The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-08
LEVEL AND SLOPE.

Within the last year an immense
amount of development work has been
| done in the Boundary district ON the
| line between British Columbia and
| Washington. Many eastern capitalists,
| both from the United States and Can
| that the district has some of the finest
ore bodies in all the West
| The Spokesman Review reports %
| feet of solid ore as having been struck
| by a cross-cut in the Review mine in
| the Meyers Creek camp. The strike
| is said to have been made at the ma
| of a tunnel that has been run $50 feet
| on the ledge, and at point 10 feet
below the surface. The values are in
| gold and the assays are SAID L show
| about SIS to the ton. Consi able ore
has already been taken out, and he
| company is said to have in view the
| erection of a milling and concentrate
| ing plant for the treatment of the ore.
| Several other mines in the district
are said to be opening up well.
The Denver News informs us that
at least half dozen outfits have lett
| for the eastern part of Chaffee coun-
| ty. 1t is their intention to thoroughly
prospect the entire country from the
| foot of Buffalo peak into the northern
| end of Fremont, also the western por-
l 4 J
on the Colorado & Southern railroad:
| They have gone with the intention OF
solving the mystery and try to run
| down what has become known as the
phantom gold discoveries. and will
stay with it if it takes all summer
Reports are published of very rich
| strike of copper ore in the third !evel
| of the Sedalia copper mine at samoa,
Col. The ore body is said to have been
cut through a 1,450-foot tunnel at a
vertical depth of $50 feet. Samples are
claimed to have assayed from q to
40 per cent, and the ore body is pro-
nounced Immense"
Reports from Bingham, Utah. indi-
cate strike in the Ophir, owned by
Billy Robertson, assays from the ore
showing as much as 81 per cent. lead
and gold and silver values ranging
| from $40 to SIS per ton. If the main
vein has been encountered the prop
erty may be relied upon to make its
appearance in the list of Bingham's
producers in a short time. 1t has been
prospected for more than eight years.
while John Awkward has charge at
present and is accomplishing fine re-
suits.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune
the week ending with July 20 closed at
the gold sampling rooms of the Con-
solidated Kansas City Smelling ana
Refining company with receipts
amounting to 2,100 pounds of gold dust
of a valuation of more than S6O,O00.
Among the contributors to the total
was the Sacramento, that came in yes
terday with a lot of 500 pounds; the
Dexter of Tuscarora, New, Chloride
Point of Lion hill, the Northern Light.
a neighbor of the latter the Idaho
Recovery company, with a plant at
Ioh hn d
in Montana, and Star of Pine canyon,
near Bingham. The larger PROPOSE
lions will be heard from again in the
next few days.
The Salt Lake Herald states upon the
authority of General Manager Neill of
the United States company that new
smelter will certainly be built upon
that companys grounds at Bingham,
Utah. Mr.. Neill is reported as saying
that it will be a thoroughly up-to-
date smelter with a capacity Of about
! 500 tons of crude ore daily, but that
it could not be built before next
: spring.
Considerable development is going
on in the lodges at the Miller disgings,
10 miles north of Banner, Idaho. The
veins are from 20 to 40 feet wide, but
the ore is not usually high grade Min
ing men, however, say that they are
Just such properties as companies
want. With good sized mills they will
pay handsomely. The district Is large
and some of the lodges crop for three
and four miles in length.
The drift run from the bottom of the
Washington shaft at Idaho City has
cut into a body of ore eight feet wide.
The rock Is all good milling ore. 1t Is
very gratifying that the discovery Is
made that the ore goes down. as the
chute was lost eight years ago, when
| work was suspended, since which time
the mine has laid idle.
The Denver Mining Reporter says
Republic is a wonder. 1t is new yet
but has great promise. 1t Is destined
to be one of the great mining districts
of the world. The Republic mine 1t.
self is now paying good dividends or
So, 500 900, but promises to increase the
amount of payments greatly. Rich ore
is now being taken from three tunnels
, while a fourth tunnel 1900 feet Ions
to strike the ore chute OF the 6oo-fool
level is being run. Progress is being
made at the rate of Is feet day. il
; it strikes the chute where it is esti.
mated 1t will, the mine will be yer.
, liable bonanza From $50 to 200 mer
are employed in the mine. The ore Ii
handled in the company's mill on the
property. ,a,.
: Among copper deposits one of thu
' most remarkable in America is that a
: Copper Basin. II miles southwest O.
\ Prescott, ARR. This deposit consists
e of bed of detritus-the result of the
$ disntegra ton of the neighboring hill:
Y of granite and eruptive rock, which II
t cemented by carbonate of copper (mala
: chite), presumably derived from tn
= numerous small veins occurring in thu
e underlying crystalline rocks, the wa
: tiers flowing from which carry cope
: sulphate in solution which has beer
t precipitated in the interstitial spaces o
the debris. The waters flowing in tn
: | neighboring creeks contain copper II
+ solution, and when at a low stage de
70 post films of copper carbonate on TIL
r bedrock over which they pass.
h In the Colorado case of the Mayfiowe
! G. M. Co., on application made by tn
d company for patents for the Beave
:, Springs placer No. l. Beaver Spring