The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-18
MINES NEAR wRAOERSDURG
Properties That Add to the Wealth
of a Neighboring Mining
Section.
Trades In Golden Grown Mining
Stock for Residences In the
Capital City.
A Six Thousand Dollar Gold nar tho Rc-
suit of Sixteen Days Run on Cooke
City Ore.
special to Tho Independent.

Special to The Independent.
RApERsruRa, March 14.-IayinG one and
n half miles west Of Radsrsburg Ia tho
Heating mine, which has been worked moro
or less for a period OF twenty-five years.
The ore body is 1000 feet long. with MI
average thickness of three feet. The sur
face ore was free milling to the depth OF
It's feet, when it changed 10 pyrites of iron.
carrying sulphur, making it a sulphide ore.
The shaft IL now 450 feet deep and the ore
body continues the same with IN average
value of 81 per ton. The cyanide process
has been put in at this property and has 80
far given very satisfactory results. Lying
north and west Of the Heating
mine = 10 a group OF claims owned
by Will Teneyck, OF Boulder, and
II. w. Curren, of Radersburg, consisting
of five claims, which, II they can be
worked BY the cyanide or some other cheap
process, will prove a bonanza to the own
ers, The Ohio Extension has five OPEN
ines and shows from two to five feet of low
grade ore that will assay about $25 per ton
in silver and lead. The Butte lode lies east
of this and has been worked by u tunnel;
there is about sixteen inches of ore in the
face of the tunnel and about the same
amount showing on the surface. This
property has also a shaft sixtv-fve feet
deep. showing thirty inches OF ore which
runs 1928 in gold and So in silver. Mr.. Cur
rim says the main lead on this ground is
twenty feet wide, but it has not been
thoroughly ]prospected yet, 80 its real
value is yet unknown. Lying about
three-fourths of u mile west OF
this is the Rattlesnake lode, which has
three openings showing from three to five
feet of ore. which Mr.. Currin is confident
can be worked so as to pay we'll by the
mines which lie in the immediate VICINITY
Of the Heating mine that have been worked
for a number OF years. The ore bodies
average about two feet in thickness and
run about ST in gold until it reaches a
depth where it changes the oxide to
pyritio form. when it raises to- an lnsrlnslc
value of 1927 per ton. Mr.. Wilson ia at
present experimenting with the cyanide
process, and from all reports he is having
good luck. The Jubilee Placer company is
working In Charity and Heating gulches.
They will soon be able to put on a large
force of men as soon "a the weather per-
mits.
The North Home mine is owned by Mrs.
Norem, of RadersburQ, a half interest.
Sanford, Evans and Bridenthal. of Helena,
owning the other half. 1t is situated six
miles southwest of Radersburg, in Johnny's
gulch. They are shipping q car Of ore a
day and have lots Of ore in reserve. The
owners ship their ore to the Denver and
Omaha smelters. The mine is at present
worked under a lease by Radessburg par
ties. and Mrs. Norem 9ets 20 per cent OF the
output Of the mine MS her share. And her
income the past six months has been on an
average Of 5000 a month. The lessees have
about 300 tons of ore on the dump that will
average $50 per ton. The best ore that the
nine produces will assay and carry horn
silver that reaches far up into the tbous-
ands. Will Ten Eyck. of Boulder.
manages Mrs. Norem's interest and looks
after things in general. There is a group
of five claims lying north of the North
Home that are owned by H. Richardson.
The Tiger joins the extension of the North
Home mine and has a shaft down fftee
feet deep and q foot of ore that is worth $35
per ton. The Daisy has a thirty-foot shaft
knd ore that assays $65 per ton. The Crest
has a shaft fifteen feet deep; it has about
four tons of ore or the dump that assays
800 per ton. The ore shoot Is about one
foot thick and the quartz is about the same
character as that found in the North Home
mine and is of horn silver. The Prairie
Queen is a parallel lead lying IN the east.
1t has five openings on the lode, showing
pay ore in every opening, At one place
there has been a shaft sunk sixty feet and
filled up again to the thirty-foot level,
where there was a short level run each way
and twelve tons of ore taken out which
Melted tho owners 5000. There is a bunch of
quartz where this shaft has been sunk. and
is twelve fest thick on the surface. and was
used as a foot wall in sinking the shaft.