Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-06-24
General Mining News.

The Gerber mine at Sand Coulee
is making preparations to increase its
production of coal, for which II finds
a market with the Boston & Montana
smelters at Great Falls. The manage
ment has built a boiler house at the
entrance of the mine and is putting
in four 80 H. p. boilers, n $50 H. p.
engine, one IL II. P. engine. n "a
inch compressor. six new drills, six
coal cutters and two pumps. They
expect to have the plant In operation
next week. With this machinery they
expect to turn out 700 tons Of coal n
day.
l.. Myers, j. T. Morrow and R. Cooper,
of Great Falls; o. p. Chisholm, of
Bohemian, and F. Truchot, ]. W. Shields
and ]. G. Bair, of Choteau, have filed
placer location notices on 20S0 acres
Of iron bearing lands on the Ralston
buttes, 10 miles northwest Of Choteau.
The ore is magnetic iron and lies In
a bed Of from 2 to IL feet thick. The
properties have been but slightly de.
veloped as yet.
Operations at the Snowshoe mine,
near Libby, have resumed, after be-
ing idle several months. Last year
the company sunk a shaft from the
lowest tunnel $50 feet. Little drifting
has been done from this shaft before
doing any nor sinking.
The Pacific mine, near Virginia
City, has twenty-five men on the pay
roll, and the mill started in last week
on a one-shift run, but a night shift
will be put on as soon as the warm
weather starts more water. Men will
be put on also at the Easton.
w. Snidow and p. McGovern, who
have a lease on the Mapleton mine al
Adobetown, report making a 200-ton
shipment last week of ore assayine
$40.
The Tarbox lead-silver group. three
miles up Packer creek, near Saltese
says r. Daxon. of Wallace. president
and manager, has twenty-five men al
work. The company has a heavy
hosting plant. The men are sinking
the main shaft, now down 800 feet
to the 450-foot level, where a cross
cut will be run to the lead rs feet
Previous to sinking the company was
drifting on the lead, both east and
west from the 225-foot level. Each
drift has been run 200 feet and in con
centrating ore.
The Motor Richmond group, s miles
up Silver creek, south of Saltese, re
port work progressing. The Richmond
has been developed by three shafts
each 500 feet apart, and on the ledge
which carries copper-gold running IL
per cent. copper and SIS gold. Drifts
have been run on the lead from the
2O0-foot level. The Monitor group Of
ten claims. adjoining the Richmond
carries similar ore. Shipments have
been made. There is a 1+foot veir
of sulphide ore. At present the groups
are held under bond by the Bite
Root G. M. Co., some. of the principals
being s. s. Secor and l.. G.. Beebe, o.
Winnebago, Mimi. and H. WEIGH
State Coal Mining Inspector of Mon
tana. Negotiations are pending fol
building a $3.50, 900 smelter at Saltest
this summer, being backed by those
interested in the Monitor Richmond
group. There are enough propertie.
in this district to keep the reduction
works supplied. When the works ar
completed, the Monitor-Richmond Co.
will build an aerial tram to the smell
ter, a distance Of five miles, gettint
the ore to the works for soc per ton
while it costs $3.50 to haul 1t by wag
on.
The mines of the Alice M. Co. a
VAUDEVILLE are to be equipped will
q plant to reduce its argentiferou'
zinc ore and zinc tailings into com
mercial form, says Manager Quint a
Butte. The parties interested are con