The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-15

Wickes district, twenty miles south Of Helena.
TWO Of these claims will be developed by ~
the exact strata. ,MeGabe believes, Enough
after going through the iron cap which exist.
on the surface and attaining depth Of from IN
800 to 500 feet, large copper bodies VIII oe
The Monitor Richmond Company, which
owns valuabl copper deposits near saltesr,
the recently discovered mineral district IN
Mssoula county, is preparing toerect s?3t
ono smelter for the treatment CT its ores. m
OF sh bpgpss has IS
The ore runs all the way from TO 80 per cent
In the red metal.
A seven-foot vein with pay streak OF , gold
Company, operating near Ferguson, leifer-
pany has decided to sink shaft Is feet
The Seattle and Boston Mining Company.
which is behind The MGGntH I,., he sniirnod
tracks T'1p" Through the town o Basin And con;
struction work will now begin THIS roau
will connect 4 dozen or more mining districts
which have been kept out Of the dividend !ist
by the lack OF TRANSPORTATION facilities imr
parent company has taken n oyer s 7ev cInl
tracts for the product Of others.
The New York syndicate which recently
BANDS eGnnsd tor HPp S He onn Stone
made and will take up the bond and develop
lead iav k has already been cnt whca shows from
IL to 10 per cent. copper; The amount OF the
bond was not made, public, but the cash pny-
M Mo1,anss Mining COMPANY 2 ps;nd l%i, ted
county. The lead Is thirty-four feet wide.
Tn sss me sse qne snns o tie
4 Jones group is a parallel vein two feet wide,
the ore assaying $50 ton in gold
SAN Francisco. June EIGHTY carloads
Shasta ASIA county, ior the Sortherl Cai,iorna
nish the BalnkIala and other Big, mines with
electric power. the Balaklala alone taxing
In the Arondo mines in Southern lnyeo
county six feet OF good ore has been strTG tk
ore body is three feet wide and is widening
as the shaft goes down Ore from 100 tons
AH Tie Cecil ii Rhodes Gold Mining Company
recently miled eighty tons Of ore that , aver
sked hs ss Death to" N Nney activity is reported
Fresno Guich is now one Of the best pro-
ducins camps In Shasta county Inc Brown
So s go last ycsf and the lessees have Just
received SCI 900 from los tons Of ore. This
with 10000 cleaned up last fall, will make
u
A rich strike was made last week in the
West Point and Exchange Consolidated mines
at Monte Cristo. Nevada county. The front
ground had been worked out in early days
and proved enormously rich. tunnel was
nm for 1000 feet, and on 1 Tuesday, isst pay
six feet thick on bedrock. and above this is a
layer Of lava gravel which prospects well,
From a curload Of blue gravel three pans
worked out tl2 In course gold;
The first sixty days run OF hydraulicking
in the Big Butte Mine. near Chico. showed
such large returns that dividend will be de-
cclared: The company has Worked the mine
The gravel channel in this mine is from, 800
many places IL is rs feet deep. The retur Ds
are 40 far above expectations that the COM
pany will double its present hydraulic plant
LAKE. REGION IRON MINES.
Duluth. MINI. June II. Since February,
1902. the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company has
been sinking q shaft M it's now famous Mas
property at Npgnunee. This shaft has pre-
scented obstacles heretofore unknown to mine
managers, and II has now reached ledge.
100 feet down. md is being securely bottomed.