The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-22
BRIEF MINING NOTES
Miscellaneous Matters of Cur
rent Interest.
COPPER FIND NEAR PONY
News From Granite - Rich Ore on Rock
Creek-The Hope Mine-Bullion
Shipments From Philips
burg.

writing very freely about strikes of ore
that runs from 5000 in gold to 500
ounces of silver to the ton, besides a
goodly percentage of lead. However,
as the reports state that these high
grade veins are only from six to Is
inches in width, they may be received
with some credence-much more than
If the veins We're said to be anywhere
from 60 to 500 feet.
Florence, Colo, is exulting in the
fact that during the long drawn out
smelter strike her reduction works and
mines ran without the loss of a day.
The output of the Florence mills is
said to be nearly IL, 900 tons a month
but considerable of this comes from the
Cripple Creek mines. This city is in
the midst of quite noted oil region,
and many new wells are now being
sunk.
1t is said that some very heavy or
ders have been given for electric mo-
tors at Cripple Creek, and that cleo
tricity will be substituted for steam in
that camp as rapidly as possible.
strike of p feet of ore is reported
In the United States mine at Bingham.
Utah. The ore is said to run six
ounces in silver 81 in gold and Az per
resent fair average and the ore body
proves a large one, the United States
will be good mine.
The average daily output of the Mer-
cur mine for the past year Is said to
have been 400 tons. 1t is now an
nounced that the output will be in
creased to 600. The mine is said to be
iva nd
The Philipsburg Mail reports the
finding of rich silver ore on the head
waters of Rock creek. The principal
troubles with the section seem to be its
remoteness, inaccessibility and lack of
capital. These are the usual draw
backs in new sections, but they can be
easily overcome If the developments
assume fair proportions. The first work
in a new camp is always on a small
scale.
The same paper also announces good
yields from the placers at the head of
Gold creek. The Penaut claims are
said to have made a very satisfactory
showing and have been shut down for
the season while some needed improve
ments are being made.
Philipsburg is f1uttering with hopes
and fears over the probabilities con-
corning the future of the Hope mine.
The president of the mine arrived
tltTt last week from LOUIS anu
has been making a close inspection of
the property. There are said to be
large quantities of low grade ores in
the mine. and it is hoped that s1me
method of reduction may be devised by
which they can be made to yield a
profit.
Eighty bars of silver bullion were
shipped from Phlipsburg last week, rs
by the Granite Bimetallic company and
four from the Sweet Home mill. The
Granite-Bimetallic seems to be looking
up.
The Pony Sentinel asserts that the
mining claims of that section are max
ing better general showing than ever
before. A large number of encourag ng
strikes are reported, mostly, it seems,
upon comparatively small claims. or, at
least, claims that are being worked
upon small scale. Numerous small
lodges of rich ore have been struck.
and some not quite so rich, but much
larger-all of which it is a pleasure to
note.
Upon authority considered by the
Pony Sentinel to be entirely reliable,
that paper announces the most valua-
BILE discovery of copper and gold ore
ever made in the Tobacco Root range.
The lead is said to have been crosscut
for a distance of 25 feet, and to be
showing up remarkably well. The pa
per is little mysterious as to the pre-
else locality of the find, but it is to be
hoped that it is there all right.
The Bonanza mine, near Baker City,
is now equipped with the largest stamp
mill in Oregon. Twenty more stamrs
have been installed in the mill, making
40 stamps in ALL With the 20-stamp
mill the company has been taking out
about s25. 900 a month since Jan. l. Ex-
perts say that the Bonanza has enough
ore in sight to keep the full 100 st7mps,
for which the mill was designed, drop
ping for an indefinite period.
Reports from Bingham. Utah, indicate
that the district is destined to assume
position of Importance among Ctah's
producers. Now and then some enthusiast
tic reporter gives a rather free rein to his
fancy and tells a highly coored story.
But, al the same time, the moderate and
conservative statements based upon ac-
tual developments and shipments that are
constantly appearing, leave no room for
reasonable doubt that the district is one
of substantial merit
The gold output of the Transvaal in 1897
was SIS, 900 0O0, and in 1895 sS100G,000. The
strip which produces the greater portion
of the gold is 80 miles in length and one
to two miles wide.
The term unit as applied to ores. is
used to indicate the amount of a certain
mineral contained in the ores, as copper
iron. zinc, lead. etc. The ton weighs 1000
pounds. or 90 hundredweght and a unit
is one one-hundredth of this, or 20 pounds.
1t is l per cent. of the ton
In a paper recently presented to the In
stitute of Civil Engineers a London. >
comparative statement of the advantages
of electricity, steam and compressed air
for mining purposes was made, the author
arriving at the conclusion that high pres
sure dry steam is the most economical
power for use on the surface. electricity
the most economical for the transmission
of power and compressed air the safest
under ground.
During the smeter shutdown there has
apparently been no dminution in the out
put from the great Portland mine in
Colorado, and the dividends have been
kept up as usual, not having been either
postponed or passed on account of the
strike. This has led to speculation as to
where the Portland ore is being shipped |
for treatment 1t is reliably reported thar
all Portland ore, or at least the bulk of it. |