The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-25
BOUGHT SLOGAN MINES.
Cnur d'Alene Men Who Have Re-
Gently Become Interested in
the New Eldorado.
Butte Investors Also Putting
Money in British Columbia
Properties.
The Morning Mine Concentrator at Null
Ian Is at Work-strike In the Tin
Cup-An Antimony Shelter.

OsBuRN, Idaho. Nov. 2~3.-[Spscial. -E.
S. Jennings. a mining man of prominence
in the Coeur d'Alenes. returned 80 Osburn
recently from q trip to the SLOGAN country.
He states that that section is certainly one
of the greatest galena camps in the world.
Many prominent C@ur d'Alene mining
men are investing heavily IN SLOGAN mines.
Patrick Clark. until recently superintend-
emit of the Poorman at Burke, last week
bonded the Rico group of prospects on Car
penter creek, twenty miles from haslo, for
$4,000. The original locators of this prop
erty were j. NJ. Harris and Evan Jones, two
Cour d'Alene men, and 4. +. Kelly and s.
NJ. Wharton. 1t is stated that Messrs.
Campbell and Finch. of the Gem mine. Ben
Kingsbury, of Butte, and John NJ. Burke
are associated with Patrick Clark in the
deal. The claims bonded are five in num-
Der. the original ~locators retaining two in
the group. The Rico carries six feet OF
clean shipping galena and eighteen inches
of carbonates. The galena assays about 2O
ouncesi in silver and so per cent lead. which
is considerably higher than C9ur d'Alene
ealena. The carbonates in the Rico assays
fifty ounces in silver to the ton.
Mr.. Jennings states that ore will be
shipped extensively during the winter
from a number of the hiRh-arade mines of
the camp. although wagon roads are scarce.
and most of the mines are only accessible
by trails. Among the properties owned by
Cmur d'Alene men, which Will ship ore this
winter. are the Blue Bird, owned by q. D..
Garrison and w. III. Taylor; the Dardinells,
owned by John C. Davenport; the Freddie
Lee, owned by James F. Wardner, and the
Idaho, owned by E. c. Grove and James +.
Wardner.
TIL Great Northern railroad hauls ore
from kaslo to either Great Falls or Helena
for IS per ton. In case the democratic
congress should pass a free lead bill in the
near future, SLOGAN galena would become a
formidable rival of the Cpur d'Alene pro-
duct.
The fine new concentrator of the Morn
ing mine at Mullan. which was to have
started up on Nov. IA. is still idle. Atram-
way car became un~manageable and jumped
the track, causing a delay of a week. To-
morrow, however, the splendid and massive
new machinery of the mill will be put in
operation. The power which will drive the
machinery is about the finest in the camp,
the water having a fall of 1000 feet. Two
six-feet Pelton wheels run the thlrty-two
iigs, four Gates crushers. four sets of Corn
ish rolls, four double-deck tables and
eight yanners which comprise the machln-
cry plant. To secure the 1000 feet fall,
the waters of Boulder creek were carried by
g fume one mile. thence ], 800 feet by iron
pipe. The entire plant which has been
constructed during the past summer by the
Milwaukee company, which controls the
Morning group mill. will aggregate a total
cost of very nearly $500, 600. d. b. Huntley,
the superintendent, has personally super"
yised every detail of the work, and the re-
suit is one of the most substantial, practi-
cal and ingenious ore working plants IN the
west.
An important strike has been made in
the Tin Cup. a newly opened mine on the
so-called dry ore" belt of thu CRnr
d'Alenes, about midway between Osburn
and Wallace, on Lake gulch. This prop
e.ty was bonded last spring by Major j.
l.. Montgomery, a capitalist of New York
city. Mr.. Montgomery originally took hold
of the property more as a matter of amuse-
ment than from any expectation OF pronS.
He had tired of his luxurious metropolitan
career, where for many years he was an
officer in the famous Seventh tired of
his yacht and his blooded horses, and came
to Idaho for u change OF scene. He is now
an enthusiastic miner and the owner of a
really valuable mining property. the result
of Blk months work and the expenditure of
about $50, 900. The Tin Cup strike was
made at a point 800 feet from the surface.
and Is high grade copper-silver ore-similar
to the product of the Mineral Point and
Nellie mines at this place. The bond on
the Tin Cup also included an adjacent
claim, the keystone. ChaH, wing, the
original locator, II w. L. Mann are in
terested with Montgomery in the property.
The Idaho Anthony company, operating
on Pine creek. near Wardner, will build a
smelter on their property this winter. The
machinery has already been ordered from a
Spokane house. This will be the only anti
mony smelter in the west. with the e1oep-
ton of a small plant in Nevada. The ores
of this company carry GO per cent antimony.
1t is believed thai the enterprise VIII prove
remunerative. as the finest anthony mines
in the United States are found in tho
C9ur d'Alene mountains. The kratzer
group of anthony claims, near Thompson
Falls, Mont. Tin the Cour d'Alene range.
are said to produce nearly one-fourth of the
anthony mined i'll the United States, and
it is thought much of the product of these
claims will be treated at the Wardner smell
ter.
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