The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-02-05
A MONTANA GOLD MINE.
The Martina, Owned by the Nine
Mile Mining and Milling
Company.
A Clean Up OF $4,000 in Bullion
Is Made Every Fifteen
Days
The MIns Has = Very Complete Plant aud
IL Worked on Economi-
cal Basis


loss 90 the divide between the Flatheae
reservation and the Bitter Root mountain'
lies the prosperous aud picturesque hitl'
mining camp. Martina, the home Of the
Nine Mile Mining aud Milling company
and the San Martina Mining company. says
the Mail
The journey 20 this camp from the Gar
den city distance OF hftY-one miles. Is
more rapidly accomplished BY team, though
POI tion OF the distance. 20 Nine Mile STA
sion twenty seven miles. can be made over
she Cnur d'Alene brsuoh Of the Northern
Pacinc railroad. Tie journey from this
latter point carries one through the fastness'
ess OF the Nine Nile mountains and some
OF the gTandest scenery in she northwest
The snow AZ present, while quite deep, Is
sufficiently packed 90 insure the best Of
sleighing, and while the traveller bowls
along St a rapid gait behind pair
of fleet and hardy enyuss ponies
be ia struck with the alnost
Indsso ibsble beauty Of the surroundings
Tall pines shooting heavenWsrd. in many
instances 10 height Of fifty or sixty feot
with their branches bowed doWa ~ though
In humblest subsection with the weight Of
snow; stumps and undsrhrush capped with
the full fall OF the seasons snow assuming
various shapes aud forms; the merry. rip
pling brooks guroling and rushing down
the mountains sides with here and there
AmountRin ranch with comfortable home
and spacious outhouses, combine TO make
q picture that any lover OF nature might
heartily enjoy and the end Of a journey
which would ordinarily prove tedious comes
altogether too soon.
sharp tara in the road, about twenty
four miles from Nine Mile station, brings
she traveller in full view OF tbs little mining
camp, which Is scattered alOag the gulcn
for a distance OF nearly mile. The nrst /
building, constructed entirely OF LOGS "a
the south end Of the oamp, 10 the Martina
store and poEtoftics, formerly the property
OF the late John Noth, but now presided
over b. Dave Bogarh eX-county clerk and
recorde and mere the visitor meets the
first OF many hearty welcomes. As mer- I
chant Dave" may not be bowling sue
cess but as an entertainer In his mountain I
retreat, ths writer ventures the assertion I
that this sslf-same politician and prince OF
good fellows Is without esr in tho laEd. /
IL IL a difhcu.t task TO break away from the I
hAspitality Of tails oomfortabls and we'll /
arranged establishment. bat, this be-
ing accomplished. toe tenderfoot mean /
dsrs up narrow trail IN about i've /
feet OF snow for distance OF third or a
mile. passing numerous cabins and an oc- /
oasional liquid rofrsshmsnt booth and hnds /
himself at the store ana otros of tbs Nine /
Mile Mining company, and here another /
welcome. the hsartineas OF which cannot be I
mistaken. awaits him at tbs hands OF
Asssis. J. W. Woodford and Tommy" /
Cox. she manager and bookkseDer Of the /
company, respectively.
The company carries a complete limo OF /
general merchandise for the benefit o. the .
men in its employ and others residing Ia .
the neighborhood, &c well as 30 supply the
large boarding house adjoining, wherein
the unmarried men employed a. the works
are boarded and lodged.
Across the Culeh aud a short distance Up
the mountain 10 situated the company's
new tWsnty-stamp mill, one Of the most
complots of its kind IN the northwest. Ths
ore chutes, which are sslf-fesdinR. are sup-
piled BY double track gravity trsmwaY
which connects With the mines further 10
she mountain side. This mill has a daily
capacity OF between hftY and sixty tons OF
ore. aud has besn running at It's fullest
capacity ever since Its construction several
months ago. The tnilinRs from the stamps
after ruRning over tie plates are carried
30 the Eiue vannefs, which are given a
slight though rapid. side motion. hete
VAuners are likewise supplied with copper
plates for smalQhmatinz Purposes bT
means Of which the heaviest di : falls 10
the bottom and hfiiiAtes more rapidly with
the quicksilvsr. BV this arrangement - is
claimed that the tailings do not carry away
more than - cents 10 the ton. a ve-v i'm
poriaHt consideration In the milling bust
ness.
The mill is lighted BY electricity. as ne
also the cOmpanl's Offices ani issiIeuos
furnished with "a electric
dynamo having 3 capacity Of four arc
lights aud twenty 30 candle power mean
descent lamps
The mines Of tho company which are BE-
Ing rated at tho present time Hre ths
Haze Grove Tunnel. Dawn Tunnel. Golden
Eagle Tunnel No. !, Golden Esgle tunnel
No. 2, and the Eagle Shaft. Ihe bodies Of
ore 10 these properties range from five 80
ten feet In width and lie 10 all cases In good
shape and bstwssn we'll defined walls. The
ore Is all free milling gold, running from
/ 10 TO BIO to the ton. HE company makes
what Is known IN 70 nng psTlance 80
clean up" every fifteen DAYS. the result Of
which Is Z golden charm. brick shaped,
varying IN value fTsni s.. 800 10 $1,000.
A the present time there arc between
seventy and seventy -tye men employed az
Abe company's works. whose daily wages
average 80 80 each. making a total monthly
pay roll Of about fdJ)0-in it1eif a very
item.
Immediately 10 the west and ID ioinina
the Properties Of th9 Nine Mile Mining
company lie the claims of tho san Martina
Mining COMPANY, consisting Principally 81
the Grouse and tie Little Giant. Like
those above referred 50 these mines are ,
also gold producers ana similarly rich. ,
This cOmrany IL employing only o. few
men at the present time on prospect work.
bat tue managers are arranging for the
construction u a stamp mil in the early
IprinR, and before the snow flies next win
Ter there will doubtless DO Two large AMI
veil equipped mining establishmeuts
grinding out golden bricks IA this interest
ug little camp