The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-02-05

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for reduction in his frst-class little
pected that he will soon have things in
shape for a renewal of operations.
The Hope company shipped four
bars of silver bullion by the Northern
Pacific EXPRESS company this morning.
A company has been organized in
Glasgow, Scotland, under the name of
the Medium Tunnel and Mining syn
dictate, to run a tunnel %. 400 feet in
length from near Ironton to the Tel
lufide side of the mountain in Colo
ardo The cost is estimated at 81. 000 :
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The Merrell property has been pur-
chased by Chas. d. Mcclure, of Granite
Mountain fame. and it is expected that
operations will be resumed in the
spring, says the Mining World Mr.
McLure is mining man of nerve, and
if he goes Oh with the prospect he will
demonstrate the true value Of the Dor-
phyry dyke.
--Messrs. Thomas Finnegan, Harry
Rowland and Dugan, of the Dunkle-
berg district, near New Chicago are
reported to have started up their 5-ton
capacity smelter, which they recently
erected on their properties in that dis
trict. They will work their own ores
AS to the success of the venture we are
not prepared to say. not having heard,
though it is generally inferred from
those who are familiar with the prop
erty that it will likely result in sue
cess.
-Vint Bowman, Charles Densmore
and others have leased and bonded the
Great Republic property, which is 10
Gated Oh the West Fork of Rock creek.
There is 5-stamp mill on the prop
erty, and it is the intention of the les
sees to work up a lot of float that
abounds in that vicinity and which
is said to contain fair value in gold.
They have already taken charge Of
the property and are now getting
things in shape to commence oper-
atiOns.
John w. Opp, manager of the Alps
Mining company, situated above Quig-
ley, and j. J. Miller, of st. Louis, re-
turned to Philipsburg this afternoon.
Speaking of the mining district
wherein the Alps and Golden Sceptre
companies are situated, Mr.. Opp said
that everything was very quiet around
the mines. The Alps, which was
bonded by the Golden Sceptre com
pany, has reverted back to the owners,
owing to an attachment being on the
property. When they got hold of it
again it took them until January 9th
to release it, 1t was then too far in
the winter to do anything until spring.
A mining expert from Colorado is now
at Quigley making an examination of
the Golden Sceptre Mining company's
property and may possibly make his re-
port before Receiver w. S. Quigley re-
turns from the east. This is all he
knows about Quigley. -Missoullan,
Feb. 2.
Il. S. Mcclure and Ira Myers.
in Neihart last week looking over their
property. The latter gentleman in
formed a representative Of the Neihart
Miner that it was sure thing that the
mine would again start up, and on
start before April or May. Mr.. Myers
also said that there had been consider
able development work done since the
works closed down and that they knew
what was there. Asked in regard to
bnilding concentrator, Mr.. Myers
said that was an undertaking not to be
done in hurry, that there was many
things to be considered and that they
had done great deal of experimenting
looking to that end although no deter
nination had been reached in regard
to it. Mr.. Myers vouchsafed the infor-
nation that this camp was all right
and that the people here need have no
fear but that that city would always be
the banner silver camp