The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-27
The Report Of the Rich Strike
in the Rumsey Tunnel Is
Denied.
Orc Improves rs tho Work Pro-
ceeds on tho East Granite
Property.
Butte Men Becoming Interested In Prom
ising Claims In Jefforson County
At the Anaconda.

Sub U / VIC GlCL6tL mining lECDII JE htAoub
in tho state is tho Granite Mountain Min
ing company. OF this place, employing a
force of about 500 workmen. The output
of this great mine last year was in round
numbers 9, 800, 900 ounces OF pure silver and
$500 ounces Of pure gold. Property OF the
company in Granite and Rumsey consists
of l04 patented claims, q thirty, sixty and
100 stamp mill, hosting works. with ma
chinery second to none, among which is tho
new hoist erected last year. with reels ca
pable of holding 1000 feet of seven-inch
fiat cable. The company also owna exten-
siye wood yards, mechanical and black
smith shops. and q ttamway extending
from Granite to Rumsey, a distance of two
miles. The tlnmway il in continuous op-
Grafton and last year transported from
Granite to Iumsey $4,000 tons of
ore. Mining is principally confined
10 the Ruby claim, from the 800
to the 1900 foot level, inclusive, and
the /, 700 foot level. all of which are not yet
fully opened up. In and about the mine
the working force is about 1886. The Rum
Hey mill brushes on an average daily of 210
tons of ore. Owing to the quantity Of
water in the mine and the expense incurred
hh aluAllAuE Az UAO SoAhpnhy NOAy VApobJ
commence driving a tunnel from Rumsey
to connect with the mine. which is intended
to serve the several purposes Of draining
the mine, an air shaft and a means of pros
pectinR the several claims penetrated by it.
The tunnel is now in ., 800 feet and before
1000 feet moro are driven the Ruby ledge
will be struck. The height of the tunnel ia
seven feet and the width eight feet, and it
to 100 feet. Under the tunnel 10 a water
ditch twenty incheB deep and five feet
wide. Air drills are used in tho work.
which will probably be completed in 1894.
1t employs about thirty men.
The report regarding n rich strike in the
tunnel has been extensively circulated the
last week or two. Superintendent Weir,
however. denies the rumor. As fer as can
be learned nothing of Importance has yet
been cut.
From the work mapped out for the pres
ent and future years and that already &C
complished it is fully demonstrated that
tho company has every reason to appreciate
the services of their superintendent. ThoE.
Weir, who is ably assisted by Mr.. Werner
Zeigler. j. G. Pyle is the assayer, and i.
l.. Bartlett mining engineer.
East G.anite-Ih,s once prosperous and
yet hog eful mining ompany was organized
and incorporated in the year 1891, repre-
senting 500, GOO shares of stock at $40 per
share. with j. X. Pardee, president; Joseph
A. Hyde. vico president and treRsurei;C. Il.
Freyschlag. secretary; Jack Welsh. super
lntendent; Mike Jhovlin, foreman.
With filth scarcely less potent than that
of to-day a few thousand dollars was put
into the treasury and expended in the cree
tion of first class hosting machinery, in
timber, buildings and in sinking. drifting
and everything necessary for developing a
prospect into u full t1edged mine. The
company own the we'll known claims-New
Departure. Montreal. Welsh. Black Rock
md q one-hnlf interest in the Boston, all
of which are patented. The g.oup contains
valuable timber as we'll MS the mineral be-
low the a%n,face. Tho more important
claims are tho first two named. On the
New Departure development consists of
tu1ne and drifts. The main SHIFT is sunk
to n depth of go feet, penetrating a fine
looking vein. Farther up the hill, to the
north, about two hundred feet, runs a
parallel vein with Il twenty-foot shaft.
Commencing ut the main shaft We find the
vein extending over into the Montreal. a
distance east of 1000 feet. where q shaft is
down somo eighteen feet, the vein ut this
point hearing four feet of ore, assayinG
fsom SIS to s18 per ton.
Going Town in the main shaft a distance
OF forty feet, the point where the East
Granite COMPANY found the vein, we find a
drift twenty-five feet long. containing Il
strong sprinkling of orc nil through. At
VIC btScuty-lOO1 leSel u utllL SAkGIUS IOECy
feet, with four feet of ore running from
SIS to S1GO a ton. The 225- foot level throws
out q 13O-foot drift driven on the hanging
wall, leaving two feet of ore standing on
The foot wall. This vein dips into the shaft
at the bottom with about seventeen inches
of good milling ore. AS may be seen the
ore improves as work proceeds, but as tho
treasury funds are limited. operations in
the East Granite ceased until such time as
tho treasury could be supplied. and, as the
mining boys nrs hard at work saving up n
few dollars. they believe the time is not far
distant when the property will be reopened
and their pockets filled to the brini.
Bi-Metnllic-Not long ego the mining
prospect just south of the Granite hill,
known us the Blaine shaft, was taking out
ore and mining stsclas VIC g selling Mt rs
cents a share. Since then the growth of
the mlne has been phenomenal; thousands
Of tons of orc hoIsted, extensive hosting
works erected. reduction wol ks built, tram
ways constructed, claims lrsspected. etc.
During the five years. OF j. Is.
Rlsque. the ompnny established q reputa-
tion second to 10 other mining on prise
in the state. Tho Q are about 800 employees
in the mino. the greater number being en-
gagged in unenrthing tho greatly desired
rubv silver and native metals below the
l.5OO-foot levol., Tbs foreman into,us us
that the mine IL looking well and that the
machinery and everything connected with
the mine is III iiIst-clnBs working order.
AND BUTTE MINES.