The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-04-09
Or GOLD ORB
The j. M. Merrell Consolidated Min
ing Company Owns 1t.
LOW GRADE ORE BUT LOTS OF IT
Free Milling 81 Ore That Can Be
Worked for so Cents-Prominent
Granite County Mine Owners.

get down your map of Montana and
find where the division lines of Lewis
and Clarke, jefferson and Deer Lodge
counties meet. May be your map don't
show it, but heavily timbered noun.
tam with an elevation of :, 500 feet is
there, through which an immense Dor
phyry dyke runs and in places, where
a probable volcanic upheaval has oc
CURED, many thousands of tons of GOLD
bearing porphyry are exposed. On
one OF these porphyry overfows, hav
ing length of 5000 feet by a width of
l,4OO feet, seven claims have been 10.
Gated and are owned by the Merrell
Consolidated Mining company Dr.
a: II. Mitchell, one of the stockholders
OF the company, returned this week
from this property and from him we
learn that his especial business over
there was to make a test run throngb
their mill of average ore from this nor.
phyry dyke. He saws the comnorv
owns 1O-stamp mill with a capacity
OF nifty. tons per day, the motive power
1or which is an S0-horse power boiler
and 30 horse power engine. This
power being sufficient to operate thirty
stamls, it is the intention of tha cop,-
pany Immediately, or 50 soon as Dossi-
PIE. 70 add twenty stamps more. DR.
Mltchell tys he made the test by run-
n,ng through the mill thirty-six tons
OF unsorten ore which gave a return of
Sl36. 80. "A 24-mesh screen was used
as previous trials with screens had
given as good results as when 40
ineSl mad been used. This test is
hlghly satisfactory to the stockholders
and as Dr.. Mitchell says, the ore
oah pe mlhed and mllled at a cost net
W GAceeo 81 cents per ton, no one
would opJect to owning block of Mer-
rell Consolidated stock. The small ex- |
pense of mining and milling tbe orc ;c
ehtlrely due to the fact that the com.
pany brought their mill to the ore BODY
that nature had uncovered and, from
an open cut direct to the mill ore is
supplied to the stamps by being han.
dled but once. A decided advantage
over long haul. The doctor saws the
MINES are located at the head of Ten
Mile, Basin and Little Blackfoot, and
20 miles southwest from Helena, II
miles northeast from Basin, and 20
miles east from the town of Deer
lodge. He thinks the mill is in
Je ferson county, while the claims
tnouSh contiguous, are in the conn.
t1es OF Lewis and Clarke, Jefferson and
Deer Lodge, the richest ore being found
III "a claim OF the group in the latter
county. Some twenty-five or thirty
holes have been sunk ON different
claims and show an unlimited BODY Of !
- 70 10 ore. DR.. MITCHELL SAYS it is a :,
lar better mining proposition than the
lreadwell in Alaska, and when asked
@ name rival said he could not think
If one then. But there is one thing I
you can say, - he said. ''that the num. t
Der OF stamps that will be dropping in /
nat locality in the near future will be v
United only by the water supply" t
Inc Merrell Consolidated Mining t
ompahy IS composed of the following- Y
lamed gentlemen: Charles d. Nc Il
1ure, >. NJ: Merrell, DR.. A. H. Mitch v
H. D. +: Cowan, Col. F. M. Malone,
Ieorge Haldorn. W. I. B. Nichols, T.
Hodgens, cashier Of the State Say
ngs bank OF Butte, and 7. P. Newton, +
i the Montana Iron Works. Butte. =
me capital stock Of the company con-
ISIS II OF l0O, 600 shares at par value
%. Inc stock is assessable. The
ohpahy nave fourteen men employed O
t present, with Bob Stuart as snnerin. f
endent. -
II this mine were located in Africa II
Cripple Creek all the world would 6
made aware of it's existence and OF
ome Barney BarnatO would grow rich ri
the expense of the stockholders. AS '
is, the mine may not become world
'mous for some time but the present al
"ners will be each year nearer able to CT
re up to John d. Rockefeller's pile, n
lthout defrauding any one. Deer =;
odge New Northwest. CT
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