The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-09
MINING NEAR PONY
The Clipper Group May Be Sold to
London Syndicate.
WHAT IS BEING DONE THERE
New Crushers Put on the Little Kid
Property In Red Bluff Camp-A
Five-Stamp Mil in'the Sand >
Creek Distriot-Notes.


more than half a million dollars, is
still for sale. the former deal, II Is said,
having fallen through, and new nego-
tiations are again pending. Expert
Brown. who represents a syndicate of
intending purchasers, has been exam
ing the property for some time and left
last week for London to make re-
port to his employers. and IL the report
is favorable the deal will probably go
through this time. The price is not
known. but is purported to be s25o.Ooo.
Filing & Norris are working the Clip
per mine with rs men and running a
25-stamp mill part of the time. Most
of the ore is being shipped to the Par
rot smelter In Butte. The Clipper is
well developed by tunnels 700 feet be-
low the surface and the showing is
said to be excellent. Other mines of
the Clipper group are also working. >
T. ]. Beckwith is sinking on the Ned
Fraction and will continue the work
during the winter. The mine is located
near the Clipper s
Lee Talbert e. Co. are working the
| Gold Wave. They are down about 30
feet and ran a tunnel 1870 feet Sdt
The Rustler and Policy of the Clip
per group are not working but develop
| uuCHl WOIh 10 SOlu6 Ou Ou Tic &NC0s
which is showing up WELL
Alex McKittrick, with four men, is
doing some work on the Last Chance,
by tunnel about 200 feet below the sur
face. and is shipping the ore to- Butte.
The White Pine, located some dis
lance above the Clipper, is being work
ed by Tom Carmin. He is taking out
a lot OF base ore which he ships to
Helena and. 1t is claimed, some Of 1t
has run as high as 5000 in gold. The
mine is worked by tunnel about 800
feet below the surface.
The Clipper No. 2, which is an ex-
tension of the old Clipper. is owned by
Charles Schmidt of Butte, who is do
ing nothing on II at present but the
assessment work The property, how
| ever. shows up fine. m JqSf
Con McDermott will work the Post
Boy this winter. There is a lot of ore
in sight. but 1t is of very low grade.
He has a shaft down about so feet.
James O'Day, w. II. Green, T. d.
Common and James Curran have Been
working the Whippoorwill for two
months and have just struck some
good ore. 1t is worked by a tunnel,
which is now 200 feet in. The mine is
located some distance southeast of the
Clipper
The Revenue Gold Mining company
is working about 40 men in it's mine
above Norris. The company is operat-
ing a cyanide mill capable of handling
rs tons of ore per day. They have been
running IL just a year and Ii has
proved very successful in saving q
large percentage of gold. L. A. Dun
ham is manager of II and has sue
handling the ores to a minimum. 1t is
claimed that the mill is the first of-its
kind run successfully in this part of
the country. fRN N-i |
The Monitor mine, located west of
the Revenue. owned by William Knox,
is shipping some good ore. Mr.. Knox
is at present eating persimmons and
possum in Missouri. gSA
The Bald Mountain company Is work.
ing some of its properties above Rich
mond Flats. about IS miles northwest
of Norris. The company put up a con-
centrator recently and is shipping a
lot of good base ore to California, from
which big returns have been received
The company have been working about
30 men for some time. A 500-foot tun-
mel was driven to cut the lead but
missed IL. the lead being too fiat. e A
shaft is now being sunk on the Tea
and will follow IL. A bucket tramway
is being put in to carry the oreafrom
the mines to the concentra tDf.1 FThe
property is owned by California people
John McKelvey is running the Little
Kid mine. about a mile west of the
Bald Mountain. and is working 30 men
. Mr.. McKelvey has just put in set OF
Bvran roller mills which, 1t is claimed
brushes equal to a 10-stamp mill. ii
was started up last Monday Tie has
been working the mine about fye
years and has run in four tunnels or
the vein. from 800 to 600 feet long. The
vein is two and a half to three fee
: wide and runs SIS a tone. free gold.t
Johnson & Mcconnell are working
the Rosebud. near Sterling. and arr
Z shipping ore. They have a rich bui
very small vein. They are worklng
but four men and also run one of the
a old stone mills. which has been on the
: property since 1866.
There are a number OF nice looking
gold properties around Red Bluff, blu
), so far nothing has been done but rep
I resentation work and prospecting.
+. j. Bennett and others are LEASING
r on the Red Bluff mine and have beer
: working on It for about four months
e and paid a royalty of so per cent. L
Henry Filing and Sam Word, the own
: ers. on the first $1,000. They then as
: signed their ore to another party ans
: the miners were not paid and 20 o
u their time for 10 per cent. and other
: could not sell at all 1t is stated, how
: | ever. that recently the leasers strucl
a rich lead. They are down 10 fee
and are running four pumps to keel
out the water.
p. LilienslSjold. the assayer, formeri,
: of Butte. is located at Red Bluff an
!, thinks the camp will develop into
J, rich one. -
!. Tine Chill mine. in the Sand creel
district, owned by Butte men. is work
a ing 10 men and running five-stam
n mill. The shaft is down $50 feet an
s the showing good.