The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-20
THE MINES OF MONTANA.
Interests Near Missouia Advancing
on Actual Ore Shipments
and Mill Returns.
A Fifty-Ton Concentrator to Be
Erected at the Keystone
Mine Soon.
A Rich Strike Made Ia tho Maginnis Mine,
Owned by Well. Known Helena
People.
Special to The Independent.

SASN'"A
M1ssou1A, March 1a.-The mining inter
ests in the vicinity Of Missoula are adyanc
ing on the substantial basis of actual or,
shipments and mill returns. The mill q
Nine Mile Creek has boon running contlnu
ous!y since the FIRST of the year with salts
factory results to the company. During thu
past month ten additional stamps hay,
been added, and 1t is quite probable that
forty-stamp mill will be added this sum
mer, Ms there ia an abundance of ore il
sight to keep such q plant running for soms
time to come. Some of the large stockhold
ers have expressed u desire to have this
done.
On Deep creek a half interest in a grour
OF claims was recently sold for $4,000 te
Butte parties, who will make extended i'm
p~rovements In the spring.
The keystone and King company. opsr-
atins in Spring culch. are taking out and
shipping considerable ore from tie Key
stone mine. The president, w. II. smead,
went to Carter Thursday to put q force OF
fifteen men on the King. He stated that
the erection OF a tfty-ton c~oncentratol
would be commenced as soon as the snow
was off the ground. The keystone mine.
belonging to this company. has been the
leading shipper of the Spring Ouch dis
trict. A body of ore was discovered near
the surface and worked for some time. over
a year since, producing something over
$50, 600. The ledge at this point was much
broken and laid nearly fiat. Last summer
but little ore was shipped. This winter q
body of fine carbonate was uncovered on the
-ako~3 Df thn NtnynN nTn eSVap or aiphf
hundred feet from the one previously
worked, This is much less broken than
the ore previously worked and gives every
indication of being in place. The walls of
the vein at this point are nearly vertical
and the ledge gives every indication of
ing ore was cut on the 150-foot level and
again or the three hundred. The oie con
centrates running we'll in both copper and
lead. The development on the mine has
Leen quite extensive and erection of &
milling plant has been delayed only from
want of funds, which it is Understood hhvt
been secured.
Some miners at the Curlew recently dis
covered some rich float on a portion Of the
claim not previously worked. They man.
aged to secure a ninety-day lease at one
quarter royalty and are now working tn,
ground. At the depth of ten feet they hat
taken out a carload OF high grade galens
ore.
One Of the most important strikes re
GENTLY made in this vicinity is on the Pea-
cock mine on the Lo Lo creek, twenty mile
from Missoula. About five years ago par
ties had a lease and six months bond OF
this property. They worked out a surfac
pocket of ore and a%malRamated it in q,
arastra. The opening from which the or
WAS taken is about thirty feet long ant
from five to ten feet deep, and two to th,e,
feet wide. This produced something ovel
81. 600 in gold. which was sold to the FRS
National bsnk of this CITY. This appeared
to have nearly exhausted the pocket. and
% the bond had nearly expired the par-
chase was not completed. This winter the
present owner drove a Inc into the
mountain some sixty feet below the origi-
nal outcrop and has uncovered a body OF
ore similar to that worked in the afastra.
The face of the tunnel, now in thirty feet.
is all in ore, which is a very free milling
gold rock.
On the Lo Lo. about three miles to the
north of this property, is that of the Chick
anan company. Several tunnels have been
driven on this and a continuous vein of
quartz averaging thirty inches, has been
exposed for a distance of 200 feet. This
company have ordered an eight stamp mill.
which will be erected on Lo Lo creek, a
quarter of a mile from the mine.
The Charcoal mine near Camas prairie, ia
now shipping about three car loads of 800
one monthly. This property is owned by
the original discovers and has proved to
be that rare thing. a poor mans mine. The
locators were all poor men, but they have
from the proceeds of the ore, been able to
develop the mine and place in addition a
comfortable sum to their credit.
On the south side of the mountain, and
distant from the Charcoal about three
miles, are the mines of the old camp Of
Wallace. For several years past but very
ltfIa Wnrk haa ham dona hara Moot ~
the ore found was too low grade to pay
shipment and other expenses. The owners
of the claims were not financially able to
erect machinery. This winter some work
has been done which has resulted in the
discovery of higher grade ore. and there is
every indication that the camp will be q
lively one this coming summer.