The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-26

cent. lead, IL to 36 ounces silver and so
cents gold per ton. The loading of
lot for the local market will commence
in few days, while the management
will continue to rush developments.
believing that 1t is on the road to an
other of the big ore bodies that have
characterized the mine in the past.
Years ago, and not SO many years
ago, either, says the Summit County
Journal, those who talked of the rich
gold deposits in the Blue and Swan
river beds and prophesied that they
would be worked at great profit, were
regarded as being more than "a little
off, Now. since the bedrock of 1895
disclosed the richness of the river bed
gravel, there are four placer dredges
four hydraulic elevator plants and two
steam shovel or eXcavator plants ready
to demonstrate that those who believed
in the bedrock accumulations of gold
were right. So the next few years
may demonstrate that the blanket con-
tact is far greater in extent than is
at present believed by those most en-
thusiastic on the subject.
The underground conditions in the
Gold Coin mine are thus described by
the Rocky Mountain News: At the
600-foot level the ore chute has been
opened up for a distance of 800 feet,
and at no place in this 800 feet is the
ore body less than Is feet in width, and
in some places it is fully 25 feet WIDE
and all of this ore will average better
than $50 per ton In addition there is
a streak of sylvanite ore varying in
width from 10 to IA inches that runs
from 500 to $500 per ton. This rich
streak has been continuous from the
300-foot level to the 600-foot level and
with depth has steadily improved, both
in extent and value. The ore being
mined at the 600-foot level is the best
ever mined in the history of this Won
derful property, and all of the ship
ments from this rich streak are oc-
companied by armed guards. The pres
ent output of the mine is 125 tons
daily of smelling ore, and rs tons per
day of mill run. In all probability the
output for December will be the great
est, both in quantity and value, of any
month in the history of the mine.
1t is reported from Boise, Idaho, that
in the new mining district at what is
called Miller mountain, about 40 miles
northeast of Boise, the lodges are
large and numerous, and much fine
looking ore was found on the surface.
A bunch of claims was bonded to
eastern people, and a tunnel has since
been run on two Of them, the Magno-
liza and Joe Jefferson. 1t is learned that
this tunnel has cut the lodges and that
very rich ore is found. The parties in
terested are reticent about the matter,
but it is known that there is a streak
of some IA inches in one of the prop
critics that runs over $780, while there
is Z very large body of ore that is of
good average These lodges are from
30 to so feet wide.
A special from Cerillos, New Mexico
to the Rocky Mountain News says the
greatest discovery of gold and silver
was accidentally made known by Pro-
fessor Giltner on the San Miguel mine,
owned by l. H. Lopez of San Peart.
This property has been exploited by
240-foot tunnel into the mountain,
besides various and numerous prospects
and cross-cuts for a vein without sat
isfaction. Mr.. Lopez. not being able
to comprehend the naturalization of
his claim, though free gold was found
at last everywhere, decided to avail
himself of expert service, and solicited
the assistance of Professor Giltner,
who made an examination of the geo.
logical puzzle. The SanaiMiguel mine
was found to be a mountain of gold
bearing trachyte, with thousand of
veinlets running in every direction
through the rock, containing high
values in gold. The assay values on
gave an average Of $40 per ton in gold
and silver. while the gold from the
vein1ets went over $685. in values.
Critic in Mining Investor of Colo
RADIO Springs says; Cripple Creek is
making a truly wonderful record these
days. A careful estimate prepared at
the beginning of December placed the
amount which would be distributed in
dividends by the various Cripple Creek
companies during the year 1899, in
round numbers, at s3,500OO0. 1t now
seems that the estimate was too low
and it is more than probable that the
distribution in dividends will be higher
than this. This is a record which
stands as indisputab1e proof of the
worth of Cripple Creek, and the end
is not yet.
General Land Commissioner Her.
mann has decided that the tide lands
of Alaska are not public lands which
are subject to disposal or sale to in
dividuals, and that no statutory pro-
vision exists giving the government
authority to grant concessions to in
dividuals or associations. This is i'm
portant to the beach miners of the Cape
Nome and other districts in Alaska as
it leaves equal rights to all and no one
can contest miners right to a claim
cal rules made by the miners will
doubtless define the size of claims and
the rights of locators.
The Mining and Scientific Press
states that there are three different
companies operating Cuban iron mines,
all of them with American capital One
of these is the Juragua company, ope-
rating 80 miles east of Santiago, con-
trOlled by the Pennsylvania Steel COM
pany and the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany. This company has shipped out
3.5G000 tons OF ore to this country.
East of that is the Spanish American
company, controlled by the Rockefel-
lers and operating at Daquiri. Seventy
miles west is the new property of the
Cuban Steel Ore company. This COM
pany is building piers and opening up
its mines so as to be ready to ship ore
by May l. The Cuban ores are all
Bessemer ores of a high grade run
ming about SO per cent. iron. The pres
ent production of Cuba is about 900 900
tons of ore year.