The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-27

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cables and castings furnished by tn
Trenton Iron company exceeds $500
pounds. 1t is suspended from Is tower,
varying in height from IA to Sc feet az
cording to the grade over which It passe
and every care has been taken in Il
| construction to insure its permanent
| and usefulness.
| The tramway Is supplied with tw,
cables. known as the track and gri
| cables. The track cable is q lock win
cable is inches in diameter. on whic
| the weight of the loaded buckets res
| as they descend from the loading static
at the mine to the mill terminal.
Forty-Five Buckets In Line.
The return track cable is also loc1
wire cable seven-eighths Of an inch 4
diameter ana on 1t rests the weight q
the empty buckets as they pass bael
| from the mill to the mine. These tw,
| cables rest on arms reaching from op
! posite sides of the tops of the towers
The ore is carried in rs buckets place,
along the lire at intervals of from tw)
to three hundred feet. each bucket hold
ing six cubic feet or about 500 pound
Of ore. The buckets are filed from
chutes at the loading station. passed bj
hand to the track cable. and by patent
attachment are gripped to the traction
cable. which is an endless cable revolv.
ing around two great wheels, one Of
which Is at each terminal. This cable
Is 10000 feet in length and as it carries
no weight is but f1ve-eighths Of an inch
in diameter. 1t is suspended on arms that
reach from the sides of the towers about
four feet from the top. In obedience II
the laws or gravttation the tramway i
self-operating. as the loading station Il
the mine has an elevation of CO., fet
above the mill terminal, and the weight
of the defending laden buckets furnishes
power for the return Of the empty
ones on the return cable. The speed at
which the tramway is intended to run
is $50 feet per minute, but this may be
regulated at the loading station by a
brake which operates on the big wheel
around which the traction cable passes.
Round arp In Forty Minutes.
At the intended rate Of speed bucket
will make the entire round trip from the
loading station and return in about 70
minutes. No delay is necessary either
in loading or emptying the buckets.
The tramway has a guarantee carrying
capacity Of Is tons per hour, or COO TONS
daily. Mr.. G. A. Case, who comes d.
rectly from the Trenton Iron works 1t
Trenton. has superintended the build
ing OF the tramway for the Montana
Hardware company. and the substaM-
tial character Of the work is a strong
testimonial as to his experience in that
line. The tramway is complete in all
but a few minor details. and as quickly
as the loading and terminal stations are
finished 1t will be ready to begin car
rying ore.
Much Work Done.
A large amount of work has been ex-
ecuted in the New Year mines the past
is months and the management hopes
by the latter part Of December to have
the work in such shape that the extrac-
ton of ore may begin. The mine is de-
veloped by four tunnels, known re-
spectively as "a" B." &c" and ID"
tunnels or these 3D. tunnel, which
laps the hill 400 feet below the summit.
is the main tunnel and all ores extracted
will be taken through it. The other
three tunnels. which are further up the
mountain, were driven to develop the
ore body and in all of them ore of as
good a grade has been exposed. In "B"
tunnel, which has penetrated the hill to
a depth of 460 feet. an ore body 1870 feet
lnlck mas DooN cTOSSCuI.
ID" tunnel has been driven 1859 feet
and has several hundred feet of cross
cuts, drifts up-raises and other pros
pecting work. Some very good cyanide
ore was recently encountered in a cross
cut about 500 feet from the main tunnel
on this level. An up-raise to connect
d. with the other tunnels is now in
progress and will be completed within
% do Nininp a tho Now Vqov 10 all
done by machines and a fine eight drh
Ingersoll-Sargent compressor located al
the mill furnishes power for the foul
"sluggers" that are kept going con.
stantly at the mine. The ore supply a.
now known will furnish the mill for 4
least three years and there is every reA
son to believe that the ore bodies of tn
New Year will prove as extensive q
those of any properties in the judith
range. The ore is typical ore TO
cyanidation as several hundred ton.
treated by that process in an expert
mental plant which was first erecte'
on the property on the site occupied b,
the present mill. In both value and ap
pearance it is much the same as tn
other cyanide ores Of the district, rang
ing from 81 to $40 per ton and being O
| the same sedimentary structure oh
served in all the cyanide ores of this re
| gion.
A Competent Manager.
! The management of the entire Me-
Year properties for the past Is month
has been in the hands of Joseph Mere
dith, an experienced miner, who, IL
many years, operated in the mines I
Rico, Silverton and other Colorad
camps. Mr.. Meredith is best known fl
his progressiveness in mining method
and 1t Is under his efficient guidan'
that all of the notable improvements {
the New Year properties have been e
fected. The present outlook Is TIL
everything will be in readiness for Il
mill to commence grinding ore with Il
beginning Of the coming year, and Il
New Year properties will become ir
portant factors toward sustaining Fe
gus county's claim Of being the bann
gold producing county in the state
1902.
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