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a TLL NN art Leading ‘Advertiahig Medium of Jaffer County ———— « BASIN, MONTANA, de 5, 1904, Bullion Smelter Com- pleted-Madison Coun- ty Mines—The Owl Creek Gountry. Gov. A. E. Spriggs, treasurer of the Cataract Copper Mining company, -agcompanied by C.H, Eaton, came , Over from Butte Friday and in com- pany with ‘General Manager M. L. Hewett drove up to the smelter of thecompany at Bullion. -~ Mr. Eaton is a technical: smelter engineer and has traveled extensively, beiag familiar with the various smelt- ing plants, and after a thorough and exhaustive examination of the com- pany’s smelter expressed himself ag never having seen a more. complete and modern smelter than this one. The smelter is now completed and the gentlemen having the contracts ‘to haul'the ore, coke and supplies to the plant hayethe bins filled and ~ ~=-there ie-eneugh-eoke on hand to run the smelter for at least six weeks, There is about a thousand tons of ore in the bins, the machinery is all in place aod running order, and every- thing isready for the test run. All that is keeping the smelter from be- iugin active operation isthe absence of the expert that the Colorado Iron Works company will have in charge for the first thirty days. This gen- tleman is expected to arrive here most every day, and upon his arrival it will take but a few days to have the smelter runuing. As tothe success of the smelter, judging from the opinions of the sev- « eral different experts that have visited * ' the plant within the past sixty days, there is no doubt, and the impetus that this enterprise will give to the mining industry in this district can- not be over estimated and much praise ic due the gentleman who brought this undertaking toa success- ful completion, The Colorado Fuel-and Iron com- pany yesterday shipped thirteen car- loads of iron ore from its mines at Sunrise, Wyoming, to Helena, where it will be used for fluxing. It is said the Montana smelters will take regu- lar shipments of the Sunrise iron ore, it ‘having proved to be a superior article. «On Monday night the miners broke into four feet‘ of good ore on the north 600 level of the Watseka mine. Samples taken today show values of $24.66. While it was anticipated that this body of ore would be encount- ered, the values shown are beyond what was expected andexperts who . have examined it say that it will con- centrate four to one. Developmentson this level havebeen watched with much anxiety, for prob- ably on this much work 1f other claims depended. The finding of such good ore has assured, ia:,the opibion of the menager, the pertian- “a of Rochester as a mining camp. \ The Champion, adjoining the Wat- seka, has encountered food shipping ore on the 250 level and as socom as the surface water recedes sinking to the 500 will be begun. Twenty-five men are now being employed in this mine, drifting avd crosscutting yinder | group the management of Edward Hand. Crosacutting is still being carried on at the Big Bonanza near Rochester.’ Some very good streaks have been encountered and a large shoot is ex- pected in the. next twenty feet. Sinking will soon begin aguin amt will be taken to the 400 level. This -| group, adjormng the Magnet owned by James J. Hill, twoand half amount of the judgment and costs, $3,076.26. R. C. Burton, a prominent mining {man of Butte, is interested in the Cor- bin district. near the property of the McCabe syndicate, and says that the - | surface showing of the country is the best that he has seen for that class of ore, and that it is farbetter than the Butte district. He intends to sink a shaft on his property in the spring to a depth to thoroughly develop the claims and he predicts that .the’ dis- trict will be shipping more. copper than the large properties in the Butte district. Quite extensive develop- ment work has been done in this dis- trict‘and the showing has been very good, and*the coming season will see a uumber of good claims opened up in this district. The operators of the Raven mise have struck two shoots of rich silver and gold ore on the 500-foot level of the property, and are glad of it says the Standard. So are their friends, fof whom they have many in Butte and other parts of Montana. One nice thing in connection with the discovery is.the fact that the operators own the property. They are James W. For- bis, John Berkin and Charles Matti-. son of Butte and W. W. Morris of Pony. The Raven islocated in West Centerville, the shaft of the claim be- ing near the line of the street railway which connects Butte and the hillity. Itis probably not more than 200 yards west of main street. The shoots were encountered sev- eral days ago and have been.explored a distance of about 180 feet. An assay of the ore, made last week, showed it to possess a value of $189.40 in silver per ton and $52.40 in_gold, a total of $241.80, which is pretty good rock in any country. The operators of the mine intend to get under these shoots and with this object in view will begin sinking today. They calculate to sink to the 1,000 mark. Inthe meantime, how- ever, they will continue to drift” on the shoots of rich ore on the 500-foot level and market the product. The location of the Raven makes it a good mine, a property that will doubtless improve with depth. It is right in line with some of the great copper mines—of-the “hill district. The contents of the ore shoots on the 500-foot level are a little richer thar any ore that has ever been found at the same depth in any of the other hill claims. As an evidence: that the shoots are not confined to the 500-foot mark, it may be stated that one of these shoots was cut onthe 300 and yeilded a large quantity of high-grade silver-gold ore. Wire silver in pro- fusion protruded from many pieces. The Red Bird company, operating in High Ore gulch, received returns from their recent shipment showing a value of $65.85 per ton. The devel- opment work was startéd on these claims about the middle of December and the company have several cars of shipping ore on the dump. The Big Dick company, organized by Indiana capitalists, will begin ac- tive operations for the development of a group of nine claims adjoining the famous Big Indian, in the north- ern portion of Jefferson county. There is a large fund guaranteed tor this developmont work, and the com- pany is confident of developing a property ot the scale and profit of the Big Indian. The Gold Reef’ company has been lorganized by loca) and eastern capi- talists to develop and operate another of claims adjoining the Big Tdian on the northeast, and propose to put 10 a Jarge mill and Operate on an extensive scale. New York & Montana Strike. The New York & Moritana Mining compaoy, which took over about 40 claims in the Wickes-Corbin district from the McCabe syndicate, has down fifty feet in its shaft and has eee es lead of high grade oe. rus. McCabe, of the syndicate, wis Uonded the Robert Em- ia Jefferson county, and a group ‘elaims in Madison county, has taken a bond op the General Harris the asserted by those connected with the Magnet properties that Mr. Hill ‘is seriously contemplating the building of an extension of the Montana Cen- tral road from Clancy to.these mines, and thence to the Cataract district near Basin. : . Swift Current Oil Fields. Considerable excitement ‘has been occasioned throughout the state by the striking of oil in the Swift Cur- rent fields, in Tetom county. The company is composed of Helena, | head Great. Falls-and- Billings business| men who have been operating in that district for some time. Oil has been encountered for the last two months and on the 22nd the main flow was struck. Several barrels were taken for samples and the pipe capped, un- til proper appliances to handle the flow were secured. The oil is of fine quality for lubricating purposes. Madison County-Silver Star District. McClennan Bros., have a fine show- ing ot ore on the Clipper and expect to ship soon again. Mr. Smith has a short lease on a small portion of tha Broadway. He is ready to make a shipment. Chas. Dahler and brother, who have a lease on the East Iron Rod will ship ore this month. The new svndicae from Butte, who have a lease and bond on the Stelta mine, have commenced opera- tion and are sinking the shaft. _ The Butte parties, who now have} the Galena mine, are about through sinking. {The showing is encourag- ing. Manning & Schein have struck a nice shute of ore on the West Iron Rod on which they have a lease. a bond on the Egelston property, are sinking a new sbaft which will be completed in a few days. They have a good showing of ore. It is their intention to sink a new large large shaft on the original Green Campbell mine which they own and which some, 25 years ago has' prodaced. over s' quarter of a million profit. The Basin-Comstock Mining com- pany, composed -.of G. W.. Brandon, president; C. Sturtevant, vice presi- dent; W. A, Kidney, secretary and treasurer, and _A. 8. Ray, general manager, bas been quietly operating its group of claims in the well-known copper helt in the Cataract district, near Basin. The company is incor- porated for $50,000 divided into 50,000 shares of $1 per shure. The copper zone ig, several miles square. The Cataract district is attracting a great deal of attenticn. on account of the numerous strong, well-defined ledges, all in granite formation, with an ex- ceedingly fine showing of copper, gold and silver values wherever any work had been done. The Comstock com- pany owns and controls a large group of claims in this copper belt and has been working continuously upon the Boulder Comstock mine for the past eight months. This is one of the most promising claims of the group, and a shaft has been sunk on-it 315 feet, where a fine ledge ef concentrat- ing copper ore has been opened up. The company intends in the near fu- ture to install heavier machinery and sink the main shaft 300 feet further, aod upon the completion of that work amull tor the concentration of the ores will be erected at a point conven- ient tothe mine which, when com- pleted, will place this property on the list with the large ner of the state. The Liverpool, nine miles from Helena, near Clancy, as made an- other new strike, this time in the 600- | foot level with a pay streak of eight inches, which will assay several hun- dred ounces of silver per ton. The mine is shipping regularly to the East Helena smelter at the rate of about six cars a month, giving splen- did retarns. Kitts & Deyd.-have received from the American Smelting and Refining company of East Helena returns for 654 pounds of silver bearing ore which was shipped there at the time Emmet Hamilton made bis shipment to the.smelter iast month, says the Fergus County Argus. averaged 102.6 at the present price of silver, the gross returns $57.99 per too, or net returns of $45.99. The returns The Green Campbell Oo., who have | from the ore shipped ‘was $14.88, Py es a it is the intention of the: of tke property Which is located in the Wu- dith mowitains half way belween New Year aud Maiden, to make regu- cca during the summer, have about 50 tons of ore on the dump now and the devel- opment work already done has re- vealed a good body of the same kind of ore. ‘The Alder Gompany, which has head-quarters at the Kearsarge mine, near Virginia City, has filed in~ the: of Secretary of State George M.| Hayes a certificate showing the ap- pointment of F. A. Smith, of Virginia City, as stdte agent for the company. “The ete River Oil & Improve- ment com has filed articles of incorpora' the office of thesec- retary of state. The main office 6 | The incorporatérs and directors ars re M, | Webster, Sam H. Wood, Great Falls; H. Beaupte, John A. Kennedy, Chou- teau; Philip Younck, Gut Bank; Wm, Dawes, Shelby; and J. H.. Boucher, Columbia Falls. The corporation is stocked at $100,000, of which $75,008 has been subscribed. B, F. Forbes, at oné time interested quite extensively in Jefferson county, and who sold a group of iron. claims a Montana Ore Purchasing company, passed through Basin Monday on his way to the Owl Creek district, near milton, where he has some exten- rstve mining interests. Mr. Forbes says that ig the only country for a poor man to operate as the values are all in gold and all he has to do is to it aad carry itout in his pocket, There is a New York company opera- ting necr. Where Mr. Forbes is inter- ested who have a 90-foot lead that averages $18 in gold. “Mr. Forbes bas plenty of ilies on his property, ‘there ae 600 pabes length he eonobielan fall of 250 fest, making the cost of working the prop- erty but a small object. Mr. Forbes thinks that the country Will be well developed this season and says that there is already quite a number of miners on the ground ready to begin work as soon as the snow is off. “There is a work which if under- taken by some of the enterprising cit- izens of Helena would be worth thou- sands of dollars a month to the place,” said Matt W. Alderson to the Record. “In the foothills skirting the main range of the Rocky mountains in the vicinity.of this city for about twenty miles are mining prospects -in lime- stove. They are chamber deposits, made by hot springs during the per- iod of expiring -voleanic . action. Judging by experience in working them and by the geo ogical confor- mation of the country, one cannot ex- pect these deposits togo to a great depth. Some of them may justify working to a depth of a thousand feet, but @ majority may be bottomed before one reaches half that distance. They are excellent mines while they last but when one chamber is worked out it is often no easy matter to find another. Prospecting on the surface is not remunerative because in most cases there has been no erosion to speak of and the edge that comes to the surface is often barren. “The eountry needs systematic prospecting with a diamond drill. It should be distinctively a public enter- prise, but at the same time, I believe jit might be madé to pay independ- ently of the benefit it would be to the country. ‘There is much vacant land of promise throughout the reigon that might be filed on by the drilling company. Then arrangements could be made with owners of claims al- ready located either for a cash rate per foot, or an interest in the ore un- covered. “In this regiou have been some ex- cellent mines. while they lasted~—-the Biue Cloud, the Daylight, the None Such, the Jumbo, the Howard, the J. M. B., the Bonanza Chief, the Over- land and others. Undoubtedly there F Blanket deposit of cunsider- on Dry creek near Elkhern-te-the-+ poe ized for prospecting purposes in other sections to an advantage and there is no reasou that it would bé othér than = ore bodies are invariably located by} bore holes before shafts are sunk. Quite recently I clipped this from the Mining and Scientific Press: - ‘Tutelligent use of. the diamond drill in the gold mines of. western Australia has resulted, it is Yeported, having proved the. discoveries made by use of the diamond drill to be correct and reliable. Iu that field the experiments with the drill have been made systematically, and the records kept have not been disproved y subsequent development. It was found, however, that in boring long holes the “drift” of the drill was con- siderable in some instances, and that the location of the ore cut by the drill was somewhat uncertain, but a series of holes systematically arranged makes it possible to determine the position of a body of ore with ap- proximat8 certainty. “The field here is an exceptionally advantageous one because of the proximity of the ore deposits to the surface. “In the region I speak of enough money is expended every year to inatall a drill, if the Various! interests coula be combined with that object in view, but that is hardly probable. The movement must. be] independent. If it were put in by the people of Hélena and managed by a good man it would not be long till it would result in thousands of dollars a month heiug added to the business of the city. “It is possible that an arrangement |might be made with Colonel Thomas for the use of his diamond drill fora few months. Or, if not, there are companies in the East who pr sein me st aoueed, te at cnsealed ‘and the work wou! duce such results as would certainly lead to its being continued. The subject is one to which the Helena Business Men’s association might well givé serious consideration.” RUSSIA AND JAPAN, A Daily Summary of the News of the War Taken From the Asso- ciated Press Dispatches. — February 26—Russian, cruisers ven- ture out of Port Arthur but are chased back by the Japanese fleet. Reporied that 20 Japanese Vessels have begun the blockade of Vladivostok. February 28—Japanese and Russian troops clash at.Ping Yang and fight a land engagement~% smal! importance. General Stoesse),,cottimanding forces at Port Arthur, issues manifesto calling upon all to fight'to death resisting the expected attack of Japanese. Febrnary 20—Russih issups a declara- tion as to contraband of war, rae foodstuffs in the Kist. $ COURT PROCEEDINGS. On Thursday, in the case of Hilde- brand vs. Hildebrand, the court or- deréd judgement entered in favot of defendant as per stipulation on file. The court signed the decree in the case 6f Andrews vs. Jefferson county. In the case of Ryan vs. Ryan, the court sustained the findings of the jury and the verdict, and ordered the defendant to pay as alimony for the support of the four minor children, ea the sum of $604 month. The court oOo. sustained the motion of the defend- ant to retax the costs to the extent of reducing the total sum front $176 to $133. ‘In the case of Sockerson vs. York et al., fhe court ordered judgement ‘for plaintiff for the sum of $3,600 land interest from last September. On Friday,.the court sustained the demurrer of defendant, in the pase of [ » The orélare other deposits equally as good Holloway vs. Jefferson county, and |cou ounces per ton,’ i® furthermore, in at least | the plaintiff excepted, made | one lovality, the probabiity of uneov-| Goart adjourned for the term. : Basin, in thé center ot the ‘great 1 this of hond drill has been util- | Cataract district. a success here. Ip Joplin, Mo., the} in largely increasing known extent of} * » ore bodies, the work of development |: until a series of holes had been drilled | . ceived at This Office fof the trip to the The contest for a trip tothe St. Louis Exposition is now open and nomina- tions for candidates will be received at the office of the Basin Progress and Mining Review. The route decided — on by this company will undoubtedly — be one of the most pleasant and en- | joyabloyways ,to travel to this great Exposition and it has the advantage ‘of phe railroad trip in that you have your hotel with you and retain it saa e ing your stay at the ex ‘ : The Exposition | on the Mississippi between St. Paul and St. Louis, each accompamed by & consort, as complete in every sey of ite furnishings as a modern’ hotel, ~ which for one week afterits arrival at St. Louis will be moored toa private pier far ‘abovethe squalor of the city’s regular shipping, ir gone and more conveniént to exposition grounds thau the a hotele, The vessels of engine and for the crew. large dining bh “for d ma provide with rostrum and thea er\ , theatrical and — conventio’ officers quarters, ¢ ere stand and kitchens will be on this deck. The third will be the deck; the portion of this deck in front of the wheel house will be entirely open and furnished with steamer chairs. THE STATE ROOMS, The consorts will consist of two — decks of state rooms with a wide cen-~ tral hall and toilet and bath rooms on each deck, Ali state rooms will be equipped with the very best springs and mattresses, wash bowls, electric lights, and artistically decor- ated in white and gold, Large screened windows opening both on™ the..water and hallway will ensure cool, restful slumber and perfect ven- filation. There will be electric fans, and nothing that goes to make up the most completely comfortable chamber in ,one’s own home will be “lomitted, and they will be. kept. im- macuately clean. This is the way the young lady rep- resentative of the Basin Progress and Mining Review will travel to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, her expenses entirely paid by this paper and there will be a fund to draw on to meet her every expense, and if she © does not enjoy her trip thoroughly ; 7 there will be no one to blame but herself. F Nominate your candidates and them a-chance to’ interview their / friends before the ‘contest is too far ne. ¢ The contest closes on the first of June and the time is but too short. In sending in your votes be sure to | write tle name plainly and bave the coupon in this office before the time. ° limit printed on the face of the cou- Ce vote sent in for a young ‘lady. ‘ who as It bom peo ine ne a onsidered as a Pt eo ‘will be entered. oa candidates. er. must reside in’ the ; but votes can be santls Fae: : any further information tu ol Fiesta trip
