The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-07
THE GARNET DISTRICT
Some Valuable Information Con-
corning the Mines.
HAVE WORKED ALL WINTER
The District Covers an Area OF Fifteen
Square Miles - A Systematic
Development of Some
Rich Properties.

John Fl. Cole, who is in the city from
the promising Garnet district, impart-
ed a lot of valuable information yester-
day concerning the mines in his neigh
borhood. There is considerable snow in
Garnet and the hills surrounding the
camp, yet work on surface and under
ground has progressed without inter-
ruption all winter. Asked If they got
the Standard regularly, notwithstand-
ing snowbound roads and irregular
mails he answered with significant
wink of the eye which has made him
famous all over the West:
do we get the Standard? You bet
we do; the Standard comes whether the
mail does or not. The Standard has
good men employed who get it there on
time containing all the news. 1t was
always thus. / used to work for the
Standard myself.
Tell us about your mining district
and the outlook for good things down
there" suggested the reporter.
The Garnet mining district contains
an area of about Is miles square and
in many respects is the most remark
able gold mining district in the world.
1t Is probably the only mining district
on earth where good concentrating gold
owes averaging in value from $l5 to $50
per ton are classed as low grade. IN
| til very recently all ores were shipped
to the Butte smelters and any ores
| that would not yield $50 values were re-
jected. AS matter of fact, very little
ore has been shipped out of Garnet
which did not run $40 or better. Last
fall DR.. Peter Musgbrod commenced
the systematic development of the Lead
King mine, the surface groupings OF
which vein can be traced for couple
of miles and everywhere showing good
values. The doctor has 1O-stamp mill,
equipped with plates, three Vanners,
to which has been very recently addsd
| two Whitley concentrating tables. Inc
| mill as thus equipped is daily proving
| that the Garnet so-called loW-gfaue
ores can be successfully treated at
| home. In this mill the second-class
product of the Lead King is now work.
| ed. Almost numberless openings nave
been made along this vein, but as is the
Garnet custom, DR. Musigbrod was
| looking for shipping ore, and in this he
was successful last fall in running an
incline shaft at the bottom of the gulch
across which the vein runs. This Is
| the lowest point at which the vein could
be attacked and after sinking few
| feet ore yielding 500 per ton or better
was encountered; that is after sorting,
| of course. The second-class ore was run
| through the mill and was easily and
very successfully treated, running
something like $40 per ton or better
This class of ore came from the 100
foot level and slopes, but recently the
incline shaft was put down another lift,
and there is now exposed in the bottom
of the stump and in drifts run each way
on the vein 80 inches of solid ore, one
foot of which without sorting, is sacked
and shipped here to the shelters, yield
| ing rather better than $3.50 to the ton
The rest is sorted and the best of it,
averaging about $125 per ton, is also
shipped, while what is left-about $50
rocks worked in the mill.
Big story? Well, yes; but it is the
real truth at the present time about this
| mine and that is what you want. Dr.
Musigbrod is not in the least anxi ous
to advertise his good fortune and yet
he has nothing to conceal from the
public,
THE Shamrock is another of our pro-
| ducing mines and just at the present
time it is looking better than it ever
has Ore Is being stopped that is OF
much better value than heretofore
found in that weli-knOWn producer
This property is better known than per-
haps any of the other Garnet mines ow.
ing, in part, to its wonderful pr0duc-
ton of ore, but more particularly on &C
count of an unfortunate lawsuit over it
1.-THE Nancy Hanks, the property o.
Ritchey and Auchinoole, is also looking
very fine. Prospecting on the 3O0-foot
level has demonstrated the existence o.
valuable and large body of ore wes
from the shaft, Just where it was unex-
pected, while east the vein is large bu
contains little if any shipping ore Sc
far. Mr.. Thompson, who has charge q
the property. is developing with a view
as to the best point to sink a gooC
working shaft. Ore is now being stopet
from the upper levels and looks to b,
of better value than that heretofOr,
shipped.
"A custom mill will be erected thi
summer, which will aim to treat all tn
lowgrade ores. 1t will probably be 2
stamps, with plates and about six vii
fey tables, to be followed by the CiioX
ide-cyanide process, and it is eXpectat
! that a very high percentage of tn
values can be saved in fact, it has al
ready been demonstrated and this mil
will very much increase the materia
prosperity of the district.
Men are not needed in Garnet; Their
are too many there now; indeed, l don
think we need much of anything, al
though of course, many more proper
ties ought to be working than Their
are. but the owners ask too much cas-
down and have so far thus barre
would-be investors. There are no stoc
companies in the district. | wish ther
were: the smelter checks might the
be whacked up among a few more [
us"
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