The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-14
FRISCO MILL IN SHAPE.
A Cnur d'Alene Bonanza That Will
Be- Turning Out Concentrates
Shortly.
Patrick CLARK Has Resigned aa
Manager of the Celebrated
Poorman.
Number Of Cooke CITY Mines Bonded by j.
A. ClA~rk--Eastsrn People After
Boulder Mines.

The new Frisco mill will probably be IL
shape 10 handle some ore next weak, cay.
the Caur d'Alene Miner. Every carpenter
that can be utilized il working. There arr
employed on the mill and in the mins
about sixty mon, and mors are being put IN
the mine daily. BY the time the mills arr
in shape to handle their full capacity o
ore the usual force will DO employed in ths
mine. The latter ID IN excellent condition,
and there is an immense amount Of orr
ready to be broken. Az = producer, when
everything was in running order. the REQ
ord Of the Frisco is equal to the best In thu
country.
Patrick CLARK, who has been manager OF
tho Poorman mine since the days when i
was simply regarded . good prospect. and
to whose sxpsrisncsd management 10 largely
due the present value Of the property. bal
resigned the position, and ID succeeded BY
Ben +. Thayer. He, 10 . Young man, but
has had large experience in mining, having
been employed a nu.nber Of years in the
Anaconda. and latsr wal superintendent 81
the Bi-Mstallic At Ph%i!ipsburR. For thu
past few years he has been in Telluride, Col.
Mr.. Clarke will remain here. Besides his
many other interests that need his atten-
tion, he il the second largest owner of stock
In the Poorman company. {
Ono shift was started to work in the mine
yesterday. The mill has bsen started again,
and by to-day q full force will probably b
At work. The new pump, with capacity fol
pumping 1000 feet IL almost ready for uss.
Tho depth At present 10 but quo feet. and
the showing there 10 better than In thu
upper levels. n ID probable thar range
ments will be made to lease the Union con-
lcsntrator at that place. The mine II in
shape to easily supply 250 tons Of ore daily.
and in case this arrangement is effected
both tbs Poorman and Union mills will be
supplied with ore from the Poorman mine
this winter.
The Granite vein, if it may be called a
vein, has been u puzzle ever since it was
discovered. But with all its dips, spurs and
angles, it has never yet failed to produce a
large amount of high grade galena ore.
hence the solving OF the puzzle has not yet
caused its owners much anxiety or loss OF
sleep. When the long tunnel was started
it was limited that the ore had been
about worked out in the upper levels and
that unless this tunnel tapped this ore body
very soon work would Of necessity cease. A
little ore has come into the face of the long
tunnel. but the ore body is yet untouched.
Meantime eighty non. union miners are
keeping the c~onoentrator going at it's full
capacity. In the middle tunnel there is a
body Of clean high grade galena eighteen
feet wide, recently uncovered, at q place
that has heretofore been considered barron
of ore. So far from being worked ont. the
upper levels never looked better.
T. N. Barnard exhibited 4 few days ago
fine specimens Of copper ore, taken
from a recent discovery by Messrs. Bishop
and Lovewsll on Placer creek. It is about
the best looking ole We have seen from that
canyon. The discovery was made about a
mile above the Castle Rock, about four
miles from Wallace, and right on the trail
leading up the east fork of the creek. And
it is evident from new discoveries and de-
Of old ones that Placer creek ia
full of promise.