The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-19
SILVER CAMP.
Times Are Lively and Prospects
Very H~attering in and Around
Philipsburg.
Some Of the Properties That Are
Yielding Rich Returns
to Owners,

Figures Of the Bullion Shipments No
Given Out for Pnblicat,on-The
Bl. Metallic Extension.
To The INDEPENDENT: II is a measure {
reorganization TO every citizen of this dis
trict that somewhere in the great common
wealth OF Montana there is a journal sutH
ciently liberal to devote a column to tn,
interssts of the greatest silver producing
camp in the Pacific coast states and terri
tories. II seems incredible that a dis
trict Of such repute and importance should
be sighted and passed by so entirely un'
noticed rs this has been. Save for an 90
~casional item roundly scoring the board oil
aldermen and our base ball club. or a stick
or two Of matter upon some trifinR senss-
tional affair hardly worthy OF notice. the
press of the country has let us severely
alone. No exception can be made save that
Of the Mail. whose mining editot IA very
reliable and Industrious gentleman) appar-
emily + furnishes all of the news items Of this
mining district gratuiously to his contem-
poraries throughout the ssate.
A great deal of ore 10 being extracted by.
trinters from this lime country, near the
contact. The Hope mill 10 running steadily
on ore from the Porter. and all of the
Granite mills are running to their full Ca
pacity. An immense amount of prospect
ing is being lone in the main range
TO the south and east. At Georgetown the
Southern Cross is extracting and ship
.so- fo~., r-~rAs&sac -f -oIS w1nL <h.A ~
turns very handsome profits. understand
that arrangements are now perfected to
treat this class of ores by the nav gold
process. If it will work. the Moose Creek
mining district will come Rrandly to the
front, as it has a great number of mines
containing immense deposits of medium and
low gtade ores.
Work has been resumed on tho mines Of
Frazier and Carpp. in the upper Rock
Creek country. The lodges are in a badly
broken lime country, but carry chimneys of
exceedingly rich ore.
AT the Alps (some twenty -four miles
southwest of PhilipsourR) the ten-stamp
mill is dropping on an excellent grade of
gold ore. TIL property is paying nice divi-
dends to its controllers. the Messrs. Opp
and Weinstein. It is claimed for it that
the slopes show enough twelve-dollar rock
to run the present mill for ten years.
TIT main shaft of the Puritan is being
Will dispatch. An electric light plant
has been placed in position SO as to permit
a thorough lighting of the property under
It will be no distant day when the !
Puritan Mining company will be shipping
high grade rock.
Hickey ct III. are excavating some very
high grade ore out of the Gem and adjoin-
ing claims to the north. There is no great
amount Of the rock, but what there is goes
up into the hundreds.
A vast amount of prospecting is being
done. in tire Boulder. some twelve miles
northwest of Philipsburg. 1t is estimated
there are owe. 500 men at work in that
section. Messrs. Malonsv. Barnes ct al.
have a fine prospect on Grid creek. The
ore is silver lead, OF fair grade and verv
abundant. A liberal offer was made a short
time ago by some Colorado people for a
Of the ground, but owing to the
high opinion in which it was held by its
owners no sale was made.
The Mystery tunnel will soon cut the
ledge. Look ont for it.
Every CORY. but we have orders from the
OF the Northern Pacific Express
which will prevent cur giving pub
licity to the weekly bullion shipments OF
the camp hereafter"
Have you any idea what brought about
such instructious?"
."I have not; presumably the company is
acting uron we'll founded premises"
doesn't this kill ycu!'
l can imagine into what conste nation
the reader OF The INDEPENDENT would be
precipithted BY missing therefrom, for
the brisf spnce of just one week. the bullion
output of the greatest mining camp on
earth, sir"
1t wcnld be worth three years of a mans
life to hsGr Gen. Charles S. Warren pass
bis opinion on a piece of negligence of this
character. Now, in the name of high
heaven. what is the occasion of this man
order?
Is it that our silver production is fast
the copper output Of the great An
aConda company?
Thieves do not steal silver bars weighing
$50 pounds. or more.
1t is possible that the extensive ora re-
serves OF the Granite Mountain and Ri.
Metallic mining companies have reached a
working grade 80 low as TO effect the volume
or their silver output, and. as a necessary
sequence. the market value of their stocks?
Is 1t within the range of possibility that
the affairs Of the Hope Mining company
are approaching a financial crisis of such
as to arouse within the breasts
OF the directors the horrible fear that the
production of their (?) mines might prove
an irritating factor in the settlements Of
impending difficultiesp
All of this, too, just after the defeat of
the SILVER msasure IN the house,
l think such an extraordinary denartnra
from a long established precedent may be
due to the fact that the Metallic Ex-
tension Mining COMPANY" is rapidly an
p1ochlng the plane of a dividend payer.
Ut has been before the people for some
time as a possible %producer). Should it's
output meet the expectation of its friends
then. verify" will there be good reason
Tor Keeping from the ipquisitive public a
knowledge of the silver production of the
Philipsburg mines. AS it is impossible To
coh]ectata, from any well founded
premises" just what occasioned this de-
c!ded action of the express ompunv il
simply remains for the product, in bars. tn
be given, as usual: so the reader NAV con
tent AIs soul in peace.
Tn bullion shipments of the Damn for
the week ending Saturday. July 1G, is ninety
bars. of which the Granite d.! oducsI thirty,
one, tie Bi-Metallic twenty-ninc, the Com
Dihiit'on fourteen, and the Hope sixteen.
1Iesily. thls Is a most creditable output.
THE EI-METALLIC EXTENSION.
The wo X of development upon sbo nro,-
erty OF the Bl-Motnllic Extension is rein,
carried forward with al OF the disnaicn
considering the limited force en-.
gagged and the obstinate character Of tho
encountered in driving the north
Zrom the 400"
AS the pronerty has lately been receiving