The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-30
ON A BUSINESS BASIS
The Camp at Garnet Has a Solid
Substantial Air About It.
NO WILDCAT SCHEMES
No Big Boom Expected, but Flattering
Returns From Legitimate Work
Are Expected During the
Season of 1893.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Garnet, Dec. 2S.-The year closes upon
this district with fewer indications of
a mining boom than three months ago.
1t is evident that the region is getting
more and more upon a conservative ba-
sis, and in the future the mines will
stand on their merits or feasible prop
ositions. No mining region was ever
yet developed wholly from within, and
has always to receive the aid of out
side capital. This seasons work has
dispelled numerous dreams and the
mining propositions are now looked at
from a more cool and business stand
point, fact that renews somewhat the
faltering hope for prosperous season
next summer
1t is safe to say that by next spring
a capitalist can examine prospect and
inquire the price without fear of drop
ping dead on hearing an enormous fig
ure mentioned.
The famous Ritchey mine still takes
the lead as producer, and for the
month is making something of d record
The receipts for ore shipped Will run
up into the neighborhood of $4,000
and this, too, with less than a dozen
men employed in the mine. The main
fissure was recently cut on the 100-foot
level showing the ore body to be 80
inches in width and of a fair grade in
value.
The McDermott is also showing up
well the last few days. Drifts are be-
ing run both ways on the vein and the
1o0-level, with results better than was
expected.
The bonders of the International are
determined to thoroughly prospect
their ground and a crosScuL Is being
run from the bottom of their 15o-foot
shaft in a southerly direction. The per-
severance and energy displayed by
Messrs Williams and Parker in deyel-
oping the International is worthy of a
lasting reward, and it will be hoped
when the last blast is fired that an ore
body will be exposed disclosing wealth
beyond the dreams of avarice. A full
crew of men are at work in the Spo-
kane shaft, which at present has at
tanned depth of about 80 feet Up to
the present nothing in the way of an
ore body has been cut
On the Austin Major Hornbrook and
his associate have cut some unusually
rich seams of ore in the shaft, all of
which indicate that the veins which
will be shortly encountered VIII be of
a high grade character.
Messrs. Crawford and Tiffer of Butte
have taken a bond and lease on a claim
near the head of Days gulch. An open
cut exposes for 100 feet the apex of the
chute of ore from three to IA inches
thick, and of a high grade character. A
tunnel is being run to tap the ore at a
lower level
The Mitchell mill has Just completed
a weeks run, with gratifying, results,
saving. the Standard correspondent is
informed, in free gold and concentra-
ton, 80 per cent of the assay value of
the ore. The mill has lately been re-
modelled and is now d well-equipped
amalgamating and concentrating
plant. To the excellent management
and integrity of Messrs. Ramsdell,
Mclaughlin and Gillian, is due in a
great measure the present success of
treating the ore.
Any economic treatment of the ores
in this district will be a great incen-
tive to prospecting and this milling
opera ton is watched with high degree
of interest and increasing confidence.