New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-04
NOTES FROM THE HINES.

Recent developments on the east side At Butte
Mont. have more than met the expectations OF
such experienced men as John c. Adams supeIin-
tendent OF the Boston & Montana and Horace v.
Winchell until recently chief geologtst OF the
Amagamated Copper Company, who have con-
tended all along that the veins which are being
explored in thar district are combinations OF the
ore shoots on Butte Hill The iac!osip7g rock Is
ton Of Butte. and the naturalization is strong
The property OF the Butte Exemption Copper
Company consisting OF four mineral lodes. the Col
adjoins the prihcipal shipping mines the east
side The BullW hacker, adjoining TINS properly On
the last few months blocked out more than $1,000
tons Of ore.
The Amazon Butte Company has just installed
go horsepower battery OF boilers and a hosting
engine capable OF sinking loo feet. A suitaols
compressor plant has been installed and all neces-
sary buildings erected. The bottom 81 the shaft
is row IN copper carbouates. Another shaft has
main shaft. and high grade copper ore IS now BE-
at this depth. Valuable ore bodies We're cut IN the
ssG2f shaft on the t3oa9 f;s ana M
Of pump 10 take care OF the water
Advices from Eucampment Wyo.. say that ths
sinking OF the shaft IN the Portland copper mins
almost every day uncovers fresh indications OF ez-
ceedng richness 81 the veins At depth o. S feet
stringer or small vein Of ore was cut. wnic1
looked so attractive that ttty pounds Were sent -
penver 20 be sampled Reports from these Jest :
copper, besides considerable gold
The Old Hundred Mining Company announces
that II has completed plans for increasing the ca
gacity OF the present milling plant The We.me,n-
stall the Hardinge Conical Pebble Mills. This viii
more than treble the capacity Of the plant
A NJ A Richardson. secretary OF the Colonial
Silver Mines Company. has received from Cobalt
announcement that the shaft on the b vein fndS
depth Of forty-six feet This is the Vein which
assay OF the ten inches shows 400 ounces 70 tie
ton The Colonial is now in shape TO become
shipper within a few days.
Ore has been struck at the seventy-foot level IN
the Big Pete shaft Of the Cobalt Central Mines
Company which runs $1,000 ounces TO the ton. THIS
IS one OF the greatest strikes Yet reported In ths
Cobalt Values Of $500 Ia the foot Of depth IN This
shaft being taken out at cost Of only SIS
foot for excavation
Announcement is made that the mills OF tbs
Greene God-SIver Company are treating about
two hundred tons OF ore day. This ore averages
about $50 ton and tho expense OF treating the
same from 50 70 IS a ton. leaving an averag91
allowances it Is estimated that the net returns
fully $4,000 a day.
Robert r. Armstrong. president OF the Casualty
Company Of America. and until recently Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury at Washington has Just
been elected q director OF the Douglas Copper
Company.
Last week the Nevada-Douglas Company encoun-
tered a body OF high grade ore IN its main deep
working tunnel. From the bottom OF the casting
copper shaft to the tunnel cross-cut has been
run distance OF twenty feet. all in ore. This
blocks out a body of at least twenty feet wide
and nifty feet deep that averages IN per cent cop
per-
Horace Greeley right when he said Go
West young man. go WestT" said Wayne Oar
lIngton the other day. why. I know one place
where there is $4,000 in the dump. and they are
getting il out, too. 1t is perfectly true that. with
the improved modern methods OF ore treatment a
huge dump of finely crushed waste, which meas
ures more than seventy thousand tons. has been
found to contain at least $4,000 in gold The
dump is that Of the Bagdad mine, in Camp ROch-
ester. San BernardinO County. Cal. and Is one
OF the California holdings or the basdaq- mas
Company. II consists of the tatl1ngs OF the orc
which was run through the oid-fashioned stamp
mill, in which at least S. ton was lost
The latest deal in the Wonder mining district
was announced last week when Patrick Elliott q
Camp. the GOdheld operators purchased the Co
lumbia group OF claims. adjoining the Alice prc'-
erty The consideration $1,000. The Columbia
group consists OF the Wisconsin, Coin Coin tx
tension, Amherst Lafayette and Columbia ms
cOVertes at Wonder because Of the rich surIseS
showing which is revealed by nearly every one %
its claims.