The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
FROM MADISON COUNTY.
Sand Creek District Enjoying a Boom.
Dredges in Alder Gulch.

Dredges in Alder Gulch
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Dillon, Sept. 29.-R. NJ. Furk, the
was In Dillon few days and re-
ports that affairs in his county, par
ticularly in a mining way, are booking
up little. At present, he says. Sap
pington, on the Northern Pacific. is
one of the best points in Madison coun-
ty, the mines of the Sand Creek c;.s-
trict being once more on the Leon.
Day after day large quantities of
mining machinery, supplies and ether
freight are unloaded at that point and
hauled to the Sand Creek gold mines,
a few miles distant, where yonsGera-
BILE Butte capital is being invested and
a number of Butte miners are work.
ing.
On the Sterling divide and around
Richmond fiat is found the same ac-
tivity. The old Madisonian mine
ed many a ton of rich gold ore, is
now being worked by r. D. B. Turner
with excellent results. mill having
recently been erected on the property.
At the Kennett owned by W. B. Mil
lard and situated a few miles north
east of Virginia City. about so men are
at work. Sinking is going on steadily
in the shaft and a cross-cut is being
run to tap an excellent copper pros
pect found on, the surface.
At the EastOn, mine, in Brown
gulch, the mill is running steadily OIL
second grade ore and a considerable
quantity of high grade ore and con-
centra1rs is being hauled to Twin
Bridges and shipped to East Helena.
The dredge al Junction is doing most
excellent work this season, having al
most finished its circle" and in the
course of a few days ii will be nee
essary to move the dredge and track
further up the gulch. At one time
during the summer this boat cleaned
up $1,000 per day for IA days at
stretch.
At the mouth of Alder canyon two
dredges, the Mollie Gibson. formerly at
Bannack, and a new boat just con-
structed, said to be one of the strong
est ever built in Montana, are work
ing. Mr.. Funk says this season has
been most favorable one for the Glib
son. and says there is a rum0r ahoat
in that vicinity that next season will
see at least a dozen dredge boats at
work successfully in that part of the
Ruby valley which is in the immediate
vicinity of the mouth of the fariamed
Alder gulch Then that section will
be blessed with railroad communlca-
ton. thing that will be much ap-
preciated by the residents of that part
of Madison county. Such means of
transportation will be made necessary
by the great consumption of coal by
this number of boats.
The Price of Copper.
A Boston man, who is regarded as an
authority on copper matters. says: THE
Calumet & Hecla people and John STAN
ton do not seem to agree on the copper
situation. Mr.. Stanton. who is undoubt-
eddy the best posted man in this country,
sees nothing in sight to lower the price
below 181a cents, while the Calumet &
flecla people see a steady decline before
us.
THE Calumet e. Hecla people have
never been willing to talk for publication
heretofore, but now that they see some
rivalry in the copper business in the
Standard Oil interests they are bears on
the situation. 1t looks as if the Calumet
& Hecla in the future would step back
from a first to second rate power in
the copper world. At present it produces
less copper than the Anaconda. and only
about Is per cent. of the American out
put.'-New England Statist.