The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-31

portion known locally as the South
range, cannot we'll be overestimated.
According to the figures just given
out by William A. Payne of the Bal
tic mine. that property is getting about
l 4-10 per cent copper. If the mine
should be able to hold to this remark
ably high average the property will
inevitably become one of the largest
and most profitable in the district, as
its lode Is about double the width of
the Calumet conglomerate or the
Quincy and Kearsarge amygdaloids,
which are the three cupriferous beds
from which 80 per cent. of the divi-
dends paid by lake mines have been
earned. The Baltic is to have mill
at the mouth of the Salmon Trout riv-
err, on Lake Superior, in conjunction
with the Atlantic company, which now
has a modern mill of five stamps work.
ing at that point, one stamp being
employed in the treatment of Baltic
rock.
Discouraging rumors circulated re-
garding the Winona have been given
their quietus in the past week. 1t was
claimed by the pessimists that the Wi
mona lode had pinched out. This being
an impossibility and being known to
be impossible by everybody whose
opinion was worth having, the story
been finally put to sleep by develop
ments at the mine. In sinking shafts
on new lodes or in territory little
known, 1t is difficult to determine the
angle or dip of the lode hence the
shafts may pass out of the copper
bearing bed into either the foot or
hanging walls. This was precisely
mona. which lies % miles south of
Houghton and in virgin district, no
mine having been developed for fully
Is miles on either side. Crosscuts from
the shafts have shown the lode to be
near at hand and as rich in copper as
nearer the surface. The amygdalojd
lodes of the lake copper district are
old lava flows and no shaft has ever
reached bottom in any of them, and
there is excellent reason to believe that
the entire copper formation forms a
synclinal, with the western outcrop
upon Isle Royale and the trough of the
syncinal miles under the bed of Lake
Superior
Considerable mass copper is being
found in the assure veins on the Ar
mold property, a mass having been ia
ken out in the past 10 days which
weighed 1910 pounds.
The smelters Of the Detroit & Lake
Superior company, which have been
idle for 80 days, have resumed work
tic mines.
The Franklin is running two stamps
which are treating about $50 tons of
rock daily and making about / 1-3 per
cent. copper. The best rock is coming
from the old mine, but the Franklin
Junior is turning out more rock and
better rock than was anticipated by
any but it's most enthusiastic friends.
The prospects of the Franklin compa-
ny have appreciated several hundred
per cent. in the past few months. The
new stamp mill of the company at
Crosse Pointe is a model in every re-
spect and is stamping rock as econom-
ically as any mill in the district, and
is doing It's work cheaper than the grea t
majority of mills. The entire property
is being run in the most economical
manner and the mine is making about
$50 tons of copper per month, on which
it's profits are fully $4,000.
!, The Mendoza property has recently
been examined by it's owners with a
| view to the resumption of mining work.
| The Mendoza possesses several fissure
veins. crossing the formation trans
versely and carrying copper ore in the
| form of a gray sulphuret free from ar
senic and anthony. and therefore cas-
| lily and cheaply smelted.
| There is some little activity In the
western end of the copper district. and
|
Lake property in the Porcupine noun
tains. A dozen men are employed at
| present on the Peak property, lying
north of Bessemer. Mich, and not far
| from the Montreal river. which forms
| the dividing line between Michigan
| and Wisconsin, The Peak Copper Min
| ing company has lust been organized
with a capital of $2.500000. and so men
| are to be employed during the winter.
The Rock Island Mine.
A correspondent writing from De Bor-
| gia. Mont. under date of Oct. %. says:
| The Rock Island silver-lead property,
located six miles north of this point, is
making preparations for working this
winter. Three tons of supplies were pack
ed in this week and two shifts will be
put on in the next few weeks.
| Two men are at work getting in tim
Der and wood and shedding the outside
tracks. More than 400 feet of tunnel work
has been done within the last 10 months
On the 75-foot level eight feet of goot
| concentrating ore was encountered in the
| crosscut. The crosscut on the 200-foo
| level is in $40 feet and running in ledge
matter between walls. Unless all calcu
lations fail the ore chute should be reach
ed In from so to rs feet of drifting. Tht
men at work on the mine are receivihs
| half their pay in stock which speaks wei
for their property. The development dur
ing the last year is entirely satisfactor,
and there is little doubt that the prop
erty will be classed with the shipper
within the next u months.