The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-07
SINKING FOR A COAL BED.
SUPPOSED TO LIE 1000 FEET BELOW
MOHTdEl'S SURFACE.

Bie Work Of the steam Bhovs1s In Lake So
perior uron Ore-A VERY Largo Copper
Ledge In A~iasEa-Fivs Ren IN the Black
Hills Tauing Out $1,000 Every Dny.
BUTTE, Feb. 1.-THE Anaconda Company ia
pushing It's explorations for the coal body at
Gcbo. Tho three compartment shaft has
reached q depth Of 300 feet, and the work Of
ninkinG IL being prosecuted at the rate Of so
feet a month. The coal body is supposed to lie
ut a depth OF 1000 feet, and will probably be
reached some time in June. The mine will bo
equipped with the latest.improvements In ma
chinery and appliances for taking out coal.
The boilers and engines arc being built under
contract in Ohio and Illinois, and will have a
hoisting capacity of $4,000 tons.
Ore 10 being shipped from tho big forty foot
lead found in the Nippur last week. The proper.
~ bids fair to become one Of the great copper
producers of the Butte district.
Tho washoe Copper Company has decided to
pull the pumps from the Poulin and allow the
mine to fll with water. 1t is q good property,
with a vein of copper ore 80 feet wide.
A new Butte company has secured a bond on
the Hesperus lode for FzoO 600. and the prop
erty will be developed sufficiently to demonstrato
its value. The deepest shaft on the Hesperus
lode Is that sunk by tho Parrot company, when
the sum of $4,000 was spent on q compart-
mcnt shaft which was sunk at that time to a
depth Of $50 feet. The shaft went down through
solid granite. and only an occasional stringer
OF copper ore was found. mono Of It sufficiently
high grade or Of such size as would make 1t
profitable to ship. After the Parrot Company
gave up the bond the Hesperus Leasing Com
pany was formed. and the Parrot shaft was
utilized for the purpose Of prosecuting north
and south a distance Of 200 feet. To the south
of the shaft 100 feet Of lead was cut, which was
is feet wide and contained some good ore,
though not a sufficient quantity to pay to ship.
A strike Of good ore has been made in tho
Columbia mine. seven miles west Of Whitehall,
owned by Senator c.. w. Hoffman Of Bozeman.
Work has been going on for several months.
and the development shaft has reached u depth
of 800 feet. There q cross-cut was run which
has tapped the vein.
The country rock In the Bear Mountain dis.
trict is of a gray granite and limestone, all veins
found in the contact. At a depth of 100 to $50
feet the quartz becomes base, and from present
appearances the free-milling treatment is Of
short duration, and in the end the district will
become a permanent smelling proposition.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES. Jan. ga strike was made
last week in tho Roanoke mine, Tuolumne coun-
ty. A ten.foot ledge of free-milling ore, con-
tanning considerable FREQ gold, was uncovered
at 800 feet. The ore is very rich, and some of
1t will assay asThigh: as $1,000 per ton. The
owners purpose to sink 200 feet on the ledge.
The seven counties of southern California
have come forward at q tremendous pace in
mining matters. About 800 stamps are now
dropping in this region. and 1t is estimated
that about $l4.O0O.0OO is invested in gold
mines south of the Tehachipi. while over 5000
men find employment In the mines.
The dredger belonging to Capt. Couch and
Frank G0utharlapd haa haan 1annchod NV tk>
Feather River, near Biggs, Butte county. The
ground is expected to pay from 10 TO 40 cents
per cubic yard throughout the tract of 1900
acres.
yielded 10000 during the last month. The
sight. The Columbus mine. an old:time prop.
The California Exploration Company has
bought for $4,000 two claims adjoining the
lode. A representative Of John W. Mackay
R RiiSssi'y 4 q hs sss Ss s9sssT TssS & SI N, sSs MAsEss$
has been producing from $4,000. to sIs.oo66
monthly, which has Melted q mall profit and
paid for the development work, that the ore has
yielded over 81 per ton and has cost SO to mine
company sec, 600 for development and that II
d24!GoO OF more tons OF pay ore can DO blocked
s sSs; sa saSit %lfl b Be- &C. i e;oeS s snd the Rew Mill ii t% s,shf sn
enlarged with the aim of earning a dividend Of
% per share. On the other hand. 1t is said that
miners and has been searching the houses OF
others on the charge of stealing ore worth
The Pioneer, Mining Company produced gold
bars to the value Of $11,461 in December from
rock Of GA: 70 average value. the net earnings
town. Shasta county, is taking out ore that nets
$3.50 per ton. Messrs. Howell & Motherwell
mine for 10000. The Niagara a mine hn5E has s: 200
tons of tailings on the dump that assay 81 per
Charles Cole, while prospecting on the Kla-
math, near Hornbrook, Siskiyou county, struck
2 pocket last week from which he took SO, 800
previous owner had taken $4,000 In one month
from the same property and supposed he had
VIRGINIA CITy. Jan. 29:-The old Wilson
mine ut Pine Grove has been bonded to J. Smith,
who will operate Il at once. The ore averages
be worked at the rate OF nifty tons per day.,
been uneoyered in tho propeS Fly Of II the o Gold ass
Eagle Mining Company; The y6e output Of the De
p pSmas %iq f%oar Y %yteiE edFe has seG bt sens u per dsy;a "A "A
the Zip Coon and Gold Eagle shafts.
On the Comstock active exploiting is being
%arations for similar work are going on. Inter.
est centres mainly in the Brunswick lode, where
eestions Of the experts who examined the lode.
DEADwooD, 8. d., Feb. Live men at work
IN Gilt Edge mine, Strawberry Gulch. are tax
ing out ten tons Of ore, averaging 300 10 the ton
every day. d. II. Moffett and other Colorado
mining men have secured an option on ground
near Rockford carrying free milling veins that
run as high as pa per ton. Less than So will
mine.and mill the rock.
The Hardin Company at Two Bit has reached
q solid body of ore from twenty to twenty-five
feet thick and averaging 5 per cent. in copper.
The Homesteke, Mining Company. has bought
from James Milliken OF New York 100 acres
adjoining its main ore bodies and into which its
ledge dips; The price Is said to be 1915 600
erty. which, runs above the main vein. Home
ylake will immediately finish its costly Ellison
BOOSTING works and open the Milligan ground
from that shaft.
LAKE SUPERIOR.
DULUTH, MIMI, Feb. 1.-The owners of the
Maboning iron mine on the Mesaba range have
let contracts for development work this year
that will require constant operation of three
steam ehovcls day and night the entire season.
Besides these two more shovels will be EN-.
ployed. Any one Of these shovels has a ca
pacity for digging 500 cubic yards per hour.
1T Is computed that the mining Of the ore body
OF the Mahoning, when the entire cost Of de-
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