Mohave County miner., 1914-12-05
kory of Butte and Great Copper Camp Development.

led in Butte. As these prospectors E i4 search of gold, the presence of Der was deplored. Free milling carrying gold and silver, were the ones desired, as reduction facilities k confined to the arastra, which easily constructed and cheaply lated. Several of these arastras E built during the infancy of the ID. One was built on the north side lark canyon by George Loefiier and bod close to the Monitor tunnel. ther was built on Yankee Doodle |k about one mile north of Meader- by Egbert Smith, who was ap- ted postmaster of Butte in the lat seventies. Joseph Suprenault built ! her on Blacktail creek and this was ! in reducing the ores from the b ore mine, of which MT. Supren- was the owner. The owners of the non mine built an arastra at Rocker he strength of high grade gold bvery on the south side of Silver
 creek about half mile from the ent site of Rocker. The ore was
 in gold and silver and carried a
 percentage of copper. This aras- recovered aDout half the silver es.
 1876 the Dexter mill was con- ed by W. A. Clark. The first bar lver from the Butte mines was pro- $d in this mill. In the Dexter mill wet crushing process was used in . ting the free silver ores, and some
 later roasting plant was added ecover the values from the semi
 ores.
 bring the year 1876 the Centennial
 was built and in the following year GUS Daly built the first Alice mill ? stamps for the Walker Brothers alt Lake. Then followed the build
 f several other mills, including the per mill above Meaderville, the er Bow mill, southwest of the Rarus P, the old Lexington mill, at the er of Broadway and Arizona street Agnon mill at the Agnon mine the derbush & Young mlll, west of Butte and the Gassett & Bedding at Silver Bow.
 puck succession followed the ling of the new ALce mil, the k Moulton mni and the new Lex bn mil.
 |e nrst concenCrator in the Butte ict for the trea,menC of copper
 Was DullC during Cne early seven hU Meddervilie and commonly was Fn as the LiquldaLor cUncentrator.
 process of smelCing was introduced
 e butte camp In loI9.
 tLe Is situated on the Pacific slope
 e main range of the Rocky noun
 It IS DuiiL on the western DOT
 ot a granite upAfC which extends
 lies in norCneasterly directIon
 mptar hoe yu1,tp of oroI,t iD r,,Iac
 ugnoat thls massive wall of gran
 Nnlcn oy volcano aclOn has ueen Fo upward rom great depCn
 pgn Lne seu.nenLary IurmaClon
 h iOrn.eiy covered LAe surIac-,
 bow oe seen rne ouJcrOp oI m..II4-
 ble velns, indicating Jne vAis.ence
 told mineral values Lo Je uClllleu
 ges u come adulng to Lue WealLn
 C naIlon.
 e vein system IS uniform in its
 e and ulp, the man tracCurlng Mbg a nurtneasLerly ana southwest ecourse, with a alp to the south. Imam fractures are aOouC a nlle at and are interpaced by easterly awesJerly fractures, all or them ping mineral values or greater Ur le1egree.
 6 interpreting fractures or veins viln w.dtn from d few lncnes up to sSal hundred IeeC.
 6 Anaconda h.ll has produced about }, ,O00, UyOS In gold, silver ana copper tug the past 50 years and about ,5O0, 0JU$ mas been paid to stock lors Tn var!ous operating corpora Id during that tune. tne under srnd wealth of the camp has scarcely ,e touched and the record of the past nsbe taken as an indeX or what the