The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-30
MADE A GOOD SHOWING
The Big Seven Has Kept Right
On Declaring Dividends.
IN SPITE OF HARDSHIPS
The Mine Has Been Worked for Years
by the Barker Brothers-Now Reap
ing Their Reward-Other
Dividend Payers.

Great Falls, July 29.-Among the
mines of the Little Belts none has made
a better showing than the group
Of seven claims known as the Big Sew
en-. located at Neihart. Through hard
times n through good the mine has
been worked. and In the past three
months II has declared dividends
amounting to $4,000. And this has
been done in the face of great obsta-
cles. The mine is located on a proml-
hence of Big Badly on the side away
from Neihart and so far up that rugged
mountain that a spectator at the mouth
of the shaft may look away to the
northwest and view the city of Great
Falls, and on exceptionally favorable
days distinguish the smelters n 9TH
er features of the city. This is a dis
lance Of e5 miles.
The principal owners OF the mine are
the Barker brothers, E.. ]. and D.. l..
s., who have been working the prop
erty for years in spite OF h~ardships
and are now reaping their reward. As
the ore must be hauled seven miles
over the toughest kind OF a ~"go-devif'
road, Ii has to ne carefully sorted be-
fore shipment. The first sorting comes
IN the NINE, WneTe tnt DeSL ore is
roughly selected and packed in sacks.
Then in the ore house two sorters
break up the Jumps and throw our all
of the barren rock. The ore itself Is
divided into two classes, the first grade
running about $40, 900 to the ton. Then
comes the hauling and loading on the
cars. Had the ore not proved excep-
t~ionally rich the owners would have
been forced to close the mine down. As
1t is they are working 35 men steadily,
and II times warrant they will put on
more. The ore taken out at the pres
ent time shows some beautiful samples
of wire, brittle and ruby silver.
Another of the Neihart mines which
paid dividends through the hard times
is the Florence. This mDan IS
stocked for 81, 900, 900 and has a diVi-
hend record of $132. $40. II has not paid
a dividend since May, 1897, but has
merely taken out enough ore to pay
expenses and confined its operation tc
development work and the blocking
out OF ore bodies. 1t has lately put in
a large bin, into which all high grade
ore is dumped and washed, after which
the ore is sorted. The ore is high grade
and the company is apparently waiting
FOR a rise in the silver market In order
to proceed with business and declare
more rich dividends.
At the Moulton the work of baling
out the shaft is progressing rapidly. l.
400 gallons of water being raised to the
surface every SIS seconds The work at
this rate will be concluded at the end
of three weeks. Then a gang of 30 men
will be set at work until certain eX-
periments with the min have been
made. The company has not wholly
abandoned its idea of a concentration,
but just now is not inclined to proceed
in that line.
The Queen is doing very nicely and
the owners are well pleased with the
quality and quantity of ore shipped. a
force of Is men is exploring a rich
chute of ore in the north drift of the
new crosscut inc some prospecting is
being don also.