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1 role de, , The Lump City Miner VOL. 1.—N0. 5. LUMP CITY, glral•IM.E1•114.1111110è MON TAN A, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1895. J. B. LOCKWOOD, DI‘ ) UGGIST DEALER IN mummorOMINIMIM Drugs, Medicines, Mining Supplies, Chemicals, Etc. 137 N. MAIN STREET, HELENA. For Mining Supplies and Machinery OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST QUALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SERVICE, go to A. M. HourEn HARDWARE CO. 113 and 115 North Main Street,. HELENA, NItiNTANA TURNER & Co. Grocers and Miners' Supplies, 20 AN!.) 22 EDWARD ST. Montana LumbereManufacturing Co. MINING TIMBERS and BUILDING MATERIAL of ALL KINDS. Yards Located at II sa.F.s.t and BETTE. The Largest and Best STOCK OF MINERS BOOTS and SHOES In the State at Bottom Priccs. WIEIThistlewaite THE Cash Shoe Man, 123N. Main St., - Beveridge Melt' HELENA, MONTANA. Mail Orders Shipped the same day received. James Twiford DEALER IN Furniture, Bar Fixtures and Ore Sacks and Tents, HARNESS, ETC. Ten Thousand Second Hand Articles of Every Desciirt• to be sold at one-half their ac- tual value. 235 N. Main St., HELENA. II. II. As!' LEV, Lealiip,), Livery, 1 ,1 4 , 441 ă lid 'Sale table. 114 North Park II EA.1 , . 'I« I. id I Tho Ashley Stable is now run- ning a daily c( 00 11 I iota oen H e l ena and Lump City, leaving the Grand Central llotel every morning nt 8 o'clock ; returning leave Lump City at 3:30 p. m. Fare, one way $1.00 Hound trip 1.50 1110 over. .25c per 100 lbe 1'1101(14p.m ore, I 2:, an d aoa ANDREW 'WOODS. Barber Shop and Bath Room, 3:1 1 4 S. Main St., Helena FRED. J. THOMAti. ASSAYER. Silver and Gold ..$1.00 Silver, Gold and L'uul 1.50 Copper .. 1.50 Kleinschmidt (t Bro. (CONSOLIDATED.) HABDWA RE DEPT. AGE'. FOR Hercules Powder Full Stock of Miners' Klima we, Builders Hardware, and Headquarters for Blacksmith and Wagon Makers Supplies. STOVES AND TINWARE. Granite Block, I Iclena. Helena Iron Works Ore Cars anil Bullets, Track Iron, Car Wheels, Iron anil Itrass Castings, clf. Special Mining 1Incliiiivr‘ of' all kinils wade to order.. l'r,oportorm oul./.114.o 'nf till kinda ,rk promptly attended 14...n short A. M. %Nu.. ‘g. , t1t, inor Oflivo MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump Gulch District. Minifig Notes and Iltenh4 „ I the Dit.Y of an Interesting Claaritc•ter. The vicissitudes of fortune are prole . ably more striking in mining for silver than in any other kind of mining. In all silver producing countries we are told of mines being again and again abandoned because it was thought their rich \bonanzas\ had been exhausted, but they have again and rigid; been re- opened and new and rich boles of ore discovered. The Valeneiana mine, on the Veta Macbee (mother vein) of Guan- aguato, Mexico, was reopened in 1760, on a part of the vein where work had been done in th,e 10th century, and which had afterwards lain as worthless for 200 years, and in 1768 a bonanza was struck at a deptp of oely 240 feet, from which $15,000,000 was extracted annnal- ly. From the years 1788 to 1810 the annual average yield was still $1,383,145. At a depth of 1,200 feet the ore was con- sidered too poor for extracting, and the mine was then allowed to till with water. Afterwards it was again opened and again paid immensely by working the almost inexhaustible quantities of low grade ore. The Veta Grande, at Zacatecas, which from 1548 to 1832 yielded $666,000,000, occurs in propalite, the vein branching out towards the sur- face, and dipping at angle of 45 degrees. It averages orals. about 33 feet, and 80 feet is its greatest width. In the upper part the ore wile found concentrated in chimneys, but at a depth it was found to be distributed through nearly the whole width of the vein. At first this low-grade material eouid not be made to pay, but since, it ha i been profitably worked and the bullion product has reached a high tígure. Seores of such examples may be found in all silver pro clueing countries, tiaarbronielsd by Iluin- boldt, Ward, Von Cotia and others. * * * THE FREE COUYAGE. Considerable water has been encount- ered, I am informed, in the Free Coin- age mine during the progress of the work in sinking the shaft, which is be- ing done under contract. This will probably necessitate the putting up a pump before long, though it is the in- tention of the owners to put a steam hoist on this properts ae eosin as possible. The Free Coinage is regarded as one of the best mines in Eump and is located about a mile and a half above Lump City on the right hand side of the gulch as one ascends. Upon the completion a the present contract the mine will in- crease its already wonderful record. When water was encountered in the shaft a splendid body of ore was algo fount, perhaj -i isis good, if not of higher grain than that so far discovered in any mine in the camp nt that depth. * . * KNOB HILL. Th one-half interest in the Knob Hill lode, Owned by M. M. Moore, has been sold to Wm. Stuie, manager of the poor farm of Lewis 'ind Clarke county. Stuie, Green and ('arrow, the present owner's will commense work on the pn .p- arty without delay and sink a shaft to a depth of 50 , a- 7. - f' , T• as far as they can go with a ,, iti.liaS , .r- water will pormil. The Knob Hill is s tine . looking pros pect, is loeated a t ì i n a ten minutes welk of Lump Cut .ind shows a good strong vein on tol, * * THE WEnoE. On this property, whirl) is supposed to be an extension on the west, ot the Baby Helen lode, work uru, but just fairly commenced, under contract to Emanuel Lees. The shaft is now about 25 ft. in depth and V‘ ion the contract is finished will be 75 feet in depth. There is a splendid showing of quarts in the giblet. The mine is iruder bend to G. W. Winter. Three men are sinking tLe ehy s ft. TH 1 0•0 is being Hi ...slily raised from the 200 toot level vve,t, the quality being Of very tine el l orm.11`1. many lett‘oo. \how. ing ruby, brittle and native l'hereis shout n .•ur lohd of first . •le ore , IlOW I/I t•II0 1.1'0 1,,M0A essn a sea ahaps ment, t' 't' will he sent to East hlelena sometime during the week. Two shifts of men are sinking the main shaft. Pre- parati4ins are going •forward connec- tion with the hoist which it is proposed to put up right away. * * OLD DAN TUCKER. This a famous mine of \ye olden days,\ located on Clancy creek, about a mile above the town of Clancy. In former times the property has been made to give up something like $15,000 worth of ore, very high grade in character. Some time back it was bonded to Marcus Daly, if my memory serves rue correct, who put good machinery, in- cluding a pump and hoist on the prop- erty. and aferwards abandoned it. ;1'he mine has just been bonded to lessrs, Richardson and Bell for $30,000, a cash payment down with other pay- ments frilling due during the life of the bond, which has eighteen months to run. Work will be commenced at once on the property, and as soon ise the water has beén pumped out a force of men will be put at work. * * * THE LIVERPOOL. Work with the usual force is progress- ing as usual on the Liverpool. During the week two cars of high-grade ore were shipped to the smelter. Sinking is in progress right along in the shaft, and work is also in progress on the 200 and 300 foot levels, and ore being hoist- ed. I was unable to learn anything definite in relation to thé crosscut at the 400, but was told that no work was being done on it at present. There seems to be a si get disposition on the part of the management to withhold information regarding the crosscut at the 400. While I wish to pry into the business of no manor company, for self- ish purposes, I hope that those in author- ity on this proper e ty will see their way clear to giving out such little items each week ens will serve to stimulate mining in the camp generally, and that will be news to the public at large. * * * THE WASHINGTON. Two cars of ore came out of the Wash- ington shaft this week -one of high- grade and one of second claws -which was shipped to the reduction works. Aside from this there is nothing of a startliug nature to report from th is mine. It goes without saying that in all the de- partments on this property things move with the precisiou of elockwerk, and that more ground is being broke and hoisted than from any other pe petty in the camp. * * MINING NOTES. Work has been moving along bu, quietly and smoothly on the property under bond to Warren DeCrimp, on the upper end of Halford's ranch, that but few people, outside of these who meet Mr. DeCamp daily, are unaware that a hole, now 70 feet deep, has been put down there during the last month or so. It is the intention to go on with the work of sinking to the 100 foot station when levels will be run either way from the bottom ot the shaft. '1'4 quality of quartz and ore is improving with every foot in depth, there having been a little ore Meng ;LITIP)Nt ever since the first shovelful. Ne a er has come in yet but it is expecos1 t.. timl it noa moat any day as the , litp I la getting pretty moist. A second shift was put on the first of the week, so that the W. g-lt now continues night and day. A -- soou' [i ii k in e er o s t what is P as i 'Y ltti l ite are «‚i,' made this week in a prospect aio' at half a mile up the gulch, nearly opposite the mouth of Ohio gulch. I 'was unable to learn tho name of the property or the parties who own it. I hear a rumor to the effect that n gyililicate will put up a large custom concentrator in the gulch just above Lump City, somewhere between the city and the mouth of Ohio gulch. That it would be a paying in% estinerit needs no argument, and the lo beati' in im the beet passible one that eeihl be found. It is a central ono and to it, would be tributary the seven 11111,ired odd locations, when they beel one pni ducats, and any one of them are uni 'le to be, of the great mineral zele, Th e facts connected with the consentrator tire being kept very q ni rot (MI nind it very hard to run them down, but it ma to ho I\ !... , 1,1,1rd thing that essn\trater will be imilt somewhere near the le, aids, inentiontel. .1 Al. Wini,inis $2.00 A YEIR., Capital in Milling. In glancing over the mining field this country, it is perfectly apparent that those regions which have had the most assistance from capital of late years are the greatest producers. Take, for instance, Colorado and Montana, which now head the list in the matter of bullion production. They are both very prosperous from a mining point of view, or would be if silver commanded a decent price, and they are the two regions which are best backed up by capital. Butte had the advantage of having very good men to give it a start, and very good mines too, for that matter. But none of the mines were developed to any great de- gria) until capital took hold of them. It will be the seine story over again here in Lump gulch, only the mines of this district are not placed at the same die - advantage, us they are high-grade. It takes money to make money in mining as in other things. Colorado, being comparatively near the eastern centers of capital, has had great assistance Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Cali- fornia have not for a long time enjoyed the advent of any large capital for in- vestment in mines. They have had to got along as best they can. Of course, in time all this will be rem- edied. Mining is now considered more of a legitimate business than formerly, when all mining investments were con- sidered speculations. \Stock board\ mining is below par in these days. People are going into mining for the mines themselves, and it is a good thing to do, for there is plenty of room for safe investments of this kind. The development of any mining camp, however is neeessarily slow ; there has got to be performed by somebody a vast amount of preliminary work. When that is done then we can pass out of the initiatory stage into that of deeper workinga, better machinery greater re suits and more satisfactory profits --un- der the direction of, and eontolled by men of means. Down a Thnusand Feet. J. Blume arrived Tuesday forenoon from the mountains beyond Stemple, in Deer Lodge county, with the body of Herman Blume, al.' was killed Jan. 21 by a snow slide. The body was taken to Undertaker Flaherty's rooms, front ' whieh the funeral took place in t4,0 1 aft erm >on. Mr. Blume, who was a nephew of the unfortunate man, leaves to -day for his honw in it FI'' says that his uncle Wu\ out hunting when he met his fear- ful death. It is thought that while de- scending the Ira ntain he started a snow slide and was carried down a thousaud feet, striking many rocks in the descent. He was found under less than three feet of snow, and fp‚ni the condition of the lasts. it is pretty certain that lie was dead before he reached the bottom. Snow slides have (wowed annualy on that particular mosntain. bat always heretofore they happened later in the season. It is RH pposo.1, therefore, that Mr. Blume himself started the slide that earried hi in h n t,, lependent Jan. 30. Con. ,Jao*ney an old-time Cooke City miner was instantly killed in the Horr veal MOWN Friday Jan. 25 by an explo- sion of coal gas. 1.., , ,•te‘y in is anpany with Eugene Underess al and charles Berresifird was engaged in whipping gas out of it room with their coats when an- other miner entrei with a torch. 'Plie explosion which followed killed Lowney and seriously but not fatally injured Un derwood and Berresford. The patent issued to the Montana Mining .t fteduct un al company on a min- eral entry for landa in the Helena land district involving the Ida, Em tua, Cleve- land, Dandy, Itismork Star, Saratoga, and Handy haa been ()en- rolled toy the Interior Department. It is ehrtrged that the hinds were noninineral and the entry fraudulent. George H. Tong, of Butte, the of the Goldsmith mine in that was \doing\ Lump City and the ef the sculpt] during the week. owner camp, mines Huntor'o. i'lse(rl, at ego ver one toenilrool pound.. • I t no,* 4111L111111111M111111mulaw- \ enellh aaaallinglinallalls - 'eft,
