The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

Product of Mines of the State
for 1906 Is Estimated at
S80,000,O0O.
BUTTE SHOWING SPLENDID
HELENA FIELD ALSO IN PROS
Porous CONDITION.

Helena. Mont. Dec. 2S.-The year
just closing marks a period of prosperi
ty i'm the mining industry of Montana
unprecedented, yet as bright as has
been the past, it is only harbinger of
what may be anticipated in the immedi-
ate future While definite figures are
not available, ii is known that precious
metals of greater aggregate value have
been won from thas earth in 1906 than
in any preceding year. and the many
new strikes reported indicate beyond
peradventure that greater yields are to
be expected The 1906 output is esti-
mated at sS0,OOO.OO
Naturally the Butte district has
attracted the greater attention, and
that field presents a system of develop
ment unpara lleIed. Not only have the
older and established properties shown
a greater yield through the discovery
of richer ore with depth, but many new
mines have been opened up and, broad
ly speaking, it may be stated that each
of these has the best of indications.
The first failure to discover remuner-
ative ore with reasonable development
is yet to be reported-a most remark
able condition indeed. The district has
broadened until now producing mines
are to be found almost every foot of
the crest OF the hill above Walkerville,
through the city and fiat to Columbia
Gardens with almost as great a cor
responding width To enumerate the
successful concerns which have entered
the Butte field during the year would
be most difficult task because of the
great number, yet the district is re-
markedly free from wildcat operators,
a statement based on actual operations
and returns. Great as has been Butte
In the pas, its future is far brighter.
In Lewis and Clarke.
And the same is true of the Lewis and
Clark county field, of which Helena is
the center. In the Bald Butte and Ed
wards & WoOlman properties near
NarysVille. exceedingly rich gold
strikes have been made, while the re-
juvenation of the Jay Gould seems
complete The resumption of opera
lions by the Pittsmont company -four
miles south of Helena has given en-
plOyment to a large number of men. All
of these concerns find it impossible tO
secure help az ,remunerative wages
Rimini district is awakening. and
many properties are being operated al
a good profit. The entrance of HeinZe
and Breen into that district. where they
have secured control of the porphyry
dixie means its development on an ex-
tensive scale. diamond drills having
proved the existence of large bodies OF
lcw-grade ore, which is to be treated
at mill TO be erected on the Blackfoot
river, the site for which has been pur-
chased and surveys made for the tram
way The Scratch Gravel district also
contains some very promising copper
properties.
Chouteau county is rapidly forging tC
the front as a gold producer, because of
rich discoveries in the Little Rockies
The record of one company operating
in that district is little less than re-
markable. IL that it has an average
monthly yield which practically equals
its capital stock of 100000. The Chou
teau county ores are highly suscepti-
BILE to the cyanide process. This coun.
" bids fair soon to become one of the
leading producers of the state.
Madison county, he scene Of the frs