The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-31
MINES NEAR R~ADERSBURG.
A Rich District in Jefferson County
to Try the Cyanide Pro-
cess.
Tho North Homo Proving One OF
the Best Producers In That
Section.

r. b. Clark's Big Iron Mins-News From
the Boulder Camp. Park
County.
O
A recent issue Of the Boulder Age oon-
tanned some very interesting news from ito
correspondent ~ RadsrshurR. In speaking
Of that district hs says:
Lying one and ons-half miles west OF
Radersburg 10 the keatiAR mine. which has
been worked more or less for . period OF
twenty years. Tae ore body 10 l,6OO feet
long with an average thickness OF three
feet. The surface ore was free milling to
the depth Of 175 feet. when it changed to
pyrites Of iron. carrying sulphur, which
makes IL q sulphids ore. The shaft ID now
$50 feet dsep and the orc body continues
ths same with an average value Of $50 per
ton. Mr.. Heating and Mr.. w. N. TenEyok
are putting in the cyanide process to make
q thorough test Of the pyritlo ore.
Lying north and west OF the Heating
mine il = group Of claims owned by d. W.
Currin and w. N. Ton Eyck, consisting OF
five claims which. II they can DO worked
BY the cyanide or some other cheap pro-
cess, will prove . bonanza. The Ohio e1-
tension has i've openings and shows from
two to Eve feet Of ore which Mr.. Currln
says will run about $25 per ton. Mr.. Cur
rim discovered the ore shoot in this mine
last winter while taking out some timbers
10 keep an old man from freezing to death.
In taking out the timbsrs . few tons OF dirt
fell of and uncovered the body of ore. The
Butte lode lies east of this and has been
worked BY q tunnel and there is sixteen
inches Of ore in the face Of the tunnel and
about the Same amount showing on the
eurface. There 10 also . shaft forty-dve
feet deep, showing thirty inches Of ore
which runs $2S in gold and e6 In silver.
Mr.. Currin says the main lead on this
ground il twenty feet wide, but they have
NOT ~prospeotsd ii yet and do not know it,
exact value. Lying about thrse-fourths of
q mile west il the Rattlesnake lode. which
has three openings showing from two to
five feet Of ore. which Mr.. Cur.in feels CON
fident can b worked to good advantage
with the cyanide process.
Wilson d Co. own three mines which lie
in the vicinity Of the Heating mine which
have been worked for . number Of years.
The ore bodies average about two tses in
thioknsss and run 81 per ton in gold until
it reaches the depth whore it changes from
tho oxide to the pyrites form, when it raises
to Ga per ton. Mr.. Wilson has shut down
a present awaiting the experimenting Of
Heating and Ten Eyck. when he will put in
the same process if it proves . success.
The Jubilee Placer COMPANY 10 working
in Charity and Ksating Rulches. They are
using 400 inches Of water and employing
khrAo a IN (harikv vhinh ia r0Vinn vail
for with a run of six weeks they have
clos red up $4,000. In Ksating eulch they
are running q bedrock t1ume n will
c~rosscut the euloh to find the main channel.
The Moth Home mine 10 owned BY Mrs.
Norem., Of R~adersb1rg,a half interest
owning the other half. 1t 10 situated six
miles southwest of RadersburR. in Johnny's
Rulch. It 10 worked under the local man
agement of M. E.. Mcdonald, superinten-
dent, and John KsatinR 10 looking after
Mrs. Norsm's interest. They are shipping
sight a. they can take ont until the s1pira-
ton of the lease On MIS-. Norem's ons-half
interest. Mrs. Norem gets 20 per cent of
one-half of the output of tho mino, and her
income the past three months has been
about $500 per month. There are also
about 300 tons of milling ore on the dump
that will average about $50 per ton. There
was q report in the payers a short time ago
stating that Mrs. Moron had neglected to
do her representation work some time in
the past. This 10 not true, ~ Mrs. Norem
always performed the required amount of
work, and sometimes more.
There is a Rroupe OF five claims lying
north of the North Home mine, owned BY
H. Richardson. The Tiger joins tho e1-
tension of North Home and has a shaft
down fifteen feet deep and has a foot of ore
which assays 1886 per tom. The Daisy has a
thirty-tive foot shaft which assays $65 q
ton.
The Crest has a shaft fifteen feet deep; it
has about four tons Of orc on the dump
which came out OF that hole. that assays
$50 per ton. The orc shoot il about one
foot thick and the quartz is of the same
character 40 the North Home mine was on
the surface, showing horn silver. The
Prairie Queen is a parallel lead lying on
the east. It has five openings on tho load
place there has been . shaft sunk sixty feet
and filled up again to tho thirty foot level,
where there was . short level run each way
and twelve tons Of ore taken ont and ship
ped which Noted $500. There is q body Of
quartz whore this shaft was sunk which 10
used % a foot wall in sinking the shaft,
which Mr.. Richardson says will assay from
$50 to $50 q ton, and there are about
twenty tons on the dump.
A half mile east of here 10 the Advance
lode. owned bv s. B. Diamond. In it there
10 a hole twelve feet deep with q foot Of ore
in tho bottom which run SIG . ton in gold
and $l2 in silver.
Lying south of North Home mine about
one mile Ia the Mountain Glen, owned by J.
n. Rails and James Houston. They have
one shaft over ssventy-hve feet deep, and
one about fifty feet deep. with four feet OF
ore in the bottom Of the shaft. They have
had ore from the grass roots and have over
. car of ore on the dump, of which an aver
age sample assays $50 per ton. Mr.. Rails
discovered this shoot of ore this spring and
he. with his boys, have sum the shaft this
summer.
About one mile west Of the North Homo
mine is the Silver Bell and Nod, owned by
John Parker and Geo. T. Mckay. The de-
velopment work on this property consists
of one tunnel4 400 feet along with . wing
thirty feet deep in tho face of the tunnel,
one moline shaft LOG feet. one vertical shaft
ssventy-fvs feet deep. From these
vertical and incline shafts Mr..
Parker sorted out about ten tons of first
class ore. which run seventy-six ounces in
silver and 10 per cent in lead. This work
il all done upon the Ned, and the amount
OF concentrating ore blocked out is Just
immense. Mr.. Parker says that an average
sample taken from different parts of the
lead assays SO a ton. Joining the Ned on
the south il the Silver bell. which has one
moline shaft thirty feet deep and about
twenty feet of orosscuttlng and drifting,