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* i ; VOL. 2.—No. 19.— Whole No. 71. For Mining Supplies and Machinery OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST UALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SERVICE, go to A. M. HULTES HARDWARE CO. 118 and 115 North Main Street, ELENA, MONTANA. “G&K” HYDRAULIC HOSE MINERS’ RUBBER COATS, cmitvrn Gans & Klein, - . Fielena, Mon tana. 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: Port and Sherry Wines, 30 cents per quart, or $1.50 per gallon, Lager Beer per case, $3.50. 75 cents back for | return of empty cases. Whisky, private stock. qts. 75c.; gallon, Ee Whisky, Old Crow, qts.. $1.00 : gallon, 3.50 W. F. MILLER, Proprietor. Mublin Stout and Pale Ale always on hand. THE 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, siahtcsll CL ARKE Sz CURTIN, HARDWARE AND STOVES. We are now offering our entire line of heating stoves for Coa] 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. We carry the largest stock in every department in all Montana, Will occupy our Mam- moth New. Building, opposite Hotel Helena, November 15th. Grand Removal e now going on. Present Stock must be reduced. Pianos and Organs in Music Department. ARTHUR P. haaleanie HELENA, MONTANA. J. SWITZER, WHOLESALE DEALER IN Wines, Liquors “and - Cigars, Bar Glassware and Billard 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 OONNECTION, World’s Fair Beer Garden and lodging House |: 0. G. FREDERICK, Proprietor. 100-102 South Main Street, - - - : Helena, Montane. 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 music can be heard at the World’s Fair. MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from the Mines of the Lump and Clancy Guich Districts. Mining Notes and Items of the Day of aa Interesting Character, Bar silver, 68. Lead, $3.05. Copper, $10.75. * i's ORE SHIPMENTS IN OARS FOR THE WEEK. Liverpool ......:essenee cece cece ees 1 Little Nell... . edicts... eo ccc 2 Overland...... ....66 600.0. .00.06.., 10 TOCA! cnc daeie s,s. ae « * * THE HOMESTAKE. At the Homestake work is still in pregress on the crosscut to reach the wall. It has been advanced 40 feet, and has not yet passed through the lead. Several ore chutes were passed through, one being over two feet in width. The crosscut will be continued until the wall is reached, as it is thought a chute of ore lies alongside it. After it is reached | drifting will be commenced. | * * * THE LIVERPOOL. | Sinking is still in progress in the | winze being sunk from the drift on the | 400-foot level on this property. The ore | continues to improve with depth. At) 30 feet the ore streak, while not as wide | as at 2U feet, is of a much higher grade, | and the formation becoming more solid, indicating that the properties in this district, all improve with depth, as is being demonstrated in every case where the owners have gone down on them. * * * LITTLE NELL. Through the courtesy of Dr. C. H. Head, superintendent of this property, a representative of the Miner was shown the many improvements that hitve been made since he assumed charge of the mine. A large and well appointed ore house, in which six to eight sorters are kept constantly employed sorting the ore for shipment, has: been built. The engine room, under the supervision of the engineer, Mr. Smith, is a model of neatness and convenience, The engine and hoist are of the latest improved pat- tern, capable of hoisting 600 feet. A) large kitchen and dining room. for the | accommodation of the employes was built a short time since. Workman | Bros. bave charge of the culinary de- partment, and their kitchen and the) table set by them, would do no discredit | to any boarding house in the country. Everything in and around it is built | with a view to convenience and saving of manual labor. Pipes have been laid from a large spring about 2000 feet from | the boarding house which will convey | water into the kitchen and other build- 9] ings of the company. lof near 200 feet, and will be so arranged | | that in case of fire a strong stream of It will havea fall water could be thrown on the flames. All the improvements are made with a view to their permanency that go far to show that the owners have faith in the permanency of their mine. A contract CLANCY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1896. large mining proposition. Several ad- joining claims have been purchased by the company lately, and they now have a group of six claims. ” * ~ MINING NOTES. Fred Hart and Roy Barnes paid a visit to Winston Tuesday. They, report the outlook for that camp during the com- ing summer as very promising in min- ing matters. . THE GREAT GOLD ) FIELD. The Miner’s Announcement of the Overland Strike Creates a Sensation. The Ground on the Great Gold Ledge Being Rapidly Re-Located. The Overland Doubles Its Mining Force, and Increases Its Outpat,—Other Promising Properties in the Immediate Vicinity. The article in the Mrver last week first calling attention to the re-awaken- ing of the Overland, and the fact that it had already made for itself a bigh mark | among American gold producers, bas re- ceived most careful attention from mip- ing men, and the demand for extra cop- ies of the paper containing the article was beyond our ability to supply. Besides striving to be first in the field | with news relating to the mining indus- try in our legitimate locality, the Miner also prides itself on its accuracy—yet |always recognizing the fact that it is | possible to err. Our long acquaintance with precious metal mining and especial | familiarity with the ores of this district, has had the effect of making our gold- bowed spectacles heavily coated with skepticism, and we have enthused so many times a little “previous ” when at- tempting to describe a mine, that in these |days we prefer to draw matters a little mild and await developments. Recognizing this fact, when the Miner exclusively announces to the world that a new lode has been discovered, or a strike of importance has been made in an old lode, the public is willing to bank on the statement; the Helena daily pa- pers rub their sleepy eyes, roll over and grunt, run across the owner of the prop- erty in a week or 80, throw a few drinks into him and finally persuade him to take a representative out to see the property. Once at the mine they are handed a copy of the Mrver and by a judicious system of garbling they finally announce in a half-hearted way the facts made public |by the Muver, a weekly publication, weeks and months before. We say this in no spirit of ill will, | gentlemen; cold stubborn facts though they are. We are all loyal Montanians, and believe in our state’s future mineral- | ogical greatness—or ought to—and in the future of our beautiful capital city. We do this simply to infuse a little metro- politan vim into your Rip-Van-Winkle- like outfits. Take hold with a Colorado snap. There are a dozen Cripple Creeks right under your nose. The columns of the Miner are open to you, (without credit as usual) and together we can make out of this inland Empire what it really is in fact—the golden state. The | Rocky Mountain News made Colorado ; has been let to Dave Cummings for de-| Byers,.the man who owned it, was de- livery to the Mine of 10,000 lagging and | nounced as the most colossal liar of mod- stulls, to be used in timbering the shaft. |ern times. He may have been a liar The shaft is now down about 385 feet,| then, so far as surface indications went 35 feet having been sunk since the! to show—but bis statements are true to- work of deepening it was commenced. | day. When he was busy wheeling the There is a 22-inch vein of ore in the| /mud that built the Colorado of to-day shaft that is being taken out. This ore ‘he did'nt have anything to go on—no more than pays the cost of sinking. At | precedents on which to be guided in his 450 feet a drift will be started, another | judgment, but we have a well-defined also at the 550. This will give near 300 gold belt, forty miles long, from which feet of stoping ground, as there yet re- | millions have already been taken, and in mains a lot of gronnd to work up above | which countless millions yet remain for the 350. There are now 35 men at work, | somebody to come and take. We have which number will be increased to near} all known this for years ; the Mrver has 100, when the sinking is completed and | been calling attention to it for the past drifts started on the 450 and 550. More | 18 months, and the writer of this article ore is being taken out now than ever be- | | has been sounding its praises for the fore in the history of the mine, there being ore in every drift and stope. Mr. | T. J. Grant, formerly with the Bimetal- lic and Granite mines, Phillipsburg, is foreman. Mr. Grant is a thorough miner, as is demonstrated by the man- ner in which the work under his charge is conducted. Messrs. Dunwoody & Whitely, who have a lease on the dump, have four jigs and six men constantly emglored screening the ore and sacking ‘A car load of this ore was shipped this week that will average over 200 ounces per ton. It is estimated that the dump on this property contains over #20,000 in silver. Since Dr. Head has taken the management of the Little Nell, there has been a marked improve- ment in everything in and around that property, and he is demonstrating his ability as a successful manager of a a 15 years. To be sure an occasional magazine writer. bobs to the front and denounces us as an “ irresponsible press,” thereby seeking to discredit our state- mentse—but the utterances of Christ were in his day discredited and we can therefore take comfort. These same writers take a fiendish delight in refer- ing to the mountain commonwealths as. “gage-brush states, peopled by half- breeds and Indians,” but nevertheless it has been wrested from savagery to ciyil- ization, and the gold and silver it has produced and poured with a liberal band into the lap of commerce has revolution- ized the world—and kept it revolution- ized. These writers are jealous of us; jealous of our growing power ; jealous of our health-giving atmosphere; of our happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care style ; of our agricultural resources even ; of $2.00 A YEAR. our stock-growing possibilities ; of our mineral wealth ; and they lose no oppor- tunity to come back at us (for political reasons only) ina true “rule or ruin” style. But we will be discovering mines when they are “ dead and rotten, damned and forgotten.” The possibilities, in a mineralogical sense, of the west—of Mon- tana~are unapproachable, indescribable, unfathomable; but it will take some- thing more than fifty-foot miners to rush things ; and it will take something besides listlessness.and enthusiastic stag- nation of home energy to make gold mines. Sit down and wait for some- thing to turn up, don’t turn it up. Messrs. Esler & Stahl, who haye the Overland under bond, began getting control of adjoiming property on the great gold ledge last week, and secured from Erasmus Axe a continuation of the Overland west—a- location made last January and known as the Dike lode. ‘No work of any consequence has been done on the Dike aside from exposing the vein in several places. These same gentlemen have also secured a bond and lease on the old Bonanza Chief, together with several other claims in line with the Overland, west, and through which the great vein is supposed to run, and no doubt does, for the reason that the contact between the lime and the gran- ite can be easily traced for miles both east and west. - The Overland increased their force of miners this week, and the output of the mine has also largely increased, as will be seen by reference to our table of ship- ments, notwithstanding the heavy storm of Tuesday and Wednesday, which inter- fered with ore hauling seriously. The number of car loads of ore at present shipped from the Overland weekly is controlled only by the ability to hoist the ore out of the ground, which is now being done with a Buffalo one-horse whim from the bottom of a 300-foot in- cline shaft. If the mine was equipped with a good steam hoist, fifty or more cars a week could be sent to the smelter with very little more underground help than is at present employed. Work will begin at once on several lo- cations on the big ledge, including the Bonanza Chief, which already has a big record as a gold producer, and is three- quarters of a mile west of the Overland on the same vein, and there is no doubt but that we are now witnessing the opening up of a district that will make Montana the first state in the Union as a producer of the yellow metal. Never before in the history of gold mining was a district more favorably located and sit- uated for the economical mining or handling or reduction of ores. Thegreat smelting works at East Helena are only four miles away, and it is authoritatively stated that they are to double their ca- pacity for tréating ores during the com- ing year. As developed in the Overland there is no water to contend with toa depth of 300 feet, and there probably will not be for another 100 feet or more. On some of the locations there are good tunnel sites by which 200 or 250 in depth can be obtained, so that should capital be slow in taking holdin the district it is still possible for men with limited means to take hold and make a mining district that will command attention and astonish the world. There should be organized a company, and in fact there is considerable talk in that direction already, to operate a dia- mond drill on this lode. There is a first class diamond drill in Clancy which can be purchased, and which has never been used but ten days, and which cost $4,600 cash, including all the necessary appara- tus, new, with which to successfully work it. This drill has a 15-horse power boil- er on trucks, and is all y to be hitched on to by a span d® borses and taken to the gold lode and jput at work within 48 hours. The drill is guaranteed complete in every respect, and is also guaranteed to drill a hole 1000 feet deep, and could be made to sink 500 feet more if necessary. It cuts a 2-inch hole and takes out a core of 13g inches. There is also a complete casing outfit with it, for putting down casing through loose dirt before reaching solid formation, and an extra pump, and a complete complement of tools, including bars of all kinds, and even a grindstone—in fact everything - that is required to commence immedi- ate operations. A diamond drill will sink from 15 to 75 feet per day, according to the rock that it is going through. It seems to us that a company should purchase this drill at once and commence operations on this great lode. The drill is a first class one in every respect, and is guaranteed in every particular. A complete list of everything that goes with the drill can be seen at the Mrner office where the machine can be seen. It can be pur- chased cheap for cash. We: invite in- vestigation.
