Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
For Treating Ores of the
Garnet District.
THE CABLE IS TO RESUME
This Famous Gold Mine May Again Be
Listed Among the Producers
of the State.

1t is learned in an indirect way that
Arthur P. Browne, late manager of the
Mammoth Gold Mining mpan of CO.
Iona, has under contemplation the cree
ton of a custom stamp or roller quartz
mill at or near old Beartown in the Gar
net mining district. The only reduction
works now in that district is the Mann
moth mill at Coloma, lately sold at sher-
ifs sale, and the Mitchell mill at Garnet.
There is no prospect of much work from
either of them in the near future and
when they do run each mill will use its
own ore. At Garnet there is said to be
close on to 25 producing mines large and
small from which ore is shipped during
the year. Over at Coloma there are also
a few mines producing ore, while in the
whole country around the two places can
be found ore that would pay to work in a
custom mill that will not warrant the long
haul to Bearmouth to the railroad and
shipment to the smelters at Butte or Hell
ena. Probably no man in the Garnet
mining district is better posted on the
nature and value of its ore than Mr..
Browne. 1t is claimed he understands
the cyanide process thoroughly. He is a
good m%ineralogist who has the conf
dence of a large number of mine owners
as we'll as capitalists. From the latter
1t is believed he can secure all the backing
he wants for such an enterprise in this
district. At the oposed site there is an
abundance of water and other natural
facilities for such a plant. hou such
a thing materialiZe Garnet would see
some prosperous days.
The world renowned Gable gold mines,
west of Anaconda, which produced
millions during the palmy lays of Mon
tana. is liable to be started up again after
an idleness of 10 years more or less. The
principal owner is j. c.. Slavery. The mill
at the mine is composed of 80 stamps all
in good repair down to the engine which
1T is claimed has been kept as bright as a
dollar through all these years of idleness
by the Waterman in charge of the prop
erty. Civil Engineer Harper of Butte has
ben doing some surveying at the Gable
mine lately and it is rumored for the pur-
pose of future operations of the mine.
There is a whole mountain of gold ore in
the Gable mine something like a ledge 115
feet wide, sufficient to produce about a
million dollars annually, although this is
both claimed and denied by people who
know the mine well. The Gable was one
of the first and greatest gold quartz pro-
ducing mines in Montana. There is no
question about the wealth it still contains
and this coming season will see some of
it extracted. The Gable mine is situated
not far distant from Georgetown and the
village which was once a thrifty burg
m to be a busy place as it used
to be in the good old days in the advent
of the resumption of the Gable mine and
other developments in that section.
Georgetown has one cyanide plant which
operated last year with wonderful success
and the future seems more bright. The
Georgetown-Cable mining district has
millions of tons of low grade and base ore.
All that is necessary to make the mines
pay is cyanide and other plants which
treat that class of ore and save all the
minerals, and the prosperity of the camp
is assured. A railroad is another neces-
sity which it is believed will soon be built
from Anaconda past Silver Lake which
lies just to the south and within a rifle
shot of this great mineral belt. At Silver
Lake is the Gold Coin mines and mill now
idle but a few months, but it is claimed
they too will be in operation soon. A
prominent man of Anaconda who knows
every part Of Deer Lodge county said to-
day that this coming year would awaken
Montana with the work to be done and
results therefrOm in the Gable district.
The man who vOuched this is not a min
ing man but one of varied knowledge who
claims the gold already taken out of the
Cable and other mines in tina vicinity
will be no comparison with the future.
Talk about copper! From all thai can
be learned the greatest copper prospects
ever encounter ed in the state lie west of
Anaconda in the region of Moose lake.
There are several claims out there which
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gold and several ounces of silver. Best Of
all there are so to speak mountains of ore
III a practically undeveloped state. These
mines are going to make a few more cop
per kings from all accounts. The copper
mines are reached by a good wagon road
and a railroad is within the possibilities
within a few miles distance. which Will
run from Anaconda to Hamilton. The
owners of these copper mines are all poor
men. still they are not anxious to sell
knowing as they do from practical ex-
perience that they have a good thing.
With such a rich mining district west of
Anaconda the future looks very bright,
taking into consideration the anticipated
improvements at home which will make
IT the greatest smelling city in the west
ern hemisphere.