The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
THE BASIN DISTRICT.
A Steam Stamp Gold Mill to Treat Ore
From the Mantle Mine.


Special Correspondence of the Standard.
~, Basin, Feb. 23.--James Madden is put
ting in Tremain steam stamp gold
mill to treat the low-grade ore from the
Mantle mine. The mill will have a ca
pacity of rs tons per day, and he ex-
poets to have it completed and in ope-
ration by the LIST of April. Mr. Madden
has been operating this property for
nearly a year past under a lease and
bond and has made regular shipments
of high-grade ore from it. There is,
however, large amount Of low grade
ore in the lead which is not rich enough
to ship to the smelters, but which, he
lieves, he can treat profitably by means
of the Tremain steam stamps. The mill
he is putting in Is taken from the old
Hope mill, that company having put in
two sets of these stamps last spring
and found them to work very success
fully on the same character of ore as
that produced by the Mantle.
The station has been cut at the 600
foot level of the Hope mine and the
cross-cut is now being made to the lead,
which it is expected will be reached In
a day or two.
At last work has been resumed on
the High Ore mine, and If reports are
correct it will amount to something this
time. Thomas H. Sanders and James
and John Orwell have taken a lease
on the property and are now taking out
ore for their first shipment. Mr.. Sam
ders told the Standard correspondent
this morning that they were working
in two feet of good ore and that the
outlook was bright A 1,T00-fo tunnel
taps the lead on this mine at depth
of 600 feet, and the owners, the High
Ore Gold e. Copper Mining company.
has spent $4,000 in it's development, but
for some time past has apparently been
too weak financially to carry on the
operation of the property and from time
to time have let various leases on the
mine. but heretofore the lessees have
claimed that the terms have been so I'M
favorable that they could not make the
working OF the property profitable. The
terms of the lease held by the above
named gentlemen have not been given
out, but all are practical mining men
and express the highest confidence in
their ability to make it a success.
David Refill has taken lease on the
Columbus mine, located on Basin creek,
two miles above town, and has COM
menced work. This mine has 14-foot
dead, all well mineralzed, carrying val
ues in gold and copper.
Messrs. O'Neal and Largent have Sc
cured a lease and bond on the Buster
mine from the American Mining COM
pany, and will soon commence opera
llOTS OH the property. lHey Will treat
the ore at the old stamp mill of the
Boulder Gold and Silver Mining COM
pany, which they have been operating
on custom ore for the past two years
The Heiber brothers are taking out a
large amount of ore at the Weiser mine
in the Winter district, on Upper Basin
creek, this winter. The best of their
ore, which carries 60 per cent. lead,
with some gold and silver they are
sacking and storing on the dump to
await the opening of spring for ship
ment to the smelter. Just at this time
it is impossible for them to haul ore out
from that country, as the snow is so
deep that wagon roads cannot be kept
open. Besides the high-grade ore spoken
of, there is also a large amount of sec
ond-class ore produced from this mine
which is treated at a small mill which
was built on this property last fall
While the mill is small one, it han