The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-05-29
MORE ACTIVITY THAN EVER
"Little Rockies" Scene Of An Un'
paraiieled Boom This Season
Prospects are Good.

Helena.-More mining will be car
ried on in the Little Rockies in
Blaine county this summer than ever
before, according to mine operators
of that region, who make their head
quarters in Helena.
l.. A. McCandless, superintendent of
the noted August mine, has been pur-
chasing machinery and equipment and
announces that his company will start
Immediately erecting a new 200-ton
cyanide mill, and expects to have it in
operation in August. The mine has
been closed three months because the
old plant was not saving the values
that it should. The company has Co.,
600 tons OF tailings on the dump that
will be treated in the new mill and in
addition there are between 100000 and
100000 tons of splendid ore already
blocked out and will be treated SO
soon as the new mill is in operation.
The Ruby Gnlch, one of the best
producing gold mines in the state, in
the same district, is affording en-
ployment to between seventy and
eighty men and is milling about 300
tons of ore a day. Charles Whitcomb,
one Of the pioneers of that district, is
developing the Beaver Creek mine,
and is building a 200-ton mill which
will be finished about July L. He
has crew of forty men and has been
developing the property the last three
years. 1t is steam shovel PROPOSE
tion and the ore body is rich as we'll
as large.
The Little Rockies district is rec
ognized as one of the best gold dis
tricts in Montana, and millions of dol
lars have been taken from it's mines.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Springhil Mining company was
held in Helena this week and the
board Of directors was authorized to
sell the company's property, which
is five miles south of Helena. The
matter of re-opening the mine and ex-
| tending the drifts and sinking an ad-
| ditional 400 or 500 feet was also dis
; cussed, but no definite action was TAX
| en-. This mine is looked upon as a
splendid gold property and large
| companies have endeavored to pur.
chase it, but the price asked by W.
G.. Conrad and others was considered
eXorbitant 1t is understood that Mr.
Conrad has always held out for 81 !,
100000, and once refused all offer OF
100000.
A compressor, receiver and machine
Iyi11 rol1n INV hc
Copper-Silver Montana Mining com
pany, operating in the Scratch Crave
district near Helena, and will be in
stalled immediately
A contract has been let by the own
ers of the Big Dick property in the
| Niger Hill district near Elliston tC
extend the tunnel a distance OF 1,O0(
feet.
In conformity with their belief that
the real bed of gold of Alder gulcl
lies beneath a subsurface, members
of the California company who have
| taken a bond on nearly Thousand
acres of ground near Virginia City, be
gan operations in earnest this weel
by assembling monster Star drill
! which has sinking capacity of 500
to 1000 feet and which is considerI.
ample to explore the ancient channe
at it's greatest depth from the surface
The machine cuts hole seven inches
in circumference. The first gold foun(
| in Montana was discovered in Aide
gulch which is now known as Vir
ginia City, and the amount since eX
tracted ranges upwards OF $50,000,000