The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
FROM LEVEL AND STOPE
Output of Mines in Many States
and Districts.
PRODUCTION OF CREEDE
Good Strikes at Many Points-The DAILY
West Dividend - The Newhouse
Tunnel-The Iron Mask and
Copper Queen Mines.

A number of good developments are
reported in the mines of Amador coGn-
ty, California The Oneida and Mahoney
miles at Suffer crack are said to be
lool 'lg especially well. as is ais, the
north drift in the Lincoln. Work at the
| keystone mine at Amador City is pro-
crossing steadily and the mill is pound
ing away on good ore.
Andrew Charles has found a vein Of
high grade copper ore on Cedar hill on
ground claimed by the Sierra Nevada
mining company at Virginia City.
Superintendent Kyle notified Charles
that he was trespassing on the ground
of that company, but Charles claims
that the ground he is working on was
formerly known as the Phil Sheridan.
The discovery of a five-foot vein of
| copper in the Iowa mine, Howe's gulch,
| Larimer county, is reported. This prop
| erty is a neighboE of the Empire mine,
which is now believed to be on con-
| tinuation of the Wyoming copper belt.
| A large force of men are now at work
| on the latter property, and many loca-
| lions in that district have been placed
on record during the past week.
The mine owned by the Copper Queen
mining company is situated at Copper
bay, which extends inland from the
northeast end of Glacier island, Prince
| William sound, in Alaska The &C
ton of the glaciers has laid bare the
copper vein, which has been traced for
a mile This ledge is five feet in width,
and at depth of three feet, the ore
assays $3.50 per ton, reckoning copper
at 10 cents per pound.
The Paymaster consolidated mining
company commenced operations in the
1O0-foot shaft last Monday, and only
six days work has opened up vein
of free milling ore that pans immensely
rich From a miner just in from this
property a Republican reporter learned
that the new find was made last Satur-
day, and gives promise of being or
great worth, as the ledge grows wider
as depth is attained.
The work in the Lille mine at Victor.
Colo, of driving to the ore bodies a.
500 feet will be commenced soon, and 1t
is not unlikely that rich mineral Will
be encountered, for The ground has not
been exploited below the 6OO-foot level.
With good ore blocked out in the sec
foot level, the Lille mine will have 200
feet Of virgin stopl1g ground, and Will
be in excellent physical condition. ne
usual production is being maintained
from the old levels.
The cross-cut on the Tom Thumb in
Republic has proved the vein to be fully
nine feet wide and average values over
the whole width may safely be set at
s1S Superintendent DoWney Is now
engaged in repairing the SHAFT 1t VIII
be Strengthened and boarded in readi-
ness for active development along the
vein at the 15O-foot level The shaft
house is to be overhauled and the Whlm
set up in connection with a new gal
lows frame. The property will be put
in first-class shape throughout.
Raine & Castleman have installed a
large electric hoist at their NO. smart
at Cripple Creek, and have resumed
hosting. Already the lessees have
blocked out over 200 tons of ore, which
will be sent to market as soon as prac-
ticable. and with hardly any sorting.
Returns on the last shipments from
this lease gave better than six ounces
to the ton. On shaft No. steam
hoist and compressor IS oelhg lllssa fa1.
and will be in operation within lie"
days
The Newhouse tunnel at Idaho
Springs, Colo, has received a Roots
: rotary pressure blower No. 7. to be OPP
Grated in the exhaustion and blowing
, of air while the tunnel Is being driv-
, en- ahead. There is no blower Of equal
size in the West used il the operation
. of mining property. These blowers ara
used by the snlelters, however. The
i blower discharges Sc cubic feet per
! revolution and can be driven at from
100 to 20 revolutions per minute. so that
it will be seen that after the firing OF
the shots it will not take any great
time to exhaust the air. This tunnel
, is now in 1850 feet.
Cuprum Standard: A great strike
was made a few days ago in the Buff
falo No. 8 mine. At the depth of 80
,, feet ore was taken out that will reach
60 per cent. or more, and from the
, most recent reports from those in con-
troll of the property, as depth IS reached
the volume and value increases. AS
we understand, there were no indiea-
tons of any Importance found until
the depth of about Is feet was reached,
and from that depth down specimens
were taken out at various times, ana
J with each specimen taken out mas been
noticed the increase of the promising
indications, with the above result.
On the Iron Mask mine at Gilman,
: Colo, shipments are steadily increasing
and by the first of the month the $50
4 tons a day mark will, at the present
e rate, be reached The bins are full of
y ore, and the big sulphide slopes bigger
t than ever, the stope at the M. and o.
: levels showing a 30-foot body clear
e stuff. The Clinton, one of the group,
t has also extensive bodies of carbonates
: disclosed, and on this property a new
f ore house is nearing completion, with
D | a capacity of 200 tons, from which the
. ore will be trammed to the main ere
Y house, a distance of 30 feet Some other
e good developments are reported at Gill
I man.
. The Salt Lake Herald states with
great assurance that the Daly-West
mine at Park City will speedily declare
a dividend of 25 cents a share, aggre-
eating $4,000, and keep it up steadily,
perhaps raising the figure to so cents
a share. The Daly-West is to-day,
says the Herald, one of the greatest
mines in the state; its magnificent ore
=, bodies are comparable only with those
! of the Silver King and Ontario; it's
5 hoisting machinery, mill and other
equipment is of the finest; the shaft,
| a,.ift levels of the mine all in