The Anaconda standard., 1899-05-08
PROSPERITY IN GARNET
The Outlook Is Bright for the
Mining Camp.
DEEP DEPOSITS OF ORE
Development Work Has Demonstrated
the Fact--Rich Strike in the Nancy
Hanks-High Grade Ore in
the Copper Cliff.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Garnet, May 6.--Looking from every
point of view the signs of ocming
events seem to indicate that this dis
trict is upon the brink of a season of
unprecedented prosperity. At no other
time in it's history has the outlook
seemed so bright and f1attering. That
the ore deposit extends to great depths
has lately been demonstrated beyond
the shadow of a doubt. On this point
the recent strike Of rich ore in the ia
nous Nancy Hanks mine has silenced
and amazed the most skeptical and
pessimistic. Following the strike on
the Nancy Hanks comes the report of
a great strike of high grade copper ore
on the 100-foot level of the Copper Cliff
mine. Near the west end of the dis
trict the long tunnel on the Copper Cliff
cut the vein last Wednesday night, ex-
posing a splendid body of ore between
three and four feet thick. Specim ans
from the new strike on exhibition around
town to-day show massive native cop
per.
The Shamrock people have cut sta
ton on the 30O-foot level of their big
incline shaft and have started drifts
both ways on the vein, some splendid
ore coming to the surface ready for
shipment.
The shaft on the Tip Top has now
attained a depth of 70 feet, and is be-
ing pushed with all vigor. This is the
first instance where a shaft has been
sunk to any depth in the granite forma-
tion at any great distance north of the
contact. and the experiment is being
watched by mining men with high de-
gree of interest,
To complete the chain of fortunate
events and to prove more conclusively
that Garnets star is in the ascendant,
the Montana & Denver Reduction COM
pany announce that they are about to
erect and operate a custom reduction
plant at a central point in Bear gulch
and will purchase all classes and char
acters of ores in any quantity from one
pound to 1000 tons, paying 80 per cent
of it's assay value. after deducting a
moderate milling charge of S., thus Civ
ing to the district quick, firm and
stable market for her vast bodies of low
and medium grade ores.
The reduction plant, in brief will con-
sist of a 20stamp mill. equipped with
the latest improved amalgamating and
concentrating facilities To this will be
added an auxiliary cyanide plant hav-
ing maximum capacity of 100 tons per
day. The ore will first be carefully
treated in the 20-stamp mill by battery
and plate amalgamaton, then by a sys
TEN Of Wilhey concentrating tables,
and subsequently in the cyanide ad-
junct by a solution of potassium cyan
ide, combined with dioxide of sodium,
known as the American dilXide-cyanide
process The construction and opera
tion of the plant will be under the man
agement of Arthur b. Brown, the we'll
known mining engineer and analyti-
cal chemist, to whose energy and per-
severance is largely due the progress
so far made toward the completion of
the enterprise. The mere announcement
of the reduction company has already
given wonderful stimulus to the min
ing industry throughout the district,
and some of the most sanguine express
grave doubts if the proposed plant will
have sufficient capacity to handle the
flood of ore that is found to flow into it.
Only those who are familiar with the
vast resources Of the mineral belt that
extends for miles on either side of Gar
net, can fully realize and grasp what
the proposition made by the reduction
company means for the district. 1t
means that hundreds and possibly
thousands of men will find employment
throughout, the ore belt. 1t means that
ground that is now considered as COM
paratively worthless will have an in
trinsc value, and will contribute its
quota of wealth to the general prosperi-
ty of the region, where a stable market
and handsome profit is assured on
ore that runs from SIS to $40 per ton,
There will be some incentive to work
the hundreds of low grade prospects
that are now lying idle.
In the active, fervid development of
new mining region under new and
auspicious conditions for new ore bodies
and new mines to be discovered in the
most unlikely and unexpected places,
will be for history to repeat itself, and
we predict that this will be the case
the coming season in the Garnet dis
trict. While the ore zone that extends
along the main divide of the mountains
is pretty well covered by locations,
there are still virgin fields for prospect
ors close to Garnet. The strip of coun-
try three miles south of here that sur
rounds the heads of Feeling and Secrete
gulches has never had a pick stuck
into it, still there is no plausible reason
why some good ore deposits should not
be found here, as the gulches have pro-
duced thousands of dollars in placer
gold that originally came from veins in
this strip. The formation. too is iden-
teal with that around Garnet.
Another promising field that has been
overlooked is the region that surrounds
a nucleus of eruptive porphyry about
three and One-half miles southwest of
Garnet. This porphyritic region has
not received the attention of prospect
ors that its location and surroundings
would warrant. as it may ultimately
prove to be the volcanic center or seat
OF mineral action that produced the ore
deposits in Garnet and Col0ma
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