The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-14
RICH MINES
Silver City People Boosting of a Big
Strike.
JOHN T. KEECAN'S OPINION
The Gentleman Is Elated over the
Prospects of the Country He
Has Inspected - Prospects
About Idaho City.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.


been for nine weeks. After visiting all
the mines of that place he returns to
the capital and predicts that In Silver
CITY is the coming gold camp of not
only the state, but the West. 1t will,
tie says, become THE Cripple creek of
Idaho, and that In a very short time.
Mr.. keegan says the greatest activity
Is seen in Silver City. Money is plenty
and the merchants are consequently
doing a good business. History is re-
peating itself. he asserts, there. The
good old ays of gold have returned.
The only difference is that the outlook
is far better now than 1t was in the
palmy days of long ago. The town has
undergone many Improvements, the
foundations for good-sized mountain
municipality having ben laid.
With reference to The mines, Mr..
keegan refers to a rich strike in the
FLORIDA Hill as indicating iUhe character
OF ore that Is being discovered and
treated at Silver City. The Florida Hill
is owned by Messrs. Nichols and Dew
ey. A cross cut tunnel was run AS feet
and tapped the vein. After drifting on
the vein 20 feet an ore chute of great
promise was encountered. The chute
measures six feet between walls, and
the owners have drifted on ft 1855 feet
without having gone through d.. The
ore assays IL ounces of gold and LOO
ounces of silver a ton.
Lat Saturday Dan Feour brought to
town from the Alpine some rock that
assayed $S5 a ton in gold. 1T was from
The south drift. Even better results are
looked from in THE north drift, where
Crutchendon and his associates in the
ealQy days took out $4,000 in seven
weeks.
York g. Leonard have an lS-inch
streak of ore lin their mine that goes 26
ounces of gold and So ounces of silver a
ton. The mine rs located above the
Poorman mill. In the Morning Star
there has developed a streak Of ore that
assays sos gold a ton. The streak is a
foot and half wide. The Star is now
working IS men. The shaft is down 400
feet.
Shaw Brothers are working right
along on the Cumberland. For the past
16 years, says Mr. Keegan, the two
brothers have worked the mine alone,
taking out an average OF $4,000 a year.
The work on the Empire state. Pauper
and other claims in the group owned
by United States Marshal Crutcher has
produced highly gratifying results. The
group in the early days OF the camp
produced hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, but has ben idle since the crash
that carried down so many of the old
tame properties, which have filled with
water The work being done on Mr..
Crutchers properties will encourage
OAiiiAlc1h OptIbllO1tS Ou Diu mines.
In the Tennessee, owned by William
Nichols. a. tunnel has been driven in go
feet, cutting the ledge at a depth of
266 feet. The assay value OF the ore is
$25 gold and IL ounces of silver per ton.
Drifting on the ledge is now in pro-
gress. The Dubuque, owned by Dan
Feour, is considered by mining men TO
be fully as promising a property as the
Morning Star, which 1t adtoins Mr..
Feour has bonded THE mine TO the
Morning Star people. In the Humboldt
group, owned by John Feour and Tay-
aor Gearhart, a cross-cut tunnel is be-
ing run. 1t is now in $50 feet and has
cut five lodges, developing nice body
of free milling ore. The Comstock, the
adjoining property, owned by Judge
Lewis and Dan Feour. has also devel-
oped a fine ledge. The ore assays we'll
On gold and about % ounces of silver a
ton.
AT the Upton. of which Col. G. v.
Bryan is manager. the shaft Is now
down 400 feet. The last assays of the
ore went SIS in gold and $50 in silver
per ton. Mr.. Keegan says the Trade
Dollar is working A men at the mine
and MILL He says the total output of
THE mine for 1895 was $275, 900.
Robert Leonard. er., has an 1S-inch
streak of ore in his Blaine extension
that goes S45 gold and u ounces of sill
yer. John Sullivan is working a mine
of great promise In Jacobs gulch He
cut three hedges with a 600-boot tunnel
and has a nice body of ore ASSAYS
give SIP gold and s36 silver a ton.
Mr.. Keegan makes the announcement
that in a few days active operations
VIII be resumed on the Phillips & Sui
dlvan mine under a new management
The mine has ben idle for about two
years. In IS months 1t is credited with
having produced $250.000. Mr.. Keegan
declined TO say who was Ito take charge
of the property.
The Dewey tunnel that Is being push
cd into the heart of Florida mountain,
is now in 1850 feet and work will be
vigorously prosecuted under the effi-
cient management of william Nichols
superintendent Power drills and air
comprcssors will be brought into use at
once.
On Boulder crek, John McMahon has
been operating uhe Boulder group and
a five-stamp min with splendid results,
having only recently shut down for the
winter. lie sunk a shaft 100 feet and
cross-cut the hedge, showing six feet of
ore that assays $3.50 gold and 40
ounces silver. Andrew Mcmahon and
Others have a group of three claims
which they cross-cut with a 225-foot
tunnel. The vein is five fet wide and
the ore assays s26 gold and $3.50 silver
a ton.
II was expected, owing to the short
season. due TO the lack of water, the re-
ceipts of the United States assay office
lFsTe would show a falling off as COM
pared with the previous year. The
gratifying showing is made. however.
that ahere was a decided increase. The
officials of the assay Office have not yet
completed rheir statistics of the pro-
duotion OF the state for 1895. Based on
reports at hand. their estimate is as
follows:
God......-.. ......... ......S LOO. 900
Silver. ......... ...... $500. 5000 900
Lead. ........... ... 1900 900
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