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• to n. e e.' Ů /*\ The Lump City Miner. VOL. 1. -No. 10. LUMP CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895. $2.00 A YEAR. J. B. LOCKWOOD, 1) I UGGIST 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 t,o A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. 113 and 116 North Main Street, HELENA, MONTANA. TURNER & Co. Grocers and Miners' Supplies, 20 AND 22 EDWARD ST. Montana Lumbervleanufacturing Co, MINING TIMBERS and BUILDING MATERIAL of ALL KINDS. Yards Located at • James Twiford, DEALER IN Furniture, Bar Fixtures and Stoves, Ore Sacks and Tents, HARNESS, ETC. Ten Thousand Second Hand Articles of Every Desci iption to be sold at one-half their ac- tual value. 235 N. Main St., HELENA H. H. ASHLEY, II ilena's 1Śi(1iII(r Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. 414 North Park Avenue, _ HELEN4 Telephone 129. 'rho Ashley Stable is now run- ning a daily coach between Helena anil Lump City, leaving the Grand Central Hotel every morning at 8 o'clock ; returning leave Lump City at 3:30 P. ni. Fare, one way $1.00 . Round trip 1.50 Freight, 100 lbe. or over. 25e per 100 lbe Packages delivered... 25 and 50c * HELENA and BUTTE. ANDREW WOODS, Barber Shop and Bath Room, 33 1, 2 S. Main St., Helena. FRED. J. THOMAS, ASSAYER. Silver and Gold ...... Silver, Gold and Load 1.50 Copper 1.50 24 Edwards St., Helena, Mont. P. 0. Bey, 1821 Kleinscluni(lt & Bro. CONSOLIDAT ED.) ARE DEPT. AGENTS Mkt Hercules Powder e Full Stock of Miners' Supplies, Builders Hardware, and Headquarters for Blacksmith and Wagon Makers Supplies. STOVES AND TINWARE. Granite Block, Helena. Helena Iron Works Ore Cars and eurkets, Truk Iron, Car Wheels, Iron and Iras (last lugs, etc. Special Mining Machinery of all k inds made to order. Miners' and Prospectors supplies of all kinds. Work promptly attended to on short notice. A. M. Wiwaxs, Agent, Diener Office. A Noted 1111nIng OWN. One of the e rnost rioted mining cases .11 the history of the country is that now being tried in the reipreme court be- tween the Tyler and Last Chance mines near Wardner, Idaho. It will, to a cer- tain extent, when decided, give prestige to a certain feature of the instructions sent back by the supreme court of Cali- forniii. The vase now goes to Washing- ton, I). C. There are a number of these eases in Idaho that will find needed de rision by the termination of this trial. The ground in dispute is worth #.500, N I : there is also over $200,000 worth of .,rf , taken out of the disputed area hy the I .am , t Chime') and elnimed by the Tyler. l'he miner, tire at. Wardtier, and the liti- gatein hue been one of the exciting fea- tures of the Idaho courts for several years. The ease was carried III e t.I /11\ United States Hrunit nowt of IL plePalé-, w here the Tyler people won. Tlemi the Last Chance people went before the su- preme. court, and asked f' 'r a w rit eor t i o r i, end the petit ion Sits gran led. .in a-t-ion Meld' min taken hy t Hml r T owe ' , out The weather for the past week ham been delightful, the snow is practically all out of the gulch, the Peels are good, building is going on on all modem, and generally everything Resumes a proeller- OUR look. In the words of an old pros- pector h dropped \Stay with the camp, 44oys, molie'm a «41 one.\ Eliyht Page Milner. Commencing with the next number. March lr), we shall hereafter issue an night page paper, or to paper just (limb'. the size of the present ¡Retie. To do this, of nouns , . maker' just double the worlt and extra expense, but we have (leveled not to increase the subacripti ,, ii Price and it will remain at $2.00 per year. ; We hepe the. ''bane will prove accept able to our poubseribera, as it will for nigh t-honi with four extra pages of ehoice remeling matter without any extra .'x pense to t We eon tem plate other ' cleingen for the better in the near fu turc 1\tr. ¡squill:. of Jr* N. Winalow, , Winal.w find livsty stabln. Rex Flour at Hunter's, Clancy. at $zon par o4 hundred world*. MINES AND MINING. • Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump Gulch District. Mining Notes and Beim of the Day of an Intereathe Character. Bar silver, 60%. Lead, $3.02%. Copper, $9.50. THE LITTLE ALMA. The hoist for the Little Alma mine was hauled up the gulch this week. This makes the third new hoist that has been hauled through Lump City dur- ing as many weeks. A temporary shut- down was ordered on this property about a week ago for the purpose of making a thorough exareinatloh of the mine in all its levels and stopes by the owners, a work which could b6 more easily accom- plished when the miners were not work- ing. Certain plans were also under con- templation, looking towards better fa- cilities in the way of machinery, etc., for exploiting the mine. That the own- ers have decided upon extensive devel- opments in the mine is evidenced by their purchase of a new hoist through- out, of the most approved pattern, and capable of sinking to 800 or 1,000 feet. The work of getting this hoist into posi- tion is now going on and will be finished In about two weeks, when the Little Alma will be again ready for business. The strike of ore in the west drift, which was made just before the temporary shut -down, and which is very high grade in character, gives evidence of being ex- tensive, and as the mine is in shape for sinking on the main shaft, the time is not far distant when the Little Alma will take rank among the mines of this district. The operatif His are under the immediate supervision of Mr. Frank Murray, a mining man of long experi- ence‘; Mr. Jas. Bonner, foreman. * e THE LIVERPOOL. There is nothing nee to record at the Liverpool. The probabilities are, how- ever, that the ruine will soon close down altogether, at least it is so rumored. No reason ia assigned as the cause for this, but the owners have a right to do with their property as they see Rt. It makes no difference so far as the prosperity of Lump gulch is ooncerned, whether the Liverpool closes down or not, except that it would throw some twenty men or so out of employment, for develop - nient has surged ahead of the Liverpool and it is not now possible for the clos- ing of that mine to perceptibly affect the guloh---a thing which could not have been said six months ago. MARY SPRIN‘i. 1)n the side of the hill in plain view ,, f the city is located the Mary Spring prospeet, claimed by M. M. Moore and others under the above name; also by J. B. Lockwood and others under the name of the Hidden Sunlight extension. About a week ago Mr. Moore and an- other man opened work on it., sinking down a hole elated ten feet deep when he became tired And sent into Helena. He returned agio' ii this week, however, and concluded te put in a few more blasts, notwithstanding the fact that he had been warned to cease operations on the property. The hole was sunk nn a little white streak about two inches wide running down next to the foot -wall. When down to a depth of eixteen or eighteen feet quartz was found on the hanging wall containing a mineral whieli looked for all the world like pure native silver. The news that pure silver had been , struck in the Mary Spring mine spread like wild tire, and all day long a steady at ream or prospectors, tourist,. elmildron, women, rapitnleite (Ind 44:m11d-140 Cap celibate ecranabled through the wild rose tinahefe and jumped the raging waters of Lump mtreek Ulm:p...1 mond mmee for them- eielvem the wonderful \atrke\ in the Mary Spring. Thre'exeito . out rriaeherl fever heat, last Thursday .n. and nearly everybody in, the camp wets car ; ry rig around a piece of rock in which the shin in/ partichthof horn ail ver. lori' nut e in Ivor and all other kinds of min ra rizioa I sliver Was featoened by na- ture like feet- on it window pane during a cold snap of long drawn out Mon tans winter. Experts were di eled in their opinion, but the majority were in- clined to the belief that the metal was silver in the native state When the excitement had reached its height and it was evident that something had to be dona to relieve the severe strain under which the gulch was laboring someone made a test of the rock with a blow pipe and then came the tidings that the delicate cobweb like tracings was iron and that the rock contained only a trace of the precious metal. The boom on the Mary Spring collapsed and hung as limp as a wet dish -rug. Mr. Moore is still touching off the usual number of blasts there, however, and with sufficient depth will no doubt have a mine. * * THE LITTLE NELL. Work on the hoist on the Little Nell mine is rapidly approaching completion, and the probabilities are that steam will be raised for the first time early next week. The hoist is being set in splendid shape and will be housed in a good building, with everything as convenient and safe ato it is possible to make it. This property has a bright future be- fore it. THE MUSKEGON. The contract of 100 feet on this mine was finished last Friday, and another contrant for an additional 1(X) feet im- mediately let to the same parties. The ore strike in the west drift still con- tinues, getting better and wider with each foot of progress. * * LEVIATHAN. Negotiations are going forward look- ing towards the erection of a steam hoist on thie property. The mine is showing up well—so well in fact that the outlay for machinery is deemed ad- visable—and the shaft is getting too deep to work advantageously with a whim. • • THE FliEE COINAGE. Sinking is still in progress in the Free Coinage shaft, The hrest lately put up is working satisfactorily. Some ore of splendid quality is being raised out of the shaft, but no great quantity is ex- pected to ignite up until the work of drifting is vornmenced. * • * THE WASHINGTON, still continues the greatest producer of the district. This mine gives employ- ment to more ruiners, ships niore ore and is making more money than any other mine in Lump gulch and the les- sees are deserving of it. for they have done as much, if not more, t() make this been divided into various characterie- , ties, owing to the period of eruption or 'subsequent metamorphism, all of whioh , have been instrumental in mineralizing the adjoining country rocks in veins and deposits. And the secrete of the suc- cess of the modern prospector and mine manager lies in his knowledge ot the dates and effecte of the porphyry over- frdws and intrusions. The advance from prehistoric mining was slow, but is now coeval with all other industries and scientific attainments.---Leadvflle Herald-Democrat. Mining Investments The interest taken in gold mining in London is evidence that men who have money to invest are prepared to listen to propositions to take hold of gold properties in this and other states, says the Republican, At present the chief interest in London is concerning invest ments in South Africa and Australia, but it will take but little to make them turn their attention this way. No intellgent e 'man can resist the force of the argument that there must be profit in gold mining as long as gold is appreciating, and the general scram- ble for gold all over the world shows that the price of the metal will advance. A man who has a mine that is produc- ing gold need not fear that there will be any difficulty about finding a market for his product. It is not like a silver mine, the product of which has a ten- dency to fall in price. Gold instead of falling is growing more and more valu- able every day, and this insures to the benefit of the mine owner. The history of gold mining in the last few years shows that many mon have made large fortunes out of the business and that many have done well. Crip- ple Creek, Leadville and others have re- peated in a measure the early history when silver mining made Heine men enourmously rich. As yet mining for gold in each of these camps is in its in- fancy. There are many claims that promise well, but have not yet been extensively developed. Among these will be found in all probability paying properties and possibly bonanzas. In mining it is often the venturesome who win, and the recognition of this fact will be a powerful iircentive to in- duce people of means to embark in en- terprises that give a fair promise of suc- cess. This makes one opportunity, and it is one that should not be neglected. The present year is one in which an effort to secure capital for the develop- ment of prospects should be vigorously made. The record of • gold camps is good enough to justify representations ot a highly favorable character, and the district the most famims one III Montana inveetinent of a large amount ot outside than any other men in it. capital in these campe will go far to give the state a renewal of activity which a characterized it before the depression set in. Mi SINO NOT ES. Ws a cold day when there are not two or three placer locations made in Lump gulch, and generally they are made one on top of the other. There are several deals ef importance ping on, the particulars of which will be announced later. The Old Dan Tucker shaft is now free of water, the timbering tinieleal and the work of development now in ',regrew'. The American Prospect.r The practical prospector is rapidly taking the place of the ignorant and the inexperienced. He hits paid for his knowledge, not by years in the managn. ment of paying properties, but by years of Ions mixed up with his gains, to in delibly impreieet his experience upon the mental factiltimoto. It is a businemoa to which few are adapted and fewer still are successful. There is nothing in the business world that re(iii tree rillch range of knowledge ftfi that of ruining and prompeeting. The prartiral pr e, pecteir of to day undermtanda every de. ta il of the eolfetrie, dynamic and chenu iced fievteira tweet effeetive in the wetter.' past peri«tds univeraal fermation. Ile has learned that while :writ, writer and vropmirs lu movi. produced ilep , si thl in veins and otherwiee. ninny of whieh have pr. o en al mil ‚lu', that the greater part of the groat bon/trine.' 'if the world lore ale eye in oonnection with two of the aix principal divisions (if ignectis or eruptive rocks trach . o t e r e l a yt e , the former generally lying in great, • fielde and truncated massea, the latter in ilikr4e and in overflows and older formsitiene Theme again have Montana. Where Is there a state or country on the face of the globe more especially fa- vored than is our beloved Montana? From one end to the other, from one a id e t o th e other it is good though some portions are better than others. The bottom iambi are productive enough to satisfy anyone, while every foot of bench and hull lands is especially adapted to grain. Our mountains are tilled with minerals of various kinds, and Montana is sevond to none sx a mineral producer. Montana is by far the most advantage - °ugly situated state of any in the union, and her natural resources are such that even though undeveloped. the toyee of the world a\--eentered upon her, and thensandaeet people are daily corning to Montana to live in tinier that they may enjoy the advai.tagea of cheap In lids, good water and health. There is no state that can 1.oast of better or no mere plentiful supply of water, and while other states are asking for . help On ac- count of ,•rop fa luto' Mont aria hue never been visited by any imitieh calamity, but when the hay °rep fails oats and wheat are plentiful and ‚T' -s versa. If there is a man in Montaria who belongs here, whim) is not proud of the state and its probable+ future he ought to move out of it I nenoerat. of ('nu\ une ree Sal This eetabliehment is now fitted up with elegant fiirniture, and hits the fin - f wd. v. ‚mi\ liquors and cigars to be ob- t a i no il in the. market. One of the unique furnishings of the Chamber of Com mere\ is the elegent rierror just put in. Ilave you „eon It? The genial Beck- with promid.“ and will be glad to see all who may \n him. e on •
