The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-20
NINE AND SHELTER
Improvements of the Montana Ore
Purchasing Company
MANY IDLE MEN IN THE CITY
Radersburg Is Quite Lively This
Season-But Little Interest Is
Taken In the Forthcoming
Spokane Meeting.

The Montana Ore Purchasing com.
| pany has just completed some exten.
| sive additions to it's smelling plant
The new part of the concentration is
completed and has been started up. An
| extensive addition has also been built
to the smelter on the east. Some fur
| naces have also been taken out and
| others substituted.
There are undoubtedly many idle men
in the city now. The Anaconda and
Boston e. Montana companies are en-
1 ploying more men than ever before
| but the men thrown idle by the shut
ting down of the Butte G. Boston COM
pany have no place, and unless the
| works resume, are not likely to have
any work for a long time. The two
companies named are employing about
all the men they can work, the Parrot
! company employs a uniform number of
| men at all times, and the Moulton, Lex
ington, Alice, etc., of course, can en-
ploy but few men compared with the
number formerly employed by them.
Five hundred windows have been
shipped by the Montana Lumber COM
pany to Gaylord for the new smelter of
the Parrot company. The doors are now
being made and will be shipped in a
few days. The smelter will be complet-
ed early in the spring.
new stone has been found near
Townsend, which is arousing much Gu
riosity. 1t is beautifully variegated in
color, takes a high polish and can be
worked as easily as hard wood. 1t conf
pareS favorably with Mexican onyx.
Work has bee resumed at the Free
Coinage mine, at Winston, by the Hell
ena syndicate which recently secured a
bond on the property. The tunnel,
which is $40 fet in, has been cleaned
out, the timbering repaired. and cross
cutting to the vein has been COM
menced.
The Iron Mountain company has paid
$4,000 dividend, being the 33d in the
history of the mine.
j. A. Keeting reports Radersburg
quite active and prospects good for a
busy year. The Independent says: Mr..
Keeting has been interested in the
mines of that district, which is one of
the oldest in the state. since the COS. He
located the Keeting lode in 1866 and
has been working it with more or less
success ever since. The mine has yield
ed many thousands of dollars and will
be producer for many years to come.
Mr.. Keeting has only six men at work
on the property at present, but is pre-
pairing to work IL on larger scale. He
expects to put in a ten-stamp mill in
the near future and will treat the ore
by patented process of his own. For
many years he has been experimenting
with the base ores of the district and
mas at IaSt round a way TO treat them
cheaply.
There is a great deal of base ore in
the district about Radersburg," said
Mr.. Keeting yesterday. that 1 think
will eventually be worked by amalga-
nation. Besides developing the Keet-
Ing. / expect to work the Ohio claim. |
This contains a large body of porphyry |
running about IS to the ton. 1t will be |
run through the mill that i expect to |
have in operation soon. There was at |
one time a 15-stamp mill on the Keet- |
ing, but / encountered base ore that |
could not be successfully milled and |
sold the mill to the Elkhorn people. The
base ore still exists. but by a new pro-
cess used in connection with the mill.
think the ore can be worked at good
profit"
Apparently little interest is taken in
Butte regarding the forthcoming con-
vention at Spokane of the Northwest
ern Miners association. 1t is not known
hat any delegates will be present from
this section. The idea of the conven-
ion is to have Montana, Idaho, Oregon.
and British Columbia meet
n conference. The occasion is one of
great Importance to the mining inter-
,sts. The projectors consider organi-
.ation is necessary for the protection
md proper perpetuation of the mining
Industry.