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VOL. 2.—No. 20.—Whole No. 72. For Mining Supplies and Machinery OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST QUALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SERVICE, go to A. M. jet HARDWARE co. 113 and 115 North Main Street, ° - HELENA, MONTANA, “G&K” HYDRAU LIC HOSE —AND—— MINERS’ RUBBER COATS, ovstitrexn Gans & Klein, - - T. J. CHESTNUT, Dealer in General Merchandise, HAY AND GRAIN, Clancy, - - - - Montana. CLANCY SAMPL E 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, 50 cents per quart, or 81.50 per gallon. Lager Beer per case, $3.50. 75 cents back for return of empty cases. Whisky, private stock. qts. 75c.; gallon, cr. Whisky, Old Crow, qts.. $1.00: gallon, 8.50 W. F. MILLER, Proprietor. THE PEOPLE’S STORE, 513 and 515 Broadway, Helena, Mont, HEADQUARTERS FOR Groceries, Tinware and Notions, CHINAWARE, Hay, Grain and General Merchandise, seen nen UANLES H. RENTOM, Prop. CLARKE & CURTIN, 4 HARDWARE AND STOVES. We are now offering our entire line of heating stoves for Coa] or Wood at Actual Cost 4 Send us your orders for all kinds of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. PRICES LOW. 42 & 44 S. Main St. - - ARTHUR P. CURTIN, Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper, Housefurnishing Goods. We carry the largest stock in every department in all Montana, Will occu ag le 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. J. SWITZER, WHOLESALE DEALER IN Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Bar Glassware and Brlliard Goods. __40 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. LINDSAY & CO. WHOLEBALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE, HELENA, MONTANA. Dublin Stout and Pale Ale always on hand. Helena, Mont. our Mam- e@ now going We carry a full line of Fruits and Produce of all kinds Ne 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, - - - : - 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. Helena, Montana. t wane Helena, Mon tana, |, y | See Mine CLANCY, MONTANA, SAT URDAY, MAY 16, 1896. MINES AND MINING. Regular Weekly Clean-up from — the Mines of the Lump and Clancy Gulch Districts. Mining Notes and Items of the Day of an Interesting Character, Bar silver, 68. Lead, $3.05. Copper, $10.75. ORE SHIPMENTS IN CARS FOR THE WEEK. Pree Oolnage .... 0.200) 6s esc ees. 1 TAVWPPORD 2.6. ec be Ne ge cscs ccs cece 1 Little Nell ....54....0.......0....... 1 Overland...... ......60.... ........ 10 Total ..03 spades. cecccecces I « * «& MC'CAULEY’S PLACERS. The East Helena Smelter company have served an injunction on the party engaged in ground-sluicing MoCauley’s Bar and stopped operations there. The complaint made so far as we can under- stand the matter, is that the mining operations at McCauley’s riles the water, and the people down the creek don’t like it. There is nu complaint. of rock and gravel bothering -them, and it is ap open question whether they can close up a placer mine simply because it dis- colors the water, and it would seem that if can be done in one instance it can be done anywhere in the state. The matter will have a hearing before Judge Buck, in Helena, Monday, when the case will be decided. Col. W. F. Sanders represents Mr. McCauley in the case. * s * THE RANNAA. Peter Mack, with a force of three men, is taking out some very fine ore from this property on Strawberry gulch. Work is being prosecuted on a level run in on the vein 40 feet from the surface. One day during the past week they took out 76 sacks. The ore is probably of a higher grade than is being taken from any mine in the gulch, rimming away up in the hundreds of ounces. They have almost a shipment of ore on the dump. * * * THE KING SOLOMON, The fifty-foot contract taken by the Redding brothers to sink the King Sol- omon shaft for the Chicago parties who have the mine under bond, have just finished their work—25 days in doing it— a good record considering that the ground was pretty hard and the work was done with a horse whim and the shaft was 250 feet deep when they commenved their contract. The shaft went down in ore all the way and the outlook for the property is very bright. A steam hoist will now be put on the property, and the King Solomon will again begin to ship as of yore. * * MINING NOTES. Jake Grobe and A. L. Thorne, who have a lease and bond on several claims next week. They have several very promising properties in that locality which they propose to thoroughly de- velop. From one of the group, the Alpha, several car loads of ore have been shipped that netted a good profit, to the shippers. Messrs. Thorne & Frye have a very promising prospect near the Alpha mine in the Willard district. At 35 feet they have 18 inches of shipping ore, which runs very high in gold, besides carrying a large percentage of silver and lead. There are several good locations in that phyry formation until within the vicin- district, and they will be thoroughly | ity of the lime and granite contact, developed during the summer. Messrs. Donovan and Immig-who,are working a mine near the Amazon, ship- ped acar of ore last week from which the net returns over all charges were $600. That’s a finé showing and should encourage other work in that district which is but a short distance north of Boulder.—Age. Work is still in progress in the winze being sunk in the Liverpool. It is down near 40 feet, and there is about eight inches of ore in the bottom. A level will be started at 50 feet and a drift run on the vein. The Miner is in recuifigt an inter- esting communication from” Jesse Wil- kinson, secretary of the Clancy Miners” Union, who is now at Denver as a dele- gate to the convention of the Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Wilkinson furnishes us with a graphic picture of Cripple {Creek, but owing to the late hour whén received and lack of space, will not be published until next week. IT BEATS THE WORLD. The Showing in the Overland In- creases in Quantity and Quality. Negotiations Now Being Made Which Will Prove That Gold Zone One of the Richest and Most Extensive in the United States. 4 The Overland Ore Closely Resembles That of the Spotted Horse.--New Lo. cations Being Made Dally. When Columbus discovered America he simply found land—a continent. The resources of the country were totally a sealed book to him and the thousands that came after him, though the Span- iards were not long in discovering that the country was worth keeping. Then, in the course of time, for the Anglo-Sax- on race, @ map named Marshal! found gold in Sutter's mill race in California, and the world was revolutionized. Fa- ther Time has moved the hands along on the face of his watch, down to the pres- ent day, and Messrs. Esler and Stahl have discovered gold on the great con- tact vein between Jefferson and Lewis and Clarke counties, and Montana wil be revolutionized. We mention this simply because we have overheard mi- ners and prospectors making the remark that they,“ did not believe that there was any such amount of pay ore in the Over- land as was reported to be in it,” and that they “had known the big lode for years, and there was’nt any such show- ing there when they were prospecting there,” ete. These are statements that prove nothing. Because Sam or Jim did not happen to unearth a bonanza, is no reason why Frank and Zacharia could’nt. This contact has been run over, prospected, located and abandoned again and again, for years. It “pans” almost anywhere on the surface, over a stretch of country forty miles east and wert, and from ten to one thousand feet in width, In places the lime croppings predominate, in other localities quartz- ite, dolomite, a magnesian carbonate of lime, deposited in extensive -beds as a compact limestone, and also as a crys- talline granular rock, either white or clouded, and again the granite comes strongly to the surface, as at Unionville, the lime side of the veifi having been shouldered into second place. From any high peak or outcrop along the course of the vein, where the surrounding coun try can be brought under observation, the course of the great vein can be traced for miles east and west, as plainly marked as a wagon road. Three-quarters of a mile east of the Overland the outcrop breaks down to McClellan Creek and gulch—a sharp jump-off of perhaps 500 feet. * Across McClellan gulch, east, the country swells gradually, if we except the first-bluffs or rise of perhaps 100 feet—into a high treeless plain, through which the lode seems to be more indistinct and is’ prob- ably deeply covered by alluvial conglom, | in the Willard district on Warm Springs | °T@te- but on the surface can be found gulch, expect to begin work on them | quantities of alumiuite, either snow white or yellowish-white, which un- doubtedly marks the vicinity of the vein. McClellan gulch cuts the great lods at right angles, squarely across, and it is at this point that millions of gold has been washed from th@-gravels in the gulch, and far tp into the rim on either side, all containing “pay.” It is at the point where the contact crosses the MClellan that these famous placer diggings begin, and from thence on to its junction with the Prickly\Pear. The McClellan flows down. from the Crow Creek range of mountains, through a granite and por- where, through some mighty convulsion of Nature the contact has been deeply scored through, its golden grains freed from quartz and widely scattered, while the little stream winds around the base of the gigantic outcrop, slipping nois- lessly down over its bed of golden sands, into a handful of emerald valleybelow, as if glad to escape before some mysteri- ous Titan from the towering battlements above should loose the huge rocks and close the great gap opened probably thousands of years ago. Sinking in the Overland shaft will commence again Monday. It is thought that it will take between 50 and 100 feet to reach the granite hanging wall, and from present indications there will be nO water to interfere until the contact is reached, if then, though whether this surmise is true or not. remains to be de- termined. This will make the shaft in the neighborhood of 400 feet in depth. Considering the pitch of the vein a fur- ther depth of seventy-tive feet ought to come somewhere near the contact. Sink- $2.00 A YEAR. ing will in no way interfere with the output of the mine, and the shaft will be put down with three shifts of miners as fast as the hard character of the ore will allow. The character of the ore produced in the Overland mine closely resembles that taken from the celebrated Spotted Horse at Maiden. During the week another team has been added to the hauling force, making five in all, and a new bucket of ‘double the capacity of the one formerly used has been substituted, so that 1000-Ibs. of ore comes out of the mine every trip now instead of the 500 lbs. formerly hoisted. In order to do this, however, it was found necessary to use two horses on the whim. .The output of the mine was not increased beyond the customary ten cars becapse of the almost impassa- ble condition of the roads, necessitating lighter loads, but if no further storms occur it is the intention to send down not less than fifteen cars of ore per week. During the week a very marked im- provement has taken place in the east drift, where there is more than twelve feet of very fine ore. In this drift two men are quarrying it out, while in the west drift two shifts of men are working in equally as fine and extensive an ore body. The face of these drifts are about 100 feet apart, and it is difficult to im- agine how the mine could well look bet- ter than it does to-day. Tents dot the surface of the ground for miles north, south, east and west, and it does-not take much of a stretch of the imagination to arrive at the con- clusion that vacant ground in the vicin- ity of the Overland will be hard to find within a short time. The Muver man visited a good many of thege prospects within the past week and the showing made in some of them more than war- rants the conclusi that, with depth, there will be several’ Overlands on the great contact vein. Mining men from Helena, and some whose purses have been swelled to the bursting point in Lump gulch, have al- ready been looking the country over, and all are unanimous in the opinion that the Overland has at last awakened into life a lode and district which. if half tbe energy is displayed in its de- velopment that has been spentin Cripple Creek and such like camps, it cannot fail to bring to the front a greater gold field in all respects than any of them. Mr. J. H. Harris was acaller yester- day representing the Clancy Murner. Not being certain as to the politics of the Muver we asked Mr, Harris if it- was democratic; he said it was not. “Is it republican then?” “No,” said Mr. Harris. “Ah, perbaps it has populistic leanings,” said we. “No,” said Mr. Harris. We gave it up and didn't pur sue the subject further.—Bovlder Age. The leanings of the Mrver, Brother Cornish, are toward the’ free and unlim- ited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, irrespective of any foreign nation on the footstool. The county commissioners have sent receipts to Dr. C. H. Head of the Little Nell mine, to be given to those who wish to work out their road tax now, and the Little Nell, Liverpool and Free Coinage mining companies have made arrange- ments to put teams at work, with what men they can spare from the mines, and they propose to turn loose in the lane between the mouth of Lump gulch and the railroad and make a turnpike there that will bea turnpike in fact for all time tocome. Dr. Head requests us to say that everybody is invited to come and work out their road tax now, and hopes to be able to get help enough to make the lane at least passable for ore teams. The commissioners have given him permission to issue $99 worth -of tax receipts in payment therefor, and will commence right away. A representative of the Mrver visited the county capital Tuesday of this week, but owing to its being a legal holiday— Arbor Day—was denied the pleasure of meeting but a limited number of its genial business men and citizens. We are promising ourselves the pleasure of another visit shortly. Hard Times Ball. The ladies of Lump City will give a “Hard Times” ball at Miners’s Union hall, Saturday, May 23. Prizes -will be given for the most unique costumes. Refreshments served at the hall. Tickets, $1.00. , Wm. Vinson is building a road from his mine—the. Pilot—on McClellan | gulch, to the railroad at Hartford, to haul his ore over. The repairs and ad- ditions to Cole’s mill have beem com- pleted, and it was started up =. - morning. | ss ag PN See Geass ind at Slee, = Lett gt
