Montana labor news., 1935-11-07
Mine Production of Gold,
Etc., In Montana
In 1894

To supply the miners 'ustry prom
pity with data on Il % oduction OF
gold, silver, copper, g and zinc in
Montana during the 3 year, the fol-
lowing information q nished by the
United States Bure Mines.
According to T. E. Her of the Salt
Lake City office , United States
Bureau of Mines y output Of gold,
silver, copper, LEAF zinc from mines
in Montana in L terms of recov-
cred metals was 4595 ounce OF
lgold, 4,O06,468 c OF silver, 63,265,-
1000 pounds OF Z, 20,010,000 pounds
Of lead, and 6l,41-, so pounds OF zinc,
Compared with 1888, gold showed an
increase of 39,623.75 ounces, silver an
increase of l,345,768 ounces, copper a
decrease Of 2,211,37S pounds, lead an in
crease Of 6,S46,568 pounds, and zinc an
increase Of 10,993,35l pounds. With in
%creases in 1884 in value per ounce for
gold and silver, and in value per pound
for copper, the total increase in 1884
was $5,61l,l79, OF which gold increase
represented $l,927,8 02 and silver $l,658,-
I705, a total increase for both of $3.50
$50, and an increase for copper, lead,
and zinc combined of $2,025,198 The
gross value OF the output of Montana
from 1904 to 1884 was $1,725,278,755 and
from 1862 to 1884, inclusive, is esti-
mated at $2,S24,298,454
The output OF gold from lode and
placer mines in Montana in 1884 in
creased 90 percent in quantity and 1870
percent in value. Decided increases
were recorded at the Could, August,
Sleeping Princess, Hidden Lakes, Ohio
Heating, B. & H., Prospect, Spring Hill,
Boss Tweed & Clipper, Scratch Gravel,
Grant & Hartford, Heating, and Old
Dominion lode mines. The large in
crease from placer mines came chiefly
from new 1888 dragline and floating
dredge operations in Powell and JEFF
ferson Counties. The largest gold pro-
Queer in Montana in 1884 was the pio-
neer bucket dredge in Powell County.
The output of silver increased nearly
81 percent in quantity and l78 percent
in value, and was recovered chiefly
from copper and lead-zinc ores. The
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., operat-
ing at Butte and elsewhere in the State.
was by far the largest producer of sill
yer in 1884, as it was in 1888. Large
increases were reported from the Ana
conda, Trout Flathead, Granite Bimet-
allio, and Comet & Gray Eagle mines.
There was comparatively little change
in the output of copper in 1884; most
OF it was recovered from ore mined at
Butte and milled at Anaconda. Lead
increased 81 percent in 1884 due chief
ly to production from the Orphan Girl
and Emma mines at Butte and the Jack
Waite mine, in Sanders County on the
Montana-Idaho boundary line. The
output Of zinc was increased more than
48 percent, chiefly from the lead-silver-
zinc ores of the Emma and the Or
phan Girl mines at Butte and from the
treatment OF old zi%nc-bearing Stag
from the lead-bullion smelter at East
Helena.
More detailed statistics and infor-
nation on the production Of metals in
Montana in 1884 will appear in the
MINERALS YEARBOOK 1885. This
volume of approximately 1850 pages
in blue cloth binding, can be supplied
at a price OF $500 by the Superinten-
dent Of Documents, Government Print
ing Office, Wash, D. c., t o whom
remittance should be made. Past edi-
tons of the Minerals Yearbook have
been exhausted promptly upon publ
cation, and requests for the 1885 vol
ume will be filled in the order in which
they are received.