The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1897-04-30
IN THE MINING WORLD.

In l. III NlN lNU NOhl1lJ.
The last report of the Treadwcll
mine. pear Juneau. Alaska shows that
the bullion produced averaged only
81. 80 per ton of ore milled.
Daring the 4Irst quarter of this year
there were 250 mining claims filed i'll
the Office OF the clerk and recorder OF
Jefferson county,. This looks encoarag-
ing.
TIE report is again revived, dis plac.
ing Mr. Daily from the Anaconda com
pany May lst, and the vacancy is TO be
filled by M. Bayliss of the Drum
Lnmmon.
L. y. Iloomis, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has taken an option Oh the CARL Berg
strand group Of claims in the Royal
district. The amount Of the bond is
said to be for the sum of $40 O00, and
that a cash payment Of IS, 600 WAS made
at the time. The property is said to
be a good one and so far as developed
gives promise Of making Il big gold
producer
There is very apparent activity al
ready this spring in the Bearmouth
mining district, aud Judging from the
amount of supplies going in there
daily, it will be the busiest season this
distric, has ever had The freight be-
ing hauled away from Bearnouth into
the hills consists of all kinds OF provis-
ions and mining supplies, which would
lead one to believe that operations
would be extended far beyond the sum-
merf months.
The Gold Coin mill, in Granite
| txv i,c ch,,f 40
for the present Oh account of new ma
chinery being placed in position. The
company has decided to put in two
Frue vanners as an experiment. If
they do the work as expected, addit-
ional vanners will be put in. The
shutdown will last about twenty days.
The mine is working with full force
and looks we'll Two shafts are being
developed. One is down to a point
where if the lead is struck again the
company will have 200 feet of ore in
sight. Crosscutting is now being
pushed. The miners are into stringers
of ore, so that the indications are
favorable for striking the lead.
Owing to the fact that the Roval and
Bloomington mines are the only ones
mentioned, the public in general are
lead to believe that these two mines
comprise about the only good claims in
that district. However, this is all an
error, and the winters work will to IL
great extent prove the above to be en-
tirely erroneous There are a number
of very promising claims that the win
ter's work has shown to be excellent
looking prospects, The great draw
back to the entire district is the lack
i Of HI ,ioh To
the camps around the Royal. Capital
is badly needed in this district and if
wisely expended is certain to return
good results to the fortunate ones who
90 there to open up the prospects.
The rumor that Marcus DAILY. of the
Anaconda company, has resigned and
that R. T.. Bayliss, formerly of stne
Montana company, would take his
place, evidently emanated from a
malicious source, as there is not word
of truth in the matter. says the Min
ing World. Mr.. Bayliss has resigned
as manager of the Montana company,
but still holds seat Oh the board of
directors. On the other hand he holds
a position with the London Exploration
company, with headquarters in Lon
don, and will act as consulting en-
BluCcl duu DuSlUCSS lOI ALIoI
ican investments AS such, matters
pertaining to the Anaconda company
will naturally come under eye. Marcus
Daily will still manage the biggest cop
per producer in the world. which is a
guarantee that miners wages will re-
main as they are SO far as copper
miners are concerned.
Judge Brantly Of the district court OF
Deer Lodge county evidently has but
little use for the old "cat-hops' so long
in vogue in this state in matters per.
tanning to mining laws and litigations
In case recently decided wherein sui
was instituted to GUST party that hat
filed on claim in good faith, thu
judge decided that the actual amour
} of 800 must be expended on a minora
claim in order to hold it. He also de
! cided that the usual wages paid in
district must decide the manner il
} which this 500 is made up In thi
, case the parties claimed to nave don
! 23 days work and charged at the rat
of s. per day. The evidence shove,
} that the regular rate of wages was onl,
5 50 per day, and SO the judge decided
, that % days work would not hold tn
claim. and rendered a judgment il
favor of the defendants. The method
OF making up the annual amount Q
, assessments have always been too slack
3 and the above will certainly have
) good effect on this class of DeODle