The sun., 1896-07-13


feet before striking the ledge. At this point
the ledge crops on top distance of $50 foot.
After the ledge was struck a drift was run
northeast and has reached At this time 2e5
feet. The average width of the ore is three
Tho Grubstake, eight miles from ORC Blanco.
is one of the few prospects that has paid from
the beginning: The working consists OF an open
cqt sky feet long and & nlnstyfo9t G tunnel mel
5000 worth Of the dirt sold. In addition there
arc between sixty and seventy tons of $40 ore
on the dump. Tho ore is easily handled by
Tho San Domingo placer fields, belonging to
Tor hyS The Go Is
eleven miles long. The field has produced rich
returns ip placer working IT. The water anes-
chinery. The piaceTs are In the Altar River
bed. During tho winter seasons no water is to
water teri Is the the trouble The new compSny have
procured machinery TO handle water and dirt
at a cost OF S25o.oo0.
MONTANA.
BUTTE, July 7.-Preparations are being made
by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company 10
explore its:minos to a far greater depth then
has ysS ssen REACHED by any Of the mn mines II
viii be watched with deep interest. None of
the mines Of this company exceeds 1,2Qo feet
feet in depth 1t has been decided TO sink tho
Anaconda to q depth OF 5000 feet, so that II
copper BODY Is to be found. On the i,aoo.foot
level of the Anaconda the ore is as good IL not
better than on any of the upper levels, and
there is every reason to believe that the ore
bodies continue hundreds OF feet further down.
Several of the veins of pay ore ut the lowest
Several members OF the United States Geo.
logical Survey under the direction of Prof.
Emmons, have made their headquarters .,I1 Is In
underground workings Of the Butte district
and mako a carefully detailed examination of
port upon the mining geology. In the eastern
part OF Montana another party of the survey
viii viii ST. study the volcanic rocks and telluride
ores which form SO marked feature of that
A fabulously rich find is reported from
Browns Gulch. a few miles from Virginia City.
The discoverers call II the Monte Christie. and
report it to be five feet wide, sampling $3.50 in
sylyanite. the new camp in F1athead county.
is quite Lively. lively New buildings are ego going ,Ii up
The hills surrounding the camp are covered
with prospectors. and number of locations
coverv, shows q. prominent ledge, and work
now going on will prove the value OF the prop
In the Zosel district the leasers on the Argus
are putting in a steam hoist. and the leasers on
tho Bonanza have their machinery In running
The Doiphin has BEEN bonded @ r for $500 900 D. ORE
A trip to the mining sectionr Of the, North
recently diseovered increase af in ' the e yellow
color as depth is attained. There are now
about thirty.fve prospectors in these noun
tains, and one hundred locations have been
made. Very little DEVELOPMENT work has been
done on any of the claims. On the American
and extends up the hill distance OF /, ,2oU feet
The North Moocasin Mountains contain gold,
ssiilver; silver copper, lead, bsmuta, marble, Iron.
Is freq milling. Rubies and garnets are also
found.
IDAHO.
eninR George Grason Of San Francisco passed
through here on his way TO Quartzburg, where
asHDsa e h snort s
ago: He got the mines and the 25-ptamp gold
mill for $500: since 1870 sc the property has
on dissolution Of partnership or It could not
have been bought so cheap: The property
1t would have brought a good price. Mr.. Ora
son contemplates sink ing 800 feet below the
old workings and opening up sufficient ground
along The ledge is sixty feet vide. ~
The shaft on the New York mine, In Deer
and the ore coming out Will mill over 5000 per
ton In free gold. This mine will turn out to
DO W wonderful piece Of property: and do much
gold quartz district.
Tho Denver men who hold an option on tho
put men 10 work extending the long tunnel so
as TO cut all the veins OF tho group. 1t Is al
mines viii be resained as Il has S been N ascere seer
reach the veins by at least elghty.nve feet.
SOUTH DAKOTA
kETsIoSn; July To- TIE Holy Tsrro. MIN, I'm
99naon 9s ten Of Saen oR WHY ed seas: and se PRO
cellent clean-ups have been made lately.
The Keystone Company is putting in new
Tho Tom Custer mine has been leased The
ore is to be treated at the Keystone mill. There
,s big body of ere in sight and the mine will
The Portland Chlorination Works at Dead
wood. which were destroyed this week by
fire, with q loss Of $4,000, will be rebuilt on
In June there were treated at the reduction
900
and Star: goo stamps. 2a,o6o tons. or an aver
age OF 133 tons peg sta an.phead. The bullion
The first samples Of silicious ores from Bear
G1leh have hay been & received ] by D"sdwood as as,
ton. The rock is a crystalized iron ore.
MICHIGAN.
IRoNwooD, July 1o.-The great depression
IN the Iron trade. as well as the laying of of
range in the past two W wv Weeks has nade eEe!y
is bitterly remembered, Nearly all the iron
piles Of ore already mined. and unless 1t is
shipped 1T WIN mean winter Of idleness
mer of no work, would cause general calamity.
The present depression is caused by the ad-
in the price of ore made BY the pool Of
of the Carnegie Company not to buy its ore at
the advance. No smaller operators in the
Pittsburgh district dare to, buy at higher
the result would be disastrous. permit;
fas ' The uaSn to
has ore to last till near the close Of
the summer. and has bought only some OF the
very high-grade Bessemers of the Minnesota
Iron Compauys mines and others, for which
1t was compelled to pay pool rates. All the
ore producers are standing together in the night
against Carnegie. and are determined not to
sell at less than the rates agreed on. Any
backdown now would place them at the mercy
of tho orc consumers IN the future. The great
minos of the Metropolitan Land and Iron Com
pany. which have been expected to ship about
1000, 900 tons this year, have now closed down
completely, and have about 500. 900 tons OF
ore In stock, and 900 men are thrown out of
employment. The ore shipments from the
Gogebio, which last year at this time averaged
900 tons q week, now but little more
than $4,000 tons a week: A little ray OF hope
ment of the Rockefeller GoGe9io Company to
rush out the ore. and steam shovels are to
work day and night getting the ground cleared,
which insures fllll operations at that mine, at
least. during the coming Winter. The Tilden,
however. though large mine is but one
among great number.
The increasing use of ores from the wonder
full Mesaba range in Minnesota is to some ex-
tent resDonaible for the de- nf abi inmenta