Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-02-05
MINES Of THE NORTHWEST.
A GLANCE OVER MINING CAMPS
Bond Said to Have Been Secured on
the Hesperus Lode-The Palmer
Mountain Tunnel-In the Historic
Old Clutches Around Helena.

1t is said that new Butte company
has secured IA bond on the Hesperus lode
for 100000, and that the property will
be so developed as to demonstrate its
value. The deepest shaft on the Hesperus
lode is that sunk by the Parrot company
when the sum of $4,000 was spent on a
compartment shaft which was sunk at
that time at depth Of 23O feet. The
shaft went down through solid granite
and only an occasional stringer of copper
ore was found, none of it of sufficiently
high grade or of such a size as would
make it profitable to ship. After the
Parrot company gave up the bond on
the property without doing any cross
cutting at all, the Hesperus Leasing
Company was formed, Silas King and
others being interested, and the Parrot
shaft was used for the purpose of
prosecuting north and south distance
of about 200 feet. To the south Of the
shaft 100 feet a lead was cut which was
Is feet wide, and it contained some good
ore, though not sufficient quantity to
pay to ship.
Palmer Mountain Tunnel.
The Palmer mountain tunnel, the big
bore that is being driven into the noun
tain north of Loomis, has penetrated the
first ledge. The manager says: 1--WE
entered our first ore body last Friday,
bo,-
eral stringers and small veins of low
grade ore. but this is the first ledge we
have struck. We ran through 40 feet
of hornblende and that constitutes the
foot wall of the vein. Beyond that we
encountered two and one-half feet of
solid mineral. 1t is sulphide ore, a mill
ing and concentrating proposition. and
tests made show it to run from Sl2 to $40
in gold
Around Helena.
Mining affairs are looking brighter i'll
the vicinity of Helena. There is con-
siderable prospecting going on in our his
toric old gulches and reports are made OF
some rich strikes. but nothing has yet
been developed to a point where it is safe
to talk about it, A new 500 ton concen-
traitor for custom work is being erected
by the East Helena smelter people. This
will prove powerful stimulus to the
mining industry, as it will enable a great
many mines to send low grade ores to
the concentrator which could not be prof
itably smelted. A. NJ. Hotter, president
of the smelter company, estimates that
the building of the concentrator will give
employment to 1000 men directly and in
directly.
Bear Mountain District.
The country rock in the Bear Noun
tain district of Montana is of a gray
granite and limestone, all veins being
found in the contact. At Il depth of l0C
to $50 feet, being the water line, the
quartz becomes base, and from present
appearances the free milling treatment is
of short duration, and in the end the dis
trict will become Il permanent smelling
proposition, which must result i'll great
backing find good opportunities to get
leases and bonds on excellent prospects
p. 4. Largey's Estate.
The estate of P. A. Largey, the Butte
mining man and banker who was muir
dered a few days since, is valued at $400
900 in the application of the widow fol
letters of administration, he having died
intestate. A large part of his wealth.
was invested in Rossland and Washing
ton mines. He was president of the Cen
ter Star company of Rossland at the
time of his death.
On Toad Mountain.
Another shipment of 25 tons of ore i:
being hauled down from the Athabascs
mine, on Toad mountain, about three
miles from Nelson, to the Hall Mine:
smelter which brings the total shipments
up to 26O tons. The ore averages abou
500 per ton.
Carlyle Gets 1t.
A dispatch from Victoria announce
that W. A. Carlyle, the provincial miner
alogist, will shortly resign to accept th
position of general manager for the Brit
sh America Corporation. MIR. Carlyl
has been highly regarded by mining mel
generally in his official position. Hon. {
| II. Macintosh was seen tonight III rela
ton to the above II have recommended
the appointment of Mr.. Carlyle to tn
position of general superintendent of III
company said he, and will keep tn
place open for him for some time in orde
that he may accept it. 'Will Mr. Cal
lyle receive higher salary than he is a
present receiving?" ''It is the policy o
the British America Corporation to ge
the best availab BILE in the way of both me-
and mines. Of course, NIr. Carlyle VII
receive more than his present salary. A
increase of one or two thousand dollar
makes no difference to this corporation
when a man of Mr. Carlyle's ability IS ul
der consideration.
Will Not Go Into Il Trust.
J. A. Coram. of the Butte and Bosto
smelter. which is now being operated b
the Boston and Montana, speaks as TO
lows in an interview relative to the recel
tale about a national smelter trust: .
/ know OF one Snleltef tnau VIII IloC 90 iii'
a trust, and that is the Butte and Bostol
There is nothing practicable in the plal
The country is too large, the interests II
volved in the mining regions are too e'
ipensive and varied. and the transportatio
question is too great for any combinatio
of smelters in this country to succeed.
don't think single one of the Montan
smelters could possibly be induced to entt
such a combination
Howard Fraction Ore.
A shipment of ore made last week fro
the Howard Fraction. in the SLOGAN j
vision, of which the British Canadian Co
Fields Company have control, to the Ne
son smelter gave returns of l73.5 ounce
in silver, LA ounces in gold an averas
, value of $ll693 per ton at the presel
; price of silver. The shipment consiste
of 23 tons which gave returns of S2104.6
Sold Stock in London.
The placing of large blocks of treasu1
stock in London of the Kenneth Go
Mining Company, owning the lamar;