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- • t TYIE LUMP CITY MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA. , TWO GREAT MINING P RI( le 1. o litS. Description et the Hope and Kett. of Basin, Jefferson Co.. Mont. The Hope mine is one of the two prin- cipal ones of Basin. The oompany oper- ating the mine is a olose corporation and is composed of the following gentlemen: O. N. Spratt, of Alpha, Michigan; E. D. Edgerton, Hon. T. H. Carter, J. D. Clay - berg, E. W. Bach, R. B. Young and F. N. Fletcher, all prominent mining men of Helena, Montana. The present depth of the shaft, which is an incline ou the dip of the lead, is 300 feet or 380 feet from the sill floor of the 300 to the collar of the shaft; the 300 foot level being reach- ed on Saturday of last week, from which crosa-cutting was commenced, which will .have to run 14 feet before they reach the lead. There are four levels in the mine, namely the 50, 100, 200 and 300. The lead at the 50 is thirty feet in width and at the 100 it varies from fifteen to thirty feet and in some places even ex- ceeds thirty feet. This is also the case on the 200, and the quality sud charac- ter of the ore are yet to be determined on the 300. The walls are a porphyritic granite and the ore is base, containing pyrites ,uf iron zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold. The ore contains some free - 'milling and native gold which is most difficult to save. The sworn net output over and 'above all expenses, including improvements, was assessed at $75,000 for the year 1894, although it is current- ly reported that it was a figure or two above what it was assessed at. They heve a 1130 -ton concentrator at the mine, the ore being reduced six into one and the concentrates sent to Omaha for reduction. The company is a close corporation, the value of the ore cannot be 'ascertained, but it is known that at least a portion of it is very rich. The concentrates vary greatly, sometimes being exceedingly rich, but on the whole they attain an average which pays the company handsomely for the money in- vested in the enterprise. The mine and mill is properly equipped with all the latest modern machinery necessary for the handling and reduction of the ore. F. N. Fletcher is the general manager of the entire plant, while the mine ie in charge of the capable and well-kndwn Butte - miner, Martin Buckley. The property has been operated on a success- ful and paying basis ever since it was started, and the company gives employ- ment to 115 men, both in and about the entire works. The Katie property is located on the east extension of the Hope vein. It was formerly the property of the Klein- schmidt brothers who owned two-thirds. and the remaining third being . hbld by Mike O'Donnel, an old Cataract miner, who at one time owned the Hope mine, and sold it to the present owners. The Katie was bonded in two separate in- strumente by Fred Rice, James Glass, John Glass and H. G. Pickett; one in- strument conveying the title from the Kleinschmidt brothers to them in a bond for the sum of $75,000, to be paid in monthly iustallmente of $2,000 to be paid on the 27th day of each month un- til paid for; fourteen payments having been made up to the present date. The bond for O'Donnel's interest was for the sum of $30,000, which was promptly paid on the day set, and the third interest deeded over to the Glass brother and Rice. This property was later on form ed into a corporation, a one third inter eat having been sold to Massachusetts parties for the sum of $100,000. The new compan, is known as the Basin and Bay State Mining Company. They have erected one of the moat oomplete con- centrating plants (which now has a capacity of 225 tons) in the country, and is equipped with all the modern ap- pliances known to the art of mining. The shaft of the Katie is a perpendic- ular one 300 feet in depth, with levele every 100 feet. The mine is virtually • new one, the ground not having been opened up to any great extent, but the lead will average sixteen feet in width its entire length. It is of the same character as the Hope, but as yet it has not been the luck Of this company to en- counter the Tich streak that the Hope company is enjoying at present. The concentrates of both the Katie and the Hope are very uncertain as to value, and there are tiniee when a single oar will hardly pay the freight charges and cost of production, while at other times a single car has been known to net the owners several thousand dollars. The Katie mine was, for • time, par- tially closed down owing to a heavy in- debtednese incurred in building the mill and developing the property. This financial storm has been weathered and the company is shipping concentrates to the East Helena smelter at the rate of forty ears per week, which will vary from $40 to $100 per ton and thirty tons to the ear The value of the concen- trates lime been moi• regular than those spoken of above taken from the Hope The output of the mine is taken i•litetly from the 300 foot level, where the lead is much larger sea more defined than the levels above I 1,c . \ are Moping 011! OD the Pei and 2tto, hut the lead gradually grows smaller as the surface is approach- ed The 300 west drift eonneeta with the west shaft on the west end . line of the Katie awl it is expected as the stopes are opened in that end of the mine that they will cut the rich streak which dips from the Hope easterly into the Katie ground. They are employing seventy three men in and about the works. -- Western Mining VV Trull Creek Mines. Clarence King, the distinguished ge- ologist and fnining expert, writes enter- tainingly of the Trail creek district in the Chicago Inttir Ocean. Mr. King re- cently spent several weeks in Spokane and the surrounding country. His let- ter to the Inter Ocean follows: Geologically, the region has been sub- jected to powerful street; and has given way in long fttisures, which traverse the country for hundreds ot miles, creating the structural drainage lines of the country. The focus of this fissure sys tem lies far north of the Canadian Pacific railway, in a plexus of snow mountains. From there these remark- able earth cracks radiate south, °Attend west, like the fingers of an outatretched hand, and are occupied each by a long, straight waterway, either the Fraser, Columbia, ofKootenai rivers, or by long river -like lakes. The ocean side of this area is rather low, no considerable or continuous mountain wall shutting out the sea winds, as in the case of Washington, Oregon and. California; in consequence there is no arid belt under the lee of the maritime chain, as there is throughout Lb. United States; but -the meisture- laden Pcsifio wind pours in and precipi- tates an abundance of summer rain and a great volume of winter snow. At the same time the effect of this prevailing wind is to trail inland the tempering in- fluenoe of the Japanese current and pre- vent excessive cold. It is a land of great, rushing water- courses subject to enormous floods. The summer is short, the winter correspond- ingly long, and agriculture, except on the coast, is confined to rare sheltered spots and a few northern crops. Thus far only a general prospecting reconnoisance in force has been accom- plished for the whole region south of the Canadian Pacific railway, resulting in the discovery of many valuable and some brilliant mines. But it is already certain that the whole field described is one broad mineralized area. The chief points of demonstrated value are the district of Slocan, in the East Kootenai division -- where excellent silver -lead mines are being exploited and where the two metals occur in unusually high percent- ages in veins, with every evidence of strong extension and permanency -and Trail creek in West Kootenai, six miles west of the Columbia and about ten north of the boundary. At both of these points towns are rapidly building and large permanent works of development are begun. It is the mines of Trail creek near the town of Roseland, which for the moment are attracting the widest public interest from the fact that their veins carry an extremely rich and unique type of gold ore. Another valuable gold, silver and cop- per district is Boundary creek, 80 miles west of Roseland, just within British territory. Still another \camp\ is now the object of • \rush.\ Slate creek, this new gold center, is in the state of Washington, high in the Cascade range, and but a few miles south of the bound- ary. All these are strung along in a single belt of precious metal deposit, which ex- tends from Alberta to the Pacific. They are the first frui*.e of the new campaign. Enough is already known to warrant the conclusion that the whole ot the prov- ince is more or lese mineralized. The Trail creek gold mine, were dis- covered four years ago, but their regular development dates from me. Their mineralogical character ia so peculiar that a few peints of technical interest may be mentioned. From the Columbia river westward extends a chain of ancient outbursts of a dark -green, heavy and exceedingly hernblendic di- orite, an irreptive rock often in other countries associated with occurenoes of the precious metals. These mountain masses of diorite are riven in several di- rections, but mainly on east and west line., by a numerous series of fissure veine, fiilled with a massive mixture of iron and copper sulp&ide carrying from one to three ounoee of gold 1.4) the ton, from 5 to 10 per cent. of (topper, and a small varying amount of silver, usually lese than ten ounces. The ore oonsieits of pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. not tit« crystallized, but usually in a solid, amorphoue mesa. As developed, the veins show great volume the solid ore free from gangue and ranging from five to twelve feet thick. When it is added that the ore chimney., though not very long, are very frequent and near together, it will be realized that here are the elements of a new and ex- tremely rich type of gold formation. Such ores are obviously out of the range of amalgamation preemie/lee, but are en- tirely suited to matting and smelting The few hundred fima which hav e th us far bogs t rs,-ted, largely in the course of development, have Len smelted at Butte and Helena, whither they go by the Spokane Palls & Northern and Northern Pacific roads. The smelting resulte show a remarkably uniform yield whieh is found to average about $48 ln gold and ti per cent of copper. No where else in America are there large, strong vein of thls eliemical nature. Such ores were heretofore rather a mineralogical curiosity. Several admirable mines at Trail have passed the experimental stage, and are now realizing an important produotion. Blanks of every description for male at the Morita office. New quartz location blanks ready July let. Law in effect after that date. E. A. CARLETON, Attorney at Law, Special Attention Paid to Mining Law. Rooms 1 AND 2, 1Jeron BLOCK, HELENA, MON I. No. 3554. APPLICATION FOR PATENT. U. S. Land Office, Helena, Montana, May 24th, 1895. Notice is hereby given, that Joseph Davis, whose post office adidrees is helena, Lewis and Clarke County, Montana, lias this day tiled application for patent, under the mining laws of Congress, for =2.58 acres of placer mining laud, situated on sections 5 and 6, township 8 north, range 3 west; sections 1, 2, 3,5, 9, 10, 16 and 17, township 8 north, range 4 west, and south part of uneurveyed township O north, range 4 west, in (unorganized) mining district, Jefferson County, Montana, which claim is recorded in the office of the County Recorder of said County, and designated and described Iii the plat end field notes on tile- in this office as follows : Re -survey No. 2679 A, beginning at corner No. 1, from which the standard corner to sec- tions 31 and 32, township 9 north, range 3 west bears north e degrees34 minutes west 946 feet, and running thence south 85 degrees and 48 minutes west 612 feet; thence north 62 de- grees 43 min utem west 431 feet; thence south AI degrees 29 minutes west 750 feet; thence north 79 degrees CO minutes west 2460 feet; thence north 57 degrees 51 minutes west 118.4 feet, to corner No. 6, in the east side line of the Little Alma lode; thence south iv degrees 20 minutes west along said line 138.3 feet; thence south 55 degrees 40 minutes east 3:16.8 feet; thence south 77 degrees 35 minutes east 2497.2 feet; thence north 82' degrees 17 minutes east 750 feet; thence south 63 degrees 51 minutes east 420 feet; thence south 87 de- gree. :e intnutes east 573 feet; thence north 15 1,•gie,-, 30 minutes east 264.7 feet to the plare , f beginning, containing 17.45 acres. And re ..urvey No. 2679 11, beginning in the north e est side line of the Little Alma lode, at earner No. 7, from which corner No. 8, of re -survey 2879 A, bears south 88 deg 18 min eset 955.2 feet, and running thence north 70 de- grees 41 minutes west 165.7 feet; theneenorth 58 degrees 19 minutes west 765.5 feet; thence north 71 degrees 24 minutes west 1824:1 feet; thence south 21 degrees 54 minutes east 321 feet; thence south 63 degrees 15 minutes west 403 feet; thence south 86 degrees 30 minutes west 375.5 feet; thence south 40 degrees 27 minutes west 826 feet- theme south 8'7 degrees 08 minutes west 591.7 feet ; thence south 60 de- grees 28 minutes west 34(1 feet; thence south 81 degrees 41 minutes west 296 feet thence south 19 degrees It minutes west 300.8 feet; thence south 30 degrees 5E) minutes west 365 feet; thence south 73 degrees 38 minute. west 525 feet; thence south 84 degrees 47 minutes west 3011.4 deet thence south 67 degrees 20 minutes west OW feet; thence north 50 de- grees 28 minutes west 107..9 feet; thence north 3 gegrees* 43 minutes east 560 feet: thence niirth 50 degrees 47 minutes west 563 feet; thence north 32 degrees 27 minutes west 1053.4 feet; thence north 67 degrees 25 minutes 550.7 feet; thence north 57 degrees 28 m I ,,,.,, west 433.3 feet; thence seuth 83 degree , • is minutes west 850.7 feet; thence north 22 de- grees west 975 feet; thence north 47 degrees 311 minutes west 306 feet; thence north 88 de- grees 04 minutes west 728.7feet ; thence north 54 degrees 58 minutes west 704.6 feet; thence south ill degrees 58 minutes west 1595.7 feet; thence north 83 degrees 12 minutes west 836.4 feet; thence north 48 degrees 56 minutes weeo 600 feet ; thence not th 48 degrees 36 minut,•. west 423 feet; thence north MO degrees 30 tut I] utca west 1:10 feet; thence south 2 deltt... cic - minutes east :215.7 feet; thence south is:: de - greets 28 minutes west658.3 feet; thence south 14 degrees 13 minutes west Zillg feet ; thence south 56 degrees 38 minute,. ..sce feet; thence south 74 degrees 13 2311.6 feet ; theme south 3 degree. ,•• notes east. 208 feet: thence Mirth 71 des: e 47 minutes east 2388.6 feet; thence 111111 11 'ci degrees 07 minutes east 1178.5 feet: thence north 9 de- grees 49rninutes east 2178.7 feet; thence north W2 degrees 40 minutes east 8e.2 feet: then ee south 61 deg 17 minutes east873.5 feet; then , south 86 de-g tr2 minutes east 862.7 feet; thence north 85 deg 21 min east 1461.4 ft; thence south tel deg 45 min east 771.5 feet; thence sleuth 73 de;.9 min east e44.3 feet- thence south 49 deg 58 min east 3506.6 feet; thence south 65 dog. min east 1104.7 feet; thence north 84 deg 07 min east 787.4 feet; thence south 57 deg 43 min molt 432 feet; thence south 63 deg 36 min east 449.3 N; thence sonth 37 deg 50 minutes east 1088.4 feet; thence south 30 deg 13 min east 497.3 It; thence south 17 deg 55 min west'?').' It; them -e south 70 deg west 1891.3 feet; thence south i - des 48 min west 782 feet; thence south 66 des.; 36 min west 1018.3 feet; thence south 44 deg min west e..45.3 feet; thence south 32 deg e min west 244e feet: thehce south 57 deg 30 min west 844.ts feet; tbenoe north 72 deg 37 min west 1731.5 feet; thence south 7 deg 45 min east 198 feet; thence south 73 deg 16 min east 1431.8 feet; thence south 31 deg 37 min west 1275 feet; thence south O deg 80 min west 1474 feet; thence south 32 deg 49 min west 1133 ft; thence south Suie 5/ min west 925.5 feet; thence south 71 d , min west 1845 feet to corner No. 75 from si le the northwest corner of section 16, t, » g north. range' west bears north 15 .13 min west 1784.7 feet; thence south 149 ut'» is min west ?ea feet; thence south 67 clew 1'. , • r, east uns feet; thence south 12 deg ir, ‚seat fi -et; thence north 42 deg Og tillI g er2.7 feet; thence south 6)4 deg 30 minutes e:, 114.7 feet; thence south 75 deg 24 min east 1 `co thenve south Si gleg 44 min east 550.4 f». ,ien north el deg 36 min east KM feet: thcres , irt)' R deg e min east 000.9 ft-; thence north ,14 deg so mie °net, 1157.3 It; thence north deg 08min east 1821.7 It; thence north its dem 84 min east feet; thence north 54 deg 56 min east 1009.7 feet; thence north 34 deg 26 min emit 24e1 feet; thence nort it 43 deg 11 min east 3228 feet ; thence north ft> , gig NI min east 1000 feet; theme nort h e deg 40 nett east 718.1 feet; thence - north Ti ci,-; IT min east 1594.7 ft; thence south 74 deg ts eivd .recti ft . thence north 57 deg 27 min east sibt U ft . thence south Ni deg GI min east es s feet : th' -nee north 75 deg X% min east 537.7 fee theme north ‚Id 51 min east 0+1.9 feet; thence nurth 11 deg 47 min mud Mee feet; thence south $7 down min east 2$11.2 fi -et; them.* north 50 deg east 3414.8 feet; thenee south 87 deg 10 min east 548.9 It; thence north 37 dog 07 min east 301 It; thence north 87 deg 42 min east 382.2 ft,• theme ninth 72 deg 28 min catit 631.1 feet; thenee sleuth 78 deg % min east 1380.2teet: t hence mouth P.Odeg 10 min east 769.2 feet; thence south 70 deg 35 min eamt 75.7 feet; thence north 64 deg 341 min cure 150 5 feet to corner Nu,.'?. the place of be- e inning. 905.111 'tyres In resurvey e1179 Ii I • .1 srea claimed 222.58 acres. upon wh It t rt. -I t.f said applleation was p 4 „,e 4 .d t ,, 1, s of May, 18%. The lag manta to these premises are surv, s 11 , 7 Ito , T Attie Alma lode, Jo- seph P. 1 •• al Inelioente, on the west Of \ T y, . Atld the east of survey No. 2879 It 1 1 , '1,4 , »0 1 -1 „r yurvr.y No. 2679 11, the Holbrewe, er so r ey No. 3200, Win. T. floibrook, applicant sivrvey No. 1028, Planer 1„,t N o .0 . ,,aj e i n ., .arvoy No lee A on the • Reed min F. Herrin, appl leant W F. (\ix. Register. Date of first te l hilleat ion June I, lea. ›ie tee, The LUMP CITY MINER. $2.00 Per Annum, The Lump City MINER is the on- ly paper and rep- resentative organ of the now fa- mous LUMP GULCH Mining District, a district which is aston- ishing the miner- alogical world. THE MINER is published in the very heart of this bonanza re- gion, and will each week con- tain faithful re- ports from the mines, concern- ing their develop- ment and output, and all other news of an inter- esting character. W( respectfully so- licit your patronage, WILLIAMS (t LYON, Lump City, Montana. • -- COUNTY orEICEttte Judge Fifth Judicial District.. Frank Showers , ',minty Attorney William L. Hay Clerk District Court. . .. . Henry O. Ricketts John F. Sheehy, County Couaniesinners Cieorge Rsujamin, Jerrie Patterson. Sheriff ... . . ............ Alexander P. Gilliam Tres/tourer r - ....... . William V. Meyers Clerk and Recorder ..... ...... Eugene Picot Anse/wee .. . . ...... . Jamee E. Wood e Suprintendent of kiehoule Nannita M. V. Bagley Coroner ----------Edgar I. Fletcher Public Adminietrator ..... . David 1.1,edee County (Surveyor Edward R. McNeill FRED. J. THOMAS, ASSAYER. j1/1 S. Main St., Helena, Mont. Over Ganter's Shoe Store P. 0.dug, 1521. ''>g7 Thomas F. Oakes, Henry t'. Payne, Henry C. Rouse. Receivers. NORTHERN PACIFIC Puns Throwrh Cars --BETWEF.N ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH, FARG10, GRAND FOItitS, and WINNIPEG -AND-- HELENA, BUTTE, SPOKANE, TACOMA, SEATTLE, PORTLAND. man Sleeping Cars, Elegant Dining Cars, Tourist Sleeping Cars. In Effect Sunday June 2,1895. ARRIVE AT HELENA No. e Pacific Mall, west bound .....8Z a. m. No. 2, Atlantic Mail, eastbound.... 11:20 p. m. No. 8, Marysville accommodation, daily except Sunday 9:30 a. m. No. 9, Elkhorn aecommodation, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sat- urday. 520 p. ni. No.9, Wickes and Boulder ac- commodation, daily except Sunday ........ • • ...... •• ' No. 101 Rimini mixed, Mondays only 230 p.m. DEPART FROM HELENA No. 1. Pacific Mail, wee bound 815 a. in. No. 2 At 'anti,- Mail. emit bound 11:30 p. No. 7 IN aryav I Ile accomodation, daily except Sunday ......... 330 p. m. No. 10 Elkhorn accommodation, Tuesdays, Thursdre m and Sat- urdays 7.15 a. m. No. 10 Wickets and Boulder ac- commodation daily except Sun- day ......... ....... 7:15 a. nu. No.102 Bimini mixed, Mondays only ............ .............. . 10.3o a. m. 5:25 p. m. For information time cards, maps and tickets call on or write A. D. EDG-Al. GENERAL AGENT, HELENA, MONT. CHAS. S. FEE, G. P. Jr, T. A., ST. PAUL MINN. `SCHREIN RS , ' GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE, MAIN STREET, - HELENA. We carry a general line of Gro-: ceries and House Furnishing goods and at price% that will satisfy any buyer. This we guarantee. SCHREIN ERS. Arthur J. Craven, ATTORNEY -AT - LAW, Rooms la and 17, Bailey Block, HELENA, MONTANA. Webster's Assay Office, A. P. WEBSTEO. mumetrou- imencl Cliaoblern. loot, No. 82 teeth Main St.. opp. Cosmopolitan Note HELENA, - MONTANA. P. 0. Box 1017. prompt returns made on Samples Relit by mail or «presa. Over 28 years ex periene• in the mining Steitese an•I Inrri tories. Established in Helenelic 141.0. 1 ferVe eeit le ‚set eemi Lee Silver $i 1111 Siivr and La.. I Golo and Silver 1 SI ttilv'r •14 3 00 Copper 150 I rori ...... 00 Zino $00 1 ,11 141 F14.1 , egie e el re ti aetletefelre Se I VOT $2 00 Hilver and lend 1 00 lield nee' Hi I VAT 800 firid, HI I v'r à lel 4 00 F1 *I t.
