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j The Lump City Miner. VOL. 1.—No. 14. LUMP CITY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1895. $2.00 A YEAR. J. B. LOCKWOOD, D U C; I S DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines, Mining Supplies, Chemicals, Etc. 137 N. MAIN STREET, HELENA. For Mining S upplies and Machinery OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST QUALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SERVICE, go to A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. 118 and lltt North Male Street, - - - HELEN t, MONTANA TURNER & Co. Grocers and Miners' Supplies, 20 AN I ) 22 EDWARD ST. Montana Lumber niManufacturing Co. MINING TIMBERS and BI MITERIIL of ILL KINDS. Verde 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 Description o be sold at one-half their ac- tual Value. 235 N. Nain St., HELENA. H. H. ASHLEY, Ladin - Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. 414 North Perk ‚venue, - HELENA. telephone 199. The Ashley Stable is now run- ning a daily coach between Helena and Lillie 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. or over. .25c per 100 lb. Packages delivered.... .. 25 and 50o ANDREW WOODS, Barber Shop and Bath Room, 3334 S. Main 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, 1121 Kleinschmidt 8/ Bro. (CONSOLIDATED.) HARDWARE DEPT. AGENTS FOR Hercules Powder 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 ami Bueltets, Track Iron, .Car Meets, Iron and Brass Castings, Mt. Special Minim! Maehinen of all kiwis made to order. Miners' and Prospectors supplies of all kinds. Work promptly attended to on short notice. A. M. WILLIAMS, Agent, Miner Ofiloe. The Hartford ul Saloon HARTORD, MONTANA. THE FINEST OF WINES, LIQUORS 'AND CIGARS. KUTH et CO., Proprietors. Honslor'm Beer Cold Luneheli Served. Dr. A. Chase Dogge, SP ECIALIST Diseases of Women and Children. Orrice: Mixth Ave. and Main St.. redephone rise. IIELENA. MONT. uso Private Utterer. of Men treated guerfeek. ....TAPIIIR(IP Gulch and our - 1,mnd- ino oinntry when deaired. Notice of School Election. The Anneal Mooting of Dimtrirt No. I. Jeffereon ‚tint r. for the elect i,111 of a School Trnaten. will he held on Seturday. Alen ROI. ISSM. at Ow School Homo.. The polls te be open hate -Ann the home of two o'clock and odx eerier* rn. 11. Herren. n. A. BAILRY. Clerk. M. A. Hoarse. ¡ John Curtin stemmed the duties of postmaster at 'Helena last Monday, re- lieving T. H. Clewell, whose term of offloe had expired. Dr. W. L. Steele, democrat, was elect- ed mayor of Helena by a plurality of 189 votes. The votes cast for the three candidates were as follows: W. L. Steele, democrat 1197 R. Lockey, republican 1009 Ç. O. Reed, populist- 736 Steele's plurality 189 We are informed upon pretty good authority that the Montana Central railway contem plates running a spur of their railway from the main track near the mouth of the gulch, up Lump gulch as far as the Little Alma mine, in the near future. We hope this report is true Re it would be a great convenience to the mine owners, as well as to every resident of the gulch. The work of grailing Main street, at both ends, has been going on during the past week, much to the improvement and convenience thereof. By grading off the bluff and throwing the dirt down into the creek bottom, practically a straight road can be made to the old Halford ranch, and from there to Clan- cy a good dry road at all seasons of the year was made by nature. It will take a little time and money to get the roads into shape, but they will got there gradually. Rex nee, at Hunter>, (Untie at $2. 0 0 Per idle hunderepound• MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump Gulch District. Mining Notes and Item* of the Day of au Interesting Character. Bar silver, 65%. Lead, $3.00. Copper, $9.3734. At this writing there are only three mines which are regularly shipping ore —the Liverpool, Little Nell and King Solqmon—all the others are sinking and getting ready to run their levels, or are now crosscutting to their veins. It will be fully another month before they will all be shipping again, but as they are all putting their shafts down to a considerable depth, when they do get to taking out ore again there will be a long siege of it, and the chances are that hereafter the shafts and develop- ment work will be kept down and ahead of the stoping ground, so that the camp will continue to make itself felt. In several of the largest mines changes have just been made, either from a windlass or a horse whim, to steam hoists. These have just been set up and work on the mines resumed. With- in the next six weeks, instead of three regular shippers there should be, barring accidents, eight, if not more. There are several important deals go- ing on, phich includes groups of prom- ising prospects, of from three to eight mines each. The MINER is not now at liberty to comment at length upon these different propositions, but we will say that they are of considerable importance to the camp, and that each of the deals are progressing favorably, with every prospect of an early eonsumation. One of the deals, if made, should put at least - ine hundred men or more at work be- fore -snow flies, as the leications included in the transfer are splendid prospects, and the men who are negotiating for their purchase are thorough business men and not afraid to spend money. The report made from the Little Nell, Free Coinage, Little Aleut end the other properties up the gulch, last week, will answer for this week, so far as anyOing of special inyortance is concerned; work is pregressing favorably in all of them, and they are just one week fur- ther advanced in development. New lo- cations, of more or less promise, are be- ing made every day, and hundreds of men are at work sinking shafts on their prospects. This is about the situation in the camp up to date. * * * THE LIVERPOOL. During the past two months all sorts of rumors have been rife concerning the Liverpool mine—that it was going to close down and stay closed until silver was worth a dollar an ounce or more; that a deal was on to dispose of the entire property to an eastern syndicate; that the bottom had fallen out of it and there was no more ore in it, besides several other rumors that we do not now recall —but the fact still remains that the Liverpool is shipping more ore to -day, and has been for a year pant, than any other mine in the gulch, three teams being kept constantly busy hauling ore, and this notwithstanding the fact that a comparatively small fen* of men are emplceed there. We have been unable as yet to ROO Mr. Merrill, personally, since his return from California, but we are informed that he has eteted that the force On the Liverpool would soon be materially increased, and that levels would be run into the une (irked por- tions of the Washington ground, below the 300 foot station, and the property worked through the Liverpool shaft. This is, in all probability, what will be done even if the property should change hands after April 31st, the date of the expiration of the Washington lease. That the Liverpool is a great mine, no one who is at all acquainted with its history will attempt to deny. * • the lease has until the last day of April to run. The boarding house closed down last Wednesday night. * • * THE THOMAS. Good ore 18 said to be found in the Thomas shaft in the shape of stringers from the lode. When the Thomas is crosscut, which will be done as soon as the shaft has reached a sufficient depth, at about the 200, it is confidently ex pected that a good body of ore will be found. There is no apparent reason why ore should not be found in the lode I as the shaft is full of it and it is not on the lode at all. Work is being pushed night and day. THE WARIIINt:Tor4, The hoist used on the Washington has been taken down, loaded On wagons and hauled fron off the hill into the gulch below the mine where it, will probably remain anti' Muser\. Grob, Henton k Co., decide to haul it over to the Hope, at the foot of Sheep Moun- tain, or elsewhere as the case may be. These gentlemen have a erew of men at work on the Hope making an ex ninina tion of the property, as far as they are able to do so in the present Omit, and should the mi . ne 8110*/ as woll as it IN ex peeled it will do, the prehabilitiee are that the Worthington hoist will be taken over there and set up. wo r e on th e Washington has entirely efeueel, though * * MINING NOTES. The Old Dan Tucker is still produc- ing great ore. The Stanley, near the King Solomon, continues to improve. They have a horse whim in operation there. The ore in the DeCamp mine gets better and wider as the shaft goes down. He has been sacking ore from the grass roots. Work has been commenced on a mine east of the Liverpool, the name of which we was unable to learn, which gives promise of developing rapidly. - Charles H. Head, Peter Larson and Sallie Viley Bell, all of Helena, Montana, are applying for a patent on the Little Nell lode and the extension of the Lit- tle Nell lode, and the first publication of the notice appears in this issue of the MINER, (April 6.) Edward Tevlin has discovered a lode in the Colorado mining district, about nine miles from Lump City, of more than usual promise and which has just e y been recorded under the nam of the Poorman. The quartz is eapecia tine looking and carries gray copper, native and antimonial silver in large quanti- ties. Mr. Tevlin intends to develop the Poorman for all he is worth, and thinks he will have no difficulty in making a mine out ot it. Advantages ot (\phial. There is much to be said in favor of mining by large corporations with an abundance of capital. Such companies can, in effect, apply the well-known prin- ciples of insurance to the business of prospecting for and developing mines. Suppose, for instance, a company oper- ate; six mines; if the properties have ' been selected with due care at least a portion of them will always be in a pay- ing condition, anil their profits will gen- erally pay for necessary development in the other mines and still leave a surplus from which to pay dividends. Given a large corporation with able management and success may frequently be achieved where a number of individuals, with an equal aggregate capital, but' working separately, would most or all of them fail. The man who has \all his eggs in one basket\ is liable to lose courage and abandon an undertaking at some crisis when success seems almost at hand, but where failure, always possible, would completely ruin him. It would probably be much better for the industry of mining if the \promoter\ were a little lees conspicuous, and the whole capital stock of mining companies could be brought to represent cite}, in hand rather than glittering -possibilities. There is too glaring a discrepancy be- tween a capitalization of one or more millions of dollars and an insignificant looking prospect hole, which lacks oven the security of a government patont. There are chances in mining, as well re; in trade, manufacturing and agricultre, but such hazards can be kept at the minimum by experience and judgment, and practically obliterated by the 'em- ployment of adequate capital. Nor would this in any way prove a detriment to the \poor man,\ for, except in the rarest of instances, no poor man can de- velop a mine without assistance, and large aggregations of capital devoted to mining would insure a sale for every really valuable prospect. ••Dliotial Failure of the Alaska Scheme.\ benefits have we enjoyed from the pos- session obAlatika?\ The article seems at first to be prompt- ed by \the failure of Congress to pro- vide for paying the idemnity of $3,000,- 000 awarded by the Paris convention to Great Britain for damages by American whalers to British interests in Behring Sea,\ as this is the first wording of the article; but, as further down we read: 'It is not possible to imagine that the United States would be willing to sur- render the territory for the amount of the idernuity which the Paris conven- tion has awarded, and yet that does not seem to us to be an irrational trade\ and \if we could bring ourselves to under- stand the radical difference between England and the United States in the matter of territorial acquisition, we might at last be in a mental condition to address England on the subject of the transfer of Alaska to the Crown,\ it looks as if the article were written more from a high regard for E,)gland's ilter- ests, with a gold -bug -due -demanding - tone, and entire absence of patriotism and correct knowledge of the resources of the infant territory. While undoubtedly the idemnity should have been paid (and it is strange that Cleveland especially did not par- ticularly look after its being provided for) and that the government \has been to considerable expense in maintaining its authority in the territory,\ we would certainly regret to see any such move as the News -Letter suggests being even dreamed of by our Congress. All of our western states have in past years cost the government snug sums in the \maintainence of its authority (the southern states, too) and California has had a goodly slice spent on it, but the idea of relinquishing any of them never entered into the question, and to -day the prophecies of the '49er and other thorough Americaes have been justified by the great development of the Western country—and the mime, will be the case with Alaska. The ewe -Letter forgets that the Yukon placer fields are forging to the front as among the greatest in the world; that the Alaska-Treadwell Company reported for December, 1894, \ore milled, 19,807 tons; sulphurets treated, 345 tons; bullion ?tale sulphur - eta, $14,627; bullion shipped, $44,347; that this mine is one of the largest in the world; that the trailing poet at For- ty -Mile, on the Yukon river, reported in December last that there had been re- ceived from less than 200 miners and prospectors that year $250,000 in gold dust; that the Tacoma emelter received from the Glacier lode on Sheep creek, in January, thirty tons of ore averaging from $250 to $300 per ton; that the Sil- ver Bow Basin Company are putting up a 100 -stamp will on their property, and that the proprietors do not intend to let the $500,000 paid by them for the prop- erty (after careful investigation) lie long without returns; that the Bald Eagle Mining company and many others are getting rich returns, and, generally speaking, that if agriculture and seals both are out of the question as matters of profit, mining men of experience and undoubted veracity have within the Imo year predicted that Alaska will „how mineral propositions of such a claw, and of undoubted rich shipping returns, that they will place her in tue front rank of gold producers in the near fu ture. I therefore believe that if the News - Letter will hide its files of 1869 anil 1894 where they can't turn up again, it may ere long contain an snide on the \Sur cos of the Alaska scheme,\ and com nient favorably upon the rich resulte of the small sum comparatively \expended by the governmant in maintrinig author Ily\ in that territory, just as in colora do, Arizona, Dakota, Montana and Cal tfornia. 'Under the above caption the San Fr cisco ,1%lews Letter, of March 16, miles a gruesome and exceedingly un- patriotic wail concernimeour northwest territory Lip a perfect frenzy of evident delight, at being supposedly able to prove that it has ones been right, it drags out. of the accumulated duat of year* its 180.1 file, and quotes from an ar- ticle in which they \alone had dared to tell the truth end Ii mi the perneption to forme\ tir' 'langer\'' regarding the pur - chain+ and re q uisition of the territory,\ and, ii ith R leviiled hint at Remittal con- nected with Hoorotary ti e ceard (d ecease d) in the matter, asks the question - What 1)F.A N Burmese. There is to be an opening dance this evening at ‚ McCann's hall, in the new drug store building. Don't forget the dance at the 1 Ihani bra Springs Hotel, Easter OVe fling, April 15th. Tickets, *1(K) Everybody interested in having a school in Lump City should go over Clancy this (Saturday ) afternoon and elect a Lump City niait one of the true teea. The jury in the cage of A. C. Schilling, who was arrested for assault and bat terry. 11111111:111ch rame off at Clancy last Saturday, returned a verdict of \not guilty,\ end now \all is quiet along Lump Creek.\ The Chinese question created quito stir in the . gulch last week, hut, the nu merously signed petition has not, as yet,' had the efTei•t of scaring them away. Perhaps they can't rerad F,nglish and are waiting for a (liners; translation of the petition. •••
