Montana labor news., 1937-03-25
MINING IN MONTANA SHOWING STEADY GAIN

equipment IN the United OtateS, at
a cost of $270,O0O. Of this amount
they put up $4,000 and borrowed
$250,000 from the reconstruction FL
nance Corporation at Washington,
d. c. Their operations were SO sue
cessful they paid back the RFC for
the full amount of their loan and
interest in a little over a year.
Extend Last Chance
1t has long been supposed that the
placer ground of Last Chance gulch,
which now is Main street in Helena,
extended to the north of the city.
Porter Bros, contractors, did quite
a lot of sampling there and then
borrowed $4,000 from the RFC to
install a floating dredge. Their oper-
ations also were highly successful, as
they also repaid the government loan
in a short time.
Two other properties in Montana
also received government loans of
$4,000 each, one being the Gold
Mountain Mines, near Superior in
Mineral County and the other a
property near Townsend.
Jardine Successful
Early in 1896 the Jardine Mining
Co. paid a dividend of 10 per cent,
from its successful operations. The
company produces mainly gold in
the shape of bullion and oncen
trates. The concentrates consist of
high-grade arsenical pyrites, from
which arsenic is roasted out and sold
as a separate product. The COM
pany also produces high grade tung-
stem which usually is sold to the
steel mills at around $4,000 per car
or more. Jardine has been doing
quite a lot of development work and
is planning on increasing its opera
tons considerably during 1887.
MarysvilIe District
There has been quite a lot of ac-
tivity in the Helena district, includ-
ing the camp of Marysville, where
a large number of properties are
being worked by small companies or
individuals, the main production be-
ing gold and silver. At York the
Golden Messenger is paying divi-
dends from its gold property being
operated by the United Mines Co.,
a strong organization, headed by
Clement Quinn of Duluth. Montana
Consolidated Mines Corporation is
working its Spring Hill mine and
mill to capacity and also is opening
its Carlson property at Winston by
means of a long tunnel.
Phillipsburg Area
Phillipsburg, in Granite County is
putting forth a large output Of high
grade chemical manganese concen-
trates and silver ores, the main oper-
alton being at properties of the Phil
lipsburg Mining Co, known as the
Granite & Bimetallic group.
Argenta and Bannack in Beaver
head County have been steadily pro-
ducing gold and silver and it is ex-
pected that the output from that
county will be heavily increased in
1887.
Neihart Rival
Neihart, in Cascade County, is
coming back to life. At one time it
was a large silver producer, but has
been dormant a number of years.
Spokane brokers recently opened the
Big Seven mine, under the name of
the Montana Queen Silver Mining
Co. They have built a mill and r
producing. There also are a num-
Der of new smaller mills working in
that district. To the southeast, in
Fergus County, leasers are re-work-
ing the Kendall mine and individual
operators are carrying on work at
several properties in the Judith
mountains around Gilt Edge, pro-
ducing gold.
Madison County
Madison County, besides produc-
ing gold from placer deposits also
is producing substantial quantities
of gold and silver from about 100
quartz operations, mostly Individual
operations, although some fair sized
companies ire operating there in
Guiding the Liberty-Montana, Boss
Tweed & Clipper, the Mayflower
mine of the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Co., Josephine, Boaz, Galena,
Revenue and others. Recently Mil
ton Leydig started his Atlantic &
Pacific mill, taking out gold ore with
a gasoline shovel and then treating
it in a flotation plant, the work be-
ing financed by the Ruby Gulch
Mining Co. and some of its stock
holders. Recently the A. 0. Smith
Manufacturing Corporation of Mil
waukee took an option on the Gold
en- Sunlight property near Whitehall,
and they + negotiating for other
properties in this state.
Late in the year Thomas A. Mar
low and associates of Helena, took
over the Beaver Creek Mining prop
erty in Phillips County and active
development is being prosecuted un-
der the supervision of William R.
Price.
Butte, during the year, materially
increased its production of copper,