The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-06
A MUCH LARGER SCALE.
Development Work on the
Snowshoe Near Libby.
COMMENTATOR STARTED
Questions of Water Power and Better
Transportation Facilities -. Libby
Creek Mining Company-Put-
ting Up Buildings.

Srecial Correspondence Of the Standard.
Libby, Mont, June 3.-Development
of the Snowshoe mine, Is miles south
of Libby, is being continued on a much
larger scale the past week than hereto
fore on account of the recent visit of
Wyndham H. Wynne, who is the Lon
don manager of the English company
which is operating that property. Mr..
Wynne was here for about a week and
while here laid out a large amount of
development and improvement work at
the mine, which is rapidly developing
into one of the big mines in Montana,
He left here for the west On Monday,
intending to take in several British Co
lumbia camps before his return to Lon
don.
The No. 1 tunnel on the Snowshoe is
now in between 1.400 and $500 feet. At
a point 400 feet in this tunnel there is
raise to the floor of No. 2 tunnel, 200
feet higher up the mountain. No. tun-
mel is in between 400 and 500 feet. There
has been considerable Stopping above No.
tunnel and a raise has been run from
the top of the slopes nearly 200 feet
above the floor of the tunnel. No. 3
tunnel is now being located 200 feet
above No. tunnel and will be run
in at once to be connected with the
raise just mentioned, A Wine has also
been sunk from No. 1 tunnel which is
now down to depth of 140 feet. Drifts
were turned off at a point 100 feet down
on this winze and are being run both
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nection from the surface to the station
in this winze has also been started. A
new hoist has been ordered for this
Winze, with a capacity for sinking to a
depth of 500 feet, and this plan of de-
velopment will be pushed forward as
fast as possible.
The concentration on this property,
which has recently been started up,
having been idle all winter on account
of scarcity of water, has capacity
for handling about 200 tons of ore every
"A hours. The water power, while ade-
quate at the present season of the year,
is short during the winter months and
work will be begun immediately to
bring in a sufficient water supply from
Leigh creek, which is the adjoining
gulch to that in which the mine is
located. Arrangements will shortly be
made for handling a larger quantity of
ore to keep up with the increased capa-
city of the production of the mine.
The question of better transportation
facilities is one which will be taken up
at once and Mr.. McMeekin, the consult
ing engineer of the company, will begin
surveys next week between Libby and
the mine with the view to the construc-
ton of a pole tramway.
The company has quite force of men
employed at present repairing the road
to the mine and in making some needed
improvements at the bridge across
Cherry creek. The weather has been
unfaVorable for long time and the
roads have not dried up as rapidly as
was expected. In consequence the first
shipment of concentrates from the mine
to Libby will not be made before the
goth of the present month.
The Libby Creek Mining company,
which has purchased the properties on
Shaughnessy hill known as the Buzz
Saw group, has force of about go men
a work on the various buildings and
the flume which is in course of con-
struction, and expect to have the con-
contractor running by September. The
bunk house, office, stables, assay office
and a residence building are now COM
pleted and work is progressing rapidly
on the flume and the concentrator
building. The fiume is to 21ax3 feet and
will be three miles long and the concen-
traitor will have a capacity for handling
100 tons of ore a day.
A small fiume was put in the past
week to bring the water of White Fan
creek to the buildings which have been
erected, for the purpose of affording a
protection against fire until the big
flume is finished. This flume is about
quarter of a mile long and will be
used afterward for the purpose of sup
plying these various buildings with
water, and part of it will also be used
in the concentration.
The company has also force of
miners at work charging the lower tun-
mel to working size and this has been
done for distance of about 200 feet
This tunnel is $50 feet long and all the
ore will be brought through it to the
mill. There is a small force working in
No tunnel and they are now in about
800 feet and the face of the tunnel is all
in ore.
Work will shortly be commenced by
this company on new road which will
be surveyed from Libby to the mine, as
the present road is not adapted fer the
transportation of heavy loads, being too
low. The new road will follow the high
bench ground and the grade will be
nearly uniform. The distance from
Libby to the mine is about eight miles,
Ed Murphy who represents the east
ern interests in the Brick Xxx and
oIdlildSdH properties on Inc West
Fisher. has just returned from a trip to
the work which he is having done on
the road into those claims and says that
about three and half miles has al
ready been constructed and that the
road will be finished by the end of the
present month. The new road to be con-
structed is about is miles long and
George Good of Thompson Falls has the
contract for putting it through. AT pres
ent he has "a men and eight teams at
work there.
This property is a free milling gold
one and there has been about 400 feet
of development work done on if Thp
mill will have 10 stamps and viii be SO
arranged that more stamps can h.
added without any alterations in the