The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-29
new ERA FOR BOULDER.
Electricity Playing = Great Part In
the Development Of Mines
There
Tho Plant Ia Run on the European
Plan and Will Bio Ex-
tended.

A Boom at sand Creek and somo Exoite-
mcnt-Thres Now Mills
for Pony.
A new era has dawned upon the boulder
camp, in the starting ny Of the plant OF the
Boulder Electric Power company. says a
correspondent OF the Big Timber Pioneer.
The problem OF . cheap, effective. regular
and easily made and inexhaustible power
has been solved. The plant At present. con-
sists Of a Class D-62 Thompaon-Houston
, generator, run BY a Leffel wnter wheel with
about eighty fact head Of water. and has =
capacity of 800 volts or eiRhty-tve horse
mower. II 10 run on thS European plan.
you order what you want and pay Tor wha'
You receive. BY means Of . recording watt
meter, each horse power or fraction thereon
used Is registered. II you use your motor
one hour or twenty-four You pay for tho ex'
act power used and no more. The COM
pany is an independent one. free to NIL n
controlled By no particular mine. Ihe
line. thus fur stretched, covers q distance
Of about two and one-half miles. n
used 20, eco pounds Of copper wire In Its
construction. For the present it has sx-
tended only to the Poorman and DAISY
mines. Al an early date in the summer the
capacity of the plant will be increased sew
eral hundred horse power. and the lines
extended to the Independence and TO oshef
lines who have spoken, and to any who may
desire il.
The Poorman NJ. & N. Go. have one ten
ton Crawford rotary mill In place and ready
TO start 40 soon az the spring thews FUR
pish the necessary supply OF water. ana
another on the ground, which will DO SGT
nm and put in operation worry soon: A ten
hnrse mower motor will furnish the neces-
.arv mower for these mills, likewise light
for tbe mill and boarding house. In q short
time the mine will also be lighted. and tne
pumping and hosting wlll De zone ~
deyeloped By q shaft eighty feet in depth,
from near tho bottom Of which q drift has
heen run over 800 feet across the claim
openinr up I'VE good leads, showing i've
and a hall feet of ore, but the main lead
has not yet been reach. This LEAD mas oeen
On tha surface and has shown some aston
iabino ASSAYS. Two leads were struck IN
sinkino the shaft and three in running the
diff. AT present the work is being pose,
cuted on . drift on what 10 com monlyc called
the '',ich lead" 10 called from the TACT
shat from q handful OF orc psckea up ~
= Few dollars Of $4,000 pei ton was had.
Il II main 10 be seen therefore that there 10
no danger Of this company falling snort In
1hs quantity Of ore necessary to run the1r
mills and % to the quality OF value. mli,
runs and assays have more shan saslsneo
1hem about that. They will also handle
xS...s f.one tha Emma and Brilliant, two
adjoining claims.
irhe fornsr 10 owned BY L. L. Lakel. and
ia held under bond and lease by the Boul-
der Electric Power company ana tne Clsy
bank. OF Coon Rapids. 10. An Incline has
been sunk ON IL about forty feet. following
the lead down. tho ore saved, ana pafs OF -
milled, showing good results.
The Brilliant is owned by Messrs. Beas-
lev and Hatch and IL appropriately named.
A shaft and incline 100 feet deep shows a
lead from the surface varying from twelve
70 twenty-five inches in width. OF an aves-
on 100 pounds Of this ore realized at the
rate OF Sbl pc. ton. and the ore came from
mat below the grass roots at tPat. 1t IL
the intention OF the owners to put in o mill
on this property during the summer. With
no intention Of makinga play on the name,
II can eandidly be said shat this is one OF
the most brilliant and promising claims in
she district.
The Daisy mine. the property Of the
Treasure State Mining company. adlolns
the we'll known Hidden Treasure and is de-
velopsd by a tunnel 200 feet in length, tho
breast OF which shows every indication OF
the close proximity of q lead. At a point
2l3 feet f,om the mouth of the tunnel q
lead was struck along which croascuts ars
now being driven on each side. In all 2bO
feet Of orossouttirR has been done TO date
disclosing An average width OF ore OF thirty
six inches. An up.alse OF el1ty-nve fees
from the south c~rosscut was made through
the solid ore. Three smaller leads were cut
BY the tunnel. They have cow on the dump
about 800 tons of ore taken out in develop
ment work alone. This ore has shown n
value as high as $I44 by assay, $1,000 by
assny. $22. IL by mill run and an average OF
$50. 80 by assay from samples taken across
The lead. With their great body of it,
could they ask for more, and not lay them
selves liable to the charge of wanting the
earth? Their new ten stamp mill n con-
centrator has just been started up and il
Iun by a fifteen horse power motor, which
also furnishes light fox mill and boarding
camp in the use of electric light and power.
Time and space forbid mention of many
equally as meritorious mines. and OF the
hundreds of claims and new discoveries,
which with the same amount OF Work
would develop into at least their equals,
Out al Hftlol0 On VIC DoulaoE CauP Wi6A-
out reference to the Independence mine
would be like the play of Hamlet with
Hamlet left out. AND yes it seems but
Hspstition of a thrice told tale. to mention
Its three tunnels in all about 1000 feet in
length, its 140- foot shaft, 1.0O0-foot tram
way, an output Of ffty.fonr tons OF ore p,l
day. Its ten stamp battery and three $50
pound Kendall stamps which pound W
tventr-two tons of ore per dav Of a value
from $50 to 800 per ton.
Snow in abundance still remains with us
but 1t has not proved the obst uction tina
many would think. In fsct it has enabled
freiohtsts to land heavier loads by slet
than they could by wagon by smoothin,
over the few trihing Irregularities in Help
canyon, and OH the road up the mountai
from to sn The road has been kept opel
from Independence to the Poorman Inin'
on one side, and up to Solomon City on tn
Other, as long as they were needed. nne
another winter will see them kept open al
tho time. With the advent of the electTica
and narrow gagged railroads and the tele
phone line from Big Timber. the numslou
new mills run by electricity. great an
rapid will be the growth of the Boulds
camp and great will b. the people thereof
At present there is being run between Bi
Timber and the camp q tri-weekly stage
carrying both mails, express and passen
gers. Its proprietor is J. J. Walk. a mos
genial man, who has at much sxpens
bought good. substantial and easy rioin
f~.-koysa Nponhaa ThA tviD il r,- -nd