The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-07
MINES OF NEIHART
The Heaviest Ore Shipments for
Nearly a Year.
IN THE BROADWATER SHAFT
Work IL Going Ahead With In
creased vigor In the Queen
and O'Brien-At the Calf
Properties.

Great Falls, March Elm reviewing
the work being done in the various
mines of Neihart. the condition of the
different properties and the class and
amount of ores shipped from the camp.
the Miner of Thursday says:
The ore shipments from Neihart last
week were about the heaviest for near
ly year. There were II cars sent out,
IL of which came from the Broad
water. This Is not as many as were
regularly shipped from the Broadw ater
during its most productive days, but IL
is nearly double what was being loaded
from that mine before the lower tunnel
was finished. The most gratifying
thing about the Broadwater shipments
is that they are being Increased right
along now, and in a short time they
will be equal to, If not in excess. of any
in the history of the mine. The Gait
has been shipping four cars a week
during the past week or two, which is
about equal to what IL was doing dur
ing its best days before the crash.
These shipments will now be stopped
as all production OF ore at the Gait
has ceased
The Gait people have determined to
stop all work at their upper workings,
and on Saturday last the men at work
some rs of them-were laid off. Moth
ing further will be done as far as the
getting out of ore is concerned until
the Queen tunnel now being run in
under the Gait is completed when all
operations will be through IL instead
of hosting to the present works. This
tunnel is being prosecuted by Messrs.
Bernier & Shelton under contract fro m
the Gait people. According to agree
ment with the Queen company this
tunnel is to run 400 feet on the queen
vein and then a croSs-cut is To be
made to the Gait vein. About half the
work on the Queen vein is now com
pleted, but how much of a cross-cut
Will have to be made Ii is impossible
TO say, as there is no telling how far
the Queen vein is from the Gait at the
point where the 400 vein will be COM
pleted When the Gait vein is struck
IL will be necessary to run 100 or $50
feet along 1t TO get under the present
shaft. Then an upraise will have to be
made between 300 and 400 feet 1t is
estimated that all this will take at
least six months, so that IL will be that
long before the Gait Is again shipping
ore. 1t was the intention of the man
agement to continue work above but
owing to unexpected complications 1t
was decided that IL would be more prof
liable to wait until the mine could be
operated through the new tunnel.
We mentioned above that the Broad
water was getting out more ore these
days, and that the amount was likely
TO increase. 1t can be safely said that
at no time in its existence has the
Broadwater been in such good condi-
fdon as at present. There is now lots
OF Stopping ground opened up; and more
being got ready right along. The quail
ity OF the ore, according to an official
of the company, is highly satisfactory,
and does not deteriorate with depth
as has been predicted IL would The
magnitude of the Broadwater Is shown
by the commencement of work on the
shaft mentioned couple of weeks ago
which is being sunk from the lower
tunnel. There is 400 feet of Stopping
ground above this, but in order that
there will always be plenty of room
ahead, work on this new shaft has |
been commenced. For the present IL
Is the Intention TO sink 100 feet, but 1t |
will doubtless be continued deeper be- |
fore very long
In two months or so-according IN |
Manager II. b. Hill-the Queen COM |
pany will be in a position TO begin reg |
ular shipments from the Queen and |
o Brien. Work has been going on at |
these two mines all winter, and now |
the development work mapped out is
nearing completion. This development |
work consists of sinking the Queen |
smart zoo feet deeper. and making a
raise, besides other work at the
O Brien. The former is being done by
contract and considerably over half of
the work is now done. At the O'Brien
the company is doing the work itself
under superintendent Braman The
Queen is undoubtedly one of the big
mines in Neihart and IL will be a big
boon TO the camp when she is a regu-
lar and large producer.