], 900 ounces of silver to the ton. About $50
tons of this ore will be taken out in the
next month and shipped to eastern smell
tezs. The ore has to be packed on horses
for about a mile to Foster and Benjamin's
camp. where it il loaded on wagons and
hauled to the railroad at Elkhorn.