The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-06
UNDER A NEW LEASE
Miles Finlen and Thomas Kinds Will
Work the Ramsdell-Parrot.
ABOUT THE EVA MAY ORE
Manager Simpson Explains Why He
Ships to Heiena-A Cemetery
Jumped as Placer Ground
Trail Creek Reports.
ABOUT THE EVA MAY ORE

The Ramsdeil-Parrot mine, which had
been worked for some time under lease
by SWEET & Metcalf. is now under lease TO
Miles Finlen and Thomas Kinds. Inc
lease of SWEET & Metcalf expire about
the middle of November. but they secured
an extension of a month. Howard Pas
chal who had a lease on another portion |
of the property which he worked through |
the Ramsdell-Parrot shaft, also COM |
pleted his lease at the same time, ana the |
whole property, II Is understood, Is m |
cluded in the Finlen & Kinds lease. which |
is for three years.
Additional reports have been made OF
some remarkable claim jumping on New
Years night. probably the most remark
able of which is the report that the Jew
ish cemetery was located as placer
ground.
The Butte men interested in the Trail
creek country are receiving good reports
continually from the mines In that as
trict, but complaints are made that there
is a scarcity of ore teams and that the
product of the mines cannot be trans
ported fast enough. The new air compress
sor is being put in at the War Eagle
and will be in operation by the middle OF
February.
Manager Simpson of the Eva May Min
| ing company makes the following expla-
| nation to the Basin Times in defense of
his action in shipping his ores to the East
| Helena smelter in preference to Butte,
| after the people of this city had contrib
| uted literally toward building his wagon
road from Basin to the Eva May mine:
| Before a car of my product was sent
| to East Helena / had corresponded with
| all of the ore-purchasing firms of the
| west side and none of them would give
cent for the lead contained in my output
| The popularity of my mine is that on
the 200 east have an immense body of
| lead ore on which am now operating.
| In all the other parts OF the mine IL Is
of an iron pyrites; this kind of ore the
| Butte smelters want but It will not pay
me to sort II. 1t will be at least two or
three months before 1 exhaust the ore
body. The East Helena smelter allows me
| 50 on lead to the ton of concentrates, and
Butte will not allow a copper. The freight
rate from Basin to Helena is one dollar
more than 1t is from Basin to Butte, and
the smelter charges are the same. / re-
ceive 81 more for my product by shipping
to the East Helena smelter than If were
to send IL to Butte. In corresponding
with the Butte buyers of ore they advised
me to ship to Helena, which l did. hut
would not have done so If the Butte con-
Germs could have given me the same rate
as 1 am getting there.
Everything that 1 can buy l always
give Butte the preference. 1 am satisfied
they have done much to build up the Cat
|
the building of the road, and since they
took the leading part in building 1t up
to this time my company alone has pur-
chased goods in Butte amounting to over
$4,000. Everything that 1 require / al
ways give Butte the preference. What
money there was subscribed by the Butte
men has all been paid in with the excep-
ton of 500 subscribed by w. A. Clark &
Bro, bankers. and another 500 by H. L.
Frank. 1 am a poor man and besides that
$500 that 1 myself contributed, and a like
sum by the company, / put up the $200
that these two parties subscribed and
failed to pay when the collector called
around, which he has done a great many
| times.
'The Eva May mine is now past the
stage of an experiment. 1t has exceeded
my brightest expectations and has proved
itself a successful proposition from the
day II started. The loss in tailings is
hardly perceptible, going from an ounce
and half in silver to trace in gold
| The returns vary according TO the value
of the concentrates, but the lower the
grade of ore there is put through the
| concentration, the loss in the tailings 1.
correspondingly less. All of the ore tina
is being put through the mill comes from
the mine. The lead body on the 200 cas-
is opening up every day a hole is let OF
There is no telling how large body of 4
there is yet. In the winze. about so fee
| east lTOul the CTOSsCut, nave run a TdlS
from the $50, striking this body of ore
which is an iron pyritic copper This. too
has exceeded my expectations. In tn
west drift of the $50 / am running II
waste, as IL is much easier to make pro
gress than If 1 were to continue the drift
in ore. I have a supply to draw from oil
! this level which will last until / com
mence to sink. keeping my development
work and ore reserves far ahead Of tn
necessary output.
1T is my intention to pay no dividend
until the mine is better developed, first
by sinking another lift to the 45o. theme
to the $50 when it is hoped that there wi
be a sufficiency of ore to pay dividend
uninterruptedly from the reserves an
permit the sinking to continue.
THE reason / make this statement
to refute the remark made by Presider
H L. Frank of the Butte chamber {
commerce before that body on the ever
ing of Dec. II"
~ The Times says: Manager Simpson wa
very indignant at the manner in whic
some of the papers referred TO him IL
having solicited funds for the opening U
). of the Cataract country and then dispo
. ing of his output to the Eas Helen
smelter, benefiting the town of Helen
when, altogether. they did not put up
tenth of what the Butte people hav
Simpson says that even to the Christine
presents for his family he bought
Butte houses and had them forwarded
express.
up to Monday last there had bee
eight cars of concentrates produced |
the Eva May mill. The ore bins are ~
and there is difficulty i'm getting ca
enough to handle the output. all of whic
I thus far. finds ready market at Il
East Helena smelter, as Simpson say
| for the reason that the Butte smelte
/ IaaI rfr
=. | munerative as other smelling plant
When he has exhausted his lead ores
A. promises that his market will thereaft
be Butte, for he can then save 81 on q
ton by making that point the market
his ores. Until then. he must handle
he baa Inf of ont