The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-01
NEWS OF THE MINING CAMPS.
ATLIN DISTRICT or ALASKA
SHOOTING coon RETURNS.
Large New Samplins Plant for the Butte
Copper District-Rtch Ore Coming
Out OF the TOnOpah Gold Field-.Sena.
tor Clark Purchases Idaho Gold Mine.

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| OF Pine Greek, Atln district is assuming inn
portance because of n big find in claims owned
By Stuckey & Co. This property is yielding
from 81 to So to the bucket. and in several in
stances buckets yielding double that amount
have been taken out. Tho pay is found AT
depth Of forty feet. Several hydraulic
properties in this district are now in active
! operation yielding good returns and others
are preparing to start up. Atlins yield
this season promises to exceed anything
in its history, and will probably amount to
II million.
In tho old Forty-nle district active worl;
has been carried OH all winter and spring along
all the wcl-known creeks. and great many
dumps are now being suiced The gold in
this district Is very coarS" and easily saved.
1t is worth 8? an ounce more than the klon-
dixie gold. \ number of miners abandoned
their diggings for the Tanana. but enough
we're lett TO attend to the spri ny cleanup.
At Eag gle Rampant and Circle the same con =
ditons exist.
All the leading operators in Nome district
who have been spending the winter in the
States are now beading for that country
and all express the opinion that this WIN prove
the best season ever experienced in tuat
wonderful section. ia" steamers are now
engaged in booking passengers for Nome
and the companies engaged in TRANSPORT
tatiOn estimate that there viii be from ,oaD
TO 400 Passengers for Nome and uooNin,
locomotives and rails tor twenty-tv" mics
OF railroad. Soloman to council. 1t is pro-
pos III to co.nnetc tiS lin" tni. season.
enough money naving Deen secured to
acCoup li>li tuis work,
Alen from Buffalo. y. Y. who own .,,ol'
acres OF oil land in Kayak district are send
ing out this week a crew OF Pennsylvania
drlllrrs who have had many years expert
rnce. The samr person, are also se9tIns
III n London expert nn,ued Burt. to cN snIna
and report on their holdings. IL Is estl
mated That over on" thopsa nj men are now IN
the Alaska oil fields and that fully five thou-
sand will b" on the ground by midsummer.
h" merits OF this district are just begin
ming to be appreciated
lsla nd was examined last week by Charles
ID. Lane OF san Francisco with view To
purchase. This property is reported among
eastern Alaska
BUTTE. Mon. May 25.As the Supreme
Court has decided that the so-cal!cd "fuir
trial" law which had been passed IN tn.
interest Of the tmalsainated Coppcr Com
tlonal, II mum Der OF suits between the ~"
factions, pending III the Dstric, Court at
Butte, are, to ne disposed of. Judg" William
Clancy. who has been accused of being I'M
friendly to the AmnlGamated company, has
set Ave OF the big suits for trial during the
week OF June seventy or more mining
suits between flen2e and the lmalranlai-d
compa mes are pending IN the Butt courts.
dollars in damages AMI property riga,s.
Butt. wilt soon have one at the largest
saIplnE plants in He "Hsa, Th% TnE,or
OF Denver. col. is building the Butt" rlnt.
This contrary has -amplin1 works ~ pen
Yer, Salt Lake. Victor, aspen and t'oitll"ld.
Cal. Ashort time ago a, representativ" "l tn"
company was in Butte. looking over the i!rld.
and h" was 80 well pleased wtr ',lr outlook
to be 3nNin feet. built Of fra med Oregon TIM
Der. and 81 feet in height TO the top Of III" wall
and laboratory loxs1 feet, Of brick, and an
Office building of brick, 3,N?a feet. The plant
Will contain tx sampltns machines hin one .
will reduce the ore TO the size OF one-uuurt"r
Of an inch The plan, viii have CAPACITY
Of 80 tons u day and vii! cost between S5',oiA
There is at present only one sampler in
buy y'a any ore offered ior sale and. ~ all The
COUNTIES are producing and sending or" to
other places to be sampled, the new c3pmpsny
1t also expects to get Idaho ore. ~ there is
no particular market for the product OF the
M rermilon Placer Mining Compony
pirGhassd few mo, months "go, ian i nrrss
S" "SsT S HH' p "r a Go
puny has been developing the claims in prep
aration for this sen.one work TUNE OF
rock. and a pine line IA mile long has :hcen
laid which is graduated ,frnn ten inches in
tunnel has disclosed some very rich gravel,
which is now being worked. and successful
season is expected.
vi
ing in Browns gnlch. fifteen miles north Of
Butte, has struck some remarkahle ore in
he Sailors Dream. Il clai m recently pur-
chused by the company. the sailors Dream
has been gold producer for several years
hut the ore recently discovered i far beyond
any that has ever been taken from the mine
before. One sample gave return of S2b55o
went $40 in gold and II ounces in silver.
while the samples Of the ore that did not look
to the miners very rich guve returns Of $3.50
in gold and !, ounces in silver. While driv-
ing crOssCut from the tunnel to lntersect
the big vein the ore body WAS struck at 4
distance OF lo7 feet from the tunnel The
vein has been punctured four feet and it is
twenty feet through.
The Moose head Lake district is being de,
for a number of years. \ number OF Ana
conda men have organized the Moosehead
Lake Mining Company and have uncovered
a seven-foot vein Of solid quartz. some of
which shows free gold. The estimated depth
Of this vein from the surface is 300 feet, The
whole mountain in this vicinity s covered
with very rich float, bu! no, intelligent EFFORT
The Boston and Seattle Mining Company
has secured lease and bond on the Peerless
Jennie ella inns on Jack Creek, in Jefferson
county. and IL is the intention of the company
to work not only the mine. hut the dumps.
The latter are believed to contain good pay
ore. The Peerless Jennie has been great
producer of high grade ore. much or the prod
uct yielding as mu'h as 81 900 ton.
A new smeltcr is 20 be built nv the Cataract
Mining Company, operating group Of claims
near Basin. with capacity Of 2n tons day.
large force OF mon have been working on
he mines during the last two years. More |
than 200 feet of development work has been