The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-26
Some of the Properties Around
Sunset Peak.
THE SNOW Is STILL DEF
The Colwyn Ii Making the Best
Showing of Them All Father
Lode Will Ship as Soon as
the Snow Is on.

from a trip to Sunset peak. during
which he visited most of the proper
ties that are now being worked in
that region. Except well down on the
base of the INT there is nothing
being done. but men have been work.
ing all winter. as the snow IL still too
deep to allow supplies being got in
yet before the roads viii be free of
snow enough q permit horses to get
all over the peak.
OF the properties now being worked
the Colwyn has the best showing. IL
was bonded about "A year < by local
N Walla Walla parties. who after
ware Incorporated the Colwyn Mining
company to work it. The bond called
for a series of payments. the last of
which was made some time ago. Moth
ms but development work has been
done yet, two carloads of ore being
shipped from that source last sum-
mer. and there is now about 100 tons
of shipping ore i'm the ore bins. besides
a large amount OF lower grade ore
which has been put on the dump for
milling at some future time. A tunnel
was run 100 feet below the old works.
IL was In Ito feet before ore was struck
n they have drifted 10 feet on the
ore since. finding a continuous i'm
provement as greater depth was at
tanned. Shortly after the ore was cut
the chute split and further i'm a cross
cut OF abou % feet was made which
cut the north fork of the chute, show
ing over two feet of ore i'm it-about
the same as the south fork, on which
most of the work had been done. The
air not being very good, they next
raised to the surface, finding ore all
the way. Now they are sinking on
the lead. being down o As feet.
with the ore continually improving.
The shaft Is TO be continued until IL is
down 100 feet. by which time the road
will be in condition for hauling. when
stopping will commence, the force being
increased to 30 or 40 men. The mouth
of the present working tunnel is in a
place where is great danger from
snowslides, so II will bp abandoned af-
ter this summers work and a new tun-
mel run 400 feet lower in "A place that
is free from this danger. A millsite
has also been located on Carbon creek
which will be within 1000 feet of the
lower tunnel. where a mill will prob
ably be built next year. although that
matter has as yet gone no farther than
to decide that a mill is necessary. As
soon as the road Is free from snow the
shipments from the Colwyn will be
regular and of considerable extent. 1t
Is still too young to risk any predic-
tons as to it's future. but there is no
longer a doubt that IL is a mine. its
rank among those OF the Occur
d'Alenes being the only point yet to
be determined.
Lying three-quarters of a mile south
west from the Colwyn IL the Father
Lode. on which three men have been
working since last fall. IL was first
opened up in 1880. and before the strike
two years later had shipped % cars
OF crude ore. 1t was closed i'm the
general shutdown of the camp, and
nothing more was done with IL until
last fall. During the time that IL was
worked a tunnel POO feet lower than
the one from which the ore was taken
had been commenced, and when work
was resumed Il was on that lower tun-
mel. Traces of ore had been found in
IL all winter, but nothing of conse-
quence until a few days before the
correspondents visit. Then. when
within IL feet of being under where
the chute was cut in the upper tunnel.
they suddenly broke into IL. and at
the time the visit was made there was
over four feet of ore i'm the breast. six
or eight inche of which was of a
shipping grade. Only "A short road will
1 nave 10 DE nldue 10 connect the lpNtI
tunnel with the old road. and there
seems no reason to doubt that the
Father Lode will be shipping again
shortly after the snow Is on. There
is as yet no talk of a mill on this
property. but should they want one at
any time IL can be built on the lower
end of the claim, there being water
enough there for "A small concentration.
Joining the Father Lode on the
1911 4. a.. Ill4lA n.aAn 49,. .n
which three men have been working
since last July. A crosscut tunnel was
first run and they have drifted 100 feet
or more since cutting the ledge. a
small ore chute was cut I'm one place.
but Il was of no value beyond deter
mining the character Of the ore. SUR
rounded by galena-bearing lodges on
all sides. IL is something of a surprise
to find none OF II in the Chloride Queen.
the only ore ever uncovered in II be-
ing gray copper. No assays have ever
been made on IL for lead. although
there is no doubt that IL will carry
ONE but IL runs well In silver and has
enough copper to add to it's values.
All the assays have also shown gold
varying in mount from s. To $40 per
ton. ore was again struck last week
more plentifully than ever before. but
since the men have been busy putting
in air pipes. by the middle of next
week the stockholders can begin "a
have some idea as to the value of the
new find.
A little over a mile west OF these
two properties is the Blue Grouse
group, now under bond to Moscow and
Pullman people. who have formed a
company TO work IL. The first pay.
ment has been made on the bond and
the tunnel already run "A considerable,
| distance on ore. A contract will n,
let this week to continue the TUNE.
zoe feet farther, which will begin e
show up the claim in good shape. On
the surface there Is ore showing ir
the groupings for 400 feet ahead of IN,
face of the tunnel. and the owners cal.
culate on running clear through tn,
chute before they do any stopping. dc,
~veloping the property as much as theii
means will allow before doing any &C.
tual mining. and then opening up on q
large scale.
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