The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26

as big mine, rivaling the best Of them.
Ihe ore In the winze is widening and
improving In appearance and value. 1t
IS being hand sorted, and that which Is
being sacked will run over 500 per ton
on the most conservative estimate, and
what Is being sacked to-day is better
than what was sacked a week ago. 1t
is the favorite. property of the camp at
this time, the one most talked about,
and the one about whose development
there is most inquiry. The manage
ment willingly permits the public to
know what the mine shows, although OF
course the general public Is not invited
to visit the property to interfere. with
work. So states the Spokesman-Revi
Now it is the Tom Thumb which is in
luck, says the Republic Miner, and the
cross-cut in that brilliant property has
opened up big body of $40 ore at the
150-foot level. The size of the chute can
as yet only be guessed at, for although
1t has been proved 10 feet wide. yet
there is no sign of a hanging wall in
sight. The ore Is the close-gratned
quartz which is typefied in the Noun
tain Lion. and the values in it should
be more than sufficient to pay sub
stantial profit after deducting mine and
mill expenses. The strike Is of double
Importance. for it shows that the pinch
met at the 100-foot level in the shaft
is only local affair, which does not
effect the ledge with depth.
The Lucky Boy quartz mine. located
about four miles from San Andreas. on
the Copperopolis, has been sold or bond
ed by the owner, James Waters, to a
Boston syndicate for $4,000. One thou
sand dollars was paid down by the
bonders, and agreements were signed
calling for the payment of $1,000 every
six months until the total sum of $4,000
shall have been paid. 1t is the intention
of the new owners of the Lucky Boy
to put a steam hoist on the mine and to
sink at least 500 feet on the ledge.
Work is to begin within 30 days, after
which a systematic development of the
property is to be made.
The old Mammoth mine, a patented
property, owned for many years by S.
A. Heilner, prominent merchant of
Baker City, Ore, and sold by him few
months ago to Boston capitalists
| through the instrumentality of HI. S.
McCallum, is being developed on an
extensive scale under the management
of Fred S. Lack. A force OF ~ men
three shifts--is employed in sinking a
shaft on the ledge, depth Of Is feet
being now reached. In 25 feet more
| prosecuting the ledge both ways from
the shaft will be started. Deep sinking
| will be continued, however, for an in
definite time.
The American Mining and Milling
company of South Dakota, better
known. perhaps, as Kilpatricks-Collins
has done a great deal of substantial
work on a group Of claims of consider
able extent. They have a two-year OPP
ton on the claims, and have already
sunk a number of shafts which have
shown good values One shaft Is down
about so feet, in the bottom of which a
hole has been drilled down about 100
feet, all in ore. The company will COM
mence again in September of this year
to do further development work.
Soda Springs, ,Esmeralda county, is
one of the lively little camps of South
ern Nevada, and the outlook is favor
able. The Vulcan Copper company has
a large force of men developing their
mines, are spending money in doing 50,
and will make copper mining pay. All
that was ever required to make Nevada
mines profitable was the expenditure
of money enough to develop the proper
ties, and it is pleasant to see this COM
pany has adopted that course.
AT the Oneida mine Superintendent
Truscott has run drifts both north and
south from the 1,s00-foot level. Both
drifts are in vein of about six feet in
width The work of undermining the
old shaft has been commenced mill
on this property is a certainty, and, al
though arrangements for mill have
not as yet been made, it is safe to pre-
dict that it will be erected not later
than the spring of 19Oo.-Amador
Ledger.
With the deepening of the LIE Roi
workings and for the exploration of the
Black Bear claim, it has been found
that the present plant at the lie Roi is
inadequate. 1t has at present COM
pressor capacity for so drills, and these
are to be increased by 40, which will
give the mine a capacity of 80 drills.
In order to have air for the purnose of
driving 80 drills. an additional COM
pressor with capacity of 40 drills will
be necessary. This has been ordered
| from the Jenckes Machine company.
The compressor will be constructed SO
| that it can be operated by either steam
| or electricity Air cylinders are to be
| placed between the steam cylinders and
| the driving wheel. so that they can be
disconnected and the plant run by cleo