The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-25
In VERY GOOD SHAPE
Reports From the Mines in the Occur
d'Alene Country.
MUCH ACTIVITY DISPLAYED
While Lead Is Only $500 Yet the
People ee Better INES ON
ing - he season pens
Full of Promise.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Wallace. April 24--In spite of the
fact that lead stays at about 81. 80 with
a persistence that is not encouraging
to the people Of this section. there is
better feeling prevalent here than there
has been in many seasons. In all Of
the camps Of the Occur d'Alene country
there is an activity that is a good sign
and that means that this year is to be
a good one for all of this region. The
merchants who have seen the good and
the bad times that have succeeded each
other here so quickly as to try the
mettle of the best of them are feeling
better this year, and the opinion here
is that the end of the hardest of the
times has come and that there will be
a marked Improvement here at once.
There is no better country in the world
than this one, but there is none thar
has been more severely tried than this.
1t has come out of its troublesome
times with a record for stability that
Is a credit to its people and that DEM
onstrates that IL Is to be a great caun-
try some day. That that day is not far
distant is the belief of those who read
the signs of the times carefully.
At Wardner there is a small army. Of
men at work and the shipments of ore
and concentrates are heavier than they
have been in years. The Bunker Hill
a. Sullivan is being worked as 1t was
in the old times when this was the
liveliest country in the mining region OF
the Idaho mountains. The Last Chance
and the Stemwinder are also running
regularly at this point. The low price
of lead and the continued uncertainty
as to the future of silver have their eff
feet on the town. but there are many
men at work and there is always the
hope that there will soon be change
for the better. In that hope the people
have lived for a long time, but they
are as sanguine of final success as IL
they had never been disappointed. 1t
is this that has brought this section
out of it's dark days. Without this
nerve and logged determination there
could have been no such thing as the
present excellent outlook here.
At Mullan the Morning mine is being
run at its full capacity and, although
the lessees, Greenough & Larson, have
had to expend a lot of money to get
the mine into shape, it is certain that
the property will turn out all right
If there is the expected rise in the price
of lead this summer this will be one of
the best mines in the district. The
Hunter is now running half time with
excellent prospects. The camp is
good one now and here one sees a large
number of Missoula men who are lo-f
lnCy oit
good men and they have come to
stay.
Up the canyon the burning of the
mill at the Tiger and the Poorman for
a time put damper on the hopes OF
the people, but now that ii is known
that the property is to be rebuilt at
once, the old feeling Of confidence has
returned. 1t is also a source of graft
fication that THE new mill is to be built
hN Anaconda RIM aC ~ ig of
the encouraging signs that this coun-
try is getting so that ii can take care
of itself. The mill is, II is understood,
to be rebuilt as soon as possible.
When this Is done, the town at the
head of the canyon will be as good as
IL ever was and there will be more
work done there than at any previous
time in its history. The new plant is
to be a large one and one that will be
a credit to the camp.
The mines around Gem are all in
operation at present and the outlook
for the season is good. The Frisco is
now running at its old gait and Is
shipping regularly. The Standard and
the Gem are being operated and there
will be no cessation this summer. The
camp here looks as IT used to and there
is no reason why II should not make
banner record this summer. The indi-
cations are that the operations will be
more extensive before long. asr
In the Murray district, where the
mines surprised everybody hast year,
there is much activity this spring and
the placer miners are all happy over
the prospect of a long season this year
The water has started in good shape
and is running off nicely. Clarence
Cunningham is preparing for more ex-
tensive operations on the properties
that he operated so successfully last
summer and there is no reason why
his returns this year should not be
greater than they were in 1895. He
has good ground, as was demonstrated
last season. and IL is in the best shape
that IL has ever been in. The quartz
properties here are in n very promising
condition and the gold miners are I'm
high feather over their prospects for
the coming summer.
on the whole the season opens full
of promise for this country and unless
something now unforeseen transpires,
this will be one of the best seasons
that this country has ever seen. The
new train service between this city
and Missoula Is giving good satisfac-
ton and IL ought to bind more closely
the commercial relations that have ex-
listed between the two cities.
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