The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-28
Shipment of Concen trates From
the Buzz Saw.
NEW MINING COMPANY
Good Report From Coded Strip-H,gh
Values in the Mollie Glbson-Mis-
cellaneous Matters Of In
terest.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

IN the mining WOrlQ In LIBBY the past
week has been the shipment of 20 tons
of concentrate from the recently COM
pleted concentration on the Buzz Saw
mine on Shaughnessy hill The ship
ment was made to the smelter at Great
Falls. The first wagon load of these
concentrates was brought down from
the mill on last Thursday and weighed
about five tons, the load being pulled
by four horses over the wagon road
which has recently been completed from
the mine to Libby. The sacks were
piled up like grain. This road is on a
four per cent grade nearly all the way
and the grade is all from the mine to
the railroad. There are employed at
this mine and mill now about SO men,
and the force will be increased as the
mine is opened up. The first shipment
or concentrates should have been made
month ago, but on account of a mis-
take made by the Gates Iron works
people of Chicago in the elevators from
the first to the second rolls there was
full month lost. 1t is understood that
firm also lost considerable in penalties
on this account. The trouble has not
been remedied entirely yet and the com
pany will have man here for the pur-
pose Of fixing it up. In the meantime
the mill is running through about 70
tons of crude ore day, while the
capacity of the plant is about $50 tons.
and this can be run up to nearly 200
tons. This shipment inaugurates the
beginning of another producing mine
for the district and in consequence there
is a great deal of satisfaction expressed
by those who make this their home. In
connection with this property it is only
fair to state that since the present COM
N IN a hn1 of r i,,tr
has been done unnder the direction of
j. M. Dikeman and everything has been
done in the most thorough manner
there not having been mistake made
in any of its plans and the delay above
noted is entirely attributed to the peo-
pie who furnished the machinery. The
mine is supposed to have been sold on a
basis of $4,000
New Mining Company Organized.
The Sullivan Gold & Copper Mining
company has been organized in Kalis-
pell and the following prominent bust
ness men of that place are the directors:
d. r. Peeler, M. j. Sullivan, J. ]. Sulli-
van, Fred Langerman, Harry G. Keith,
James Conlon, John Mcintosh. There
has not been an election of officers.
The capital stock is S100 900, divided into
100000 shares at 10 cents each, There
Is no stock on the market. The com
pany owns nine claims in a group on
the saltwater river about q miles from
kalispell and Is miles from Lakeview
station on the Great Northern. LA, ad-
dition they own a mill site and, water
right and there is an abundance, of tim
Der available for mining purposes. The
property is developed by, an adit tun-
mel so feet deep. both being in ore, as is
also the face of the tunnel. The ledge
is three feet wide and the forma ton is
granite and porphyry. There was a
CfN I1 l.
short time ago to the Great Falls
smelter of something less than a car
load and the returns from this ship
ment were gold SIS; copper, 1873 per
cent; silver, "a ounces. The ore was
not sorted, but taken from across the
vein. At present there is force Of
three men working on the property and
two more will be added in short time
and provisions have been taken in to
keep this crew at work all winter All
the stock is owned by Kalispell par
ties.
Good Report From Coded Strip
DR.. A. D. Macdonald Of Kalispell, sec
rotary and treasurer of the Michigan &,
Montana Mining company, has received
report from A. NJ Essler Of Helena,
who has three years lease on the
company's property on the ceded strip,
to the effect that it is looking fine One
of the conditions of Mr.. Essler's lease
is that he shall do 800 feet of work by
the LIST of next April, and he now has
day and a night shift at work, having
sent in 700 feet of rails and the neces-
sary supplies to keep his men at work
all winter This property runs high in
copper and the ledge is a remarkably
strong one. 1t is situated in Teton
county about rs miles from Kalispeu
and there is good wagon road all the
way to the mine from Blackfoot sta
4 Nv
Fssler took hold of it there was a rs
foot tunnel on the property and the
work this winter will be continued from
the face of this tunnel The original
tunnel has been widened to a working
size and is being thoroughly, timbered
for mining purposes. At an election
held in Kalispell on Oct. 81 the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
wear: f. B. Goetter, president; o.
Peterson, vice president; A. D. Macdon-
aid, secretary and treasurer. IN
High Values in the Molly Gibson.
j. A. Graham, who has a force of
men working in the Molly Gibson, To-
Gated in Showshone gulch, brought
down the report that some very rich
assays have been received from that
property, and indications point to the
fact that 1t is one of the big prospects
in the district He reports getting from
SIS to $40 in gold, 1870 ounces In silver
and u per cent copper from assays
taken from various places across the
ledge. He reports the vein as being 16
feet wide and says that he is making
arrangements to make a shipment in
t',a mar future Of the crude ore. 1t
G sts bout $50 foot to break the rock,
rs high as 70 drills having been used
TO the foot in drilling the holes. The
Molly Gibson is situated about a half
a mile from the Snowshoe mine and is
supposed by Mr.. Graham to be a spur
leading from the big vein.
Mining Briefs.
The mill on the Brick & Brannagan
property on the West Fisher is run
ming to its full capacity and there has
been cleanup made after about a
three days run. The result of this was
highly satisfactory. From the amalgam
John Cowell, who had charge of the
putting in of the plant had a scarf pin
made, of which he is very proud, it be-
ing from the first gold milled from