The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-11
MINES NEAR THE BURG
The Sweet Home Will Resume
Operations on Good Ore.
RICH ROCK NEAR GRANITE
Duffy a. AcLeod Strike a Bonanza-A
Runaway and No One Hurt-School
Census-John Deering Lost
In Alaska.

Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
Philipsburg, Aug. 9.-The Sweet Home
mill has been closed down for several
days and will resume operations to-
day. The last ore run through was on a
test run for F. f.. Grimes and was from
the Winger claims in Frost creek gulch,
upon which Mr.. Grimes expected 10
get a lease If the ore could be treated
simultaneously in the vicinity. as it
was not rich enough to justify the high
freight charges to smelters outside this
district. The ore proved to be too base.
however, and the property will not
therefore be worked. When the mill
starts again 1t will be on the ore from
the Sweet Home claim, in which there
is ore enough to keep the mill pounding
10 It's full capacity, the only difficulty
being the long and steep drive down the
hillside and the poor condition of the
road. The road is, however, now re-
pairing, and George Metcalf, who has
the hauling contract. will undoubtedly
be able to get ore enough to the mill to
supply it.
Anton Tamiyetta, who has a lease on
the Hobo and another on the levels of
the old Granite mine above the No. 3
tunnel, has about 20 men at work on
the two places, and reports good results
at both places. The lease on the Gran
lite workings being only in the nature
of an experiment with the leasing COM
pany, the outcome is watched with a
great deal of interest locally. as one of
the terms of the lease is that the ore ex-
tracted or sorted from the dumps should
be worked through the company's mill
at Clark, and if that is successfully
done there will be plenty of men who
Will be anxious for a lease, and besides
putting men to work in the mines it
will employ much additional help in
the mill. and If enough ore could be
extracted that way it would perhaps be
the cause of the resumption of work i'm
the company's mill at Rumsey. a con-
dition ardently wished for by the COM
munlty, as 1t would come near re-estab-
fishing its former business condition.
The chief of police last week received
a letter from Dawson City inquiring
after ther relatives of join Deering. for
merly Of here, and who left for that
place last fall. The letter stated that
Deering, together with others, had been
frozen up on the trail all winter, and
that Deering had acted queerly during
all that time and that he was undoubt-
edly mentally ~deranged: that after
WI City was reached his condition
was not improved, and the matter had
been brought to the attention Of the po-
lice, but no notice of it was taken. The
letter stated hat Deering had wan
dered about the city some time, ap-
parently noticing nothing and nobody,
and the last seen of him he was going
down the Yukon river in a small boat.
The people who know Deering best i'm
this city attach no importance to the
matter, as he was always a silent and
man, and to one who did not
know him might appear morbid. 1t is
thought hat he simply acted i'm his
usual way and, being among people who
did not know him, they imagined him
unbalanced. His going down the river
would only be characteristic of him, for
he never made confidants or told anyone
his intentions were. 1t is believed
that when he got up TO Dawson he sized
the place up and concluded that he
wanted none of it and made up his
to go back as best he could, and
his friends expect him to turn up in
the city any time alive and well.
James Duffy and Kinney Mcleod
have every reason to belive that they
nave struck a bonanza in the claim, Just
west of the town Of Granite, upon
which they are working. They have
a tunnel which is in about 60
feet and nave for some time been on
the lead, but the last blast put in SUM-
10y AAo"Nt up AlC lCau ~ NC So iSt !
rich in both gold and silver that
ore can now be extracted from II at a
very handsome profit, even at the pres
ent price of silver.
The board of county commissioners
last night closed their session as equal
zers after having been in session three
NJ. H. Bryan, clerk of the school
board, is out taking the census of school
He says that while he finds
who were on his list last year
a " moved to other places, more new
have come into the district and
hat the enrolment for the district will
larger than ever before.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Richard
drove to the depot to receive a
friend whom she expected on the train,
hitched her horse to the hitching
ing on the depot platform. The noise
IF the train approaching frightened the
and, tearing loose, IL started in a
Wild career through the streets and up
leaving parts of the buggy scat
cred along Main street. By what must
been a d~ispensation of providence
of the small children who usually
swarm on the streets were struck.
d. NJ. Durfee arrived home from Gar
Saturday night.
The last will of Charles Kroger was
lied for probate pm Saturday.
James Duffy, secretary for the Gran
tie Miners union, made a trip to Garnet
yesterday to look after the unions in