The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-12

Mill creek district the Branham mill
was built in 1866; had IL stamps of 500
pounds each, a, drop of II inches, 40
strokes per minute, and a capacity of
IL tons per "a hours. 1t was driven by
water power and crushed ore at about
81 per ton. The only saving apparatus,
aside from the batteries, were tables and
blankets. In the Quartz Hill district
A. w. Whitaker had a three-stamp
mill which crushed ore at profit of s15
per ton.
1O-stamp mill was built in the Silver
star district by the Everett, Green
Campbell Mining company of Cleve-
land, Ohio, in the early SOS, but the
exact date is not known to the writer.
1t had capacity of Is tons per "a
hours, was operated by steam and cost
$4,000. The Green Campbell mine fur
nished the ore for crushing. The Ste
VEINS & Tritt mill was erected in the
upper part of the district in the year
1868, at a cost of $4,000. 1t had a saw
ing apparatus attached consisting of
blankets and arastras. The ore treated
was from the Iron Rod lode and aver
aged $50 per ton; cost of reduction, IS
per ton.
Rochester boasts of two old mills that
We're in operation in the early days: the
ffenuIle q NOOuNOTtH ana the mil
owned by the Madison County Mining
company.
In the Summit district the How mill
was erected in 1866; had 20 stamps pro-
PEELED by steam power. Other mills in
the district were: Postlewait & Hawk
eye, Is stamps, with settlers. arastras
and blankets; Gillian and Lucas.
Browns district had two mills erected
in 1868, the Conner and the Chritenat-
Chiian
In the early history of Montana Deer
Lodge county had several rich mining
districts and a number of mills were
erected for treating the ores. The
James Stuart mill was erected at Phil
ipsburg in 1867 for silver ores 1t was
enclosed in a stone building; was oper-
ated by 50-horse power engine. boilers
40 inches in diameter and 20 feet long:
run 10 stamps of $50 pounds each; six
Wheeler pans four feet in diameter, and
three COMMENTATORS eight feet in diam
eter; stamps and pans were geared TO
make from 60 to rs drops and revolu-
tions per minute. The first 1000 tons
crushed yielded about S100,0 1t was
considered the best mill in the territory
and cost $4,000, Other mills in Deer
Lodge We're: Hervey mill, near George
town, cost 100000 Ewing, also near
Georgetown the Henauer, near Gable
City. cost $4,000; Hendricks mill. 10
stamps; Nowlan, erected at Gable City
81 This mill treated some $500 tons
of ore which yielded $172,000 in gold
coin. The ore was all taken from the
Atlantic Gable mine.
The following mills We're erected in
Meagher county, but have since been
removed: CASTOR & Simpson, steam,
30 stamps; Hendrie, steam, 90 stamps;
Lost Leg Mining company, steam, 10
stamps; Vessel & Wilke, water power,
six stamps.
The first furnaces erected in Mon
tana as far as the writer's knowledge
goes was at Argenta in 1865. They We're
erected by the St. Louis & Montana
Mining company at a great cost, and
the large amount of labor necessary for
their operation prevented the success
anticipated by the promoters. The
next year A. M. Esler erected another
furnace 1t cost $1,000 and had a ca
pacity of six tons per day. This fur
mace. produced $4,000 in silver in short
period and was considered success.
The Tootle, Leach & Stapleton furnace
was built in 1867 the Wood furnace in
1867 and the Faulds terrace furnace in
1868 at Bannack. A large number of
mills and furnaces have been built Of
late years, but the above relates sim
ply to those operated in the SOS by the
trail blazers, many of whom are in the
state TODAY