The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-22
THE OLD PARROT MINE
One of Butte's Well-Known Prop
critics and It's Operations.
EARNINGS AND DIVIDENDS
Now Under Control OF the Amalgamated
Company-shibpine Ore to Both
tho Colorado and the Ana
conda Works.

Very few of the great mines Of Butte
receive more frequent mention than the
Parrot. This is one of the oldest loca-
lions in the copper belt and is justly
considered to be one Of the most valua-
BILE and promising. Like all of the other
great properties. it consists Of many
claims that have been consolidated in
one ownership. and the consolidation is
now virtually itself a part of the Anal
gamated Copper company. That is to
say, the Amalgamated company is un-
derstood to have obtained control of
major part of the Parrot stock.
1t is doubtful if any important mine
in the district is more favorably located
than the Parrot for easy and economical
working. Not so high on the hill as to
make it difficult of access, and yet high
enough to give it all the benefits of
gravity, that agency has been hereto
fore very largely and advantageously
employed. Until the recent closing
down of the smelter on Silver Bow
creek, the ore from the mine was all
treated at those works. being transport
ed to them directly from the mine by a
gravity railway.
Some very important changes have
lately been made in the working Of
the Parrot properties, not by any means
the least of which is the practical shut
down of the smelter. so well known to
every old resident of Butte. One of the
results of this has been the tearing up
of the gravity railroad referred to at
its connection with the mine. Possibly
the term gravity as here employed may
be little misleading and it will there
fore be explained that the road referred
to was not worked exclusively by grav-
ity, but only one way. The loaded cars
ran down to the smelter and were haul
ed back empty by mules or horses.
About the time operations at the
smelter were discontinued, the mine
also stopped hosting ore. The shaft
was badly out of repair and it has
since been retimbered. A week or two
since the mine again began hosting
ore, and is now turning out 400 tons
daily, with no prospect of dimunition in
sight. Of this ore about so tons is be-
ing sent to the Colorado smelter and
the remainder to the works at Ana
conda. An excavation is being made for
ore bins just south of the shaft, and it
is understood that the mine will soon
be equipped with five-ton skips which
will dump directly into the bins
The hoist is provided with 600 horse
power Fraser & Chalmers engine,
which will be amply capable of ham
ding the skips, not only at the present
depth, but from points considerably
lower. 1t will. however, be necessary
to reinforce the boiler plant, which now
consists of six 60 horse power tubular
boilers. For this purpose four similar
boilers will be transferred from the
Bellona mne. which is also Parrot
property.
There are at present 10 levels in the
mine, averaging a little over 100 feet
each, so that the depth from the collar
of the shaft is just about LOO feet. The
shaft is to be at once sunk hundred
feet deeper, and the work is now in
progress. The mine is in admirable
condition throughout.
The flow of water here is smaller
than at many other mines, but it is
said to be especially rich in copper. For
the handling of the water the mine is
provided with an eight-inc water COL
umn, lined with lead and wood in the
usual way, and Knowles pump Is
placed on the 1.000-foot level. This
pump can take care of the water by
working six hours out of the "a.
This mine lies just to the eastward
of Butte, between the city and the
great Anaconda group. Its workings
are chiefly to the westward, extending
in that direction some 1900 feet, which
brings them well beneath the business
center Of the city
There is no immediate purpose to
erect a steel gallows frame at this mine.
The wooden frame now in use is an
exceptionally good one. Not only is 1t
double, having four uprights besides
the braces, but the timbers are Il
inches square and as sound as when
they were originally set up. 1t is con-
sdered that they can accommodate the
skips well enough for the present.
Fifteen new precipitating tanks
have just been built for the saving of
the copper from the water. This is said