The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-02
UNDER THE GROUND
Reports From Mines in ALI Parts Of
the Great Northwest.
THE TRAIL CREEK COUNTRY
Encouraging News From There
In the Overwhioh District-In
Northern Montana-Pros-
poets and Owners.

most satisfactory reports from thei
properties George Haldorn who Ia.
just returned from a visit to the mines
says the properties are all in good con.
dition and that the interests held by
Butte parties are becoming valuable
The War Eagle. which is owned chief
ly by Patsy Clark, II. L. Frank, John
Noyes and others, has just put in a big
compressor that will run 20 drills. The
War Eagle is in splendid shape and
the talk at Rossland is that some of
the directors are now in the East get
ting a smelter plant.
The lie Roi, which is owned almost
entirely by Spokane lawyers, has been
using diamond core drill for pros
pecting purposes and the Developments
show II to be one of the richest gold
mines in the country. On the 450-foot
level they took out a quantity of ore
that ran as high as $500 ton.
The Center Star. which joins the lie
Roi on the east and is owned by p. A.
Largey, Alex j. Tarbet oliver Dur
rant. 7. NJ. Hodgens and others of
Butte, has more development work
done than any other mine in the camp
and shows up some great bodies of ore
averaging $50 a ton. The company has
never shipped any ore as IL contem-
plates erecting it's own smelter.
The Crown Point, of which Phil Hick-
ey or Butte is superintendent is being
developed rapidly. Development work
is also being done extensively on the
Nickel Plate. The difficulty in devel-
opment Is the exceeding hardness of
the quartz and country rock, the con-
tract price for sinking averaging SIS
TO $50 a foot
While Mr.. Haldorn was at Rossland
a Dig strike was made on the Jumbo.
The Morning Star which &c ~,
Lienneman & Schmidt and Haldorn Of
Butte and George Pfounder of Ross
land, Is making a splendid showing and
is being organized into a corporation.
The Calonna claim jumping case has
been settled in favor of Lienneman.
Scnmfdt and Pfounder. the original To-
Gators and owners
IL has been expected for the past six
months that the Katie would COM
nence to build new concentration and
hoist. but there has been nothing done.
other than to repair the shaft, clear
away the debris about the burnt works
ana receive nearly 200 900 feet of lum-
Der with which to rebuild, says the
Basin Times. The parties in charge
say that II will be but a short time
petore work on the mill will commence.
AleX Glass spends a greater part of his
time In Park canyon at the Home
stake which is under lease and bond
70 ue company. In this property they
nope to be able to demonstrate that the
great copper veins of the Summit VAL
ley mining district continue east into
the main range of the Rocky mount
ANS ana by doing SO they will acquire
a copper mine 50 as to have that char
acter or ore to mix with the ores of the
AMle' which are of an iron pyritic
cnarScter. Then the company say they
To lNta4l
REDUCTION OF all their own ores. both
from the Homestake i'm Park canyon
ana from the Katie here i'm Rasin T.,
Is 1act that this company has been
ngur1ng on a reduction plant of their
own for II Is a universal belief among
1he miners and prospectors that the
sIeatest loss sustained by men who
nave no smelling or reduction plants is
In disposing of their ores to the CUSTOM
sinelters. The coarse pieces of gold
never ind their way into an assavar.,s
cruclole and sometimes the richest mart
OF sample is discarded for the reason
'hat VIII not go through the screen.
Whether this company will make the
Nehture In Fark canyon a success is a
what we understand, on il will denend
greatly whether the Katie folks will
build a smelter or not. i
Inc Homestake is no new discovery
having been worked at times for wears
peing an old location. The Clinton
onestake' and the Schwitzer tunnel
ia long been contesting for honors
in that district The Clinton 49,,
tunnel thousands of feet on the lead
through oxidized ores. expendinp over
hundred thousand dollars This COM
pany never did strike ANYTHING but n
rev punches of silver ore. simply for
.hs reason the tunel was not put on
~, 5, ana the prospecting done by depth.
Homestake and about a h,Indrod 60
iower IN depth. has done more Iegiti-
Ihate tunnel prospecting than any com
paHy IN that locality. This comnnav
Was Vhe nrst 10 demonstrate that the
copper veins coursed in the Park can
yon direction. having cut numerous
us, All OF them denoting the near
presence OF copper ore. but Nance.
schwftzer admitted after ne had s+,S,c,,
the splendid showing that there VS.
no use OF drifting so near the surface
Tor IL would not last, but from the nm
lei ieVel 70 greater depth he is salts
leo mat he has copper in Abundance !
IN the Homestake. when Con Sulu-
al the owner last worked IL copper !
rance was found in the drift OF tho sso-
DOT level and the lead was strat,a", J
with stringers OF copper ore. mncb 90 :
I rlch IN glance. This ore did not Wild /,
N. ana there was not enough of IL to- ,
sether TO pay for taking II out. though :
mere was some Of il sent TO the smell :
sr al Butte. Miners who were en- ,
oloyed in the Homestake AT the ,I,na
oppressed the opinion that Indications ,
warranted the belief that the drifts of
ne $50 were slightly above the contact ,
u the base. The oxidized ores are no. :
ICED IN every copper mine OF imnort /,
inee and production In the Sumr,tt
'alley mining district.
We hope the Basin & Bay State COM $
'any VIII be successful in the Park I
anyon venture. They are NOT like ]
men who have been compelled TO sink
rom the surface. having the advan-
age Of 800 feet in depth. and the hun I
RED feet they are now sinking should
demonstrate the certainty as 70
whether the veins OF the great conrer
'elt continue in that direction. and II 7
hey do. whether they are any good. ,
The Katie mine is known 10 be. ana 5