The sun., 1896-08-17
NEW RICHES TO- BE OPENED
MIHERAL WEALTH i'm TIE BLACK
FEET RESER HATION


BUTTE, Aug. lit IL now thought that the
Blackfeet Reservation will not be thrown oper
for settlement before the first OF next year.
The survey will require the full sixty days al.
lowed There are about stxty-fve miles to be
covered in running tho easternsboundary line,
which will separate the ceded portion from
the main reservation. This line will be
over very rough ground. Fully one-third OF
tho distance is through immense bodies of
denve timber through which pathway will
have TO be hewed. The survey was started
on July 20 and will not be completed before
about Sept. 20. When 1t Is finished IL will
take several weeks to complete the field notes
and maps. 1t will also take the department
officials at washing gton fully sixty days to com.
plete their work.
Nevertheless fully 900 people are encamped
already on the Dor ders Of tho reservation
awaiting the time when the ceded portion Is
opened. The colony includes men. women, and
children from every portion of the United
States. Many Mormons from Utah are among
The number, willie Minne,ota, North Dakota,
Michigan, and Nebraska furnish large mum.
lcrs There are many obi prospeetors from
various parts OF Montana.
The nj neral wealth Of the reservation is
sale to be wonderful Prospuctors say that tho
greatest copper MINES yet discovered WILL be
found.
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Scotch syndicate for S2,0oo,ooo. The sale
was made through v. +. Cleary of New York.
The leading men IN tho syndicate James
NimIno and George A. Mitchell of Glasgow.
The new owners will at once erect \ complete
hoisting and smelling plant which will be
Of the most complete In the West. 1t will nave
IL capacity Of 500 tons per day. Tho smelling
plant will cost between S2oo, 900 and $780,
300 and will be run entirely by electricity. Ma
chine drills will be introduced.
Since March enough has been unoov-
cred above the eoo-foot level alone to run
the mine for several yeara Tunnels have
been ariven sufficiently to bring in sight
100000 to 1,6oo.Oo tons Of ore which runs
from Sc upwarr. Il Is, however. Q low-Rrads
proposition.
The Quigley Developing and Mining Com
pany has been Incorporated by T. D. Far
ron Of Qulgley, and Miles J. CavanAuEh,
Daniel Hanley, and L. o. Evans Of Butte.
The capital stock In 500. 900.
\ copper strike was made Last week in the
Red Eagle mine in Yankee Doodle Guloh,
northeast of Butte. This 10 the fartlest
north copper has been discovered in the Butte
district. The only question that now remains
10 be solved is the depth at which copper
can DO found in this district. All the copper
mines that havo reached depth Of 1000
feet CT more are extracting ore nf as great
The Anaconda will soon begin sinking to .
depth Of 5000 feet, and then the question
of the depth Of tho ore bodies IN the Butte
district will be solved.
Tho Lookout Mountain Gold Mining Com
pany of Granite county has uncovered Q hve-
foot lead of free-milinG ore that samples
from SIS to SEQ.
The Ontario mine at Rimini has been at
tached by creditors.
GOLD atr Hoa hn.R ,-.ll..
above Bonita, and within q very short dis
tance Of the Northern Pacific Railroad. -Four
claims have been taken up on the lead OF q
gold vein which Is 900 feet in width. and
assays made from the groupings gave an
average of so cents per ton in gold. The
owners confident that the ore will be
Of greater value as depth 10 attained.
five-foot body of gold ore which will
mill S25 was uncovered last week at the
properties Of tho Montana Gold Mining and
Milling Company on Wisconsin Crock. above
the Letter mine. The disco ,ery was made
TO the mill Of tho company.
CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. S.-The Cnited
States Debris C9mmission has granted per:
Hits for hydraulic mining To the owners of
Ire Ellen Taylor mine, near Indian Dig
S,ngs s E Dorado county and to The owners
county. Permits to construct dams for I'm
pounding debris were granted to the owners of
the Cook gravel mine, near jamestown. Tuo-
near Washington, Nevada county: the sea:
sUn has been an excellent one for the hy-
GrauliG mines. as water has been plentiful, and
has held ont well.
10 work mines in Corea where II has received
concessions. Quite a number OF men familiar
be taken over TO operate the mines
In forty.three years nearly 500 oov, 900
county. And this is still one OF the most pro-
dgG!we mining counties in the State.
irG new leasc of life. a new vein OF rich ore
was found there. few weeks ago. and now
il, and the Boomerang. which is down 6vO
feet is 10 be run down 800 !eeS further. The
ten stamps now working are to be doubled in
The Alpine mine, near San Andreas. has
been bonded by q. Z. Franks for sea. 100.
The oil fields near Fresno are being
= Ianidly taken up There are now over 1000
claims: Many, of tho Los Angeles oil wells
lave decreased alarmingly in production, and
thoughr by experts that tho decrease is only
teinporary.
at Goier, near Kandsburg. for $50. During his
lrst day work he found a gold nugget worth
county, has been reopened by c: @. Lesinski, a
Chicago ntss 2. capitalist In the Thorpe mino 9
assays S4VO per ton. a mil will he built.
In Del Norte county work will soon begin on
ing LomIany's CLAIMS Contracts have leen
lei calling for the employment OF seventyEive
men, work 10 begin at once.
The shaft of the Amazon mine In FL Do
RADIO county is down forty feet and is on q five
loot ledhc Of $50 irce.m'lling ore The Boul-
der Mining Company has completed ]. 800 feet
ot underground work, $500 feet of tramway.
seven miles OF read eight mi es OF ditch, and
It's aien-stRmp mill ready. The old ST. Law
repce mlEe. eight miles from Placerville. which
WAS abandoned seventeen years ago. is again
itCehln ing attention, and Is 10 have new deyel.
.plnenl WORK done upon II. With crude ma
Sh1heJy and no attempt 10 save sulphurets this
foiny produced over SeUO,UUO
The Red Jacket mine. near the Yule Canon
placers. IN lnyo county, is working a ledge
three and half feet wide with a nine-inch
pay sIeak and quartz seams in clay, giving $40
assays. There are on the dump about twenty
hNe tons OF $40 rock anu the same amount Of
~ ore. From his mine in Aida Valley p.
heyser lately shipped +,+OU pounds of silver
rock, and received thererrom, after paying ali
expenses. S3,Il2.
\ half interest in the y. G. mine, Rice min
ing district. san Diego county. has been bought