The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-09
the territory cleared OF water 20 that ship
ments may he resumed by May.

the territory cleared OF water 30 that ship
ments may he resumed by May.
MONTANA.
BIT re. Jan. 3.-The output and DEVELOPMENT
OF the mines In 1899 exceed that OF any pre-
yious ear. Butte produced approximately
SHENANDOAH IN R'ddTI Sids en- Hop| The sP pay p& rolls H show
thot G54s' 1en have been employed, drawing
at the smelt, rs and soncentrators, receiving
kl,5l2.OOO. Eutte mining shafts We're sunk
Rail The t HSS icSpih oF ali op %S mn mines in
The cqmE j. g'T 49oa5 feet; The deepest
the Anaconda Company. more thans2,l 100 feet
in depth. Sinking still continues, with no in
dice'ion Of the are playipg out More ore was
than IN any previous year In the history OF the
Butte district
costly experiments we're made which demon
struted that below the mouth Of Alder Guich,
up the gulch and up the Ruby valley are ny
Tin has long bsen known to exist in various
parts OF Montana, but no attempt has been
made 10 discover a ledge carrying. this metal.
What is known az stream tinr IL Ionnd IN
the placer wash and also on the tributaries,
which would. seem to indicate the presence OF
bodies Of this ore at the source of these
here Is granite and red sbaIe. Tin ore is also
found IN Meagher county along many. Of the
range. II is a fact worthy II note that wherever
tin ore is found lead and silver mines have been
discovered.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
.DEApwoop, $. d.. Jan. 4.-Ry the payment
Of a double dividend last week Homestake has
s msae o ~ d m1Ts fSsn i9 !, t sveT year pni AIT 1t S : sigSis
year M to 1888. II enters. the new year with
the prospect Of paying double dividends near;
with its stores OF ore still good for twenty to
twenty; Hye yeq5s iHighland also paid 9 diyi-
900 for the year. Tho three properties in the
Homestako group, Homestake. Highland and
6SS. ma2inF TG ,1sm haze fEs p DSisf to SiS S ]SSi2isiISi:
concerns among thu gold properties, ,n.
The no tot ba. Eo !, sII "n5 of M the State STATE for foT a., the
years production came from Homestake, and
the total increase for the year would have been
much larger hut for the fire in the ID. and ID.
Holy Terror has naid Ssl 900 in dividends for
ne year, and ib n" 2 ,hn pn6iG stock he, conGetn in
ntcd its earnings. Holy Terror has twenty
Keystone STAMPS now dropping, on rich ore
and improvements.
The Britislr-American Gold Mining Com.
has bought machinery and will
improve ground, near the rich Gilt Edge in
Strawberry Gulch. 1t is a Michigan concern.
WASHINGTON.
SEATTLE. Jan. There are 800 miners
doing development work in the mines of Re-
public district. and by spring there will be
Sysa n:o @ont Rfp9 diviie %IO Of e ssS.6 SsSla nnS R It's
public No. . announces a strike in the face of
the tunnel. now in over 100 feet. that goes
On Rod Ton Mountain. six miles south Of
the, British Columbia boundary line. in what
In order to distinguish it from the Canadian
Creek district; a rich strike has been
At a denth OF fifty feet. 1t is only fifteen inches !
IN width, but, the assay is 10 per cent. copper
and $4,000 silver g the top:
nany is pushing the main-working tunnel zoo
and. has drifted 100 feet in the shaft at a
three-fOot vein OF $40 copper and gold ore.
ALASKA.
SEATTLE, Jan. 1~.-Skagwav is now the scene
'f active, outlttinG for the Attn Lake mines.
very day with light a:iT packs 5S in hopes u Is Of Il MAKING aiii.s
luick trips. No new strikes are reported this
winter, but the late fall reports were suill-
Within the past week deep SHOWS
nave, fallen. impeding travel; and the, rivers
md lakes. which are usually closed by the first
# December remain open. preventing travel
i new district called Terrell. on the Upper
by the officers OF the steamer Terrell.
S causing n big stampede from Dawson. sew
he new diEgings on the first of December.
,earlv 1000 claims have been taken w. and
aid to be paying 81 and upward to the pan,
nd the creek and tributaries for a distance of
miles are stnksd.
At Dawson. while the price of labor is not so
Ugh, rs il was last winter. miners get from So
. $40 a day of ten hours and work is plenty.
he expense Of living does not exceed So a
ay. There is more actual mining going on
winter than at any time since the district
'as discovered.
The same conditions also apply 10 Forty
lille district. where 1000 miners are spend
IL the winter. The bar and beach diggings
re unusually active.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
SEATTLE. Jan. I'm Fairview camp. Mon
ina capitalists have taken hold of "A number
I promising looking gold-cOpper PROPOSITIONS
nd are placing experienced Montana miners
q them With q vie " Of thorough development.
he eXnerts of the Anaconda proper have been
YER this country. and it Is thought they are
this new British Columbia move ,
tent. I
A, report comes from Rossland that a great
.rike has been made in the Iron Horse, the
re going $500 to the ton. This has been a
lipping property for some time past.
1t is estimated that the output of the mines ,
British Columbia during the past year eX- !
'eds Sl2.OO0.OOO. of which fully SlO.OOO.OOO !
'ines from Trail and Kootenai districts. !