Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-12-04
NEWS OF MINES AND Miners
PLANS OF FUTURE OPERATIONS.

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PLANS OF FUTURE OPERATIONS.
Numerous Surface improvements OF
the LIE Roi-Coke Industry in
Montana-SaIe of Red Top Mount
ain Claims.
The smelter returns of the LIE Roi show
LA ounces in gold about four per cent
copper and i'll the neighborhood Of three
ounces in silver, making a total value OF
about $40. The numerous surface inn
provements lately undertaken ON the
mine are now completed, and Captain
Hall, the superintendent, is we'll satisfied
with the shape things are in. Operations
have lately been commenced stopping ore
at the lOO-foot level In the original
development of the mine little attention
was paid to the ore at this level and a
fine reserve remains almost untouched.
The west drift at the 60O-foot level is now
in about 225 feet, and the ore body, which
is from to Is feet wide, is showing up
most favorably. Stopping will soon be
commenced on this level. Notwithstand-
ING the heavy drains ON the mine
amounting from S25, 900 to 100000 month
lv, paid out on the construction OF the
Northport smelter, the property contln
ues to pay its regular $4,000 dividends
monthly. The smelter will be in running
order by January l, and then work will
be resumed on the new three -compart-
ment shaft to the west of the present
workings.
The Coke Industry.
j. II. Conrad of the Montana Coal &
Coke Company says, relative to the plans
for future operations at Horr which, ii
carried to successful termination, will
revolutionize the coke industry and make
Park county, Mont, the logical point for
smelter operations. The position IS to
not only convert the out put of the mines
of his company at Aldridge into coke, but
to save and utilize the byproducts of gas,
coal tar and dyes, and with the gas and
water power, which now goes to waste,
operate smelters for the treatment OF ores
at minimum cost never yet approached
in smelter operations in Montana
A. 0. Newton. manager of the Butte
and Yellowstone Coal and Coke Com
pany reports the preliminary work fol
the erection of the companys Is coke
ovens proceeding favorably and expects
that within a short time the mines at
Cinnabar will be contributing to the coke
output of the country
Moose Lake District.
An important mining deal in the Moose
Lake camp, in Montana, has been made
J. p. Dunn, John T. Cadle and Thoma
McGlautlin having bonded to L. j. High
, land the Gold Hill and Abe Lincoln min
ing claims. These claims adjoin what i
known as the Cadle property. The condi
tions of the bond provide that Mr. High
land must erect tive-stamp mill on th
properties additional stamps on or befor
, July |. IS9S In addition to this he pay
the owners $4,000. Should he fail t
comply with the terms of the bond, the
he forfeits his mill and such payments a
he may have made. What looks particr
larlv good about this deal is that tn
two mines named are among the frs
struck in the camp.
j. Red Top Mountain Claims Sold.
h Boundary, Wash, reports that Captal
II James Hays, the pioneer mining man {
t that camp, has just closed deal with
L Northport syndicate, with which the /
II Loi people are largely Identified for tn
d sale of a group of claims located on tt
y north end of Red Gap mountain. 1nclu'
t: ed in the group are the we'll known HUI
It ter. and a two-thirds interest in II
e White Cap properties. The group COZ
20 ssts of the White Cap, Beatrice, Tip Te
d and Saint Cloud, owned by Florma
HAYS, Palmer and Mason, and the HUI
le ter and Chauncey, owned by Chinsrer
O. and the Nelson estate. The considerable
is is said to be $4,000. The last two claim
y were discovered and located in the spri1
S of 1896. There is an lS0-foot tunnel {
at the White Cap, besides shafts and sho
st tunnel and shafts on the Hunter. II
a ore is largely silver one, with payl1
., quantities of lead, copper and gold.
OF Denver Mint.
=, Gold receipts at the Denver bran
mint for the half month which ended {
tober Is show a gain of Ill per cent ov
80 the corresponding period Of 1896. L
\
" 724.37, compared with 1903 ,s54.3S for
r. first half of October, 1896. The differer
-, in favor of the present month reads S34
a. A. $1,000. The number of smelters contr
a. utin9 is the same as last lear. The ga
~ ~ is due largely to the increased capaci
'os of the cyanide, chlorination and stal
mills which handle the lower grade
ore.
Million Dollars in Sight.
w The War Eagle Consolidated Mining
all Development Company held its first
If. nual meeting Thursday in Toronto, |
,er no business of special Importance
SIX transacted. The most interesting feat
ler of the meeting was the report OF >.
lot Hastings, general manager of the &C
wn panv's properties. The report pointed c
ish says the RosSland Miner, that the &C
pany is now in shape to ship 100 tons
more of ore daily. and that there Is Il
in sight ore to the value of Sl,lo5,'
'af which. less smelter charges. would
ale $722, 900.
in Southern Oregon.
POO That southern Oregon, partlculf
est Josephine county, is rapidly coming
ef- the front in the mining line Is evldel1
by the rapid strides made around c
Galice. In the spring of 1896 there v
but few giants operated in this dist
{. and at the present time there are
ven least l2 in readiness for the coming
si'S son. The various quartz mines are