Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-10-07
TO REJUVElAT'E
OLD WORKINGS
Local Company Takes Over
Boss & AtIantus and Hartley
Group of Neihart Mines.

After having developed properties
under their control for about two years
while they have been negotiating to ger
control Of adjoining properties fhe
Neihart Consolidated Silver Mining COM
pany has just organized and viii at once
start aggressively to operate properties
now held by it on the Neihart hill. in
Guiding IN all seven properties and
certain rights and interests IN other
claims. The Neihart Consolidated Silver
Mining company is owned and differed
by Great Falls people who have the
faith in the proposition that is backed
by real money and they believe they have
property that will warrant substantial
and persistent effort which will shortly
mean payroll of from Il to 25~men in
getting out ore from their mines The
company directors are Dan Tracy, w
A. Brown, T.. NJ. Mcdonnell, T. r. Van
de Putte, and John E. Dawson. Mr.
Tracy IS president, Mr.. Dawson vice
president, Mr.. Brown treasurer and Mr..
Mcdonnell secretary.
The first holding of this company in
Guided the two claims of the old Boss
y Atlantus company to which they have
now added the Hartley mine, declared
to be one of the richest silver properties
on Neihart hill. The Hartley was worked
! profitably back in the days of cheap
! silver when something near a half mil
hon dollars was taken from the mine
and then it was abandoned. 1t has been
getting control Of this property owned
i by William Mueller that has DELAYED
real activities by the Neihart Consolidat-
ed Silver Mining company as the Hartley
offered special advantages I'd the com
pany in handling its other properties
which include the Iona. the Katie. the
Mt Maria and the Tramp with the two
claims of the Boss & Atlantus making
group of seven. There are as stated,
rights il certain other claims held by
this company.
Work of unwatering the Hartley will
be started at once, man having been
sent TO the mine to arrange details to
| complete that work and as soon as. that
has been done taking out ore will be
started The Hartley is the leading
silver producing mine of the group and
one of the foremost if not the best
silver producer on the Neihart hill.
When the silver market was dull and
| inactive, this mine turned out 100 cars
of ore that averaged S1,7O0 in value
| to the car and was getting into the best
leads found there when it was abandon
| ed because Of the 1ethargy of the silver
market.
IHIeT tue present pT1ce OF silver, ore
! as low as nine ounces in silver can be
| profitably operated and it is known that
there is much On the dump of the
Hartley that will run as high as 40 to
90 ounces to the ton in silver. The
| company proposes to take advantage of
this fact and handle much of the ore
| that is on the dump as well as to actively
operate the mine with the view of get
| ting ont as much of the better ore as
| is possible. They viii accordingly IN
stall whatever new machinery may be
required and endeaEor to make their
| miEe busy center for the Neihart
camp.
New investors have been recently
| turned towlrd the Nejhart camp and
there is a keener interest there than
has been shown for years. The hill now
has some 200 miners taking ore from the
various mines and recently a 80 ton
concentrator has been put into opera
/ tion which will be enlarged, if the ad-
vice Of the engineer FOR the owning
| company is followed until it has Il
capacity of 500 tons This would af-
ford the Neihart Consolidated company
chance to handle its ores at this cor
centrator. The Neihart Consolidated
proposes to eIectrify its mine at once,
there being only the necessity Of run
ming a line one mile from the Montana
Power comDany's line to bring this
about
| According 70 Mr. Dawson, vice presi-
dent. and NJ. Brown. the treasurer of
the company, the enterprise is backed
by men who believe in their properties