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e 41 I ri U11111111114dadlirld •\\\lei \ m e' 4tfe • do. The Lump City Miner. VOL. 1 . - N . 6. LUMP CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1895. J. B. LOCKWOOD, 1) U GGIľ DEALER IN 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. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. 113 and 115 North Main Street, HELENA, MONTANA. TURNER di, co. Grocers and Miners Supplies, 20 AN!) 22 EDWARD ST. Montana LumbervManufacturing Cog MINING TIMBERS and BUILDING MATERIAL of ALL KINDS. Yards Located at - _ HELENA and BUTTE. James Twiford DEALER IN Furniture, Bar Fixtures and Stoves, Ore Sacks and Tents, HARNESS, ETC. Ten Thousand Second Hand Articles of Every Descriptión ti) be sold at one-balf their ac- tual value. • 235 N. Main St., HELENA. H. H. ASHLEY, C - Hen's - Leadie Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. • UR North 14irk ‚venue. - 1111 1.1.NA Telephone 129. • The Ashley Stable ia now run- ning a daily coach between Helena and Lump City, leaving the Grand Central Hotel every morning at 8 o'clock; returning leave Lump City at 3:30 p. m. Fare, one way $1.00 Round trip 1.50 Freight, 100 lbe. r over . .25c per 100 lb. Packages delivered.... ...... 25 and 50c 'MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump Gulch District. Mining Notes and Items of the Day of an Interesting Character. Bar silver, 593. Lead, $3.10 @ *3.12 1 2 . Copper, $9.80. * There ought to be some method by which the present systein of obtaining patents to mineral lands could be simpli- fied. Under present conditions, it looks as if the numerous surveyors, clerks and other officials were designed mainly to make life a burden to the man who ap- plies for a quartz claim patent. Even with the efficient services of lawyers in Washington, and although the applica- tions pies the scrutiny of the local sur- veyor general's office and the local land office, and no contest by any other claimant is made, yet in some cases, for years, fine points of error will be discov- ered in Washington, each of which in- volves annoyance', expense and months of further delay. It is not so much the fault of the officials as the absurd intri- cacy of the laws they are trying to com- ply with. And yet it is often urged that a poor man having a nine s -for sale should apply for a patent to peifeot his title. The fact is, that a poor man is practically debarred from obtaining a patent to a quartz claim. However, if he be not adverse to perjuring himself, he may often manage, by filing a home- stead, to secure a patent to about eight times as much mineral land, and this at a mere fraction of the trouble and ex- pense incident to obtaining a quartz patent. Why the matter cannot be uncle as simple aki in the cam) of home- stead patents it is difficult to see. It shows the remarkable vitality of the mining industry, that it has been able for so, long to withstand the present system of obtaining title. Had the same been the case with homestead laws, such indignation would have peen aroused all over the and that the ob- jectionable laws would have been changed years ago. To the bad features of the system may in part be charged Full Stock of Miners' Supplies, Builders the tendency to talo. up mineral land as agricultural, since title can be more Hardware, and Headquarters for easily obtained in this way. While Con- gress is tinkering with the mining laws, the best thing it can do is to immediate- ly overhaul this subject of perfecting title to mineral lands, anil so arrange the laws that a man can get his title in less than tive or H1X years, and with- out spending half what the miné is worth. Blacksmith and Wagon Makers Supplies. STOVES AND TINWARE. Granite Block, Helena. Helena Iron Works ANDREW WOODS, Barber Shop and Bath Room, 33% S. Main St., Helena. FRED. J. THOMAS, ASSAYER. Silver and Gold $1.00 Silver, Gold and Lead 1.50 Copper . 1.50 Kleinschmidt & Bro. (CONSOLIDATED.) H.A.EDWAILE DEPT. AGENTS Fuit Hercules Powder s THE LI\ ESPOoLd. During the week t he force of men em- ployed at the Liverpool has been some - Ore Cars and Barkets, Truk Iron, what reduced, and while all sorts of rumors have been rife am to the cause of it, I can assure my readers that it is no fault of the mine. The mine is not only looking better to -day than at any time since work was commenced on it, but there is more ore in sight in it than ever before. Tne crosscut at the 400 litIS been con- tinued without interruption, as has the shaft which is being sunk to the 500. There is a rumor which I have not been able to substantiate, that. the mine is about to -inimigo hands, and pass into the cont rit or a Colerado syndicate, at a figure aomewhere in the neighborhood of in half million J' 'liars. The present owners are not anxiiius to push matters much, owing to the present low price of silver. The lease en the Washintgon, which expires on the last, day of April, will probably bring •nhout Nome change in the management of these properties. • THE w,o-iiiivirtorg. There is nothing new to r ,, r „, r t f r ,„„ this mine. They V. wi irk ing their ľmiH force of men and (hang mii I that can ls‘ done en each shift The tisind quantify of ore was sent to the minelter during the week. Car Wheels, Iron and Brass Castings, etc. Speeial Mining Maehinery of all kinds made to order. Miners' and Prospectors muppliee of all kinds. Work promptly attended to on short notice. A. M. WiLwass, Agent, Miner Office. Wo have received the Lump City Mix- er( and gladly place the game on our f*X- change list. It is neat, anil edited with ability by A. M. Williams. Williams & Sons are the publishers. AVe wish the DOW publioatem prosperity and hope so- briety may be the goal of Mr. Williams and the ()thee boys. The wine cup is all right for Walter A. Lewis of the Red Lodge Picket and the editor of the New Idea. We have gold nones and will be riding in elnoses when imine newspaper peoptiecould not go to• if it cost them ,anything—New Idea. The Lump City MINER is one of the latest additions to the weekly profs of the State. It in published by A. M. Williams, formerly of Helena, who has meted' his printing ( - nee to the new town of Lump The tied . purribere of the MIN ;Ire very roil it ilile publica- tions and the paper has already become a fartor in the growth and advancement of the young city. May it continue to flourish leleDa Clock. Reprementative Joy has introdneed a bill to ereate minieg dietrieta and de line their powers. BIG MINING DEAL. Ponrosan and Tiger Mines Sold for Si. \ 180,000. A telegraph dispatch dated February 2. says: The sale of the Poorman and Tiger noun's in the Cc' eur d'Alene which Ili». been under negotiation for the print year liir finally been eoneuminated. The grantee is the Coeur d'Alene Min- ing el>mi,ar, liruited, of London. The men who will gravure. the greatest eminent of cash frein the sale are S. N. Glidden, Patsy Clarli and It C. Kngideit y Miii cue Daly, 1:.111 , ,II Halley and C. 5 War ren are air., interested to u ooninderabie extent. Rev. T. H. Hicks. of the M. E Church at Elkhorn, v. ill preset' at the Miner's Union Hall on Sunday evening at 8 °Mo c k. \ large attendane.. Is desired. Everybody invited The M. E. Chureh expect to erect in lier» in the spring. Bitrinee it Sylvester will goon metes , the or-v..111.n n 1,110(1111g. I . 1 l • * * OLD DAN TUC1CFR. I was a little in error in my bud re- port of the bonilit.g of this mine i was utider the inipressi..n that MallIthe Daly wag the man vids , put the machinery in, the mine and afterwarda etintinlimad ' it, but it Reams that I gram, Intatitken. 1The facts of the case are in this wise: About six or seven years ago a company was formed to work on the Old Dan Tucker called the Buckeye. Before the property was ever started up to do any work that amounted to anything, they became as a company,indebted to Eman- uel Redding, and he obtained a judg- ment against the Buckeye company, and the property was sold at sheriff's sale, going back again into Mr. Redding's hands. Afterwards it was leased to Cor- bin parties, behind whom, presumably, was the Wickes Smelter company. In their turn they became tangled up in misunderstandings of various kinds, and the property has been suffered to remain When the Buckeye had this property under bond they had an option on the Clancy lode and the Government Bond. Work has been performed in the past on each of these claims, particularly the Old Dan Tucker. The main shaft has been sunk to a depth of 135 feet. At that detph a drift of 90 feet along the vein has been run, and another of 54) feet for ventilating purposes. while a tunnel, intended to cut the vein, has been run into the mountain a distance of about 75 feet. The Clancy vein, at the surface, runs about 80 feet from, and nearly parallel to, the Old Dan Tucker, the Clancy dipping to the north and the Old 1)an Tucker to the south. When the working shaft on the Old Dan Tuck- er is down another 100 feet a crosscut driven a short distance should cut the Clancy vein. The working of both veine from one shaft would thus be rendered possible. Should the theory advanced by ex- perts who have previously examined these mines prove correct -that the Old Dan Tneker is simply a fissure opening off from the main lode, and that at a depth of something over 2(X) feet the two will run together and consolidate in the Clancy, it would be difficult to over- estimate the value of this property. That the theory will be verified is con- fidently predicted by those in a position to judge. * RARY FIEL2N. A eontraet has been closed with Dr. Samuel A. Beecher, of St Paul, to sink a shaft on the Baby Helen lode to a depth of 200 feet, and upon which work has already commeniced. This ruine is a little northwest cif the Liverpool. That this work, when completed, will go along way towards making a mine out of the Baby Bolen no one familiar with the Lump gulch mines will deny. It is patented, and is in all ways a most prom- ising location. Dr. Beecher has hung on to the property through all the ups and downs of a series of years, but now that he has decided to develop the clajm will no doubt reap a rich reward. I do not think I am exaggerating when I say that if work is continued on this prop- erty in a business -like way, that before another year rolls around no mine in this district will outank the Baby Helen. • KNOB 1111-i.. A contract hua been let by Mr. Stuewe to sink 100 feet on this property, and work is DOW in progress. By the pur- chase from Carrow of 4 of his 1 2 inter- est in this mine, and the previous pur- chatre from M. M. Moore of his i inter- mit Mr. Steuwe becomes a three -fourths owner of the property. The Knob Hill ia regarded as one of the most valuable prospects in the vamp. The mineral Gut* or the Universe. It is a settled fact now that Butte has the producing mines anil Montana can have the ninelters at any point they de- sire. The rerniival of the Parrot smelter to Jefferson eolinty 1F1 RH grateful a pro ject to Butte's interest as the establish- ment of the grcat .111:44*(in,la work** were at Anaeonilii. Vie have the nonce; in re servo anil their produat, and tho pro- ducers are all that Hutt** parrs.. to have .is of k zeiii.ral benefit. i ;feat Fails ''ii toithelp lint realize that the produil of Butte inines en of decided intereiat and benefit then, The Boa - ton it Montnria supplies them with ore enough at liniment to murtnin 11 eity of great npignit tide tus SloOltillg point and mometime during the routing mummer the Anaconda ‚til 1111V1. Ft refinery there that will be the largest in the western onuntry, all as Feetree of revenue prin cipally from the none« of Butte. In murder tO realize the ailvantagea o f Butte, it, is neon's 'ar'- for 'me to *led the mines inn the hill and et here surrinund- ably to get things in Fillflpe for Miner. ' I). A. Fotheringhain went ove Mammoth mine last Thureday purpose of pay ing off the men em by the company. Hs says the ne $2.00 A YEAR.: , ing Butte. It will be readily discovered that these rich companies have no fear of a decline in copper, and that wining in general will result advantageously from now on. All that remains to es tablish the great success of Butte's rain- ing interest is the recovery of silver and its advance to toint that will pay the miner a fair profit on the production of silver ores. The majority of the mines here are copper and gold producers, yet there are hundreds of mines in this dis- trict that would pay well to work if sil- ver was up to a reasonable point of value. Even if an advance is made accompanied by an encouraging outlook for the re- covery of the white metal, moat of the mines would start up at once, and inside of ninety dais there would be ovee 300 mines working and producing ore in this district—R,eporter. Rex Flour at Hunter's, Clancy. at $2.00 per one hundred pounds. Notice to Prospectors. If you want to sell, bond or lease de- sirable property, see C. E. Gable & Co., office Lump City Townsite Development and Mining Co., Lump City, Mont. STATE NEWS. Several carloads of ore were shipped from the Diamond Hill bonanza this week. The Iron Mask, too, is making regular shipments.—Towneend Meeeen- ger. The Virginia City Madisonian says the Easton mine has been closed down on account of the low price of silver, and will not resume operations until legis- lation favorable to the white metal has been enacted. Helena generously contributed $4,500 to the Butte relief fund. Whatever dif- ferences we may have in Montana, when an occasion arises which calls for a dis- play of human nature it doesn't take long to estab he lish t fact that we be brothers. Western Democrat. Attorney Max Waterman has under' - taken the defense of Bill Gay, and he is very busy arranging hie cane. Mr. Waternian han' the reputation of being one of the best criminal lawyers in the county if not in the state.— Meagher County News. The new leaching plant for the Bi- Metalli.., at Phillipsburg, can handle 700 tons of (hied tailings every 24 hours. There are 160,1X10 tons of these tailings from which the Russell process extracts 75,000 ounces or silver and $3,000 in gold per month. The Hecla Consolidated Mining com- pany of Glendale, Beaverhead county, of which H. Knippen berg is general mana- ger, paid, Th ni relay, $15,000, a dividend of 1 per cent making the total dividends up to date paid by this company, $2,025,- 000. Tine monthly pay roll of the com- pany is e oiititrt i() :•i l l e. will belighted by electricity in aimed a week. The machinery is all hero and the building ready for it: and about Olive days or Ho will 81.1 `A to put it in place. E. S. Remington jwho will have charge of the inerhanic depart- ment will be here on the next t in prob- tarting. to the r the loyed mill was atarted up on Friday, and that it is doing its work very nieely Just what the test run of the mill will be cannot at present be estimated, Silt the comp any expects to elean up from $8,000 to $10,000 per month when everything is in , r eg ular t imin g , e•rier. The mine is said to la, tine, with plenty of ore in Hight. Silver State. l'he ininee of the Butte distriet have lest none of their interest al (I value by the alum') of silver. There are HS many silver mines working now ins ever, and Cie copper production is greater than at any previous time. 'line principal silver null nes outiOde the Alice and Lexington are being worked regularly, and even tii» regular produoers are not reducing their ppsItict on this acoount. Both the A lie\ and Let u rugi -oui are being worked 11/1,1or lease and their product is wallet hing of value to the regular op- erations and the keeping up of repairs and the working of the machinery and I pump** to keep the mine in order reedy for work ‚u hen the tonee will justify the ,,p err ti n g fetpen*****4 ef a silver pitxxluoer. 1 —Iteporter. • a • s d ord•-vsliesimoro--11
