The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-11
BUTTE News.
IN THE MINING WORLD
The Largely Mill at Virginia City
Leased.
WORKAT THE BROAOWATER
Arrangements Have Been Made to Sub
let the Entire Mine-A Plan Which
VIII Make Philipsburg
Affairs Hum.
WORKATTHE BROADWATER

George Fl. Hooper Of Salt Lake has
leased the Largely mill at Virginia City.
He has acquired an interest In the Bam-
boo Chief mining property and will
treat the ore by the cyanide process.
The Legal Tender Mining company,
at Bear gulch. is pushing work on the
Siwash mine. near Bea gulch, and the
stamp mill of the company has again
been started.
A large number Of leasers are now at
work on the Broadwater mine at Mel
hart. Arrangements were made last
week to sublet the entire mine and
there were a great many miners ready
TO take advantage of it. The water has
been removed from the mine and the
pumps reset and are now ready to han
die the water. The air compressor has
been put in shape and pipe lines aid
to the 500-foot level, where one air drill
was started Tuesday night. They will
begin shipping ore within a very short
time.
The mill being erected by the Daisy
Mining company at Cooke City is nearly
completed and stamps will begin drop
ping this month.
1t is reported that the Consolidated
company, operating the frantic noun
tain mines, Will lease the Granite mine
down to the 900-foot level and the BIZ
metallic mine from the S00-fOot level up.
The company viii furnish leasers with
powder, candles, etc, at cost price and
receive the ore in the mine dumps. A
royalty Of rs per cent. will be charged
and the company will guarantee 80 per
cent. OF the assay value Of the ore. Ii
is intended to have the leases run for
-
unwilling TO lease except for such Il
short time that the miners would net
take hold of the proposition. Such an
arrangement win undoubtedly make
things about P~hilipsburg hum.
-Four carloads of machinery for the
Coast Dredging company, at Bannack,
have arrived at Dillon and three car
loads are now on the road.
l.. q. Phelps of Great Falls has just
sold a mine at Castle to Eastern par
ties for $25, 900, 900. This is a mine he
acquired many years ago.
w. A. Clark has just purchased a
numbe of claims In what is known as
the Bull Run district, % miles north of
Tuscarora, New, and has a large force
of men at work there developing the
property and installing a large power
plant.
Arthur F. Blair of Helena and Roscoe
Cornell of Dillon have just graduated
from the Michigan College OF Mines
with degree of mining engineer.
The Atlantic and Pacific properties at
Pony are preparing to treat the ore by
a steam stamp mill.
The Anaconda company's new coal
mine at Carbonate is down about 900
feet and the sandstone which overlays
The coal vein has been penetrated.
j. II. Riley has returned to Butte
from the Libby mining district, where
he has been for several months devel-
oping the Way Up mir
NJ. L. Hewitt. general manager OF the
Hope mine at Basin, is expected home
this week. when work viii be resumed
in the mine.
In the Occur d'Alene district great
bodies of lead ore are now being work
ed at immense profits.
The machinery for the new mill of
the Badger mines on Elk creek. near
Baker City, ore. is all in and now be-
ing put in place. There Is considerable
activity in hat section.
At Wilcox, Ariz., a new water supply
has been found on bedrock that was
heretofore unknown, which has greatly
stimulated placer mining there.
The Italian mine, near Leesburg,
Idaho, is now being operated regularly
and is said to be on a paying basis, as
the mill is being operated at a small eX-
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profit.
The Buffalo Hump country, Idaho
county, Idaho, where such a rich quartz
strike was recently made, is on the
boom. There are between 500 and 200
people there now and they are coming
in daily. The country is already staked
off for miles around. The lodges are all
very wide and the indications are that
they all go down, although as yet there
has not been sufficient development
work to determine definitely. The ledge
on the original discovery Is 80 feet wide
On the surface and will assay as high as
$500.
Several new very rich strikes have
been made in the La Sal mountain
try, and there is considerable activity
in that section. The strikes are perma-
nent and the future outlook for the min
eral development of that country is con-
sidered very fiattering.
Electric pumps are to be put in at the
Dexter mine at T~uscarora, New.
The mining outlook at Cherry Greek.
New. is very good just now. The North
Mountain mine has lots of good ore in
sight and the mill is treating about as
tons daily OF IS and s12 gold ore at a
saving of 80 per cent. of assay values.
The Star mine, near the North Noun
tain, is making a good showing, and
their new oncentrator is being pushed
TO completion. Considerable prospecting
is being done and some very rich strikes
are reported.
two newly discovered creeks in
Alaska have been called Dewey and
Sampson. They form the headwaters
of Forty Mile and every available foot
of ground on them has been located.
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