Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-26
CHAT ABOUT THE MINES
BODIES OF ORE BEING BLOCKED
OUT IN A ROSSLAND PROPERTY.
Large Purchase In the COeur d.
Alenes and the Project includes
II Cyanide Plant.

The Center Star mine in the RoSsland
camp is said to be attracting not little
attention. The Miner says of it, Gross
! cuts about 40 feet long have been run on
either side of the main tunnel at the east
end of the ore chute, and neither cross
cut has vet found the wall. In other
words, the ore body has been proved to
be more than so feet wide. A cross-cut
has lust been started to the south, l2O
feet west of the first cross-cut, and this
is now in 10 or II feet with a magnificent
body of ore in sight. The ore seems to
be quite uniform i'll character. 1t carries
certain amount of waste, but taken as
whole it carries high values in both gold
and copper. The gold bearing substance
is a sort of rotten black quartz. Small
pieces of pure sulphide, showing much
copper, are scattered through the entire
mass. Nothing quite like it has before
been seen in the camp
For Half n Mi1lioE.
If reports from Murray are correct,
the North fork is about to blossom as the
rose, the understanding there being that
the Paymaster, Golden Chest, Joe Dandy.
Dora, Katie Burnett and several contig-
uous properties have been purchased pre-
sumably for the Delamar people. The
consideration is not made public, but it
is variously reported at from 100000 to
halt million. Four mills are now on
the property, three lOstamp and one 20.
The report at Murray is that the new
company will erect large cynadine
plant.
The Monte Cristo Sold.
T. E. Snodgrass and other officials of
the Monte Cristo mine at Rossland went
to that city the other day to sign the
necessary documents for a transfer OF
the Monte Cristo property to syndicate
which it is supposed has control of the Col
onna Gold Mining Company of Rossland.
The Colonna company owns the Buckeye
No 2, claim adjoining the Monte Cristo,
on the west slope of Monte Cristo noun
tain. For some time the deal has been
on. just what the terms are is as yet
unknown, but it is said to be on the ba
sis of l2l cents per share, though large
part of the deal means merely a transfer
Of stock. The Buckeye and Monte Cristo
will hereafter be worked together.
Great Ore Chute.
The new tunnel in the Tomboy mine,
near Telluride, Colo, has cut a great ore
chute at the depth of 45O feet below the
old workings. The upper workings have
shown a continuous body of free milling
ore over 1000 feet long and nine to Il
feet wide. The controlling interest in the
mine was recently sold to the Roths-
childs Governor Adams, one of the own
ers, says the new development makes the
mine one Of the greatest in North Amer
lea.
Placer Claims.
Messrs. Sutton and Nantassel, two min
ers from California, who own a couple
of placer claims on Fourth of July creek,
four miles from Grand Forks, claim to
be striking it rich i'll their claims. Nh.
Vantassel says that they are now find
ing nuggets of gold, some as large as a
full grown bean.
Bought II Trout Lake Property.
The British Columbia Exploration Com
pany Of Tacoma, Wash, has purchased
the Ottawa claim, near Trout lake, in the
Lardeau country. The company was OF
ganized last fall and the Ottawa is the
first property it has purchased. The con
sderation is said to have been $4,000. 1t
is a silverlead property.
Rnvnslnrx
The final payment under the bond on
the No. Z, in Central camp, has been
made on behalf of the Boundary Mines
Company of New York. The total amount
paid as purchase money and commission
for this claim was $l3,SO0. The company
has spent more than $4,000 in develop
mcnt, SO the claim has cost it about $22,-
OGO to date.