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The Marshall republican., 1901-02-22

or qualify Its responsibility for them
IN the slightest degree. There Is no
escape from the argument that II there
Is no danger from these dollars the
government risks nothing III assuming
this responsibility. and II there is dan
ger. the risk properly belongs q II
and not to the individuals who may
happen to hold them.
There il nothing In the charge that
this bill would afford the bankers ar
Spectators ~ Wall street an addi-
tional facility for raiding the gold re-.
serve. They have abundant opportu.
nifty now to work any silver coin and
certificates they may have back on the
treasury. The s%ub.treasury at New
York receives more than - per cent
~ the governments revenue. When
silver accumulates at all In New York.
IL Is promptly substituted for gold in
payments to the treasury. The prac.
teal results are the same. both Ia the
treasury and Ia the New York hank.
cps. "a though the government gave
gold for silver ut that point and Ia
that extent. but probably eighty per
cen, of the silver currenc, of the coun.
try l. In the West and south. scat.
tered among small holders who would
not have that opportunity To dispose
III II In the Y 81 nm emergency.
These people are entitled Ia he assured
tina, the government, will stand be-
tween them and any po--ibl. -m.r.
gency.
There Is no probability tina, the
measure will add anything Ia the bur.
den- upon the gold reserve. Every
argumen, to prove that ~. provision
l. unnecessary supports this a-sump.
tiOn. and the element III di-,ru-i which
II now liable. to dcv.loI~ would IN.
eliminated. The demand for gold
would i~ roniincd Ia the legitimate
needs ~ the expert trade, and that the
government ammo, advan,ageou-ly ar
%honorably eyade. The bill completes
Wv w o''"'b'hE W w 'ts1'N's
definitely to the gold standard. II l.
logical. scientific and honest. and 50
long. therefore. rs IA. government
bubbles over II 81 long will people
ask why. and view N. silver dollar
~ an element ~ weakness "a our
monetary system.
An anomalous situation l. pre-
scented 10y the attitude of the ,o.called
friends Of silver In opposition to this
bill. They claim Ia regard the silver
dollar IA the poor mans special coin,
and unque-,ionably the present stock
l. mainly In the hands ~ farmers.
w~age,earners and small ,radcsmen. II
l. IN. money ~ w%age-earners and re-
tail trad. nj, Of bank reserves. What
purpo>. these champion, of silver can
have in opposing u measure that Is
calculated to eradicate all disirust
concerning this coin and make II In
everybody's opinion u good a- gold,
/, beyond the comprehension Of ordi-
nary and practical people"
The Marshall republican., 1901-02-22
Making Silver Dollars Exchsugeable for
Gold.

- :"
strengthening the gold standard. to-
day. Secretary Gage. of the treasury.
said:
"The committee on coinage has re-
ported tn the house with favorable
recommendations the hill introduced
by Congressman Hill. Of Connecticut.
making silver dollars exchangeable at
the treasury for gold.
This proposition Is no, hostile to
the silver dollar. On the contrary. II
Is designed tn put the credit and re-.
sources Of the government behind our
silver currency In IN unequivocal and
straightforward manner There ba.
always been an implied promise that
the government would take such ac.
ton as this II IL ever became necessary
tn protect the holders of silver. but
the language has been In the vague
terms ~ political compromise. The
act of 1870 declared II Ia he the pur.
pose Of the government tn maintain
the parity Of its gold and silver coins.
but no other means existed la assure
tina, fact than that both were receiva.
bile for all public dues. Experience
has shown that that provision will
sometimes maintain an Over-valued
currency nj par with the standard and
sometime. fail ,O do II. Whether I,
will or M, depends upon the proper.
ton Of the over-valued currency I ~
the amount III standard money In the
country. the state 81 trade n, home
aud abroad. aud other contingencies.
$50 much uncertainty attaches Ia
these conditions that II l. IA rule Of
sound finance the world over that u
paper currency or an o~ver-valued coin
currency should be convertible AT the
will Of the holder into standard
ey. When this l. III. ease. tn. gov.
eminent, which IL responsible for the
issue III such currency and has profit.
ed 10y Il. assumes whatever risk may
attach To II.
'Our silver dollar l. mn over.valu.d
coin. it, bullion value l. about iifty
cents. When the bullion IN the treas
ury shall have been coined. there will
bc about stOW. INN. 900 of this money In
the country. The volume IL large. In
the opinion of many, so large a. To IN.
in unfavorable times u menac II IL
true that the silver dollar has never
yet gone to u discount, but on the other
hand. II IL not known that the most
%unfavorable combination Of circum.
stances possible has yet been expert.
cnced. II has always thus far had the
help Of an administration If the treas.
ury which inspired confidence by
frankly recognizing the obligation
upon the government Ia maintain the
parity.
wv ithout discussing the probability
that the silver dollar will 90 tn u dis
count, 1t is wise and proper to recog-
nize that no II few people believe In
the possibility. Peoples beliefs intiu-
ence their actions, and It Is unde.ir-
able that any portion Of the currency
of the United States should le under
suspicion. The government bnue ht the
bullion from which these dollars were
made NJ It's market value and paid
them out to the people at their face
value, receiving in exchange the full
face in gold or the equivalent thereof
The Marshall republican., 1901-02-22
81 90 for Round Trip.

Grand Excursion to Kansas City
and return, via the "AltOn," Satur-
day, February 23d. 2.t2
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
H. |. FRANKS COAL MINES
They are Yielding roo Tons Per Day
Will be Giving 1000 by
January 1st

Hon. II. l.. Frank returned last FRI
day night from a trip to his coal mines
at Frank. Alberta. Northwest Territory
and brought with him some information
concerning his property.
1T is wonderful-too great to talk
about" said he in answer to a question
as to the extent of his property. I'VE
have a 16-foot vein of high grade. bi-
luminous coal of an excellent grade for
colsing. The vein is developed by two
tunnels, one of which is 1850 feet long
and the other o60 feet We are now
shipping about 700 tons per day. but By
January / it will have been increased
to 1000 tons. exclusive of the quantity
used for coking. 1t is our intention 10
build ESQ coke ovens and with this OBJ
ject in view have ordered a eonsignmert
of fire brick which is now on the way
there. The output of the mines Will he
increased from time to time. At present
we are working 100 men, but WHEN the
equipment is all in place the number
will be about 400.
Frank is becoming quite town
continued Mr. Frank. We have erected
25 cottages for the miners and are put
ting up % more. We have $4,000 hotel,
a postoffice and townsite in as pretty 2
location as one would wish to see. L took
Mark Drum from Butte with me and put
him in charge of the office. He likes the
place very much"
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
VEIN IS NOW Az FEET WIDE
The Homestake Company Will Make
a Shipment Of Ore to
Ruttte

Charles Strowbridge. manager Of the
Browns Gulch HOmestake company $
group of claims. came into the city Sat-
urday and reported that the vein OF the
claim on which the company is doing its
work has widened to four and half
feet. The ore. he says. is richer than
ever. The shaft his attained a depth
of 1875 feet. and although there is some
water the flow is not sufficien; TO prevent
the pumps from handling it without the
least trouble. The water level swas
reached at a depth of $50 feet. At the
170-foot mark the ore returned an as
say value of 1896 in gold per ton. iTha
new machinery. recently installed. is
working to perfection.
The stock was quoted at 25 cents per
share a short time ago. but it cannot he
touched for IS cents now. In fact there
has never been very much of it for sale
1t is the intention of the company to
make a shipment Of the ore to this city
in a short time.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
TIE MILL HAS OPENED TO RUN
THIRTY DAYS OR
,.. LONGER
Chemical Tests Have Been Made on
the Gre and Cyanide Process Has
Been Recommended - Further
Tests Will be Made-Leach-
ing Plant May be In
Scaled - Eill City
May Eoom.

Thirty of the 60 stamps in the large
mil OF the Alice company began drop
pms on ore today and Will be kept in
operation thirty days and possibly right
along after the eXpiratio.. of that time.
the thirty days run is for the purpose
oI testing a process for saving the gold
and silver values of the ore Of the COM
pany. and if it proves successful it
means the continuous operation of the
pant and the crushing of $50 tons of
Gre per day.
During the last six weeks the COM
pany has had weli-known chemist eX-
perimenting with the ore in this city
and the result of the tests made by him
has demonstrated that the gold and sill
Yer it contains can be saved by the cy-
anide process. These tests. however,
were on a small scale and it is now the
intention to make others of more
practical nature. 1t is an easy matter
to separate gold alone from rock or sill
Yer either for that matter. but chemists
have always found it difficult to save
both metals The ore of the Alice and
many other claims in the Butte district
carry gold and silver combined. This
ore will not pay if worked for the silver
or gold alone. but it will yield handsome
returns if both metals can be saved to
a good average percentage. The pro-
cess by which it is almost certain both
can be saved is the one the company is
now testing. 1t was used on the ores of
the Comstock with perfect success, and
those in position to know say that the
ore of the great Virginia City veins was
much harder to treat than will be that
of this section. The ore to be treated
is what is called oxidized. which is
found above the water level. There are
millions of tons of it in the Alice COM
pany's properties alone, the Alice, Vol
demere. Magma Charta and other mines
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
BUTTE MEN BOND CLAIMS.
They Gobble the Philippine Group in
the Judith Rang-Other
'.# Groups Bonded. ''F'

sneo;al from IeWistown to the Hell
ena Record says that thirty day option
for a bond on the Philippine group of
claims on Arnells creek, on the north
west slope of the Judith range. was
given Aug. by Anderson, Meaedith &
Rhodes to r. S. Edwards, representing
the interests of several Butte mining
men. The option is for a bond for $780,
900 payable in one year. The group con-
sists of seven claims, all of which We're
located during the past spring and have
as yet but little development work. but
at various places large bodies of cyanide
ore has been exposed at the surface in
favorable locations. Tests to verify the
value of these ores are now in progress
and if they prove satisfactory, develop
ment work will begin at once.
A bond on the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. group
in the North Moccasn district was exc
outed Aug. 10. by the syndicate of local
capitalists. which has been operating the
properties the past several months. in
favor of John E. Price. representative of
D. H. Moffat and other Denver capital
lists. The price is S250.0C0. the time limi-
tation being two years. The first pay
ment is to be made at the end OF six
months with payments each succeeding
six months.
The Waldorf Draper group consists Of
three claims ION the mountain not 7more
than a fourth of mile above the town
Of Kendall and lying Immediately be-
tween the King Barnes mines on the
north and the Kendall mines on the
SOUTH joining both of these groups.
They were bonded in April for $45. 600 by
a syndicate composed of local capitalists
and since that time steady DEVELOPMENT
work has continued with the result that
bodies of fair grade cyanidng ores have
been exposed at various places. Although
| some very fair grade ores have been
| found it is thought that a better grade
| will be found by sinking and the new
! company will install hosting plants and
begin sinking two shafts 800 rect or more
These shafts will be at the base of the
! mountain and from the bottom of them
drifts will be driven into the hill to tar
the ore at greater depth.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
MINES AND MINING .+%=;:=.-I IN THE NORTHWEST

in the Little Snowies and that he would
direct the store keeper there If he so
desired. The store keeper was glad and
after having had the copper melted and
sampled. he threw a number of alcoholic
drops into the cowboy. and with great
secrecy they started into the hills dur
ing one of the darkest nights which
could be produced. For eight weary
days the cowboy, the store keeper and
the supply of alcoholic drops wandered
up and down the slopes and landslides
of the Little Snowies and at last the
store keeper saw light and returned
home weary and Disguised.
In the meantime the news of the
mysterious disappearance and the assay
of the copper globules from Great Falls
flew from mouth to mouth. growing on
the way. until at last all of the popula-
ton for 100 miles around had taken to
the hills looking mysterious and carry
ing location notices. People came from
Butte and Helena even. and the obliging
manner of the jerkwater read which
runs from Lombard to Harlow, was in
clover.
But the pipe went out when the store
Keeper returned and now there is moth
ing but grief for the men who chased
the rainbow. At last accounts Ayers
was still III the mountains in company
with some locoed gentlemen, and there
are several hundred other people who
are awaiting his return for the purpose
OF rendering him some kind of a testi-
monial of their regard. A day or so
after Ayers and the store keeper took to
the hills, the lady at whose home Ayers
had been working, missed shot bag
of copper specimens which had been sent
! her by her brother in Great Falls, and
there was wailing and crashing of teeth
The brother had worked for the Boston
Il Montana smelter for the past two
years and during that time had sent his
sister number of copper specimens of
all kinds. which the lady had kept in a
bag as curios, and which it was evident
that Mr. Ayers had run across. When
the store keeper came home, the lady
mentioned the loss of her bag of copper
| specimens from Great Falls, and as she
had quite a number left. they were shown
/ to the store keeper and one or two others
and they fitted the case exactly; then
the store keeper dug up few of the
! specimens of COPPER found by Mr.. Ayers
, III the heart OF the Snowy mountains
| and they We're found to be some Of the
specimens Which the brother from Great
Falls had sent to his sister during the
last two years. The remarkable part OF
! the whole story is the ease with which
/ everybody bit al the fake and FASTENED
/ to accent the story of the mountain OF
copper and gold as found la Ayers.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
BLACK EAGLE HAS SIS ORE
The Shaft is 40 Feet Deep and the
Two and a Half Feet
Wide

The Whitehall Zephyr says that Henry
Schmidt has made a bonanza strike on
his quartz claim in St. Paul Gulch, four
miles northeast of town. The claim.
known as the Black Eagle. has been de-
veloped to depth of 40 feet. At this
depth the walls. which are of slate. are
nearly 20 feet apart being filled in with
gangue matter uoon one side OF which
is vein or ledge of gold-bearing quartz
21s feet in width. assaying s!5 per ton.
Greater deDth will. doubtless uncover
greater width of nay rock. but is it is
the find is a good one and promises
bonanza.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
AYERS IS A WARM NUMBER
He is Held Responsible for the
Snowy Mountain Stampede
After Copper.

The Great Falls people who felt some
few thrills of excitement over the al
legged discovery of mountains of copper
and gold in the Snowy mountains, in
Fergus county. by one George Ayers,
may thank the second judgment which
kept them at home during the time that
hundreds OF men were rushing heailong
for the Monte Christie district, says the
Great Falls Leader.
Perhaps one reason why there were no
stampeders from Great Falls, IL that
ehere a number of people here who know
Mr.. Ayers, and their knowledge OF him
was such that they hardly felt justified
In making any move in the matter iuntil
the find had been further investigated.
The latest from the fields show the whole
stampede to have been fake of the
| rankest kind, without even a chance for
its being the truth. Ayers is q shiftless
| sort Of young man who works at
| punching cows and doing odd chores
about the ranches of the lower end OF
Fergus county, and a couple Of weeks
ago he came to the store keeper at Har-
lowtown and displaying a shot bag full
Of globules of copper. stated that he
had found them in the bed Of stream
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
MINING App 1CATIoN NO. 1892.

United States Land Office, Helena, Mon.
tana, August Il, 1901.
Notice is hereby given that John Hop
kins and the he Irs of John Hoyland,
by Elizabeth HHyiapd, administrators,
whose ostot.ice address is Butte, Nm
tana. haze this day flied an applica1 ION
for patent for 36S.S linear feet the
same being for Al feet in a southeast ,rly
ard 32i.S feet in a northwesterly di zee.
ton from the point of discovery, on the
Lily Fraction Lode Mining claim, stu
atcd in no organized mining district, ST.
We Bow county, Montana, the position,
course and extent of the said mining
claim, designated by an official survey
thereof as Survey No. 1914. Township
No. North, Range No. West, notice
of which was posted on the claim on the
9Th day of August, 1901 and being more
particularly set forth and described in
the official field notes and pat thereof
on file in this office, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the N. w. Corner No. /,
where is set a porphyry stone 4X6x2O
inches. Is inches deep, marked 1-6274, for
Corne" No. /, from which the N. E..
corner to to Section No II, fraction, T.
NJ, r. 8 w. bears n 40 degrees 40 min
utes w. S11.5 feet distant. and running
thence S. 13 degrees 45 minutes E. - feet
| to Corner No. 2: thence S. IS degrees u
minutes E. $50 feet to the S. w. Corner
No. 3: thence N. II degrees. 80 minutes
| and a3 seconds E. II feet to the E..
| Corner No. 4; thence N. 13 degrees a
minutes w. 441.5 feet to the N. E. Corner
| No. 5; thence s. 50 degrees 80 minutes
w. $50 feet to Corner No. l, the place OF
beginning, containing an area of 1.57
acres in this survey, claimed by the
above named applicants for patent
The location of this mine is recorded
| in the Office Of the Recorder Of Silver
Bow county, on Page SOP, in Book Il" OF
Lodes.
The Lily Fraction lode is bounded or
the north by Survey No. 1854, the Rory
O'Moore; on the east by Survey No. 1893
the Lille. and on the southwest by Sur
vey No. 1916. the placer claim of Charles
Wilson ct al.
GEORGE D. GREENE,
| Register
JOS. H. HARPER,
United States Claim Agent.
First publication August 14,1901.)
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19

owned by the corpora ton being full of
it. 1t has value ranging from 81 to
$50 per ton. BY the new process it can
be treated for IS per ton. AS there is
very little that will not yield more than
this it can be readily seen that if the
practical test now under way is as Sue
cessful as those to which the ore has
been recently subjected the hill city Will
again blossom as the rose. For the
purpose of the test the pans and settlers
in the mill are being used as vats. but II
at the end of thirty days the test rs,
proven successful a teaching plant Will
be built
The company has sent some of its ore
to Belgium to be tested, but it is just
possible that before returns are received
from it the problem of saving the gold
and silver together will have been
solved here.
The mines of the company are in first
class shape and operations in them can
be resumed on days notice. About 20
men have been working them under
lease right along and keeping the
stopes levels crosscutS and shafts in
good repair.
If the test of the oxiiized ore turns
out all right the Lexington company
will doubtless turn itself loose on the
vast reserves Of this class of ore winch
the levels of it's mines contain. Not
only the Alice and Lexington property
will be worked. but hundreds of other
claims in the vicinity of the Alice and
Lexington possessions owned by lndl-
viduals will be developed. as both cor
porations will buy vast quantity OF
custom ore.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
The Gold Hill Mine.

Messrs. H. !. Wilson. Frank Wilson,
and a number of their associates paid
a visit to the Gold Hill mine Sunday.
and after a careful exploration of the
mine under the guidance of Supt. O'Neil,
expressed themselves as highly pleased
with the condition of the mine. AS this
company has an option on the Bonanza
Fraction, which adioins the Gold Hill
on the east another big mining deal may
be expected at an early date.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19
Montana State School Of Mines

The second school year of this institu.
tion win open Sept. 10, 1901. important
additions are now being made to its
cabinets and equipment. Four year
courses are offered in mining and In
electrical engineering. Tuition free to
residents of Montana. For further in
formation cali on or address N. II. Leon.
ard. President, Butte, Montana.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-19

The first Tuesdays in August and Sep
tember, Northern Pacific railway will
sell round trip tickets to Buffalo with
sixty days limit at rates Of $3.50 and
$4,000 for the round trip. For further
information cali On or write.
w. H. MERRIMAN,
Genl Agt.. N. p. Ry.. cor. Park and Main
Ets, Butte.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-03-08
SAUNDERSVILLE.

Mrs. Abram Ashworth remains about
the same.
Mr.. Joseph Brochu has purchased two
very fine pigs this week.
Mr.. Charles Tucker had quite gang
assisting him In the logging business las,
week.
Mrs Eta Curtis has been away visit
ing friends In Foster and Gloucester re-
Gently.
Mr.. Gorton OF Plainfeld street, of the
annex, has four horse team drawing
logs to G. A. fuckers saw mill.
Mrs. Fred Green presented her hus.
band with a girl baby on "Wednesday OF
last week. They are both doing nicely.
II Is rumored that the electric cars will
be running between Rockland and North
Seituate as soon as the snow leaves the
tracks.
The Republicans OF this town have
commemorate move few corns by which
they are In hopes Of winning the game
at the spring elections.
Mr. George Capron, the village black
smith, met with very painful accident
Friday afternoon OF last week on Plain
field pike. lie was walking along with
MIR. Josiah Waterman, who had n -four
horse load Of wood containing between
three and four cords, and Mr.. Capron
being next to The load, his foot slipped on
piece OF ice 80 he went under the rear
wheel, cutting cash three inches In
length on his foot, and everybody IL sur
prised that II did not cut his foot entirely
of. lie walked home with two sticks,
substituted for crutches, as he was over
two miles from where the accident oc-
Cured. lie Is getting along very well,
although his foot Is swollen cry badly
and Is very painful.