The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-27
1t has ACStetter'S
No - Stomach
Equal Bitters

chant of Houghton and s. Howard Bra
dy, together with the president, vice
president and secretary.
The property bonded consists of sew
enteen claims, aggregating 211 acres.
the owners being Owen Burns and Z. A.
Wetmore. Ore has been extracted from
the Empire. Smithville ana Bell Boy
veins. but the most work has been done
on the .:sire. on which tunnels have
been run to a depth of 400 feet. The
lowest tunnel cuts the Empire vein. in
100 feet and the Whippoorwill vein in
1000 feet. Mr. Brady, who is at The
Grandon. after making visit to the
mine. says that the veins are very
strong. especially the Empire, which is
IL feet wide in places and averages six
feet. From this level the ore bodies
have been mined to the surface with big
Slopes, and all the ore taken out ex-
cept some low grade ore. The Bell Boy
has been opened by shaft. but this is
fun Of water. so that Mr.. Brady has not
been able to learn it's depth The mine
has a 6o-stamp mill, a hoist on the Bell
Boy, which is mile south Of the En-
pire, and two air compressors.
I'VE shall have to so in and open
new ore bodies and shall go in for
to the Record. I'VE shall put in our
money to prove its value, and if we find
good ore bodies shall buy the mine. Our
company is composed Of Lake Superior
mining men, who expect to put in lot
Of money and time before we take any
money out. We will open up the mine
SO that there will not be year when
we will not find as much ore blocked out
ahead of US as we had when starting
the mill. l do not know what process
we shall use; it may be cyanide or 1t
may be cyanide and amalgamation COM
bined. Some of the low grade ore left
In the upper levels may pay with cy-
anide but that will have to be determin-
ed by tests. We shall sink shaft
from the tunnel on the Empire vein and
develop new ore bodies
1T is an astonishing thing to me that.
Notwithstanding the enormous gold pro-
ductiOn Of this county, which l UNDER
stand has been upward of $4,000, 900, the
development on the great gold bet at
Marysville is so extremely limited. am
told that there are only three shafts In
this county below a depth of 600 feet,
and the number that have been sunk to
even 500 feet can be counted on the FIN
gers of both hands.
I'VE do things differently down i'll
Michigan. The Michigan mine. of which
l was assistant superintendent. has yet
no mill built on it. and we have three
shafts-one 1900 feet, another 900 feet
and another 500 feet-and over three
miles of workings, and we have not even
considered the erection of mill. 1t is
the fashion down In our country to
spend what would seem to you fabulous
sums in the development of the prop
erty before we even expect to take out
any or. We sink shafts mile deep and
run tunnels and open up veins for sew
eral miles before a mine is thought to
be sufficiently developed to warrant a
mill. We must have several hundred
thousand tons of ore in sight before we
even consider a MILL"
The new company has no Interest in
the cyanide plant which is being erected
to treat the tailings of the Empire. inns
is owned by different company. work
ing under a separate contract with the
owners Of the mine.