The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-16
The Warm Weather Starting an
Interest in Mining.
ACTIVE WORK TO BEGIN
The Fortune Group of Mines in Williams
Gulch to Be Started Up-The Ken
nett Company's Sixty-stamp
Mill Completed.

uuTlnS the past month, conSidera bic
activity and stir is beginning to take
place in the surrounding mines. A
number of mines are being worked by
lease, while others are being worked by
the owners.
The Fortune Group of mines, situated
In Williams guleh, about six miles dis
tant from this city. and owned by r.
T. and Al Cook, is again about to be
Drought into prominence. Negotiations
are pending between the Cook brothers
and some Eastern capitalists. whose
names at this writing are not to be
given out. Should satisfactory arrange
mentS be made between the parties
active work will, in a very short time
pc commenced and will necessitate the
employing of quite a small force OF
men, as the mine is among one of the
lew Madison county mines that has
peen developed to any extent There
IS now an incline shaft following on
the vein to the extent of 200 feet. From
this shaft three levels have been run.
one 4o-foot. in so feet, a 100-foot in 80
feet, and 200-foot, in 60 feet. each
Delng IN continuous vein of ore. Be
low the shaft 300-foot tunnel has been
run on the vein. There lis a con,plat >
steam moist, assaying outfit ano bunk
and boarding houses. The vein aver
ages from seven to seven and a half
feet. The ore is comprised of gold sill
Yer, lead and copper The average as
say value of the ore is as follows. viz
Gold, $50 per ton; silver. $40 per ton.
copper, 20 per cent, and lead 35 per
cent. 1t is estimated by Mr. Cook that
he has 1000 tons of ore on the dump.
which he values at $4,000. and that
there are vast quantities of ore in
sight.
The Fortune Group of mines is the
property that Mr.. Farnsworth of Chi
cago was operating upon two years
ago, but owing to his inability to at
tend personally to the business of the
mine. he gave up his lease and turned
the property over to the original
owners.
The 60-stamp mill erected by the
hennett Mining company of this city.
OF which w. 3. Willard, formerly Of
Omaha, but now resident of this city.
is president. has at last reached com
pletion. The building of this enormous
mill was begun early in the winter
and through the untiring efforts of Mr.
Willard and his foreman a structure
has been built within three or four
months, in the dead of winter, which
usually takes many months longer at
any season of the year 1t is said that
this is the largest gold mill in the
West. The ores of the Kenneth mine
are very similar to the ore in
the Homestake mine in the Black Hills.
that is, very light and fiakey. In con-
sequence this mill has been closely pat
termed after that of the Homestake
mlll the popularity of which is the
extraordinary long plates, they being
81 feet long. The plate room is 50x120
feet, the battery room 1Sx120 feet. the
building over the ore bin 24xl20 feet and
It's capacity for holding ore is 5000
tons; the crusher and scale room 24x44
feet, engine room 24x42 feet and the
boiler room 30x42 feet. At present the
ore is delivered to the mill by wagons
a distance of three miles, but the COM
pany contemplate erecting a roadbed
tramWay some time this spring. 1t has
been found quite expensive and in fact
at times almost impossible to haul ore
by wagons on account of the extreme |
rough roads which the drivers have |
had to cope with, caused from snow, |
which at this season of the year, in the |
is very deep.
The capacity of the crusher. in which |
he ore is unloaded directly from the I
wagons, is 80 tons per hour. 1t is esti- |
mated, through the aid of the grizzleys. |
hat 500 tons of ore can be passed /
through the crusher into the bins in
o hours. The ore is fed to the batteries
~ the improved Challenger feeders.
The stamps weigh $50 pounds each and
Ire arranged in six batteries with 10
stamps each. The ore is crushed fine
enough to pass through a 60-mesh
screen. The plates are of Lake SUI
,erior soft copper.
The mill is lighted by electricity. The
'ngine is Corliss. automatic cutoff
me with tubular heaters. duplex pumps
md a No. 10 metropolitan injector.
everything in the way of machinery
n the mill is of the best material OBJ
ainable and entirely new, being made
for Mr.. Willard. Those who
re in position to know say that the
BENNETT mill is one of the most sub
tantially built mills that they have
cen anywhere in any mining district.
he location of the mill is a very de-
irable one, as 1t gave most splendid
oundation on account of the solid bed
ock being so near the surface. The
machinery was furnished by Fraser &
'halmers of Chicago and the putting
n place of same has been. greater
art of the time. under the direction of
II. Grow. who is in the employment
[ Fraser & Chalmers.
The mill is about seven miles east of
his city. while the mine is about three
allies nearer. At present there are
bout 10 men employed at the mine and
he force is being increased daily. II is
expected by early summer there will
z n6dI lou Il6H dl N1Ik at the mime |
nd mill.
The ore body in the Prospect mine.
ne-half mile distant from this city,
hitch has been worked under lease
Dr. some six or eight months by Messrs
&c Roy Southmayd, T. w. Allen, II. B.
ireen and T. G.. Port. has almost CON-
letely pinched out. The company will
lake a shipment of their first-cIass ore
. Butte in a few days. The second
lass ore which they have. near 100
ms on the dump. will be worked in
ne spring through the Prospect mill.
A letter has recently been received /
-om Gus Steffens. formerly a resident
this city. and whose mother and ]
rothers and sisters reside here AT pres
nj, from Dyea. Alaska Mr. Steffens /
working al his trade. jeweler and
i'll remain in DSea until such time
: he is enabled to proceed on to the
londike regions. He states that great
warns ~ people are continuously
irving from the coast and some
waiting for the season 10 open up be- |
IRE proceedinh, while others push ON ,