The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
.PARK COUNTY AFFAIRS
Interesting Developments in the
Boulder District.
CLAIMS NEAR CONTACT
Flattering Outlook in That Portion of
the County-A New Concentrat-
ing Table-Up to Date
Methods.


Livingston, Oct 7.-One Of the indie
pendence mining men was in the city
Friday from his mines on the Boulder
HIS name is A. D. McNulty, and in
company with U. ]. Fry, P. ]. Donnelly
and eastern stockholders he is operat-
ing l0 claims on the Boulder near Can
tact. Mr.. Donnelly and Mr.. McNulty
are looking after the interests of the
company here and Mr.. Fry resides in
Milwaukee, Where he is employed as
superintendent for large territory of
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany.
Mr.. McNulty is one of the most en-
thusiastic mining men 1 have ever met.
He appears to possess thorough I'M
Outstanding of the mining business and
talks intelligently and entertainingly
on Park county mines and mining.
Our claims" said Mr.. McNulty, "are
the Monnie, Imogene, Atlantis, Ray
mond, Old Abe, Madison, jefferson,
Madison No. 2. Anchor and Frisco. We
began operations in .the county early
in the spring of this year. 1 was in
Deadwood last year and while there l
met P. J. Donnelly of this county, who
told me that Park county had the finest
free milling proposition that has ever
been operated in the West. When r
say that what I found here when I
came was fully up to the rather fiat
tering description I am stating the ex-
act truth l have seen plenty of min
ing property which l have thought well
of, but, so far, this is the only mine l
have ever been interested in which 1
would recommend without reservation.
1T is a very fiatterng outlook to say
the least" continued the miner. I'VE
have everything needed to make the
mine a success. A good large stream of
water flows through our claims and
there is plenty Of timber near 1t will
not take much money to get good
results and the character of the ore
is such that even without these other
advantages we should be fortunate in
deed. l will show you an assay which
we had made a week or two ago" said
Mr.. McNulty, producing a certificate.
1T shows that the mneralogist of the
University of Minnesota has selected
rock from the tunnel of the Atlantis
claim and the quartz found there has
assayed $4,000 per ton, while the float
rock found on the claim assays 81 per
ton
Now, l don't mean to say that this
is a big assay for the Boulder country"
said Mr. McNulty. There is plenty of
rock that will assay great deal more
than that and there are plenty of good
claims there besides the ones we have
purchased What 1 have said is taxi
ing the Boulder country ast a whole
from what I know Of our claims in par
ticular The ore in the Boulder country
is a sort of granulated quartz and is as
free from base as can be found any
where There is no arsenic or sulphur
or lead in the mines there and very lit
tie of what mill men call tale,
soapy substance found in nearly all
milled ore.
I'VE have lately taken out a Cam
NETT table. kind of concentrator, and
we will work that during the winter
under Mr.. Donnelly's direction. There
is one of these tables in operation in
Cowles' camp and it is meeting with
great success there. We have plenty OF
ore to go to work on. There are at
least so places on our 10 claims where
the ore crops out in quality rich enough
to pay for working. The assay we had
made was of ore taken from five feet
below the surface. The ores in the
Boulder country are in true assure
veins. They go to an interminable
depth and grow richer as they descend:
Our mines are situated southeast of
Cantact, about 20 miles from Living
ston by the new road. We will let the
contract in a few days for road from
the new road to our mines and have
all ready by spring for the operation
of the stamp mill which will go up as
soon as the weather opens. We will
spend about 100000 in the next SIX
months and that will put the mill on
paying basis easily. We have wood and
water near at hand, are closesto town
and it will be all down hill from the
mine to the MILL so the operating eX-
penses will not be large.
1.-THE mining done in the Boulder viii
be strictly up to date in every particu-
lar" said Mr.. McNulty. answering =, a
question regarding the procesh which
will be used in the independence dis
trict. II think at Cowles milf there IS
as late process in use as can be found
anywhere. He has lately put one in
that is known in Denver as the slime
cutting process which by the action
of chemicals teaches the slime coming
from the rock and allows the fine gold
to be precipitated onto the tables. You
see a great deal of fine fiour-like parti-
Giles of gold goes over the plates and
tables in the ordinary process at the
stamp mills
IT think your mines in ParN county
have every prospect of success con-
tinued Mr.. McNulty. There is not
only the QudflZ dHu placer IlS&CS, 49,
the vast coal measures and apparently
limitless bodies of copper ore of fabul-
ously rich quality. Your Park county
coking coal will do wonders for your
section. and I am told that there is
plenty of 1t here. I am satisfied that
we will do well during the coming year
and that Independence will have a
splendid development. and see no rea-
son why the fortunate holders of min
eral property in this county should not
prosper exceedingly well during next
season.
Mr. McNulty left for Denver on Sat
urday mornings, train and will be in
that city for a couple of months, but
will return to Livingston at intervals
during the winter making preparations
for the rush of work that comes with
the spring. .s.4,t
The Vagaries of Geology.
From the Mining and Scientific Press.
1t is not strange that biologists do not
always agree upon the origin of geologi-
cal occurrences which are not absolutely
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