The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
THE GROUP ON THE HILL
A Famous Half Dozen Mines in
the Syndicate Bunch.
IT'S THE DEEPEST OF ALL
That Distinction for the Butte District
Enjoyed by the Green Noun
tain-A New Smokestack
Worth Seeing.

The Syndicate, or Mountain Console
dated, group of mines in the extent of
their operations, number of men en-
ployed and value of output Constitu' e
approximately one-half of the Ana
conda company's mining property in
the Butte district. 1T is made up of
the Buffalo, Mountain Consolidated
Green Mountain, Diamond, Bell and
High ore. These mines lie to the north
of Butte, well up the hill, and extend
from about Centeryille on the east to
the High Ore mine on the west, a dis
lance of probably a mile. They are all
connected by underground workings,
and a person can pass from the Buffalo
through the entire series and into the
Anaconda group, lying TO the east and
south. The Mountain Consolidated,
Buffalo and Green Mountain are under
the superintendent of James Keegdn,
with Captain NJ. j. Burke, formerly of
the Comstock lode, as timekeeper for
the entire Syndicate group.
These are all splendidly equipped
mines, the machinery at the Mountain
Consolidated being, 1t is said, the most
massive in the district with the eXcep-
ton of that at the Never Sweat. The
engine is a magnificent upright COM
pound duplex--that is to say, it is both
compound and double. 1t is called the
Iron Works Of San Francisco in 1895
from plans furnished by the Anaconda
company. 1t is rated at 200 horse
power which means that it is capable
of generating anywhere from 5000 to
5000 horse power.
The chief engineer states that it will
raise a four deck load-that is to say,
| four cars at a time-frOm the 1,900-foot
| level with such ease that it scarcely
seems to be working at all and that 1t
| will be capable of meeting almost any
| requirement at a depth of 1900 feet or
| more. This huge piece of mechanism
| is provided with seven auxiliary en-
| gines to aid in its operation, as to con-
| troll the governor, the brakes, etc, and
| to the eye of one not familiar with the
| details of machinery is literally bewild-
ering. And yet one practiced and skill
| full engineer controls its every move
| ment with apparently as much ease as
| a seamstress does her sewing machine.
The Mountain Consolidated has two
| shafts. Nos. l and .. No. . has its own
hosting engine. This, While a good
and effective Webster, Camp & Lane,
| looks like a baby by comparison with
are also the air cOmprcssOrs, a pair of
extremely powerful engines. which fur
| nish compressed air for both shafts at
| the Mountain Consolidated and also for
| the Buffalo. Here, too. are the boilers,
| eight sets, with a stack for each set
| which furnish steam for both hosting
| engines and the air cOmpressors.
! At shaft No. / there has been but
| little ore hoisted for the last two
| months on account of the retimberins
| of the shaft which has been in progress.
| At present there IS from 200 to 300 tons
| per day being hoisted, mostly from the
| 1000 level and those below it,
| At No. 2 about 200 tons a day is being
| raised, in the main from the 700 leVei
| and above. At the Buffalo no hosting
| is being done. The shaft is undergoing
repairs and when they are completed
! ore will be hoisted through that shaft
| from the lower levels of No. 2-that is
| from the 700-foOt down. Then the shaft
| of No. below the 700-foot level will be
| overhauled. 1t is said that the two
| shafts of the Mountain Consolidated
have hoisted conformity as much as
! 1000 tons in a day.
At these mines skips have not yet
| been brought into use. The ore is hoist
| ed in cars. All shaft No. ] the cars are
| dumped Immediately into the chute
! whence it is taken in horse cars to the
| Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railroad fol
| shipment to Anaconda.
There are now about 400 men EN-
| ployed at the Mountain Consolidated
but the usual force is from 600 to 700.
The Green Mountain is next to the
eastward, and is conspicuous by its