The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21


There Is said to be enough ore blocked
out to insure shipments of nearly 200
tons day for 10 months. The ore nets
nearly $40 ton.
1t is reported that the management
has encountered another ore body be-
meath the old workings that were reach
ed by drift off the 350-foot level Of
the Rabbits Foot mine at Silver City,
Utah. According to the report the orig
inal owners abandoned the ore bodies
from which they shipped their ores in
early Gays as soon as the red metal
began to predominant and started their
explorations in new ground. AS rule
they were driven out each time by the
rapidly increasing percentage of cop
per, and 1t Is under. these bodies that
Manager Donnell is now getting. In
the meantime another lot of high-grade
ore is being prepared for market that
will meet the needs of the pay roll.
The Freeland Extension is one of
the best mines in the state. The
vein is the same as the Free
land of Colorado, from which $1,000
600 in dividends was paid by the
old company. The Extension has the
right-of-way through the Freeland
adits and some work from the headings
of all these levels is being prosecuted,
SO that every one is showing ore bodies.
The shaft some distance ahead has been
sunk to 200 feet and the levels off from
this are in ore. The ore Is iron pyrites,
carrying copper, gold and silver. The
ore body in the Freeland Extension is
practically intact. The four adits will
open about 900 feet of stopping ground,
all virgin territory. All the adits have
been driven into the Extension terri
tory and the ore chute is found to con-
| tinue to this depth, with long chute
of it. The streak is wide and the pro-
duction can be made heavy. The treat
company was at work was $50 ton. 1t
can now be treated Gncluding freight
and hauling) at $3.50 per ton.
Seventy men are employed working
for themselves, through the five shafts
of the Maid of Erin Silver Mines COM
pany, says the Leadville Miner. In ad-
dition to the large amount of develop
ment work done, 5000 tons of ore was
shipped in the month of October. This
great property has all the varieties Of
ore needed by the smelters. In addi-
ton to the vast reserves Of iron oxide,
large bodies Of carbonate Of lead are
| material and the present good price of
| lead makes the ore quite profitable. The
| showing of copper, iron and lead sui
| phides is also very satisfactory and its
zinc ore reserves are enormous, 1900
| tons of zinc ores having been mined
| last month.
Zinc Shipments From Leadville.
| There has been quite boom in the To-
cal zinc business of late. A week ago
| last Monday the 30 cars containing 1850
| tone of zinc ore and concentrates left for
| Galveston via the Colorado Midland and
| Santa Fe route the shipment being start
| nd hn yrh n
| Of the ore is sacked. This is the ship
ment spoken of few days ago and was
| made by A. J. Davis. of the firm of ia
| cobson & Co.. New York, says the Lead
vile Herald-Democrat. Not long ago
| Mr.. Davis ordered a carload of $4,000 sacks
| specially for the Leadville zinc business,
| and is anticipating very heavy tonnage
this winter. The sacks are manufactured
| in New York, and are marked "for draw
| back" The tariff law, it seems has a
| special provision that was made for the
encouragement of exports. The material
| from which the sacks are made is manu-
| featured in Europe, and duty is charg-
| ed. The sacks are made up in this colin-
| try but if they are used in the export
! tradea portion Of the duty is refunded 70
| the exporter. This is the significance Of
| the ''for drawback" mark.
| Mr.. Davis has arranged for another big
| shipment of zinc ores and concentrates
| shipment would have left to-day or to-
morrow, but Henry Norton. the manager
| of the sampler, states that there is a
serious shortage of cars. The cars have
been sent for to Chicago. and a number
are expected any day. They will be the
largest in use-so,00O pounds capacity-be-
| ing ones that are usually devoted to the
| heavy shipment of grain. 1t is the first
| time in the history of the camp that such
| large cars have been USED in the hauling
! of ore
There Is no doubt but that the zinc bus
teal basis 1t has been fully demonstrate
ed that a good marketable concentrate
| can be produced here by the use of ordi-
| nary tables. 1t has required much pa
| thence and experimentation. but the Go
| lob & Colly mill now appears to be in
/ charge of first class. practical mill men.
| with the result that the three tables ar>
| producing a concentrate 45 per cent zinc
| or better, which is very desirable, and
can be sent to either Belgium or Wales
at a fair profit. With the Meyer mill
making profit of at least 100 tons day
the zinc export business of Leadville will
have reached very respectable propor.
tons. In fact, Mr. Norton is now figur-
i ing on putting on night shift to keen
up with the increased business that is an
! ticipated.
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