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'P • The Lump City Miner. • VOL. 1.—so. 13. IUMP CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895. J. B. LOCKWOOD, D U GIST --- DEALER IN Drugs, Median:es, 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 Mehl Street, . - - - HELENA, MONTANA TURNER & Co. Grocers and Miners' Supplies, 20 AN I) 22 EDWARD ST. «Montana Lumber Manufacturing -Co, MINING TIMBERS and BUILDING MATERIAL of ALL RINK Yams Located at HELENA and BUTTE. James Twi▪ ford, ANDREW WOODS DEALER IN Furniture, Bar Fixtures and Sto‘ es, Ore Sacks and Tents, HARNESS, ETC. Ten Thousand Second Hand Articles of Every Description to be sold at one-half their ac- tual value. 2:15 N. Main St., HELENA. ••••••• H. H. ASHLEY, 11(11na's Leadin Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. 114 Nortla l'ark Avenue, - HELENA Telephone 129, The Ashley Stable is 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 et 3:30 p. m. k m*, one way $1.00 Round trip 1.50 Freight, 100 lbe. or over. 25o per 100 lb. Parkagos delivered.... 25 and 50c Barber shop and Bath Room, 33 1 2 S. Minn St., Helena. FRED. J. THOMAS, ASSAYER. Silver and Gold ... .$1.00 Silver, Gold and Lead 1.50 Copper 1.50 24 Edwards St., Helena, Mont. P. 0. Box. 1321 Kleinschmidt (Yo Bro. (CONSOLIDATED.) HAIWW 7 ARE DEPT. AGENTS FOB Hercules Powder Full Stock of Miners' Supplies, Builders Hardware, and Headquarters for Blacksmith and Wagon Makers Supplies.- ST6ES AND TIN WARE. Granite Block, Helena. Helena Iron Works Ore Cars and Kurkels, Track Iron, Car Wheels, Iron and Brass Castings, dt. Speeia - 1 %fitting Machinery of all kinds made to order. Miners' and Prospectors supplies of all kinds. Work promptly attended to on short notice. A. M. WILLIAMS, Agent, Miner Office. T h e Hartford Saloon HA le01 . 1,D, $10:st !ANA. THE FINEST OF WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. KUTH 41L CO., Proprietors. Tteer Cold i Fierved. Dr, A. Chas, Dogge, s PECI A 141S1. Diseases of Women and Children. Orrror : Sixth Ave. and Hain St.. Telephone SM. A. ef Abe. l'rivnte Di•eneee of Men treated iMeA•1111.- fun,. Trig, rondo to 1.ornpOttleh and surround- in g eountry when 111/1 rtri Notice of School Election. The Amnia' Meeting of Wheel Diatriet Nn. I. .1offeraon County, for the pleetion of a Sr•hoo1 Trnetee, will he held on Saturday. April slit. ISM, M the Clancy School Home. The poll to he open between the honre of two o'riork and aix o'clock p. m. M. Berms. clerk (I A. itAii.inr. t Trn . tem. M A. Fi A NIEL The Jones building and McCann's drug store are rapidly approaching com- pletion. Mr. McCann's drug stock will be here some time during the coming week. H. P. Rolfe, editor of the Great Falls Leader and one of the pioneer citizens of Great Falls, died at his home near that city, on Friday morning of typhoid fever. A. B. Keith, president of the Lump City Townsite Co, has been nominated as a candidate for alderman, by the re- publicans of Helena, from the Seventh ward. The first thunder shower of the sea- son took plats.) on Thursday afternoon. It also rained quite heavily during Wednesday night. The'snow is nearly all off the hills, what little 'there was loft having been dissolved by the rain et 'flit. The Lump t:ity poet care ia now ex- pected to put in an appearance daily. The bond submitted by Postmaster Gable has been returned approved, with information that book of instrrictionn, rules and regulations for the oonduct of the (are would be tvanimi forth with. It. will be a loilsend to the ;O w l., vamp, rind WI , 1D)1* that the pie - tal authorities will not neglect to mend along sit least fifteen cents worth of pos- tage stnnipa and keep them hare for nele We may need 'Pm in our hueinees. 11.•. Floor st Ilanter's, Claney. at 82.00 per one hnretred oonntià. MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump Gulch District. Mining Note, and Items ot the Day of an Interesting Chu rur t er. Bar silver, 63. Lead, no5q. Copper, $9.37,É. * * THE KING SOLOMON is destined to make a great mine. It is now being worked under lease and bond by Helena parties, and is under the di- rect supervision of Itik. Timothy Wilcox, of that city, who is making a decided success of his operations. The property has been systematically and econom- ically opened, so far only a horse whim being used. The mine is worked through a shaft 210 feet deep, from the bottom of which a level has been driven west 75 feet, and another east 40 feet, and' there are also levels at every 50 feet in depth all the way down, and there is good ore in all these different levels, though not of as good quality as that now being extracted from the west 200 where ore is being taken out that nets from 150 to 360 ounces per ton, and the pay streak proper is from 8 to 10 inches in width, solid ore. The King Solomon has been sending from the upper levels, during the past six months or so, about one car of first class Ore per month to the smelter, ex- cept during the past six weeks, during which time the output has been doubled, and two cars of first class per month has gone down the gulch. This output it is expected will be considerably increased when the shaft lias been put down so that deeper levels can be run. Ten men are employed about the mine, and Mi. Thomas Gill, a mining man of wide experience, is foreman. The future ot the King Solomon is very bright, and notwithstanding the fact that the prop- er development of a silver mine is neces- sarily slow and costly, the .indications are that there is big money in the mine for the owners awaiting extraction. * * * TFIE eirrne NELL. The original discoverer of the Little Nell was a man by the name of John McFadden, who found the prospect eight years ago. He sunk a hole on it and worked a while, and put up a notice, but never had the minerecorded, prob- ably not thinking enough of the prespect, or perhaps not having the necessary dollar to pay for it. Such is life in min- ing. McFadden was a man who had spent years prospecting, and in the dis- oóvery of the Little Nell he turned a silver key that might have unlocked countless thousands of dollars for him, if he had only known it. But he .aban- cloned the lode as Worthless, and it was left for others to develop. McFadden is now a resident of Butte. - Work at the Little Nell begins to as - Sumo the appearadap of the days when silver was worth a dollar an ounce, a row of ore sorters in the ore house being oonstantly busy sorting and sacking ore of a quality so rich that it almost makes a man's mouth water to look at it, car after car coming to the surface from the west dryt. some of it in huge chunks weighingefrom 50 to 150 pounds, with an ease and rapidity that is astonishing. The hoist is the prettiest one in the gulch, and from its windows a magnifi- cent view ott -the best young silver min- ing canto in Montana, or any other state, can be tiFel, for five or six miles east, or down the gulch, and three or four miles west, or up the gulch. The Free Coinage on the opposite bank of Lump creek, and the Litte Alma, just above, are in plain view from the win- dows of the hoist, while all over the hill- sides are scattered the numerous shaft homes and dumps of future Little Nell's, Little Alma's and Free ( oigigure mines. Some of these prospecte are just being opened, and some of them have vonsid- able work den° on them—one ran almost speculate on the depth of their shafts by Ile size of their (111 1 / 1 1•4; SIMI the grand panorama there spread lei) makes a most pleasing picture and 011e W11101 it would be harcl to equal in the state. There are now more than thirty men employed sit the Little Nell, arid moro will h o put on as fast RN they can 1>e 11!ti, to advantage in the mine. I )re of &dully high grade char ter is being hauled down the gulch al oat daily, anti the great lap of eonoentrating oro keeps right steadily growing, out of • loch irf dollar\ will be taken • .1a. when custom re 4,eat o rs are blot here, a state of , ‘1 , 1 , 11 cannot 1>e much longer delayed • • • • THE LITTLF AIMA Sinking • W still in progr‘‘ss .e 11, ia property, and this mine, like the Free Coinage, will not commence to make history until drifting commences. It takes time, money and mueele to open a silver mine and do it right, but when once properly opened, with ore in it of the character so far taken from the Little Alma, the question is then solved and the future of the mine practically RS- Eturt-,41, at least to the depth of the shaft. Everything points to a great future for the Little Alma which, with the Little Nell and Free Coinage, completes the triangle that is destined to make mining remarkably active in the upper end ot Lump gulch before another winter sets in. THE FREE 00124AGE. The shaft on this mine is now down about 170 feet, and is being pushed as fast as two shifts of miners can do so. The lode has gone out ot the shaft to the south. When the,200 is reached a crosscut will be run to the lode and drifting commence. It is expected that good ore will be found as soon as the crosscut reaches the vein at the 2()0 level. THE THOMAS. Work on the Thomas shaft is progress- ing favorably, though there is more wat- er than can be handled with any degree of comfort with a 1)11(4{0.. The shaft is a perpendicular one and the lead has gone out of it to the south. It is the intention to go on down with the shaft to about the 200, when they will cross- cut to the vein. Judging from the amount of water now in the shaft, while out of the lead, it will require a pump to handle the water when the crosscut reaches the vein. The bottom of the shaft is full of stringers of nice looking ore, and when the vein is encountered the Thomas is more than liable to as- tonish the natives. * • * THE HOPE. The water has been taken out of the Hope shaft, at the foot of Sheep Moun- tain, and we are informed that an ination of the lode has proved satisfac- tory and that Messrs. Grob and li on i on have decided to move the hoist that they $2.00 A YEAR. would be the means of opening up a rich Mineral country, and we hope Dan build the road even if he has to tackle the Pope to get the money to do it. The Thonuie hoist has a whistle on it (which jet now has a sore throat, or eomettaè) which was taken off one of the old 20 stamp Mills at Unionville. When this whistle is feeling its best it can be plainly heard on Lombard and Wall streets. After the first day of July, 1895, the charge for recording a quartz or placer claim will be $2.00 instead of $1.00 as at present, the last session of the legisla ture having changed the law to this effect. We were in error last week in our statement that the King Solomon mine was equipped with, steam hoist. The work there is being done with a horse whim, though the property is rapidly approaching that stage in its develop- ment when the aid of steam will have to be employed to open the mine to the deep. A. C. Durborow, a member of the last congress from Illinois, and a well known electrical expert of Chicago, has, with Congressman McGann and others of the same city invested money in a gold min- ing enterprise in Montana which prom- ises to return them handsome profits. It is a new proposition in gold mining methods and is really a combination of two old and well tried principles devised by a Chicago genius. Years ago Grasshopper creek, in Beav- erhead county, on which the old town of Bannaek is located, was the richest plac- er mining region of the world. As the surface gravel and sand was all washed over, the gold began to run out and finally the creek was abandoned. The bed of the stream is a deposit of gravel from twenty-five to thirty feet in thick- ness down to a bed of rock,. and the deeper down one goes the richer the gold deposits are sure to be found. For years men have thought of this great mass of gravel in Grasehopper creek and wished iodine means could be found of getting it out. It was a simple bin- ‚ com ation of a big steam dredge and an old used during the life of the atelington fuellioned sluice box. A company was lease over to the Hope and proceed to formed, two miles of the bed of the open up that property to the deep. stream purchased and now a big dredge, Those who are best acquainted with the such as lies been used on the Chicago Hope pronounce it a very tine showin g drainage eaglet, is ready to begin opera- tor a great mine. tions. It will be worked by hydratiles • • power, a full head of water being found in the mountain near by. Electric light will enable the work to go on night and day. The dredge will be floated upon a scow in the shallow stream and wiH throw the gravel from the bedrock up ward. Last summer two miners worked with shovels and picks, excavating a pit in the bed of this stream about ten feet by fourteen feet, atol from this small hole took $3,000 worth of dust. Even I then they were not able to get down to bedrock, where the gold is expected to On befound in large quantities. Unless all TIlt OLD DAN TUCKER. Black sulphurete of 600 ounce charac- ter, are being taken out of the Old Dan Tucker shaft in considerable quantities now-a-days,.and a shipment of ore will be made from there which it will take money to buy. Disooveriee of fine look- ing ore are being made in the immediate vicinity of the Old Dan Tucker. * * THE LIVERPOOL. A small force of men are at work the Liverpool, taking out ore from the 300 and 400 -foot levels. A drift has been run east on the 400, but is said by those who are supposed to know most about it, that the ore chute is west of the shaft. and a drift may be ordered driven west by the management in a short time. • • • MININt1 NOTEN. C. E. Gable lias taken a lease and bond from James Russell. for a period of nine months from March 23, 1893, for all his right, title and interest in the Abe Lincoln, U. S. Grant and Garfield lodes, the consideration being Moo mph, and the balance $9,500, on or before the 23rd day of December, 1895, Mr. Rus- sell owns an undivided one-fourth in- terest in the above mentioned claims, and they are pronounced by expert« to be very fine proepects. There is a stems, hoist on the Abe Lincoln is hieh has 11 perpendicular shaft 125 feet in depths. and crottecutting from the bottom to the vein was begun this week This cross- cut will have to be driven about twenty feet. A small shipment of ore was lately the indications are at fault, this new tangled method of gold mining is very likely to ntake a lot of money for Mc- ( ;ante Durborow and other Chicago men.—Inter Mountain. Carson City &buy Ornes Robbed A dispatch from Carson City, Nev., says that Andrew Mason, superintendent of the New York assay office, anil goy ernment mint inspector, has been for some time inspecting matters at the United States mint in Carson City. There are rumors of a shortage which runs up to something over $75,000. The shortage is said to be in the emelter and refinery department. The fact of RO much secrecy caused ugly rumen., and it was learned frem Hirech h lar ria, melter and refiner, that something was wrong at the mint. and /1 shortage had been discovered .1 bout a month ago it t' „s learned thst moine 0.' 4: over $80,000 had mystermealy dip - appeared, and that five eleanups, which were made in quick iniceemmi.in. am it was thought ROIlle clef-restl error hail been made, failed to reveal the cause of the made from the Vavvter lode, an exten- shortage. Relined gold and silver to Rion of the Peerless Je nnie , limb s run that amount disappeared from the de 301 ounces silver, beeidee the gold and pertinent, and Inspector Mason expects lead. ľhre. men are at work on the Pr(7a Pte o'r <l i \ g, Redding and son, rind Mr. Hogan have lately made a strike of con- siderable importance in a trooper:it calle.I the Stanley, lissited near the King Solomon. The pay eitreak is about six inches wide, we understand. and the tiro sf very fine quality. A has been put iip and quito extensive de- V0101,1111'il t WI Il )0 indulged in. toe mean for the Standard to say of The irrepressible Dan Simpson, of any community that it itannuft, in some to be able to clear up the mystery be fore he gets through. Eva Mny, Great Republic and Big Ox notoriety, lootne prominently to the front and prepowea to build a road from t lis Cataraot int..) Basin. The road The Anaconda Standard had a niai' \doing\ the camp this week I' , se' to verify its ¡statement that \am many as five men go to Lump gulch in one day.\ We submit that the iilatriglard dieplaye ssibligne cheek to come hero molteiting ' , tannage; after the way that aheet has thrown mod at us. There is nothing way, make etibmisseive to its selfish or jealous Ruda. The Standard tackles the wrong oomunity u hen it tneklea Lump gulch. t'
