The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-02-26
The Queen CrOss-Cut at the 300
Foot Level Breaks into Ore
of q Rich Character.
A DESCRIPTION OIL THE WORK.
One of the Biggest Finds Re-
ported at Neihart for Many
a Moon,
Successful Engineering.

Queen of the Hills reported having
broken into vein of ore, the size
and character of which they could
not determine. The face of the tun-
mel, till then in hard granite, was
squared up and the work pushed
ahead until Monday morning when
they had crossed / feet of vein
matter in which was found an ore
body y feet wide, assaying high in
the hundreds. About Is inches of
the chute is what is commonly call
ed spar ore containing sulphur com
pounds of silver, lead, copper and
baryta. The sulphate of baryta
forms heavy spar which is charac-
teristic of some of the deeper ores of
this camp. The remaining IL inch
es consists of a layer of porphyry
which proves to be even richer in
silver than the quartz. The cross
cut of the entire vein will have to be
completed before fair statement
can be made of the true value of the
vein, but as it stands today it is one
of the biggest discoveries ever made
in Neihart.
The success of this work are just
ly credited to Superintendent An
drew Nelson who laid all the plans
and directed their execution, giving
the work his daily personal super
vision. IT voices the truth, and
brooks no ill to any one to say that
that Mr.. Nelson is one of the best
general managers of underground
work and one of the most proficient
quartz miners who ever entered this
camp. His success in this instance
is signal, and his reputation estab-
lished. For it will be mere mat
ter of days until the owners of this
property will be fully repaid for all
their expenditure of time and money
upon these claims.
To the brothers w. G. and G. e.
Conrad and to Kyle Price is due the
enterprise of having advanced the
pecuniary needful to put the Queen
on paying basis, as it may be said
she enters from this day upon such
basis. The experiences of this mine
in the past have not been the most
hopeful. Within the past eight
years more than 100000 have been
spent in subterranean explorations.
Ore has been found, extracted and
sold in large quantities. The ore
came from an adit tunnel which runs
about |, 400 feet into the mountain
and finally breaks through the side
line of the Gait. A hoist and pow
er plant were erected and shaft
sunk 300 feet deep. A crosscut to
the east of Is feet from this shaft
brought up to vein upon which a
level was run north a distance of
nearly 300 feet. But no ore of CON
sequence was found.
Mr.. Nelson has mined in this
camp for about eight years, for most
of the time as foreman of the Gait.
1t is known fact that a fault or
slip has occurred in the ground near
and along Rock creek by which the
veins have been bisected in a direct
ion east by northeast, and that the
country at one side or the other of
this fault has slipped away from its
former position until the bisected
ends of once continuous veins are
now As to so feet from each other.
The same fault has been detected in
all the mines of camp from the Moul-
ton to the Florence.
The present manager of works, at
the Queen estimated the place
where this fault cuts the Queen vein
only to judge that the real course OF
the vein lies west, instead of east OF
the shaft. AS rich ore was found in
the adit above, he thought to cut
across to the west from the 300 foot
, level at point which would strike
: the sought for vein under the rich
chute above, in hope of finding the
same ore below. 1t was a heavy
undertaking, especially in such