The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-04
RICH PARK DISTRICT.
II Promises to Take the Lead Among
Jefferson County Mineral
Producers.
More Men at Work and More
Mines Being Worked Than
Ever Before.
Reports From other Mining Districts In
the Same County of = Most Enconr-
aging Character.

The Park mining district is rapidly
coming to the front and promises to take
the lead in Jefferson county if the other
districts do not get mp and hustle, says the
Boulder Age. Mem are at work on every
hill and the sound of hammer and drill and
the explosion of blasts is heard every hour
of the day and night. Even now there are
more men at work and more mines being
prospccted than ever bafore.
TIL Goodyear Mining COMPANY is work
ing several prospects, by shafts and tur-
uels, and all ars showing good veins OF pay
ore. A 81
John Neville & Co. have a forty-foos
shaft on the Dixon lode, at the bottom of
which is a vein Of lead carbonate ore aver
aging eighty ounces to the ton. They also
have q sixty-foot shaft on the Cora lode.
with a twentv-inch vein carving gold, sil-
YER and lead to the value of $7Oa ton. The
same parties own the Montana, Ontario
and several other hrst-class prospects,
which only need developments to become
dividend paying mines
Neville s. Co. are also engaged in getting
out mining and building timhers, and are
prepared to fill all orders on short notice.
The Mountain Key lode, operated by
Helena parties, has a TUNE ia 3oteet, and
II ia expected that in ten feet more the VEIN
will b cut at 4 depth Of 100 feet from me
~snrface. In running the tunnel quite a
GOOD sized rein OF fine gold ore was struck.
Wilson 6 Mcdonald are working the
Rnsa lode by a shaft, and are taking out ore
for shipment.
VIM. Mitchell has 4 prospect in Eureka
sM# 4. i ~. - @oA~x.oIs a thraA.f0nt VAIN
~ lead carbonate at the bottom OF atwelvs-
foot shaft. He has started 8 tunnel and
expects in ninety feet to cut the vein as a
depth Of 100 feet from the surface.
Emory Hertick has several hne pros
peots. his favorite being the Bunch Grass,
On which he will begin work in q few days.
He is building q large shaft house On the
property and will sink 100 feet.
The Maud, i'll Eureka gnlch. has q large
vein Of silver ore and IS owned by Forest
and Townsend. They are doing nothing at
present, but will begin work on the prop
erty in q short time.
Albrecht and Gerhauser have taken the
vhim from the Silver Wave and arc put
ting in q steam hoist. The shaft is down
$50 feet; which, with the quantity Of ore to
ha taken out. necassitRted an Improvement
over the old whim. Numerous levels. drifts
and slopes have been run, and there 1s
enough ors in sight TO satisfy ths most
OOuDllu III bAhk "A - $1,000 -
The Bohemian parties who have bonded
the Maggie have sunk a shaft ninety-Ive
feet, reaching water level. ~ sixty fees
they began drifting and soon struck a two
foot vein of iron pyrltes ore running from
$40 to $50 in gold to the ton.
u. NJ. Ortiz has driven a sixty foot tunnel
on the Two Marys. and has a hve-foot vein
Of fine gold rock.
j.. b. Perkins has a sixty-fve foot shaft
on the Eureka. in Eureka gulch. He run q
fifteen foot drift from tbs bottom OF the
shaft and cut a three-foot vein of galena
and iron. which assays sixty-one ounces IN
silver, $3.50 in gold and 1871 per can't lead.
Work will be pushed steadily on the prop
erty.
J.. W. Provard is putting a force of men
in the Uncle Ed, which will be Increased as
the snow disappears so that tlmbers can be
taken to the mine more easily. The prop
erty contains a large vein of gold ore run
ning $40 to the ton.
Tbs Gold Dust, Hard Cash and Iron Mask
are shut down at present, but it is antioi-
pated that all will be- at work when spring
fairly opens.
The Switzerland, adjoining the Gold
Dust and owned by P. A. Conner and others,
has two feet of very rich ore in the face OF
the tunnel, which ia now 100 feet from the
surface. This ore is said by experts to be
the best ever seen in the district. There
are two beautiful walls, showing Il we'll do
lined lead. In driving the tunnel a number
OF car loads Of ore have been extracted and
shipped. The prope ty is not worked Al
present, on account of the difficulty in get
ting needed machinery iii, but as soon Al
the snow is gone this trouble Will be OBJ
waited and operations resumed. g.. g.