The Butte inter mountain., 1902-02-24
HISTORY OF MINES
INTERESTING DATA CONCERNING
SOME LUTTE PROPERTIES.
SET FORTH IN WONDERLAND
The st. Lawrence Once Sold for $125
and a Third Interest in the
Great Anaconda Was
Given Away.

Inc NoTtHern racine railroad COM
pany has issued its 1902 edition of WON
derland," magnificent pamphlet con-
tanning 112 pages of illustrations and
valuable data concerning Montana and
other sections of the West. The Mon
tana portion of 1t contains photographs
OF Hon. Granville Stuart, James Stuart,
Bill Fairweather. Henry Edgar the
new state capitol building, the town of
Pioneer in 1852, Virginia City In the
sixties, Bannack in the same period a
street scene in Nevada, Alder Gulch on
July 4, 1865; Helena in 1860 and the main
street of the town in 1901; Diamond City
and Confederate gulch in the sixties,
Granite, Marysville, Butte in 1876, Elk
horn and various other views, many Of
which pertain to the mineral Industry
of the state.
The pamphlet also contains an inter-
esting article on the mines of Butte
ana the district surrounding 1t. 1t
| says:
What the Comstock lode, Virginia
City and Gold Hill were to the mining
world in the good old bonanza days,
| Butte and Anaconda now are with their
many deep mines and enormous smelt-
ers. 1t Is stated that within q circle
having Butte as its center and q dIame-
ter OF four miles, more mineral wealth
| Is produced annually than the entire
state of Colorado furnishes in the same
| length of time.
1t was some years after the first
| discoveries at and around Butte before
any inkling of the real value of the ore
deposits there dawned upon the world.
In its early days Butte passed through
the usual vicissitudes of a young min
Ing camp. 1t had It's periods of inGa-
| ton and depression, and 1t was not un-
til 1875 and 1876 that a permanent set
was given TO the current of mining
events that has run with increasing
force In one direction ever since.
Gen. Charles s. Warren, an old resi-
dent of Butte and Montana and one
thoroughly versed in It's affairs in an
historical address delivered in 1876
draws graphic picture of those days.
"Out of a long list of names of men to
whom Butte and Montana owe much,
William L. Farlin and William A. Clark
(now United States Senator Clark seem
to deserve special notice. Farlin, on
January !, 1876, relocated the Travonia
claim and then energetically developed
1t. Mr.. Warren says: A new era opened
to Butte. Never before in Montana had
such lode been discovered New dis
coveries and developments now followed
rapidly. Farlin soon began the erection
OF lO-stamp mill, but in December of
1875, his means failing, work was sus-
pended and gloom settled down. w. A.
Clark, a man of means, business ability
and metalurglcal knowledge, stepped
forward, finished the mill and all went
as merry as marriage bell. Mr.. Clark
has reaped a rich harvest from that
and his other business ventures in Mon
tana.
The Mines of Butte.
1T would be interesting to relate in
detail the story of some of the Butte
mines. Many Of the old mines or claims
are now combined under corporate own
ership and the individuality of the mine
is more or less lost in the company.
Some OF the mines that now are or have
been noted in their day are the Alice,
Lexington, st. Lawrence, Neversweat,
High Ore, Anaconda, Parrot, Mountain
View, Gagnon, Colusa-Parrot, Rarus,
Original, Green Mountain, Wake-Up-
Jim, Mountain Consolidated Orphan Girl,
Ramsdell-Parrot, East Colusa. West
Colusa, Buffalo, Diamond, Mountain
Chief, Bell, Speculator, Cora, Pennsyl-
vania, Silver BOW, Tramway, Blue Jay.
Gem, Washoe and Moose. In some of
these silver predominates and in others
copper. ~.
I'm 1866, when copper was Just begin
ming to attract attent'on M. A. Hickey,
who was placer rriSing for gold north
west of Butte, picked up some carbonate
Of copper on the Anaconda shaft hill.
He at once OWNED that copper lead
lay there, but he was searching for gold
and made no location.
Ten years flew by with their develop
ments, and, strangely enough, no one
else had taken up the ground and so,
in 1876, Hickey located the Anaconda,
while his brother staked the st. Law
renee, which adjoined 1t on the east.
Mr.. DAILY Did the Rest.
Il have named two men to whom Butte
Is under obligations, but will now name
third, the late Marcus Daily, to whom,
in late years, the city was more in
debted for its prosperity than to any one
man.
Mr.. DAILY, an old Comstock miner.
was superintendent of the Alice mine
when the Hckeys were working their
claims. He appeared to possess a keen
insight into the future of Butte. He
| bought the st. Lawrence for about $125
and M. A. Hickey gave him third in
| terest In the Anaconda for doing cer-
tain development work. Hickey also
gave friend Of his a third interest
and shortly afterwards sold his other
third to Mr. Daily for $4,000. This was
the genesis of the great Anaconda Cop
per Mining company. Mr.. J. b. Haggin
of San Francisco is supposed to have
been Mr. Daly's backer. Mr.. Daily
pushed development work on the Ana
conda and from time to time added other
| properties until the Anaconda company
became possessed of many valuable
mines. Mr.. DAILY soon saw the possi-
| bilities of copper mining and energetic
ally exploited that phase of the situation,
eventually building the town of Ana
conda, 26 miles west of Butte, where the
greatest plant in the world for the re-
duction OF copper ores was constructed,
and to which has just been added an
other mammoth plant of the same sort,