The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-02-02
TOWN OF LAUREL, MONT.
TO HAVE NEW SHELTER
PLANNED TO BUILD BIG PLANT
THERE TO HANDLE COOKE
CITY 5 RICH ORES.

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the general Offices OF the company.
Inc Oriensary Mining company Is q
Montana corporation, composed prln-
cipally OF Miles city, ROSEBUD and
Dawson county people. A numuer Oh
the % Petroleum companys stock
holders have interests IN the Gleneary
company. The mining concern is capi-
talized at SI,5OOOO0. The representa-
uVes who have been spending some
time on investigation work are p. f..
DAILY of Miles City, Ray Bishop Of
Cooke, and Sam c. Rice of Miles City.
These men were joined by Francis A.
Hancock of Miles City, president and
engineer of the company, who spent
portion of last week at Laurel going
over the matter of location for the
smelter. He had previously received
reports and plats from Daily Bishop
and Rice, and after making personal
inspection, he agreed with the opin-
ions of the first investigators
The smelter is to be constructed on
the unit system, the first unit capable
OF handling 1000 tons daily As the
mines production increases, it is
planned to add other units to the re-
duction and smelling plant The
equipment will be of the latest and
most approved type, constructed ac-
cOrding to specifications involving the
use OF electric currents in separating
the metal from the dross or residue.
The first unit is expected to give
employment to about 500 men upon
completion and operation, and a large
months of its construction.
At a meeting held recently and at
tended by the mining company's rep
resentatives and the business men of |
Laurel the mining men stated that
they knew nothing definite concerning /
the Milwaukee's proposed road into the
Cooke district, but that they had suf- /
ficient assurance from Northern Pa /
cific interests concerning the building /
Of road up the saltwater valley to
Justify the expenditure on the pro-
posed smelter and in further develop /
ment of the mine.
Men in charge of the Northern Pa
cific's department of mneralology and |
kindred subjects have made several
trips into Cooke and are thoroughly
acquainted with the richness OF the
district
The Glengary Mining company has
title to Z group of claims short dis
lance north of Cooke Better than
$26OO,OOO worth of ore is said to have
been exposed and cross sectioned on
the property. This is estimated on
what is known in that district as
Scotch Bonnet mountain, from which
the present company derives it's name
-"Glengary" meaning Scotch head
gear.
Below the Glengary property and in
the town OF Cooke itself is the RepuD-
lie group of mines, producing silver
chieny. The silver ore IS being hauled
out by trucks to Gardiner at present
The ore is of such richness that even
by expensive methods OF transporta-
ton a handsome profit is made
The Glengary company has exposed
two mammoth veins of copper, silver
gold and lead ore, which. run perpen-
diculary into the earth. Both are
found on the side of the Scotch Bonnet
mountain, one above the other and
some distance apart Much prelimi-
nary work has been done and among
the things accomplished has been the
digging of a tunnel straight into the
side of the mountain at a point con-
siderably lower than where the first
vein shows on the surface This tun-
mel has been run for a distance of sew
eral hundred feet, entering the first
ore body. The exposure of ore on the
surface is Is or 20 feet across. but ]
evidently increases in size as it goes
further into the ground. This is shown
by the fact that although the tunnel
has been run $50 feet into the ore ]
body, the vein has not been passed
through How thick the vein is at that
point is unknown. j
The smelter is a project long dis
cussed by Laurel people. and the plan
of bringing Cookies ore to Laurel has
been one of the prospects for that ]
point since it was established. Tap
ping of the mining district with a rail-
road is a dream entertained by all
miners and others who have ever Wis ,
tied Cooke and learned personally Of