Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-03-19
A GLANCE At THE MINES
PROSPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT.

PROSPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT.
The Cid kIondikers Have Not Yet
Started for Aluska-Fr0m the Re-
Port of the Manager of the Alice
Mine-Big Project ON the Salmon
River in Idaho-Ore Shipments
From Nelson.
None of the old klondilers and Alaska
pioneers have started on their return trip.
They will begin to leave from about the
middle of this month until the middle of
April. and will then be in ample time to
get into the country and get everything
ready for the spring breakup. Many OF
them are having their outfits prepared
now and when they get their stuff to-
gether it is quite different equipment to
that of the average tenderfoot. The old
timer will take along good pair Of rub
Der boots and pair Of leather shoes
adapted to that climate. But his main
footwear is heavy moose hide moccaslns
weight wooden socks His underwear will
consist of a close woven suit OF silk OF
mixed cotton and silk, to be worn next
to the skin. Next to that he will have
the best quality of medium weight woolen
underwear and over that he will put q
heavy suit of woolen or mackinaw; over
all he will put a well made suit OF ashes
tos tanned sheep hide trousers impervious
to water and wind. This is his cold
weather rigging. As spring approaches
his apparel will be removed, suit at
time, until he only wears his summer
earb. Two outfits of this kind is all he
will take.
In the place of blankets for winter use
and for use on the trail, they will take
fur robes made from the skins OF the
Arctic fox or wolf. These robes can be
purchased at from $50 to 500, and weigh
from Is to 20 pounds and contain more
warmth than dozen heavy blankets. In
extremely cold weather, while on the
march, it is impossible to keep warm
with only blankets. The perspiration
passes into the folds and they freeze stiff
and no amount of them will keep one
warm. In the summer, or when in per
manent camp OF cabin, they are useful
and almost indispensable.
The old d-timers do not use sleeping bags
as they say they can't lack knife" IL
them, and that is one of the essentials OF
keeping warm in that country.
The prevalence of cerebro spinal men
ngitis is due to the extreme cold weather
and careless exposure of the body. The
body becomes heated and perspires while
/ travelling. and when camp is struck ant
/ fire is made the tenderfoot, instead OF al
once changing his apparel, stands befor'
/ the fire. his face is heated while his bach
| freezes in the Arctic wind, and his clothes
damp and cold, chill his back and bring
on the fateful disease, and in a few hour
! in MANY cases the tolls and troubles OF th
sufferer cease forever.
The Alice Mine.
Notwithstanding the low price of silve
Manager T. w. Buzzo has been able t
make the Alice mine in Butte, Mont, pa,
dividends The president OF the company
Mr.. j. Y. Walker, in the annual repor
issued few days since. says: The yeal
considering everything, was fairly pros
porous one for the company. We had t
deal with a very low price on silver bul
lion: the average price at which sllve
bars sold OH the market was .59-l94 pc
fine ounce, being .o6l437 per fine ounc
lower than the average price IN 1896. II
receipts for the sale of bullion and OF
amounted to $3.50, 9,474.47. | am please
to state that the companys mines an
mills are in good condition. A great dei
of work was done in the mines to keep tn
same in good condition, and the Corms
pump was kept running continuously i
order to keep the water down to the loot
foot level The 6O-stamp mill was I'll
throughout the year, except for stoppae
for necessary repairs. etc. The holstn
, works of the Alice mine, also the Magr
Cha,ta and Blue Wing. were kept i'll ope
alton nearly the entire year. The Magr
; Charta, Magnolia and Paymaster mln'
/. were run only part Of the time. For tt
e information of stock holders | have a
? tached to this report statement OF DIV
v dends paid from the commencement
4 amounting to $l,O55.000: also statemel
: showing the discount on silver. amour
+ ING to $3.73O, ,7s7.4S. covering the san
period In this connection | would sta
that the discount on silver for the ye
1897 is the largest for any one year
l. the history of the company. The cor
# pany has a balance of cash on hand Jan
e ary |, 1898, of $25, ,ll6.T.
: A Mammoth Undertaking.
: The latest news from the great horsesll
+ on Salmon river, Idaho, where the Hors
e shoe Placer Mining company IS worklr
;. is that they are in l60 feet with the
" ditch to turn the channel of the river, a
the work is progressing to their ent1
+ satisfa This is a mammoth und'
y taking, being no less than proposltl
. to cut 1920 feet through the neck OF t
" horse shoe, turn the river through the
. and mine not only the gravel taken fr(
and along side of the cut. but also
two miles cf river bed that the changl
of the channel will lay bare. The time "
'e when the river took the direct rou
IL aftelward changing to 60 around
II n horse shoe. and filling the neck with 60
:, =, bearing gravel SO rapid is the stree
!" that the cut will strike the stream 10 +
u below its present level, thus furnish
n an abundance of fall for mining. 1
~ hill across the neck is high, being
~ ~ steep that only 80 feet was run before
: cut became a tunnel, and it will contlr
'p to be tunneling until the work is aim
l'' completed The water will be introdu
Va gradually. fume being put in, and
l. the available gravel of the neck wasl
through it. When that is no longer p1
M ticable the whole river will be turl
-, through the tunnel-or cut it will then
~ and the present bed of the river
ho ,ninod The Gravel so far ia ken II