The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18

sheds. Mules drew the cars hack I'M
to the ore house at the base OF Lion
hin. The ore was conveyed from the
mines to the ore house by n system
or wire caoie and buckets-an aerial
tramway.
The hill was very steep leading up
to the Cleopatra. and the miners go
ing from the boarding house to the
mine were assisted In their long. te-
dious n sometimes perilous Journey
by a heavy rope strung from the mine
down to the foot Of the hill. Hand
over hand the miners went up the
long hill. digging Their heels into the
snow n making very slow progress.
At n time there was a flight OF
stairs up the steepest part OF the trail.
but that burned down one day. An
other long and circuitous route was the
trail leading on to the left. making a
wide circle to the right and bringing
up to a point a hundred feet below the
entrance 10 the 2.OO0-foot incline shaft
OF the Cleopatra. This was a most
dangerous route in the winter time.
Many men nave lost their lives in
huge avalanches of snow. There are
only o eight weeks in the year
that the ground is clear of snow.
Queer Kind of Cold.
A remarkable yet probably not I'M
expla'nable fact in connection with
the underground workings OF the Cleo
patra mine Is the intensity OF the cold
air. Ordinarily In min the tempera-
ture increases Instead of decreases as
depth is attained. but it's different
IN Lion mountain. Miners. to be COM
Portable, must work with heavy gloves
and clothing on, n should wear over
shoes. III they cease work for a min
ute. the cold becomes almost unbear-
able. Yet there Is no draught. A can
die VIII not burn standing. IL must be
laid down so that the flame will ab-
sorb the sperm as IL melts. Various
reasons have been given for the cold
ness or the air 1000 feet from the sur
face. Some men believe that the work.
are not far distant from a ter
minal moraine. while others are OF
the opinion that the hill being full of
assures and chambers, Is constantly
absorbing the waters from the melting
snow and that down to a certain dis
lance below the surface this water be- |
comes congealed by contact with cold
air circulating through the pening m
the formation. The fact that there is
almost perpetual snow on the noun
may cause the entire mountain 10
be continually chilled. 1t Is cited that |
the spread of a thick mass OF snow
and Ice over any considerable area OF
the earth's surface. and It's continuance
@heiN u stNtfdl lhouSdnd years, would
so depress the subterranean isother-
mails that for many centuries after
wards there might be a fall of temper
ature for a certain distance downward.
However. IL Is calculated that even
his great agent would not affect TIE
normal temperature beyond a depth of
700 meters. or about 1000 feet.
An authority recites thai II is a re-
narkable fact. now verified by obser-
an nNAr thA x-A.ll 49,. "
he influence OF ordinary seasonal
the temperature. so far as Is
tnown. is nowhere found to diminish
downward. 1t always rises, and its
ate or increment never falls much be-
ow the average. The only exception
cases occur under circumstances not
iifficult of explanation. /.
according to present knowledge the
iverage rate OF increase mounts to
degree Fair for every 20 or so
Of descent. and this rise Is found
the boring be made at the sea
evel or on elevate ground.
Therefore. IL will be noted that the
that this mine is on an elevation
las no bearing on the argument adj
.anced above. II is a fact, however. :
bat the Cleopatra mine Is a very cold
and II a geologist, or any other
clentist, would like to make himself
good fellow" with the men who
in that mine he may have .he
OF so doing by explaining
omething that few. II any. men in Hec-
4 have as vet gaticFa cfOrflv axalaE,o1 :