The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-05

MINES NEAR PH|LIPSBURG
The Combination Company Said to
Be Achieving Great
Success.
The Puritan Proving Every Day
That It Ia a Permanent
Mine.
News From the Neihnrt Country-Red
Mountain Milling Company to Work
the Old Frohner Company.

The works of the Combination compan,
at Black Pine have assumed greater mag
nitude than most people are aware; in fact
this mine has already become a close riva
to the biggest silver producers in the state
Seventy-fve tons of ore is the average dali,
output from the mine and nearly tina
amount 10 treated in their twenty-stamI
mill every swenty-four hours. Ever since
the great bodies of ore were reached through
the new shaft (the Harrison) success hal
attended their every movement and the i'm
provements made numerous. A handsome
new shaft house and large ore bins have
been built, together with n ten-stamp ad-
dition to the mill. and just now excavations
are under way for an add
ton to the roasting room. 1t Is
not ut all unlikely that the not-far-
distant future will see q tramroad in
operation between the mine and the mill,
as the convenience of hauling SO much ore
with wagons a distance of one and a half
miles is the only drawback at present.; yet
this part of the business is attended to in
q very creditable manner by the contractor,
who keeps a fine equipment of teams on the
road steadily. To q casual observer it
WOulu appear buoe II So~
pany's business was being managed in an
almost perfect manner, and such must be
true, for nothing is ever heard to the con-
trary. At the mine, through the mill and
in the office, everything seems in automatic
motion. and the arrangement throughout
for systematic and economic working is
such that the management might we'll be
proud of.
Fifty-two men are now on the payroll of
the Puritan, and all work is being most
satisfactorily prosecuted. The develop
ments at the property give renewed conf
dence every day of the permanency of the
mine. The levels at the decentralization
station have been run east and west a CON
siderable distance, and the great vein is
showing great value at this depth. Right
now they are in shape to mine enough ore
to keep two mills like the Algonquin in con-
slant motion. Since the mill was started
up after the shutdown for repairs and a
cleaning up. it has been running more
smoothly than ever. and some of the en-
ployes who worked in it nearly ten years
ago say it was never in such good shape or
gave the results that it now does. 1t ID
treating more ore and producing more
wealth at about one-thlrd the average
running expense of it's early operation.
1t is known that many rare inducements
have been made to Mr.. Mckechney to in
corporate and make a stock company of the
Puritan. Local and eastern capitalists will
take large blocks if it is put on the market
at a reasonable figure, and it is not unlikely
that arrangements will be made to float the
stock in a short time.
The Hope mining company have adjusted
matters with A. A. Mcdonald, James A.
Murray, C. C. Collins and Liee Bergeron.
and for consideration of SO, 900, the Prince
Imperial, Porter Extension and the Garnet
mining claims were transferred to the COM
pany last Saturday. A lawsuit for the
right of tltle to the claims mentioned has
been in court for a long time, with very
little hope of an immediate end, and the
compromise effected last Saturday is far
the better way of settlement. It is now
more thsn likely that the Hope will con-
niue In uninterrupted operation for soae
slme to come.