The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-11-21
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A mining man who has recently
visited the Seven Devils mining dis
trict in western Idaho reports the dis
covery Of body OF free milling gold
ore ''of such width as to require the
location of two claims side by side IN
order to include the whole of the de-
posit within the side lines. -
In Tuolulnne county, near Summer
vile, Cal, q 3O-stamp mill is being
erected at the Confidence mine, a new
mill is being started up at the Spring
Gulch, preparations are being made to
start up at the Grizzly, and the
owners of the Lady Washington Will
probably erect mill in the rear
future.
! One of the various resources Of East
Kootenay. British Columbia, waiting
for development, is the petroleum
found in the Flathead valley, in the
southeastern portion OF the district.
| This is section of country but little
known, and is separat d from tho re-
mainder of the district by range of
| mountains.
William Lindgren of the United
States Geological SCrvey, has COM
| menced All exam! al N of the mining
districts of W>',.ning. He will first
examine the silver Grown district near
Cheyenne ant will then devote con-
| siderable ,4.Ae to other mining local
tiles. The gold and silver resources Of
| the state will be examined into partic-
ularly.
A Los Angeles man claims to have
| discovered process by which he can
extract in few minutes every particle
of gold from the most rebellious ores at
an expense of 50 cents per ton, and
that with plant costing 81, 500 he can
| work 40 tons a day without the use of
| water. It is probable that actual work
ing results viii not correspond with
| laboratory tests.
| The Anaconda company is construct
| ing at Butte two tanks $50 feet in
| length, 6 feet deep and 8 feet wide for
! its copper precipitating plant. The
plant has Le3n operated by the COM
pany since Mr. Ledford s lease expired
Mr.. Ledford netted between s., 900 and
$6. 900 per month from the Anaconda
and ST. Lawrence mines, and the com
panv expects to make even better
showing
R. P. Heagan, formerly of Bodie.
Cal, writes from johannesburg, South
Africa, that he is getting 81 per day
! for running a diamond drill Most OF
such work is done by contract, the con-
tractors making from $500 to 5000 per
mouth. The gound is very hare.
| quartz, taking from fifteen to nineteen
| holes for each Last. The average days
wages is IS. Mr.. Heagan would not
advise any one to come Or stay away,
but good miner can get work.
| Accounts have been given Of fabul-
GUS amounts Of gold produced in Chill
AMI Peru in the past, yet these coun-
tries are hardly known as gold pro
| ducers now. According to one official
| document in the 'Bibiotica Nacional
| de Santiago" the Viceroy Amat only
during the years from 17G5 to 1775,
remitted to the Spanish crown gold
wotrh SIT. 677, 526 AS a matter of fact
Chill! is rich in minerals Of many
kinds. 1t has silver, copper, lead,
zinc, manganese, coal and nitrate.
Park City, Utah, where are located
the Ontario and other mines, claims a
population of $500. The Ontario to
date has paid in dividends *13 900
since 1872 without ever levying an
assessment. It's total product is esti-
mated at $65, 900 000 The Daily has
paid in dividends So, $50, 600 The
Ontario drain tunnel, which will do
much to reduce the cost of mining, in
the district. took six years to run and
cost $40O, 000 Its total length is 10, 400
feet and is now discharging 10000 gal
lns of water per minute.
In commercial transaction the larg-
est check that was ever paid was one
that was signed after the amaIpama-
tion of the diamond mines Of Kimberly
in the year 1877 in purchase of the var
ious conflicting interests which had so
far divided the diamond mining in
dustry Of South Africa-$26, $780, 600 a
very heavy payment, which was jutsi-
fed By the fact that, even after the
enormous expenditure. the de Beers
consolidated mines paid 16 per cent.
the next year, 25 per cent the next,
and up to the present grand dividend
total Of 1856 per cent. on the capital
upon which the consolidation was
originally formed.