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VOL. 2.—No. 18.— Whole No. 70. For Mining Supplies and Machinery oF Gn gree arp, onan reo? PO A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. — ' 113 and 146 North Main Street, HELENA, MONTANA. “G&K” HYDRAULIC HOSE —-AND—— MINERS’ RUBBER COATS, outta Gans & I<lein, - - Helena, Moutana. T. J. CHESTNUT, Dealer in General Merchandise, HAY AND GRAIN, Clancy, . - . - Montana. > CLANCY SAMPLE ROOM, Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Etc. Special attention paid to supplying private families with pure wines and liquors, aa per the following price list: return of empty cases. Whisky, private stock, qts. 75c.; gallon, $2.50 Whisky, Old Crow, qts.. $1.00; gallon, %.50 Port and Sherry Wines, 50 cents per quart, or 81.50 per gallon. Lager Beer per case, $3.50, 75 cents back for Dablin Stout and Pale Ale always on hand. W. F. MILLER, Proprietor. HE PEOPLE’S STORE, 513 and 515 Broadway, Helena, Mont. HEADQUARTERS FOR Groceries, Tinware and Notions, CHINAWARE, Hay, Grain and General Merchandise, “ CHEAPER THAN DIRT FOR SPOT CASH. CHARLES H. HENTON, Prop. CLARKE & CURTIN, | HARDWARE AND STOVES. We are bow offering our entire line of heating stoves for Coal or Wood at Actual Cost Send ‘us your orders for all. kinds of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. PRICES LOW. 42 & 44 S. Main St. - - Helena, Mont. ARTHUR 'P. CURTIN, Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper. ° ° Housefurnishing Goods. — ; Will ocon our Mam- We carry the largest stock in every department in all Montana, e now going r moth New Building. opposite Hotel Helena, November 15th. Grand Removal on, Present Stock must be reduced.. Pianos and Organs in Music Department. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, HELENA, MONTANA. A= stance J. SWITZER, Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Bar Glassware and Billiard Goods. 40 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. _ LINDSAY & CO. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE, HELENA, MONTANA. We carry a full line of Fruits and Produce of all kinds No Goods sold to Consumers. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS. RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION, World’s Fair Beer Garden and lodging House 0. G. FREDERICK, Proprietor: 400-102 South Main Street, - - - - Helena, Montana. HAS THE FINEST BOWLING ALLEY IN THE WEST IN CONNECTION. When you visit the Capital and are looking for a friend you will be sure to find him at the most popular resort in Helena. The choicest wines, liquors and cigars and the best musie can be heard at the World’s Fair. CLANCY, MONTANA, SAT TURDAY, MAY 2, 1896. MINES AND MINING. (THE OVERLAND GOLD INE Regular Weekly “Clean-up from the | A Discovery of Gold-Bearing Rock in This Old Mines of the Lump and Clancy vs — ee oe er Gulch Districts. _ sali $2.00 A YEAR, good many car loads of theore since . with good results. We were shown the smelter returns Wednesday fromthe, - last shipment made of 36,700 poudns, — which gave areturn of $719.60 gold. At a low estimate there is now in sight in the Overland 300,000 tons of gold ore worth from $700.\to $1000 per car load, and two miners keep four ore teams busy hauling ore to the station at. Mon- tana City, whence the ore’is shipped to the smelter at East Helena, a distance A Miner Representative Visits» the Mine | of about four miles. and is Shown Through the Proper- Such, in brief, is the history of the Co. Ramet Eighoryse€ tie: Overland to date. The discovery of the pprertand, ‘richness of the ore in the great vein is What givesevery evidence of being one} one of the most important in the his- - of the greatest gold disvoveries in this | tory of mining in this state, and will as TAWMIIOL. ose iis Gated Ss + oy sna cues llor any other country, has just been | certainly result in the opening of ¢ A Montana Gold Field Which is Better than Cripple Creek.” Mining Notes and Items of the Day of an Interesting Character. Bar silver, 68. Lead, $3.05. Copper, 810.75. ORE SHIPMENTS IN CARS FOR THE WEEE. TATU ROLE oo acvigteee>.- o , a8 eek 2| made public about two miles back in| great gold field in that locality as the Overland...... ...ce++.s+.+ sess 2+. §| tbe foot hills northeast from Montena|sun is sure to rise. A miner from ——|city. The discovery is by no means a} Cripple Creek, a man who is thoroughly 3 Ot A erin a nn none nner 11} new one; but ie rather the application-of | acquainted with the mines of that-boom- 4 ee Ce a little common horse sense to the study | camp, and who had justwisited the Over- ag , GOLD DUST. of known ore deposits, and to which The| land mine, made the statement that J. A. Houston, president of the Hous- ton Mining & Milling company, operat- ing the above named property, received returns from the smelter last week of two tons of ore-slipped from the Gold Dust as a test of the value of the ore. The returns as given were $56.98 per ton; 15 per cent copper and 20 ounces silver. Mr. Houston is well pleased with the return, and says that he can do even better by sorting, as the ore ship ped was taken out indiscriminately, The ore body is large, and Mr. Hous- ton is of the opinion that he can take out a car of ore per month, with a small force. The company represented by Mr. Houston will probably authorize exten- sive development work done on the pioperty shortly, as the returns would certainly justify them in so doing. * » + THE THURSDAY. Geo. B. Hopkins, one of the owners of this property, an extension of the Hal- demac on the east, has about completed arrangements whereby he expects to do considerable development work on the property. He will put a steam hoist on the mine, which ic now 100 feet deep, and sink the shaft another 100 feet, when he will begin running levels from the bottom of the shaft to determine the value of the property. Several as- says were made of the lwad matter while the shaft was being sunk that gave very gratifying resulte, and would seem to indicate that with development the Thursday would make a mine. * * * THE HOMESTAKE. Crosscutting from bottom of the 100- foot shaft on this property wus begun last week. About 12 feet from the shaft the lead was struck, and a chute of ore about two feet wide was cut. As the wall had not yet been reached it was concluded to continue to advance | until it was reached, as it was the opin- ion of the owners that another chute would be found near the wall. When our informant left the mine thig had not yet been reached. No tests had yet! been made of the ore, but samples of it | shown us gave every appearance of be-| ing of high grade. | * * k THE FREE COINAGE. | Another of those strikes that has) made this mine famous has again taken about eight inches wide has been struck | Stabl, an old placer miner, aman who, lével. tered in this drift, but after penetrating this fora distance of.about 20 feet it opened out into the chute as above stated. Ore has also been struck in the crosscut run from the 350-foot level. * * * MINING NOTES, The necessary repairs and changes be-’ ing made in Cole’s mill to prepare it for crushing and reducing the ores from abotit completed, and will be ready for operation during the next week. Four Frue vanners and a 20 mesh screen have been added to the complement of the mill, which before consisted of ten stamps. It is estimated that the mill will havé a capacity of about 20 tons per day. The mill will be operated by Jack Howard, who set up the machinery, a mill man of considerable experience. A road is being built from the mine to the mill, a distance of about a quarter of a mile, and hauling of the ore will be com- meénced in afew days. Mr. Vinson has alarge amount of ore on the dump at the Pilot, which will be run through as soon as the mill is ready to work it. In the meantime development work at the mine is being prosecuted with vigor, and is demonstrating that'the Pilot is a great property. Harry Anderson, for the past eighteen months an employe of the Little Nell Mining Co., has removed with his family to Anavonda, where he has accepted & position. | ficiently so to’ warrant furtber explora- half from the mine, and the ore had to lout. but for place in this property. A chute of ore | Helier, a brother of A. M. and Z -T. in the east drift run from the 300-foot ‘ : as sel it himself, “pilgrim A barren spot had been encoun-|-; wa epeen oo oe \spoken of. the Pilot mine, McClellan’s gulch, are | there was “no mine in Cripple Creek, or anywhere else, that he had-ever seen, that would in any way compare with the Overland for the amount of work done.” The vein isa contact between lime and granite, and is probably from fifty to sixty feet in width. The ore is a black hematite iron ore, very hard and “jaspery” looking, some pieces closely resembling flint and agate, or obsidian— but it contains the yellow metal in pay- ing quantitiee—and that is the main thing in gold or any other kind of min- ing. The Overland is now producing a car load of ore per day with one shift of miners, but the force was: doubled the latter part of thé week and its output will hereafter consequently be increased. Four teams are constantly busy hand- ling ore and as soon as additional teams can be procured they will be put at work so as to keep the ore hauled away as fast as produced. If the Overland keeps up its present gait, and there is uo reason why it should not, it will be- come one of the-most famous gold mines in the west in a short time. MrINEk takes great pleasure in being the first. newspaper to attract public atten- tion. Fully twenty-five years ago the lode now known as the Overland was found by an Englishman who was at that time engaged in placer mining at old Mon- tana City. This Englishman used to ramble around in the bills back of Mon- tana City, and one day ran across the croppingsof the Overland. He obtained large specimens of the outcrop and car- ried them down to Captaifi Fisk’s fort, the ruins of which are. yet standing at Mentana City, and there pounded the quartz in a band mortar. All of the pieces of the outcrop of the lode so. ob- tained and sampled demonstrated that the lode was rich in gold, but not suf- tion at that time, and the circumstances connected with thediscovery of the lode was soon forgotten. From that time until about five years ago the property has been in the possession of a good many miners who held it for a time, gophered around on it a little, concluded that there was nothing in it, and finally abandoned it. About five years ago A. M. Bsler and A. M. Holter, of Helena, came into pos- session of the property, and built a ten- stamp mill fitted up with an old-fash- ioned table concentrating apparratus, and commenced to explore the Over- land. The mill is located a mile and a A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE. Work will Begin Next Week on the Big Ditch tv Convey Water to Corbin. Work will begin next week on the big ditch being built for the Peck-Montana company to convey water from the Little Prickly Pear to the large plant being built by them at Corbin to work be hauled up hill to reach it. A. M.|'the tailings from the Corbin concentra- Esler had charge of the construction of| tor. The ditch will be about seven the mill, and a Mr. Stanley, of Helena,| miles long, and will be three feet wide built it. Mr. Esler continued his opera- | and 27 inches deep, and will take about tions for a little more than a year when] five months to complete. An immense he ceased work, not, perhaps, because} amount of lumber will be used in its he thought that the mine could not have | construction, as aside from what will be been made to ultimately pay, but be-| used in boxing the ditch it will be nec- cause the proposition was a dead hard | essary to flume and carry it on ‘trestles one with no big money in it, then | for 4 long distapce at numerous points operated. along ita course. Just above Jefferson At one period of the mine’s-history | it will be carried across the gulch from some of the ore from the Overland was | one side to the other, crossing over the shipped to the smelter as “flux”, for the| main stream of the Prickly Pear, and iron supposed to be contained in the | also the Northern Pacific railroad. 4 quartz, but without the discovery hay-| The Peck-Montana company is comf- ing been made that it contained “pay.” pored of wealthy Chicago parties who Presumably the smelter people found it | have been experimenting for several reasons best known to| years on a process by which these tail- ings may be worked to an advantage. They have spent a large sum for ma- chinery and sbuildings during the time of their experimenting, and now claim to have discovered a process by which they can be worked ata profit. They now have a large plant in Corbin which they have been using during their ex themselves, said nothing about it. At this period of its history the prop- erty was bonded and leased by Frank in quartz.” Thése gentlemen took a bond on the Overland, Gold Bug and | Arthur quartz locations, all adjoining, perimenting, but it will be largely ‘in- | together with the ten-stamp mill above | creased as soon as the building material The consideration of the| can be procured. | deal was $25,000, and the bond had 18} A narrow gauge railroad has been | months to run. built to carry the tailings to the mill For the first time in the history of | for treatment. The inauguration of this the Overland a stagger was made to work means much for this immediate ‘mine it miner fashion—tbat is a shaft | locality, as a large sum of money will was commenced on it which has now be expended in the construction of the reached a depth of 300 feet. The ore} ditch, getting out timbers and sawing taken out during the sinking of the|the lumber that will be used, and giv- shaft, and from the stopes and levels, ing employment toa large number of was treated in the mill ata saving of|™en for several months. The work of about $10.00 per ton. building the ditch will be under the Like their predecessors in the conduct | Supervision of O. R. Allen, general man- of affairs on the Overland, Messrs. Esler | } and Stah] found the mine a hard propo- | 98 _ Smelting company, and will be tion to handle, but in the language of pushéd through as rapidly as possible. Mr. Stabl they decided to “dig it out by | It will be covered its entire length to the roote” and thus find out whether or | Prevent its being frozen during the Pel it was a paying proposition with | Winter season. e pth. They therefore continued on seks down with an incline shaft to a depth of ares a ae ee tee 300 feet at which point they cross-cut day for Teva Colorado, to attend the the lode 20 feet without as yet having davention’ ot the ‘Western : found the granite contact. Then they oe Miners’ shia “coaveues a irk in drifted east and weston the vein about that city. . Mr. Wilkinson goss’ see del: being in the ore body, At this point in their developments they concluded to ship a car load to East Helena for treat-| yw. has in the smelter and were astonished Wilkinaast to find that the ore would net them from %700.00 to $1000.00 a car load. Montana. Central, has made This discovery was made about a|menta to build a residence’ across the month ago, and they have shipped a creek opposite the round house, > Jection could have been made by the Mr. A. BE. Long, station agentfor, the BC aoayaha ic a ager of the Helena & Livingston Min-- 75 feet either way, all of the workings egate from Clancy Union. No better ee- - Union as a delegate than that of Mr, 7 AF ons sag Say a5 Ae
