Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-05-13
General Mining Notes of Montana.

General Mining Notes of Montana.
A smelter is to be erected In the
Moose Lake district, near Anaconda,
says J. J. Mccartney, manager of the
Moose Lake Smelling company.
There will be at least three oil
companies sinking wells in the Kint-
la Lake fields, near Bolton, this sea-
son, says the nter-Mountain-Butte
Oil Co., Kintla Lake Oil Co., and the
Pacific Oil Co., the last named being
composed of Kalispell parties. The
Butte company have a well down to
the depth Of LOO feet.
The Bozeman Onyx Co., organized
last week at Bozeman. o. p. and c.
Chisholm and r. ID. Chisholm. This
company owns eighty acres of land
four miles north of Manhattan, OF
which is located a deposit of onyx.
and development work will begin this
month. A road will be built from
the property to Manhattan to facil-
itate hauling in machinery.
The Montana G.. NJ. Co.. operating
the Sunday mine at Royal, last week
shipped its regular weekly bar of
gold to the U. S. assay office at Hell
ms The bar was valued at $1,000
and was the result of a weeks run
of a five-ton Huntington mill.
The Golconda G.. NJ. Co. has been
incorporated by Chicago, ILL.,, and
Helena men, to work the Golconda
group in Jay Gould district, which ad-
joins the Jay Gould and Homestake
mines. There are 5000 feet of tun-
mel and laterals and a ten-stamp mill.
Development will be pushed with a
view of opersting the mill this sea-
son. The company will erect a cy-
anide plant.
w. Parker is preparing to resume
dredging operations at the head of
Alder gulch, near Marysville, May Is.
The reorganization of the Bear
gulch and Revenue properties at Jar
dine 1.-THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NJ. Co..
has started the Revenue 40-stamp
mill, and men have been put to work
in the mines. The cyanide plant be-
ing built in connection with the new
stamp mill is nearly ready to work
on the tailings from the mills.
f. A. Heinze is working two mines
at Butte, the Rarus and the Cora.
The former is said to be yielding 1000
tons of six per cent. copper ore dali
ly and the latter 500 tons per day.
The ore of the Cora runs four per
cent. copper and some silver. There
is also some silver in the ore of the
Rarus. With the exception Of the
first-class grade, all of the product
of the two mines is sent to the con-
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through the crushing and %concentrat-
ing machinery and then returned to
the smelter. The ore of the Rarus
averaged only three per cent in cop
per for some time, but the grade was
increased by adding some of the rich
err ore, a shoot of which each of the
veins contains.
The Emma mine at Butte has clos
ed down for the present.
The Bear Tooth Coal Co. has been
incorporated by Red Lodge men to
exploit the coal measures near Red
Lodge, which the company has leased.
Butte advices report the Montana
Coal & Coke Co., near Belt, Is oper-
ating 240 ovens; that its receipts have
increased from $500 to $1,000 per day.
The washer is working satisfactorily
and the company has an ample sup
ply Of water.
OIL is reported rs miles from Havre
by j. c. Griffin.
l.. Eaves, OF Butte, who has a lease
and bond on the Southern Cross mine,
near Georgetown, says he is putting
in machinery. The Southern Cross is
owned principally by H. L. Frank, Of
Butte.
Mammoth Will Start Again.
f. G. Crowell, OF Atchison, Kan,
and Tully Scott, Of Cripple Creek,
Colo, have returned to their respect
i've homes after having spent a week
in this vicinity re-adjusting the af-
fairs of the Mammoth group mine.
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