The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-06
IT Will Be ON THE TOP
Prospects for the Seven Devils
District.
SHOWINGS ARE ALL RIGHT
Fine Copper Observation-Disclosures in East
ern Oregon Are Splendid Prop
sitions-In the SLOGAN
Country.

Il can see no reason why the East
ern Oregon and Idaho mining districts
should not be at the top of the heap
next year." said a Butte gentleman
who recently returned from these dis
tricts. In the Seven Devils country
and the Baker City region there are
the best looking propositions I ever
saw in any mining country. The
showings are simply all right and If
the leads do not hold out with depth
will miss my guess. The railroad
being built from Weiser into the Sew
en- Devils district will prove to be the
best investment in the railroad line
that has been made in a long time.
There is the best copper indications
up there l ever saw, and I am not
the only one who looks at the Devils
in that way. There is a vast area of
country literally covered with splen-
did copper veins and groupings. Be
sides there are placer indication and
| prospects all through the country All
| that district needs to make it a big
| producer is railroad facilities, and
| these are being provided"
| Speaking of the Sumpter district and
| other mining sections in Eastern Ore
gon, the gentleman said: 1.-THE coun-
try tributary to Baker and Sumpter
| is not new proposition by any means
and what has been said of it, so far
| as l know, is practically correct. The
mines in Eastern Oregon are indeed
splendid looking propositions, and some
| OF the richest gold ore ever discovered
has been taken from some of the
mines not far from Baker. 1t is pri-
| marily gold country, and one can
not judge Of its stability by the prod
uct of the surface ores. However, I
look for great things in the Oregon
| districts" ,1
The following from the Spokane
| Chronicle would indicate that the min
| ers and the owners have reached an
agreement regarding wages so far as
they apply to the SLOGAN country, and
also shows that much extensive work
is being done up that way:
| The American Boy mine, in the Slo-
can, is shipping ore to the Everett
| shelter Former shipments have been
made to the Trail smelter. At the Of
| flee of the company it was learned the
other day that the American Boy is
1 being steadily operated in spite of the
prevailing labor difficulties in the Slo-
1 can. The company is reported to be
4 paying the scale demanded by the
unions, and is said to employ 10 men.
| The shipments average about three
cars per month, but the superintendent
is holding the shipments back some
what, saving the ore for rawhiding,
which will be considerably cheaper
than packing. The company expects
4 to. be able to- send out a car of ore
4 per week after about 80 days. &
4 At meeting Of the American Boy
T trustees few days. since it was de-
| cided to build 600 feet of tram in the
| spring of 1900 to connect the mine with
| the Noble Five tram and concentrator.
| This will enable the American Boy to
send down to the Noble Five works
! a large amount of concentrating ore
| which is on the dumps and in the
| Slopes. This is expected to concen-
i trate about four into one at fine
shipping value. Recently the No. 4
| tunnel cut the ore body 800 feet be-
low the apex of the vein and the show
| ing is said to be four feet of coneen
trating ore. The mine was lately ex-
amined by Engineer Maxwell. who in
his report to the company estimates
that the mine has practically in sight
$4,000 worth of ore estimated at a
profit value of $40 per ton.
The following items from the Buff
/ falo Hump country are furnished by
| a man who recently came out of that
district. He tells about the mines
there and the Press Grangeville quotes
him as follows:
THE roads between here and Flor
ence are drying up fast, and when 1
was in Florence | saw Maxwell and
Lortscher. who made the big strike
| of that wonderfully rich rock at Mar
shall lake. They naturally seem to
be very much elated over their find,
| and it would seem justifiably SO, for
the samples shown by their partner
in the property, James McGrane,
shows fully half gold.
.Lortscher and Morrill, have decided
to operate and work the What Cheer
property all winter and will in all
probability install mill thereon This
property is on the breaks of Salmon
river, about four miles south of Flor
ence. The property SO far has been
developed by a tunnel which has been
driven about 400 feet, by which about
800 feet of depth is gained it showing
pay ore all the way, the ledge being
| from two to three feet in width and as
| saying from $50 to $50 in gold
"A. D. Wheeler of the Hiyu mine Is
very much excited and pleased over the
recent find in the Hiyu of three-foot
ledge which carries free gold, that was
found at depth of 22O feet. 1t was
on the east drift that the new discov-
cry was made, at distance of 14E
feet and at depth of 22O feet from
the surface.
Claude Flint, one of the owners In
the rich Crackerjack at Buffalo, is
also working the Yakima, in the Flor
ence camp. He has drifted for about
so feet on the ledge, which is about
four feet in width. carrying values
of gold all the way from $40 to $1Oc
per ton. This property is also on the
breaks of Salmon river.
ION the New Cumberland. G. w
Grove is to be heartily congratulated
for he has a simply wonderful show
ing there. He has an incline shaft on
this property which he has sunk to a
depth of so feet. The shaft discloses
a width of ledge of six feet carrying
values of from Sc to $40 in gold to
the ton. and the values seem to ma
terially increase as he attains depth.
He will in all probability work the
property through the entire winter.
The walls are well defined and are
composed of granite and lime
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