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re x VOL. 2.—No. 46.—Whole No. 98. For Mining Supplies and Machinery OF GOOD, SUBSTANTIAL AND HONEST QUALITY, AND FOR PROMPT and INTELLIGENT SERVICE, go to A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. 1148 ead 115 North Main Street, e - HELENA, MONTANA. : ee ™ : rrn er. SUITS THAT FIT. Made to order from $20. Send for Measurement blanks to Merchant Tailoring Department, Gans & I<lein, ; . Helena, Montana. A. ©. DORN HR, Watchmaker a Jeweler, 28 S. Main Street, Helena. Watch Repairing at Reasonable Prices. All Work Gaaranteed. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. We Make and Repair al! Kind of Jewelry: PIPE Hot Springs, #=—= ——THE NEW VAPOR BATHS—— Nothing to equal them in the Nortwest for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Kidney Troubles and General Debility. Telephone in connection with the Hotel. CHARLES R. BURKET, Manager. A. BRADLEY, Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Jewelry, Watch Repairing, Jewelry Manufactured to Order. - Helena, Montana. No. 30 South Main Street Next Sands Bros. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper, the largest stock in every department in all Montana, Will oocup moth New Building, opposite Hotel Helena, November 15th. Grand Removal oa. Present Stock must be reduced. Pianos and Organs in Music Department. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, HELENA, MONTANA. our Mam- e now going We carr Ww. E. THISTLEW AITE, DEALER IN FINE BOOTS andSHOES All kinds of Rubber Footwear. Lowest Price in the State for Oash. . . No. 123 North Main Street, Beveridge Block, - - - - HELENA, MONTANA. F. J. Edwards,’ Park Avenue, Near Edwards St., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL (Queensware, China and Glassware, Silverware, Lamps and Fancy Goods, Dinner, Tea and Chamber Sets. Wine, Water and Liquor Sets, ‘Helena, Montana. CLANCY, MONTANA, MINES Mines of the Lump and Clancy Guich Districts. THE RECORD OF THE PAST WEEK. Mining Notes and Items of the Day of an Interesting Character, Bar silver, 64%. Lead, $2.60. Copper, $10.85. ee ORE SHIPMENTS IN CARS FOR THE WEEK. OCvetindd sxe ccbtdelede hoe ces gece.. uD * é * THE FUTURE OF SILVER, Since the election silver miners gener- ally wear long faces and predict all sorts of disaster to the white metal. We over- heard a miner say the other day that “jt would not surprise him in the least if silver went down so jow that a dollar would buy four ounces of, it,” and that “the only way to solye the silver prob lem successfully was to shut down the silver mines altogether.” We do not quite diagnose the case in that fashion. The reujedy lies in oppo- site directions. To be sure, the defeat of silver was a paralytic stroke to the mining industry, and its immediate effect will be to keep closed all those silver mines that were already idle. We donot anticipate, however, that the price of sil- ver will go much lower than it already is. It is down now below the point where ordinarily a silver mine can be operated, except its ores are very rich, | and there are, therefore, no more mines left to close. We believe that the republicans, upon their reseating themselves upon the Am- erican throne, are too cunning politicians to rub it in on us for a much longer pe- riod of time. The Mark Hanna’s and the other unbung scoundrels will make desperate efforts to bring about prosper- ity, sham or real, and then point the vo- ters of the country to the fact and ask a continuation of power four years hence. While. Montana will not receive the direct benefit in her silver industry that she would have received bad Bryan been elected, indirectly we believe that return- ing prosperity east of the Mississippi river will ultimately have its effeet in the silver producing states. But the silver cause is just and will not die. Four years from now we will fight them again inch by inch. We will solidify our organization, and while we shall never have the money to spend that the goldites have, brain will ulti- mately tell, and the God of hosts will see ta it that we triumph at last. In! * * * Library, Piano and and Banquet Lamps, Cut Glass, Rogers Silverware, Hand-painted China. or —— How Montana Stood by Bimetallism. | | | Bryan’s majority over McKinley in the state of Montana keeps on growing, and is likely to reach 30,000 by the time complete official returns from all over the state are received, says the Anaconda Standard. been heard from, and they foot up the following totals : About 45,000 votes have now Bryan onseescseesecceeteseseeseetscneesesssssses geet iearensen 36,822 McK inley.......:f::eeceseeee 8,383 Majority for Bryan.............---e-- ...28,439 The vote on congressman, as far as received, stands as follows : Hlartrmann ....ceecce eccesescee cose cess seeeen eens cesssssesseees 2Qy 105 Goddard....c..cccccccceccesssseseneetene cree ceesceeseeseeetees 7,906 Majority for Hartman........2.......--.21,199 The vote for governor stands as follows: ° Srith .. 00. ceeccser oorncseseenee es ae 2 Ge Sethi es wocceeveeee 12,148 Majority for Smith...........005.. ora kere The additional returns which have been received slightly increase the majorities of all the fusion state candidates, and MC’CAULEY’S PLACERS. The late cold snap suspended opera tions at this gold pasture for a few days, and the weather will bave to soften up a little before the boxes can be cleaned. The last clean up averaged about five dollars per day to the man. The dig- gings have not paid so well, perbaps, during the past season as they should have done, owing to the fact that opera- tions have been seriously impeded through a lack of proper dumping facil- ities, and cramped room generalby for handling the refuse rock. This difficulty will be partly overcome in next season’s operations. Everything considered, how- ever, the season bas been a fairly protit- able one, and the fact has been estab- lished beyond question that the bar at McCauley’s contains gold in paying quantitiee. If the weather permits an- other good run will be made this year. * * * THE MAYFLOWER. Our readers will remember the ac- count of the discovery and sale of the great Mayflower group of gold mines, as published in these columns some weeks ago, The Mining World furnishes some additional information concerning this pow famous Madison county property, from which we extract as follows: “The Mayflower properties are not, as has generally been supposed, entirely novel in character of ore and geological structure, though differing greatly from most mineral deposits of the state. We find on making a close examination of the ores that they contain a considera- ble amount of tellurium, and although no tellurides are recognizable to the na- ked eye the gold is nevertheless present in that form. ‘The ore chutes occur in a well detined fissure, but not a vein in the ordinary acceptance of that term, for the lode conforms to the bedding and is really a slipping or shearing plane in 8 series of upturned, nearly vertical, beds the majorities will vary from 6,000 to more than 12,000. of impure limestone, carrying largely of AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1896. MINING slate. The surrounding country is blan- keted with -a volcanic breccia, often grading into conglomerate, which rest upon a formerly very uneyen and hilly country. On the Mayflower hill thesed- imentary rocks project through this for- mation, and hence the lode was exposed to view together with the quartzite bed that forms the basil or oldest bed of the rock series and the capping of heavy bed- ded white limestone that. lie above. the lode, though on the footwall side. The prospects appear good for pay chutes of ore for a considerable length along the lode (not to exceed 100 feet, however,) but there is little ground for any favor- able predictions for the adjacent side claims. In fact most of the locations that we visited showed no ore, though the rock resembles the Mayflower in ap- pearance. There are many claims loca- ted on the barren volcanic breccia that has thus far never been known to yield values anywhere in the state. The ores of the Mayflower resemble the tellurides found in tke Little Rockies in the east- ern part of the state. Thus far the May- flewer has surprised everyone who has seen it. Nothing in the state has ever shown up such rich ore and such profits for so little work done. The mine bas produced to date not less than $300,000, and from a very small hole in the ground. Ore has been taken out only to a depth of 65 feet, and Jess than 60feet in length. The ore is hauled to Gaylord and shipped to Helena. It returns from $4,000 to 810,000 per carload, and from eight to ten carloads aré shipped each week.” * ~ * THE ANACONDA. The Anaconda Copper Mining Com- pany bas declared another dividend, amounting to the enormous sum 1,500,- 000. This action was really decided up- on at the meeting at Anacgnda some weeks ago, but the formal anouncement was not made until last Saturday at the directors’ meeting in New York. The dividend amounts to 5 per cent. of the stock and is payable next Monday out of the earnings for the six months ending June 30. This is the second dividend declared by the Anaconda company since its stock was listed. The former dividend was de- clared in May of the present year and was 244 per cent, or $750,000, which, with with the second, makes the total $2,250,- 000. This is a record unequalled by any mining company in the world. The great activity in mining and smelting operations at Butte and Anaconda is a guarantee that with copper at its pres- ent price future dividends will be even greater than those declared in the past. Inter Mountain. * * * THE DRUMLUMMON, There are many rumors floating about regarding the Drumlummon mine pinch- ing out and the fact that one of the Bur- leighs, who have bad charge of the prop- erty, engaging with another compan) re- cently and the laying off of the drills help to keep the stories going. A mining man who was formerly connected with the Drumlummon said a few days ago: “I have known for some time that matters were not as they bad been for several years. To be sure the company has missed a dividend in the past, and as for the future I cannot say what will take place. The regular dividend may be de- clared and it may not. I do not think the present plant wlli be abandoned or any thing like that, but the temporary shutdown may occur at any time. The mine is what you might call pinched out in the true acceptance of the term, as generally applied to.mines to-day. “Some time ago the vein in the mine split or forked. That is not an uncom- mon occurrence in mining and nothing serious was thought of it, although the owners would no doubt have preferred to see the vein remain intact. I think the split occurred upon the 800-foot level ; one fork was followed, the other being left a8 it was. This fork was worked and I am told it gradually lost ite value although it did not materially decrease in size. “It kept losing its value until it be- came such a low grade proposition that it was impossible to work it at any profit and it was eventually abandoned. Then the other fork was worked, _At-first—it was as rich as the original vein before the split materialized, but in time it, too, became unprofitable. Then it was that the head office in London was notified and Manager Bayliss was cabled to come to London. He went, and, as you know, cabled ‘back to lay off some of the men. I hope the mine hashot pinched out, but I am afraid that it has. It is too deep for a gold mine in this formation, that is, too deep to hold its original richness. The present workings have lasted lon- ~ $2.00 A YEAR. ger than I thought they would, conse-_ quently I am not particularly surprised to learn that men have been laid off.” Another man who is very close to the . management of the mine, recently stated that there was no truth in the pinching out theory, but that the company was developing some new lodes and had some splendid reserve bodies of ore in sight.— Butte Miner. iat MINING NOTES. The last of three payments on the Prize mine, which was sold sonie time ago by. the: Murray Bros. to Irwin C, Stump and others, was made Nov. 3, and the property is now im the hands of the pew owners without any strings to it. The payment was $45,000. The first two were one of $15,000 and another of $25,- 000, respectively.—Independent. Mr. Edleblute shows samples of coarse gold which he succeeded in finding in a placer claim which he located on the headwaters of the Prickly Pear during the past season. He made his discovery too late in the season to do much with it this year, but next season he will re- turn to his Eldorado and work it for all it is worth. He will stay in Clancy this winter. He says he has plenty of water and he thinks a paying claim. A contract with the East Helena smelter calls for 7,000 tons of Cumber- Jand ore, Castle district. More than this amount of ore (silver lead) is mined and on the dump, and very shortly ship- ping will begin to the reduction works. It is expected that within the next week the Montana railway will be oper- ating trains to Leadboro, within two miles of Castle and ore haulage from that point will continue through the winter. At least four of the principal properties of the camp are to be worked from now forward and the ore output will contin- uously be very considerable. »County Commissioner Wm. Muth, now in town attending a special session of the board states that the railway promises to have all the mineral freight it can convenient- ly handle as soon as the trains commence to be scheduled over the new line.—Hel- ena Herald. At the Harris lime deposit, about a mile towagd Clancy from Montana City, five carloads of natural lime are furnish- ed the East Helena smelter daily, and this output of 100-tene-per-day bas been maintained for the past two years or more. Mr. Harris furnishes the lime at a very close figure, and if he did not have things so fixed that no false motions are made in handling the output, he informs us that he could not furnish itt the present price. The product is remark- ably free from silica as a rule. Clancy Deer Slayers. Al. Moskell; F. W. Murdock and J. L. Holhster, all railroad men, returned this week from a deer elaying expedition in the Crow Oreek range of mountains, near the head of Warm Springs Creek. They succeeded in capturing three deer, which weighed, when dressed, about 600 pounds. The party were absent from town only three days, and as the greater part of two days were consumed in going and returning from the mountains, the trip must be counted as a very success- ful one. The weather was also very stormy in the mountains and the suow waiste deep. The gentlemen presented the Mrver with a nice roast from one of the animals, for which the hunter’s have our thanks. They report seeing quite a number of deer and some grouse, but on account of the deep snow, which made locomotion difficult, they concluded to leave some of them for another time. How Clancy Has Grown, There have been about fifty new houses of one kind and another erected in Clancy during the past summer, and more will probably be built here before the season closes. Between Clancy and Alhambra there have been twenty more buildings put up. Early in the season the uncertain feeling. which existed in the mind of the railway employees as to the permanency of the Clancy yards de- terred many from building who other- wise would have erected dwellings here, but this uncertainty has now worn itself out, and next season we may look for- ward to a large addition to the town from a building standpoint. The late registration and vote show conclusively that we have as large a pop- ulation (nearly) as any other town-in-the county and this will be rapidly added to in the coming months. The fact that Clancy bas a steady pay-roll of about twelve thousand dollars, in addition to to her mineral backing, makes of Clancy an important point for all time. There has been no school during the past week on account of the teachers’ institute, ia which all the teachers of the county are more or less interested. 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