Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-04-05
AMONG THE MINERS
Devoted to the Large and Small News Of the Timing
Camps Of Fergus County. - - - - 81

been closed up. John J, Billiard.
whose ground adjoins the Barnes
King, has bonded the prcVerty to q
st. Paul syndicate for &1O,3O0, on
which the first payment has been
made. The contract calls for 5000
feet OF drill work, which is to be
done by the same parties that did
the drilling on the Barnes-King, and
this work is to begin in about ten
days. II the st. Paul men find the
ore, and they are quite confident of
doing SO, they are to put up $4,000
mill. Mr.. Billiard, who returned from
the east Monday night, reserves q
large interest in the enterprise.
G. r. futile, secretary and manag-
er of the business of the New World
Smelling company and the Buffalo.
Montana company, has informed the
Livingston Post by letter from Cleve-
land, Ohio, that his companies intend
to build four smelters in Montana
this year. one of which will be locat-
ed near Basin. He says: I'VE have
completed arrangements for four
smelters-one for western Montana,
and three for New World City-all to
be blown in this year. That for west
ern Montana is a 150-ton sulphide.
Those for New World City are one
150-ton sulphide, one 150-ton regular
furnace of the Great Falls type and
one 1O0-ton electrolysis plating mill
that produces the bullion from the ore.
All the New World City plants, com.
bining 400 tons daily capacity, will be
blown in by October 1, and one of
them early in September.
Il have in the last twv months fully
financed for all the above. All the
plants in New World City are being
erected under the auspices of the New
World Smelling company; that for
Western Montana, near Basin, is un.
der the auspices of the Buffalo Mon.
tana company"
Several Black Hills men recently
went to the new mining districts in
Nevada in the vicinity of Tonopah
and Bull Frog. Letters have been re.
ceived from them and they advise all
Black Hills citizens to stay at home.
The last letter received was from a
prominent Deadwood man who states
that every boarding house is filled to
overlooking and that high prices are
being charged for beds and meals.
Goldfield has no pay roll at present.
and 1t will be several months, the let
ter says, before there will be any work
for the thousands that are coming
into the camp. Everything in the
Goldfeld district is staked for miles
around, and town lots with rs foot
front are selling for $4,000 each. The
camp will be dead until the railroad
arrives, when there may be some ship
ments of ore to the outside shelters.
While there is a world of develop
ing and undeveloped mineral wealth
in other parts Of Montana, Butte re-
mains the center of the great mining
district of the state. In fact, with be.
tween nine and ten thousand men en-
ployed in and about the mines. a
monthly pay roll of nearly million
and half dollars and an output OF
between three and four hundred thous
and tons a month, Butte is in class
by itself. Smelling ranks with min
ing in Montana, and in both, notable
progress was made in 1904. The i'm.
provements at the Great Washoe
smelter in Anaconda will make pos
sible the profitable treatment of low.
er grades of ore than have hitherto
been worked. Development in the
lower workings of the mines has been
extensive as shown in the following
table from the annual report of John
J. Berry, the deputy state inspector
of mines. giving the amount Of shaft
sinking in the Butte district in 1904
and the depth of the shafts to date:
Name of mine. Feet sunk. Present