The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
He MADE A RICH FIND
Picking Up Money in Butte's
Empty Lot.
SANDERS MAKES A STRIKE
The Accidental Discovery of a Valuable
Mine That Assays 40 Ounces in
Silver-Active Develop
ment Begun.

very recently found apt illustration in
vacant lot at the corner of Broad
way and Excelsior avenue. 1t was
demonstrated beyond peradventure
that money is to be picked up right on
of this city
few days ago NJ. H. Sanders, one
of the leasers of the famous Silver
King, which startled the community
by the intensity of its wealth, was
walking out Broadway and CHANGED to
step onto the lot at the corner of
Broadway and Excelsior, where
foundation for a residence building had
been built about four years ago. There
was a shallow excavation between the
crumbling stone walls, the sides of
which had in the process of time and
water caved away and exposed seams
of yelloWish and dark brown decom-
posed ore. Similar appearing rock may
be seen in almost every excavation in
Butte. Mr.. Sanders, who is an eXpe-
rienced as well as an observing miner,
picked UP piece of the dark colored
rock and carried it home with him.
He had the ore assayed and was amaz-
ed at the returns. which showed 40
ounces of silver. The rock proved to
be black manganese ore.
Mr.. Sanders fell all over himself in
his search for the owners of the ground
to secure lease on it. The lead is
owned by Messrs. Wilson & Gillie, J.
H. Monteath and six others. The
ground is patented and bears perfect
mining title. These facts having been
learned and the lease secured, the next
thing to do was to secure the necessary
right to sink a shaft on the lot, which
it was learned belonged to Mrs Hat
tie Armstrong of this city.
Yesterday being bright. warm
spring day, a great many people Wis
tied the new find. Mr.. Sanders was
hard at work dressing up; collar for
shaft. He had sunk about four feet
in a chute of ore, the width of which
can only be surmised, as neither wall
has been exposed. The vein has an
easterly and westerly trend and dips to
the south at an angle of 10 degrees
We'll. you've gathered in another
lucky find said a friend to Mr.. San
ders
Eyes, it looks like it. I've been at this
kind Of business for years, and this
is one of the best looking surface prop
ositions. l have seen in a long time;
1t seems as if my luck is coming on
| the veriest streaks of chance. You
| know the Silver King was struck by
a man who was sinking for water
| closet. This. you see, came by the
| merest kind of a chance. l happened
| along this way the other day and saw
| a piece of rock in the old house foun-
| dation there and thought / would as
| say it, with the result you note
| The lucky finder is going at the work
| Systematically. He has the necessary
| timbers, framed and dressed for the
| first set in the shaft, which will be
on the double compartment plan-a
working shaft and a manway. The
ground is seamy and irregular A few
shots have hean mt in and Soma splan-
did ore. broken. Yesterday the men
were drilling on the surface for a
blast to break a jutting piece of rock
which hung over the shallow hole.
Mr. Sanders has leased the ground
extending east toward Missoula gulch.
He will, 1t is figured, encounter water
at depth of IS feet. In case he does
pump will be set and the water will
probably be emptied into the sewer,
which passes within 20 feet of the
shaft. The waste dirt will probably
l. be carted away, as the ground is fiat
and no dump facilities being at hand.
Mr.. Sanders has indeed just reason to
rejoice.
From the rich strikes which have
recently been made it begins to look
as though the work of construction on
the Canadian Pacific extension across
the boundary country would do more
to open up claims and would give a
more thorough and convincing EXPOSE
ton of the mineral resources of that
section than all the development here
tofore done in the entire district Hard
ly day goes by without news being
received of the opening up of some rich
ore body by a railway cut or tunnel.
In some cases these discoveries have
been made at a great depth and usual
ly the ore body opened up has been
of high value
,11,i,,t OF I,
number of small lodges have been open
ed up in the railway construction, and
at least three important strikes have
been made, says the Spokane Chronicle.
The first of these strikes was the cut
ting of tive-foot vein of steel galena
on the Calcifer claim on Lime mountain
four miles from Grand Forks. AS soon
as this galena body was cut the news
of the strike spread through the Bound
airy and created much excitement This
was Immediately followed by the an
nouncement that as soon as the rail-
way employees had cut the galena de-
post they entered a fine ledge of pyr-
rhotite and pyritic copper ore between
Is and 20 feet wide.
Both the galena and copper lodges
are reported as being unusually rich
The galena strike is principally impor-
tant as being the first large body of
that ore found in the vicinity of Grand
i oThS. IL is d line Quality or steel ga
lena, with the ledge composed of al
most clean ore, which will require prac-
tically no sorting when being sacked for
shipment. The copper is reported to be
almost solid.
1t is very unusual for bodies of such
dissimilar ore to be found so close to-
gether, and it is probable that the min
eral will be found to run into one body
as soon as depth is attained.
The strike has aroused the owners of
the property, and they are now making
arrangements to start development
work at once. 1t is expected to begin
shipping as soon as the railway is COM
pleted past the claim.
The second strike is of less magni-
tude, but promises to lead to the open
ing up of a great copper mine within
short distance of Grand Forks This
strike was made two weeks ago, when
Boss & MeDonald's No. 2 tunnel opened
up the lead on the Acorn property on
Brown creek. On the surface of the
claim is a huge iron Gaping but where