The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
ARTHUR BUCkBEE
GETS GOLD MINE
Salt Lake Operator and Miner
Lands a Fine Property
in Montana.
BIG FORTUNE IN SIGHT
MONTREAL OPERATORS AssoCI-
ATED WITH HIM.
BIG FORTUNE IN SIGHT

Arthur Buckbee, the well-known min
ing and mill expert and mining operator
OF this city, is down from Butte where,
after couple of months Of hard work,
he has succeeded In landing one of the
most eligible and favorably located gold
propositions in the state of Montana. Mr..
Buckbee has been acting for himself ana
Montreal operators with whom he has
been associated for the past six years
and he expresses himself as being highly
pleased as the result of his labOrs.
The property consists of the well known
Sunlight group of claims and the Ohio or
Mineral Hill group, adjoining, and which,
including millSites, etc, embraces more
than LOO acres of ground. The mines are
located about three miles north of White
hall, on the Butte and Galatin railroad
the distance from the railroad line being
only two miles. One and one-half miles
from the mines. on the north fork of JEFF
ferSOn river, is located the milling plant
that goes with the Sunlight property
This is to be remOdeled at once to in
clude the cyanide process and the produc-
ton of gold, Mr.. Buckbee states, will be-
gin within ninety days.
The property is one that is already pref
" well developed, but for several years
nothing but the high-grade ores have been
touched, as the proposition was worked
by leasers exclusively. Several years ago
George II. Robinson made a most favora-
BILE report upon the property, while at a
later date Bernard Mcdonald, of Butte
anu OIleF Weil-kuOWn engineers pdSSeU
faYOTably upon the mines, which finally
passed into possession of the Searles COM
pany. of New York, which paid S165O0O of
the $4,000 purchase price, worked it
awhile at a good profit and then failed
TO carry out the terms of the agreement
made and allowed it to again revert TO its
owners, John 3. Welcome, Eugene Ring
and A. J. Mckay, who closed the deal
with Mr.. Buckbee on the first of the
present month.
The properties are all patented and Mr.
Buckbee's thorough examination Of the
mines leaves no doubt in his mind that
the ground can be made to yield handsome
returns with comparatively little work and
expenditure of money.
At any rate, he and his associates have
decided TO go ahead and the campaign of
development at the mines and the remOd-
cling of the mill has already been under
taken by Mr.. BuCkbee, who states that,
within a short time, he will be treating ore
that Will run from 81 to S12 to the ton in
gold. without counting at all any of the
high-grade ore which must result from the
continued development of the ground. At
depth, Mr.. Buckbee expects, when the
sulphide zone has been penetrated, cop
per wall play an important part in the
product of the properties, but before that
zone is reached there is a fortune to be
cleaned up from the handling of the great
masses of gold ore
1t is understood that Mr.. Buckbee has
his eye on something in this region, but he
was not willing TO talk about il yester-
day. During the past five or six years
Mr.. Buckbee has been in Salt Lake but
little, though this city is his home and
every mining operator and miner who has
been here for any length of time knows
and is known by him.