The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-29
IN THE GOLD BELT.
d Placer Miners Are Well Through
Their Spring Run.

Iheir spring Run.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Wallace. Idaho. June 26.-Prospects in
the gold belt of the Occur d'Alenes have
frightened considerably in the last few
days. For two or three months there
were no mills running there except the
10 stamps in the upper Golden Chest
mill, which is crushing ore from the
Katie Burnet. and the little three-stamp
Lion mill down the creek from Murray.
Now, however. the Daddy is starting up
its 10 stamps for a short run on ore
from the Emma, and has ore in sight in
the mine for which il was built to keep
II running for some time when the
Emma contract is finished. The lessees
on the Mother Lod have started i've
of the stamps in hat mill. and the
Granite will be dropping 10 stamps be-
fore long. The placer miners are get
ting pretty well through with their
spring run, although a few of the IA
vored ones will have water for some
time yet. Drift mining along Trail and
Its tributary gulches has commenced.
that being mainly "A summer job. The
dredging company is still prospecting
it's ground. but the results are religious
ly kept from the public. 1t was not
their intention to do much this year eX-
cept to prospect. For that purpose a
drill was taken in there and for "a couple
of months has been busy sinking holes
TO bedrock every few feet across the bot
tom in different places.
Nine Mile and Sunset promise 10 be
the part Of the Occur d'Alenes tina will
show the most advancement when the
balance sheet for 1898 is struck. The
Black Cloud mill Is nearing completion.
The outside work on mill, flume and
tramway Is done, and the whole force is
now placing the machinery. The Allan
tic Mining company has struck ore at a
depth of over 800 feet on its property
near the Black Cloud, but the extent OF
the strike is not yet known. The Gran
lite is still hunting for ore, but none is
being taken out. Considerable has been
found i'm different places, but the en-
deavor is To find enough either in one
body or several which will justify the
owners in making arrangements for
milling. The Custer has been bonded to
Eastern parties who are going to work
on Ii Immediately, a hoist and pump
having already been taken up. There
is already a shaft Town over 100 feet in
the Custer, and considerable stoping
was done I'm ii after that part of the
chute above the tunnel was worked out.
Last summer the old tunnel was pushed
several hundred feet farther into the
mountain, but, while ore was found i'm
many places, IL was not in sufficient
quantities To justify working. SO now
the new men have gone back To the old
chute. the upper workings of which pro-
duced hundreds of carloads. {. u. por-
ter of Spokane is the representative of
the new men, and as he was one Of the
owners when the mine was worked i'm
early days he is perfectly familiar with
the property. The Colwyn should COM |
menCe shipping by the middle of July,
as ii has already been working on its
new road for almost two weeks, and
shipments will commence as soon as IL is
done. IL will have six or eight carloads
i'm its bins by that time, and then stop
ing viii commence, so that shipments
Wal be regular and frequent as soon as
the road is done. All Of these proper
ties, and many others, reach Wallace
by the Nine Mile road. and this fall is
expected II see considerable wealth
coming down that stream.