TIDBITS OF INFO- MONTANA

rehab · TIDBITS OF INFO- MONTANA

EMJ 8 4 1928

Montana-Idaho Plans Expansion to 250 Tons a Day—Basin Montana
Cleaning Gray Eagle Tunnel

IN THE issue of June 9 it was stated that Butte Copper Consolidated had encountered an extension of an orebody, mined on the upper levels, on the 400 level of its Joe Dandy mine, at Radersburg, Mont. Within a radius of 40 ft. of the shaft, three of these orebodies have been opened, showing high-grade galena and lead carbonate ores. Shipments to the smelter have been made from these discoveries, and the returns showed about 35 per cent zinc and 7 oz. of silver to the ton. About 18 tons a day is being shipped. The company is now installing a 70 hp. electrically driven Ottumwa hoist with a rope speed of 400 ft. per minute. To take care of this installation and future installation of a plunger pump, three General Electric transformers have been acquired.

At present, Montana-Idaho Mines is treating 140 tons a day at its cyanide mill at Unionville, 4 miles south of Helena, Mont. The orebodies at the “line are being developed under the supervision of Homer Emerson, formerly superintendent of the Bertha mine, at Corbin, Mont. Construction has been started to increase mill capacity to 250 tons a day. It is believed that this work will be finished within the next six weeks.
The company recently sunk the main shaft at is East Pacific property, in Broadwater County, from the seventh to the eighth level. Lead-gold-silver ore was encountered about 60 ft. north and 30 ft. west of the shaft. Operations at the Kleinschmidt property of the same company are on a small scale.

A group of claims in the southwest portion of the Butte district has been acquired by J. Gavan, 1-I. C. Rogers, and R. E. Tower. Anna Butte Mining has been formed, with a capitalization of 500,000 shares at a par value of $1. A two-compartment shaft will be sunk close to the Butte-Southern and Ardsley groups.

Basin Montana Tunnel reports good progress in cleaning out the lower tunnel on its Gray Eagle property, Jefferson County, Mont. It is believed that the tunnel will tap the Comet vein within a few weeks. As soon as this work is finished, the company expects to start its long tunnel to crosscut the known veins lying between the Gray Eagle and the Great Northern Railroad. This tunnel will probably be three miles tong. Besides this work, the company has a crew of men on work at the Lillie B. claim, where ore carrying copper and silver has been uncovered about 3,300 ft. from the portal of the proposed tunnel.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929

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MONTANA

At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, it was voted to increase the stock issue from 6,000,000 shares of $50 par value to 12,000,000 shares of the same value. The new stock will be issued to the present stockholders at the rate of two shares for each five shares now held at a price of $55 per share. The funds realized from the sale will be used for the retirement of the principal on $108,803,000 of first consolidated mortgage bonds, series A, due February 1, 1958.
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The Montana-Idaho Mines Corporation is changing the machinery in its Spring Hill mill from cyanide to flotation, according to Gust Carlson of Helena, Montana, manager of the corporation. Only a small investment will be involved in the change and it is planned to have the work finished by April 20. Operations have been suspended during the installation of the new equipment.
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The Creden Mines Corporation, of which William L. Creden of Butte, Montana, is president, has opened the south vein in the Minneapolis mine near Basin. The ore body is said to be five feet wide and assays 5.1 per cent copper, 11 per cent lead, $2.80 gold and 52 ounces silver to the ton. The real objective is what is known as the second vein, and is farther ahead. The latter is known to carry high-grade lead-zinc values and the crosscut tunnel will be advanced to its intersection.
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Spokane and Montana mining men have taken over the Letterman or Plains Gold group of mines, comprising about 160 acres near Plains in Sanders County, Montana. The property is on the Northern Pacific and has been developed in a small way by the Clarksfork Gold Mining Company, control of which was held by T. S. Letterman of Plains. A crosscut tunnel has been started to tap the main vein at a depth of about 200 feet. One hundred and ninety feet of the distance has been covered and the objective is about 200 feet farther ahead. Two smaller veins, the Hummingbird and the Middle veins, lie parallel to the larger vein.
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The Butte Southern Mines, Inc., Col. A. P. Peake, president and general manager, Butte, Montana, uncovered a ledge of ore on the surface near where the company is building its powerhouse. The ore assays 11.6 per cent copper and 9.6 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Pentabase Mining Company has been incorporated at Helena, for the purpose of operating a group of 19 copper and silver claims, near Wolf Creek, Lewis and Clark county, Montana. The capital stock is $1,000,000 divided into $1 shares and each of the following incorporators have subscribed $100. They are William L. Davis of Silver Bow, Bert B. Davis of
Noples, Idaho, and L. A. Foot of Helena.
The power lines of the Montana Power Company pass within three and one-half miles of the mine, timber is available for mining needs and the company has purchased water rights from Little Creek, which crosses the property. It is planned to build a bunkhouse to accommodate 20 men, a blacksmith shop, sorting sheds, ore bins and to repair the road to the mine. Tools and other supplies are to be purchased.
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Power has been turned on so that the North Butte Mining Company, Paul A. Gow, president and general manager, can unwater its mines. The Main Range mine is to be unwatered and the Granite Mountain mine will be placed in shape for the extraction of ore.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL April 15, 1929

MONTANA

The Butte and Superior Mining Company paid a quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share and amounting to $145,099. This is the only payment reported from the state during the past month.

During the year ended December 81, 1928, the East Butte Copper Mining Company, Butte, Montana, Philip F. Beaudin, general manager, earned $100,747 after depreciation, equal to 24 cents a share, as compared with a deficit of $91,313 in 1927 and a deficit of $181,306 in 1926. This is the first profit made by the company since 1921. The production totaled 8,587,068 pounds of copper against 6,844,769 pounds in 1927 and production cost was 13.87 cents a pound, as compared with 14.719 cents in 1927, and 16.321 cents in 1926. On December 81, 1928, current assets were $1,087,815 and current liabilities $47,781, making a net working capital of $990,084 as compared with $982,553 a year before.

The wages of all employees at the copper mines at Butte, Montana, have been increased another 25 cents a day with a proportionate increase for all contract miners. This brings the basic wage to $6 a day and is the highest ever paid in the Butte district. The increase applies to all employees of the reduction works and refining plants of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda and at Great Falls and is to be effective until further notice. Butte mines are now paying $100,000 a day or at the rate of $40,000,000 annually.

The Basin Montana Tunnel Company has cleaned out the 200-foot station at a depth of 200 feet in the winze sunk from its south tunnel and three shifts are drifting to ore. The drift is out 20 feet east and another 25 feet are expected to reach an ore body, which old records show to be 13 feet in width. The new electric Vulcan hoist is working well and the water is being kept out of the winze with a No. 7 Knowles sinking pump. Samuel Barker, Jr., Butte, Montana, is manager.

The Liberty Montana Mines Company, operating the Mammoth and other mines, near Jefferson Island, Madison county, Montana, is completing the installation of electric power and has purchased a 20 x 12 x 14 compressor, which will be direct-connected to a water wheel. The company’s stock is closely held by a syndicate consisting of E. D. DeChamps of Milwaukee, Walter U. Corrigan of Milwaukee, Ernest C. Rae of Des Moines and Manager F. R. Springer.

It is understood that the Crystal Copper Company has closed a deal whereby the Goldsmith group of claims of the company, located near Walkerville, Montana, has been leased to a syndicate of Butte men headed by John Egan. The Goldsmith property is said to be rich in lead, silver and gold ore.

Announcement has been made that the Arasky Butte Mines Corporation, B. E. Sawyer, manager, Butte, Montana, will build a concentration mill to handle the low-grade silver-lead-zinc ore that is on the dumps and from which the high-grade ore has been removed and shipped. Between 50 and 80 tons of ore are being shipped daily, the ores assaying from 26 to 66 ounces silver daily.

The Butte Olive Branch Mines Company has un-watered its shaft to a depth of 200 feet and has found it in fairly good condition. The shaft is 220 feet deep and in a short time the drifts leading to bodies of zinc-silver ore will be cleaned out, according to W. C. Siderfin of Butte, manager.

F. S. Bardwell, superintendent of refineries at the Great Falls plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, in his recent address before the Montana Society of Engineers, stated that the Great Falls plant has a refining capacity of 27,000,000 pounds of copper monthly and the residue, which contains selenium, tellurium, palladium and platinum, is shipped to New York where these values are recovered. At the Great Falls plant copper is refined to 99.96 purity.

Announcement has been made that a meeting of the stockholders of the Snowstorm Silver-Lead Company will be held at Spokane for the purpose of acting upon a proposition to sell all property owned by the company and to dissolve the corporation. No work has been done since the mill at Troy, Montana, burned in May, 1927. The Snowstorm Company began work in 1923 and sunk a shaft 645 feet and did about 3,000 feet of crosscutting and drifting on three levels. Funds could not be raised from the sale of stock and several advances were made by the Greenough Investment Company to carry on the work.

It is said that as soon as the condition of the roads permit, that cabins will be erected and machinery installed at the Benbow chrome deposits, near Columbus, Montana. Approximately $40,000 worth of work, including mine development is planned for this summer by the new owners.

Thomas O. Collins, business man of Deer Lodge, Montana, and James Higgins, mine operator, have just returned from New York City, where they have consummated the sale of the Blue Eyed Nellie mine in the Emery district in Montana, to the North American Mining and Smelting Company. The Blue Eyed Nellie is one of the older properties in the district and development is to be started within 90 days.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for JUNE 30, 1929

MONTANA

The Zonolite Mining Company, E. N. Alley, general manager, Libby, Montana, has entered into an agreement with the Kobold Company, Los Angeles, California, for the shipment of two carloads of vermiculite daily. Shipments are to start September 1. The latter company has been granted territorial rights for use of zonolite in wallboards, refrigerators, etc.
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B. T. Gordon, a stockholder of the Butte Independent Mines Company, operating in Silver Bow county, Montana, has asked that the company be placed in receivership. He alleges that the present officers have spread false reports in order to depreciate the price of the stock and have used company funds in promoting other enterprises.
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The tunnel of the Montana Premier Gold Mining Company, T. C. Letterman, Plains, Montana, has been advanced 435 feet and is believed to be near the vein at a point 200 feet below the surface. At the surface this vein is 12 feet wide and averages $26 per ton, principally in gold across the width. The work is being performed by H. S. Dudley, under contract, and progress during the last 10 days has averaged 12 feet daily, two shifts working.
With Mr. Dudley, is a part of the crew who drove the long Atlas tunnel in the Coeur d’Alenes, 547 feet in one month. Only temporary equipment is used, but a power line is to be built to connect with the Montana Power and Light Company’s lines so that heavier equipment can be operated. L. O. Howard, 1905 Indiana Street Pullman, Washington, is consulting engineer.
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It is understood that W. W. Patterson and John D. Ryan of Mullan, Idaho, have leased the Stewart-McDonald Mines, comprising five claims, near White Sulphur Springs, Meagher County, Montana. A vein three feet in width and carrying 18 to 28 per cent copper has been followed across the surface of the claims.
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The Gold Cap Mining Company, Glenn Anderson, general manager, Butte, Montana, has chopped more than 200 feet of ice in clearing its tunnel so that ore can be removed from the “glory hole.” The mill, able to treat from 800 to 500 tons of ore daily has been reconditioned and will start grinding ore shortly, under the supervision of William Francke, formerly engaged in milling low-grade gold ore in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Connection has been made with the lower lines of the Montana Power Company. Chas. O’Farrell, president of the organization, is on the ground and will take an active part in operating the mill. This is the old Porphyry Dike Mine in the Rimini District, about 20 miles southwest of Helena.
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The 150-horsepower Diesel engine of the Blackfoot Silver Lead Mining Company, C. L. Hewitt, president and general manager, Box 904, Helena, Montana, is working well and the 850-cubic foot air compressor has been installed. Concrete footings for the first unit of the mill building have been completed and lumber for the structure is on the ground. Flotation machinery has been ordered and it is hoped to have the plant in operation early in July. The concentrates from the ore will be shipped to the American Smelting and Refining Company at East Helena.
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The board of directors, of the Montana-Idaho Mine Corporation, Helena, Montana, Gust Carlson, general manager, has ordered the construction of a second unit of the flotation plant. This action is the result of the successful operation of the first unit, placed in operation a few weeks ago, and from which a carload of concentrate is produced every five days and shipped to the East Helena smelter. L. A. Grant is mill superintendent.
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High-grade gold ore, running as high as $200 per ton, is being shipped from the Honeycomb Mine in the Marysville District in Montana, owned by Morgan Langan of Helena, and being worked under lease by Nels Nelson and S. A. Brown, manager of the St. Louis Mining and Milling Company.
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The Harvey Creek Mining Company, Fred Goudge, superintendent, Deer Lodge, Montana, has uncovered ore in the tunnel that is believed to be the principal vein in its property. While no assays have been made as yet, experienced mining men who have seen samples of the ore say that it runs high in lead and silver with lesser values in gold and zinc.
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The Helena Silver Lead Mine. Company, W. S. Harris, mine superintendent, Helena, Montana, has opened three feet of steel galena ore in the west drift on the 240-foot, or lowest, level in its property in the Seven Mile district, eight miles northwest of Helena. This deposit is believed to be the downward extension of a body cut on the 100-foot level and a raise has been started to prove or disprove this opinion. Seven men are working. The hoist, pump and air compressor are driven by Diesel engines, but it is announced that electric power will be installed, which will permit sinking to greater depth and extending work on the present lowest level.
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The Diamond City Mine. Company, M. A. Ellis, general manager, Townsend, Montana, has unloaded and hauled a steam shovel to its placers at Diamond City, for use this summer. In addition, the derrick will be used to lift large boulders. Eight men are working this property. Robert Neilson, 902 Hoge Building, Seattle, Washington, is president.
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Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Good Luck Mining Company, which has been formed to operate a group of patented mining claims at Basin, Montana. The capitalization is $50,000, divided into shares of $1 par. H. A. Bolinger, S. A. Shadoan and F. L. Stone of Gallatin Gateway are directors in the company. ‘This is a copper-silver mine and work is to start immediately.
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The Butte and Superior Mining Company has declared its regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share, payable June 29 to stock of record June 14.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company has closed its Mountain View and Anaconda mines at Butte for repairs. This will reduce its copper output about 4,000,000 pounds monthly, or about 12% per cent from peak production, and is in line with the curtailment policy that has seemed wise to most of the copper producers.
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The Main Range shaft of the North Butte Mining Company, Paul A. Gow, president and general manager, Butte, Montana, has been completely unwatered and preparations are being made to install additional pumping equipment on the 1,200 and the 2,200 levels. A crosscut will be started to penetrate the Continental fault and by the time the machinery is in place, should have penetrated the fault, and be in the veins of high-grade primary copper ore disclosed on the 2,000-foot level.
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rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929

MONTANA

The North Butte Mining Company, Paul A. Gow, general manager, Butte, Montana, has completely un-watered the Main Range workings and has repaired the shaft and stations. A 10-inch water column has been installed in the shaft from the surface to the 2,200-foot level and the station on the 1,200 level, has been enlarged for a new 1,200-gallon pump and a 600-gallon plunger pump. In the station on the 2,200 level, foundations are being poured to install pumps similar to those mentioned at the 1,200 level. These pumps will be ample to handle any water which may be encountered in developing veins east of the Continental fault.
On the 2,200 level, a crosscut has already been advanced 250 feet towards this objective. The capacity of the power line to the Main Range shaft has been increased and new cable is being installed in the shaft. A large amount of development has been done in the Granite Mountain mine and ore production during July was 7,488 tons. North Butte also owns the East Side property, comprising nearly 1,100 acres on the extension of some of he best copper producing veins in the Butte district.
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The Butte and Superior Mining Company, E. V. Daveler, general manager, Box 1708, Butte, Montana, will disburse its regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share on September 30. The disbursement calls for $145,099.
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Ore, assaying from $40 to $70 per ton, has been opened in the Gold Bar mining claim on the slope, north of Marysville, Montana. The discovery was made during the summer, when a shaft was sunk 70 feet and a small amount of lateral work done. Some milling ore has been mined and the high-grade is being saved to make a shipment direct to the smelter. Albert Price, R. Fletcher and Herman Ingman own the ground.
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The assets of the Montana-Idaho Mine. Corporation have been reorganized as the Montana Mines Corporation, a $2,000,000 corporation. Stock of the former organization will be exchanged for stock in the new on the basis of five shares for one, through the First National Trust and Savings Hank, Spokane, Washington. As soon as the stock is transferred, it is planned to dissolve the Montana-Idaho organization.
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F. A. Warrington, Harold Wilson and Roy Snow, all of Libby, Montana, are opening a property on Goat Creek, near the Little Anne Claim of the Golden West Mining Company. They have located, a six-foot width of ore, copper predominating, with lesser values in gold, silver, lead and iron. Assays have run as high as $82 and $100 per ton. During the winter they plan to develop the mine and block out ore, working as the Betty-Mae Mining and Development Association, which has just been incorporated.
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The Maxville Gold and Silver Mining Company, Edward H. Collins, mine superintendent, Box 15, Maxville, Montana, has opened the ore body which has been the objective of work in the main tunnel. It is 12 feet wide and has been drifted on 40 feet. The ore maintains its width in the drift. It is of milling grade, averaging $15 per ton in gold, silver and lead.
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W. S. Norman of Spokane, Washington, has un-watered the Hyantha mine at Winston, Montana, which he took over only a short time ago, and expects to start shipping ore soon. The mine is equipped with a steam plant for hoist, pumps and an air compressor. The shaft will probably be sunk 200 feet below the workings.
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The Blackfoot Gold Mining Company, Mark Welch, president, Helmville, Montana, is installing a milling plant at its property seven miles from Helmville. Flotation machinery will be purchased later. A 90-horsepower boiler has been purchased to supply power for the mine and mill. Mine development has opened up 745 feet of ore, varying from 18 inches to four feet in width and worth about $20 in gold to the ton.
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It is understood that the Snowstorm and the Montana Morning Mines water and electric plants at Troy, Montana, have been taken over by the Troy Mines Company. Development is to be started soon. Troy and Kalispell people are identified with the new concern.
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During August, Butte Copper Consolidated Mines. Col. A. P. Peake, president and general manager, Butte, Montana, received $23,852 for 11 carloads of ore, and four additional carloads were in transit at the end of the month. A new ore body, rich in silver and lead, has been opened on the No. 6 level of the Joe Dandy Mine, near Radersburg.
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It is understood that Milwaukee interests, headed by William M. Schmidt, have taken over the Bullion property in Basin Creek, 10 miles from Basin, Montana. This ground has been opened by a 2,900-foot tunnel, and a lower 800-foot tunnel. Mill tests are being taken and it is planned to build a flotation mill of about 100-ton daily capacity.
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LIVINGSTON PLACER INCREASES ITS ACTIVITY IN SWAUK CREEK

The Livingston Placer Mines, Inc., operating a large hydraulic development, in the Swauk Creek District in Kittitas County, Washington, now has a force of 18 men working in three eight-hour shifts, three big monitors handling about 2,500 yards daily through the sluices.

A sawmill has been purchased and will be used to cut all the timber needed by the company for its operations, amounting in the near future to several hundred thousand feet.

“Five 1,000-watt flood lights are used at night to facilitate operations,” said president William J. Rogers of Seattle, “and everything now is progressing satisfactorily. We have three Wilfiey and one Kirk table in continuous operation, in addition to the big 85-bucket elevator, which handles the heavier stuff.

We are very much gratified with our gold showings and expect to have something very interesting to report when we make our first cleanup.” D. E. Sayre is the superintendent in charge of operations.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929

MONTANA

Track is being laid on the 3,200-level of the Granite Mountain property of the North Butte Mining Company, Paul A. Gow, president and general manager, Butte, Montana, to make available the blocks of ore remaining in the Edith May stopes, and the mine is being unwatered to tap the extension of the rich stopes on the 3,400 level.
On the 2,600-foot level and about 1,000 feet north of the Granite shaft, between four and five feet of copper ore, assaying from 6 to 8 per cent copper have been opened.
The crosscut on the 2,200 level of the East Side property is in more than 700 feet, and work is being pushed on the installation of pumping machinery.
North Butte is mining at the rate of 250 tons daily and expects to have large reserves of high-grade ore for mining by the time the 3,600 level of the Granite Mountain ground is opened.
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The Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, general manager, Helena, Montana, has outlined diamond drilling in the East Pacific Mine at Winston, in an attempt to locate a vein parallel to the main vein. Considerable ore of milling grade, is available in this mine.
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In the Klein-Schmidt-Irish Syndicate property, 28 miles south of Helena, a tunnel has been driven 350 feet to tap several veins at depth. Electric power and equipment have been installed, and it is planned to drive the tunnel to a length of 3,400 feet. At the Spring Hill Mine, four miles south of Helena, ore is being concentrated by the flotation process, and plans have been formulated to increase the capacity of the mill from 175 to 300 tons daily.
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A 20-foot width of milling ore, has been opened in the Montana Morning Mine, of the Troy Mines Company, according to Vice-President Robert Gregg, of Troy, Montana. This is one of the best properties of the company and comprises 13 mining claims. The Snowstorm group, including 24 claims, is a silver-lead-zinc mine and it is estimated that 100,000 tons of ore are blocked out and ready for removal at the present time. The mine is lighted with electricity, and is ventilated by compressors that can deliver 140,000 cubic feet of air per minute. The officers in the corporation are: W. A. Shoup of Missoula, president; S. B. Holbert of Spokane, general manager; H. W. Dickey, secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Gregg.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company has opened its Anaconda Mine, one of the oldest producing mines in the Butte District, so that the crew from the West Colusa Mine might have employment while damage caused by a fire is being repaired there. The announcement was made by C. L. Berrien, superintendent of mines for the Anaconda Company. The West Colusa property employs approximately 900 men, repairs are already under way, and the mine will be reopened as soon as they are finished.
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The Basin Montana Tunnel Company, Samuel Barker, manager, Butte, Montana, is drifting on copper ore on the 500 level of the Grey Eagle Mine, and has shipped 20 tons of ore taken out during this development, along with copper ores from the 400 and 500 level. A recent shipment, carrying lead, zinc, silver and gold, has been made. It is understood that the South Comet Vein is being prospected. The latter had not been worked by former owners.
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The Butte Highlands Mining Company, a recent organization, has taken over a group of mining claims on Nevins Hill, in the Highlands District, South of Butte, Montana, which were highly productive several years. The ground is opened by a 1,080-foot tunnel, which will be continued about 1,200 feet, and at a depth of 800 feet below the old workings. H. H. DesRoches, Walker B. Carroll and Frank Hayes of Butte have organized the company.
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A. W. Simon and associates of Kalispell, Montana, have leased property adjoining the Flathead Mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, in Flathead County, and have formed the Ole Mining Company, under which name, development will be done. Rich silver ore had been mined during former management, and the land is owned by the Northern Pacific Railway.
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The Montana Copper Corporation has been incorporated to work a group of claims in the Tidal Wave District, Madison County, Montana, where approximately 500,000 tons of ore have been developed in three oreshoots. Across a width of nearly 50 feet, the ore is said to carry 2.3 per cent copper, 80 cents gold and .5 ounce silver to the ton, and mill tests have been made in preparation of erecting a flotation plant. Those identified with the Montana Copper Corporation are William C. Siderfin, and Charles J. Stone of Butte; John L. Shaw, Clinton M. Roos of New York, and H. H. Clarks of Washington, D. C.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1929

THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, 1929

MONTANA

Officials of the Zonolite Mining Company at Libby, Montana, are in the east, negotiating contracts to furnish several hundred tons per day of zonolite, to the manufacturers of electrical refrigerators and building board. E. N. Ally is general manager at Libby.
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J. C. Van Dissel and Company, Inc., of Spokane, has signed an agreement with the Golaen West Mining Company, William Herbert, general manager, Libby, Montana, for the complete financing of the development of the mine. The money is to be available not later than January 1, 1930. Messrs. Herbert and Schouweiler attended the recent convention at Spokane, where their mineral exhibits attracted considerable attention.
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The Anna Butte Mines Company, A. C. Fisher, president, Butte, Montana, is making preparations to resume work in the southwestern part of the Butte District. Connection is being established with the lines of the Montana Power Company, and heavier machinery installed for shaft sinking.
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During September, the Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, general manager, Helena, Montana, milled 4,441 tons of ore assaying about $7.35 per ton. Costs of production averaged $3.40 per ton. Additional machinery is being installed to bring the capacity of the milling plant up to 500 tons daily. Recent announcement has been made to the effect that a large body of ore, averaging $16 per ton, has been opened in the Spring Hill Mine.
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The first carload of contentrates from the new mill of the Vigilante Mining Corporation, A. H. Dahle, president, Sheridan, Montana, has been shipped to the East Helena smelter. Most of the ore milled was from old dumps, but some ore from the mine has been started through the mill. A. L. Spencer, mine superintendent, is pushing development with two shifts of men. About 100 feet of drifting has been done around a bad cave in the old working, which broke through into the main tunnel, where heavy rails are being laid. Better ventilation will be supplied when the raise connects with the No. 3 workings. Seventy-five feet of the raise have been completed, with nearly 50 to go, to reach the objective.
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The Trout Mining Company, Charles A. Hyder, superintendent, Box 222, Philipsburg, Montana, has taken over several properties and expects to employ 150 men by the first of next year. One hundred and eleven are on the payroll now.
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Louis Hoffman has shipped several carloads of silver-lead ore from the Hamilton Mine, near Armstead, Beaverhead County, Montana, to the plant of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company at Midvale, Utah. Hoffman is operating under bond and lease. The mine was formerly operated by the Standard Silver-Lead Company.
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The Liberty-Montana Mines Company, F. R. Springer, general manager, Jefferson Island, Montana, shipped a car containing 80 tons of ore from its mine at Cardwell, to the Washoe smelter at Anaconda. This is one of the largest shipments ever billed to the smelter, and returned $184 per ton. The ore is mined through a tunnel and the costs of mining and milling are said to be $2.10 per ton. A power line and complete electrical equipment is on the ground and a double-drum hoist has recently been purchased from the Sullivan Machinery Company.
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The Vigilante Mining Corporation, A. H. Dahle, president, Sheridan, Montana, has placed its milling plant at the Buckeye Mine in operation. Dump ore is being treated. The machinery used in remodeling the mill was furnished by the Butte Machinery Company. The Vigilante corporation was organized last August by Texas capital.
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A group of Oregon capitalists, represented by M. F. Howe and Son, are said to have acquired an option on the property of the Running Wolf Development Company, about 25 miles west of Stanford, Montana. A substantial cash payment is said to have accompanied the taking of the option, and money is available to develop the mines. Improvements, including the building of living quarters, are being made at the mines. J. 0. Helsing, R. R. No. 2, Stanford, is manager of the Running Wolf company.
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The Metalsmith Mines Corporation, T. H. Kerruish, general superintendent, Helena, Montana, has opened the Smithville Vein at a depth of 750 feet in the Empire group of mines. The ore carries from 60 to 65 percent lead, 4 percent copper, from 4 to 8 per cent zinc, from 15 to 20 ounces silver and from $4 to $20 in gold to the ton. An electric hoist and compressor have been installed at the Bell Boy to permit sinking a shaft to the 300 foot level. Connection will be made between both of these mines for the transportation of ore to the mill, which is being remodeled.
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The Montana Premier Gold Mining Company, T. C. Letterman, president, Box 193, Plains, Montana, has discontinued the use of its Diesel engine, and will develop by hand, power until connection is made with the lines of the Montana Power Company, about two miles away. A right of way is being secured for the line. The face of the drift on the 200 level is entering an oreshoot and preparations are being made for large-scale production.
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The Cedar Creek Mines Company’s property, 17 miles southwest of Superior, Montana, has been taken over by the Superior Mines Company. John C. Graham is working the ground with a force of seven men. This is placer ground.

rehab · MONTANA MANGANESE RESERVES TMJ 11301929

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Manganese Reserves at Philipsburg, Montana
The Bureau of Mines estimates that manganese reserves in this district of Montana will last for 30 years at the present rate of mining.

Manganese dioxide, which is used in making dry batteries, has since 1918 been obtained in the United States, chiefly from the Philipsburg District, in Montana. The district has also produced more or less manganese oxide ore, suitable for use in steel making, and recently a small shipment of Philipsburg ore was used at Silver King, Idaho, in the Tainton process of zinc extraction. The process of beneficiating the dioxide ore has produced a large quantity of manganiferous tailings, which is valuable either for re-concentrating, or for fluxing. It is now being used as a flux at the blast furnace of the Columbia Steel Corporation at Provo, Utah, in the manufacture of high manganese pig iron.

Production

Statistics compiled by J. T. Pardee, of the geological survey, who has visited the district from time to time since 1918, supplemented by figures from the Bureau of Mines, show that to the end of December, 1928, shipments of manganiferous material from Philipsburg, amounted to 442,482 tons.
On the assumption that 214 tons of crude ore was required for each ton of concentrate produced, it appears that in round figures 427,500 tons of ore was milled. This amount, added to the crude ore shipped, gives a grand total of 658,500 tons mined.

Stratigraphy

The area of productive manganese deposits at Philipsburg, is underlain by limestone. It is bordered on the east and south by a later intrusive granite (granodiorite), part of the east boundary being a fault on which the granite is thrust over the limestone. At the south, there is a deep re-entrant in the boundary occupied by barren quarzite, garnet rock, and other contact-metamorphosed sediments. Toward the west and north, the manganese deposits die out gradually. The bedded rocks are involved in a northward-trending fold called the Philipsburg Anticline.

At the south, the barren quartzite and garnet rock are exposed along the axis of this fold, and the overlying manganese-bearing limestones form its flanks. The axis plunges northward, and consequently the quartzite and garnet rock disappear beneath the surface, and the limestones occupy not only the flanks, but the axial area of the fold. The granite cuts off part of the east side of the anticline, and at the south the whole anticline.

Manganiferous Deposits

Manganese minerals are found through out the Philipsburg District, but workable deposits of manganese ore are confined, so far as known, to an area about I ½ miles long, and a mile wide, in the west-central part of the district. Manganese is not, however, uniformly distributed through this area. It becomes increasingly abundant toward the southeast, where about two-thirds of the available reserve is concentrated near the granite, in about a quarter of the total area.

The occurrence and characteristics of the deposits are described in a former report (1). They are associated with a series of east-west silver-bearing veins and, like replacement deposits in limestone generally, they are characterized by irregularity of form. Some approach a cylindrical form, and the Headlight deposit is tabular, but most of them can be described only as irregular bodies. They seem to prefer certain of the limestone beds to others—a fact that is useful in development work. They were originally composed of manganese carbonate, which was introduced somewhat later than the silver ore, came from a deep-seated source, and made room for itself by replacing the country rock.

Oxidation

Development workings show that in the limestone beds, oxidation of the manganese bodies, except for a few small residual masses, is complete to an average depth of at least 450 feet, and, as indicated by the position of the water table, or top of the zone of saturation, it probably extends to a maximum depth of at least 750 feet. In this District, the ground water flows toward Philipsburg Valley, where it finds an outlet at an altitude of 5,100 feet. Because ground water generally moves freely through limestones it is probable that the water table does not rise steeply away from the outlet.

This inference is supported by evidence from the Rope Mine, where, in the Shapleigh shaft, water stands at an altitude of about 5,200 feet. The Headlight Mine is dry at a depth corresponding to an altitude of about 5,400 feet. In the True Fissure and Silver Prince (Scratchawl) mines, water coming from the granite sinks and disappears in the limestone at altitudes of 5 500 and 5,600 feet respectively. In the Algonquin Mine, the water table is at the exceptionally high altitude of 5,800 feet, owing to seepage from Frost Creek. The ground-water movement at the Algonquin, however, is downward and outward, as shown by the fact that oxidation extends at least 400 feet below the top of the water-saturated zone.

In the Mullin and Morning (Wenger) mines, the water table is relatively high, owing to the nearness of the water-saturated garnet rock and quartzite. From these data, it is concluded that in general oxidation is complete throughout the aerated zone, and in the upper part of the saturated zone, where the ground water moves freely toward its outlet. Oxidized ore, therefore, should be found down at least to an average altitude of about 5,250 feet, or throughout a zone that averages 750 feet in depth.

Reserves

The following estimate includes whatever ore was blocked out December 81, 1928, and in addition the reserves indicated by geologic evidence to be present. As it is restricted to the area previously mentioned, and to a depth of 750 feet, it does not include whatever manganese future exploration may discover outside of these limits. There is, in fact, reason to think that a large amount of manganese ore, probably carbonate, exists at greater depth.

For convenience in estimating reserves, the prism constituting the manganiferous area to a depth of 750 feet, is divided into an upper layer 150 feet in average thickness, called Zone 1; a middle layer 800 feet thick, called zone 2; and a lower layer 300 feet thick, called Zone 3.

Zone 1 is pretty thoroughly explored and, except for a reserve of 60,000 tons, is exhausted. It has yielded all the ore produced to date, except about 60,000 tons that came from zone 2 through the Algonquin shaft.

Zone 2 is partly explored and appears to contain at least the same amount of manganese ore, volume for volume, as Zone 1. Its volume of replaceable limestone, is about one and one-half times that of Zone 1. One and one-half times 658, 000 tons (content of Zone 1) equals 987,000 tons, which is the total original content of Zone 2. As 60,000 tons has been extracted, the reserve in Zone 2 is 927,000 tons.

Zone 3 is not penetrated by mine workings, but its stratigraphy and other geologic features are determinable. It is still within the vertical range in which, as shown by the neighboring Granite Mountain and Bi-Metallic mines, manganese carbonate was originally deposited. Most of it is above water table, and it is assumed to be largely oxidized. It contains a somewhat smaller volume of replaceable limestone than Zone 2 and is estimated, therefore, to contain 800,000 tons of manganese ore, chiefly oxide. Accordingly, the total ore estimated to be remaining in the 750-foot prism, is about 1,780,000 tons, an amount which at the present rate of mining will last for 80 years.

(1) Pardee, J. T., Deposits of manganese ore in
Montana: U. S. Geoi. Survey Bull. 725. pp.
146.174. 1922.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

The United Asbestos Products Corporation has built a mill that can treat 35 tons of crude ore daily, at its property near the Idaho-Montana boundary, and E. R. South of Idaho Falls is gathering a force of men to start milling. Thirty men are employed at the present time. The town has been named Mt. Bestos, and has among its buildings, a school.
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The East Butte Copper Mining Company, Philip F. Beaudin, general manager, Butte, Montana, has declared a dividend of 25 cents a share on its stock. This is the first disbursement made by the company since 1919. The dividend is payable December 21, to stockholders of record November 20.
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The Zonolite Company at Libby, Montana, is going to enlarge its present building, across its full length on the north, to provide additional storage for the processed zonolite, according to General Manager E. N. Ally. During the last few months the management has built ore bins to provide for increased capacity, and has installed an air separator.
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The East Helena smelter, of the American Smelting and Refining Company, intends to install a mechanical stacker, and electrically operated buggies, for handling bullion from the casting machine, to the railroad cars. Major improvements completed within the last few months include:
an aero unit pulverized coal installation for dross smelting reverberatories; a booster fan installation on the blast furnace fuel system; improved sinter crushing installation; change from oil-fired to coke breeze muffles for ignition U. & L. roasters, and improvements in mechanical arrangement for spreading blast furnace charge in the charge car. J. D. MacKenzie is manager of the East Helena smelter.
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Plans have been made for driving a lower crosscut tunnel, 200 feet into the property of the Silver Grouse Mining Company at Troy, Montana, according to Charles H. Curtis, president and general manager. The objective of this crosscut is the downward extension of iron pyrites, with silver and lead values, opened in the exploratory tunnel. A power house is to be constructed for the compressor and other machinery.
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The Butte Homestake Mining Company, Butte, Montana, has sunk a 300-foot shaft in the Muncie Claim, and is starting a new shaft in the Sankey Claim, projected to 1,000 feet. Development is progressing nicely on three levels of the Lavena Claim, and a new surface plant is to be installed at that property. George B. Conway, Box 778, Helena, and E. A. Krussman, have succeeded John Lloyd Davis of New York City, and C. A. D’Arcy as president and trustee, respectively.
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Further constructive improvements announced by Bert B. Davis, president and manager of the Pentabase Mining Company, Wolf Creek, Montana, include a sorting shed, an ore bin, a bunkhouse and a cookhouse. Considerable drifting is being done, and ore of both shipping and milling quality is ready for mining.
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The Amalgamated Metal Mines Company, E. D. Anderson, manager, 54 Owsley Block, Butte, Montana, is opening the lower, or 800-foot level, beyond its present length of 1,900 feet at its property near Superior. The objective is a body of lead-silver-zinc ore opened in the upper, or 800-foot level. The 300-foot level has been retimbered. As soon as connection is established between these levels, the 100-ton mill is to be remodeled.
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The Ideal Mining Company is starting drifting on a 16-foot width of ore, where mineralization has increased with depth, according to P. S. Everett of Anaconda, Montana, president of the company. Development during the past few months was centered on sinking a shaft 47 feet, and drifting about 73 feet.
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A crew of 20 men has started repairing and rebuilding the equipment of the Troy Mines Company at Troy, Montana, in preparation of intensive development this winter. This company has succeeded to all holdings of the Greenough Investment Company of Spokane, including the Snowstorm and the Morning mines; the power plant, which supplies Troy and the district with light and power; the millsites and machinery, and 10 miles of railroad up Callahan Creek to the mines. Samuel B. Holbert, 617-18 Peyton Building, Spokane, is manager of the improvements and new development.
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Milwaukee capitalists have organized the Gold Creek Dredging Company, which is to operate placers in the Gold Creek-Pioneer District in Montana, formerly owned by Patrick Wall and Harry Symons of Butte. Mr. Wall is manager for the new company. A dredge of 8,000-cubic yard capacity has been ordered and will be installed in the spring on the Pioneer side of the property. O. E. Coombs, superintendent of construction, is on the ground making preliminary arrangements for its development, and W. B. Macauley of the Yuba Dredge Manufacturing Company of California, will have charge of assembling the dredge machinery.
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The first shipment has been made by the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, Basin, Montana, from the new high-grade strike on the 400 level of the South Comet Vein, accompanied by two carload shipments from other points in the mine. Drifts are being run east and west on the South Comet showing, a raise put up and a contract has been let to tap the downward extension of the ore. On the 500 level, the ore has been followed more than 200 feet east and west, and ore is showing in both faces. Samuel Barker, Butte, is manager of the company.
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Shipments are being made daily from the Flathead Mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, west of Polson, Montana, to the Washoe Sampler at Butte. Consignments average 50 tons daily and the ore averages 2,500 ounces of silver to the ton. Transportation is the principal drawback, and at the present time, necessitates hauling 42 miles to PoIson. A petition has been made to Lake County for the construction of one mile of new road, which will cut down the haul by eight miles and eliminate crossing the divide.
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The Trout Mining Company has purchased the Algonquin Mine in Granite County, Montana, from the Philipsburg Mining Company. In addition to this mine, the Trout Company has purchased the Belle, Belle Fraction, Bear No. 2, Brooklyn, Dead Horse, Franklin, Phimico, Levi Burr, North Peak and the Frost Creek mining claims. Charles A. Hyder, P. 0. Box 222, Philipsburg, Montana, is general superintendent for the Trout organization.
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Directors of the Butte Copper and Zinc Company, A. J. Seligman, president, Butte, Montana, have announced that a dividend of 50 cents a share will be paid shortly. This is the first disbursement since December, 1926, when a similar payment was made.
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The Mining Journal AUGUST 15, 1931

MONTANA

The report of the Butte Copper and Zinc Company for the quarter ended June 30, 1931, shows a net loss of $14,474, after expenses and taxes, against a net profit of $37,196, or 6 cents a share on the 600,000 shares outstanding in the second quarter of 1930. The report for the first six months in the current year showed a net loss of $15,869, as compared with a net profit of $18,242, or 3 cents a share in the first half of the preceding year.

Ore, assaying $82.68 in gold, 15 per cent lead and 153 ounces silver, has been struck in the Ole mine in the Hog Heaven district in Montana, in a barite formation impregnated with sulphite of silver. Manager Levi Gustead has sent a four-ton shipment to Kellogg for a smelter run. The ore, which assays show runs $140 a ton, was encountered in a large blow-out in a body of barite four feet wide and high with a downward dip. A cavern just above the ore body contained considerable oxide of silver.

The Smuggler Mining Company, Alex. Walker, president and general manager, 110 West Granite Street, Butte, Montana, is milling an average of 25 tons of ore daily from oxidized ores in the western portion of the tunnel, near Sheridan. The ore contains little sulphide and is assaying an average of $10 a ton in gold. Amalgam and riffle sets are placed in the main launders to chicken catch

the coarse gold before it reaches the plates. The ore is ground in a jaw crusher and ball mill and most of the pulp will go through a 50-mesh screen. The company has built its own hydro-electric power plant only a few hundred feet from the mine and generates as much as 250 horsepower, which supplies the camp and runs the machinery. A deposit of sulphide ore, with values in gold and lead, has been opened 100 feet below the tunnel level, and it is probable that flotation machinery will be installed in the mill to treat this deposit. 0. F. Brinton is superintendent.

Pending the complete installation of a dragline dredge, the California-Alder Gulch Corporation, Frank Zichosch, superintendent, Virginia City, Montana, is using a larger crew prospecting. The samplers work in groups of three, shoveling, panning and using sluice boxes, and the gold recovered in most cases pays for the trouble.

The Blue Vein Mining Company has been incorporated with a capitalization of $50,000 by W. F. Noyes, Lewis A. Smith and F. L. Melcher, all of Butte, Montana. This is a re-incorporation, and its property is located south of the poor farm in Butte. Mr. Melcher is head of the Western Iron Works there.

Hydraulic work in the drainage of Cedar Creek, Montana, is still being maintained by the LaCasse faction, with an average of eight men being employed at the work. The diggings are located some seven or eight miles up Cedar Creek from its mouth, near Superior, Montana.

A. C. and F. H. Reeves, Al Johnson and Hans Walchli have leased mineralized property in the vicinity of the Flntliead mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in the Hog Heaven district, near Kalispell, Montana. They have started driving a tunnel, through which the property will be prospected by the Reeves Mining Coinpany,

The Montana Sunrise Mining Company, A. H. Litchfield, manager, Troy, Montana, has arranged with the American Distributing Syndicate at 85 Hirbour Building, Butte, organized by L. O. Goodman and others, for finances. The mining company is concentrating on getting its property into production. Things had been pretty slack at this property for a few months and only two men and a cook were at the mine. They have a Diesel engine, but no mill.

It is understood that the Foundation Company of Utah will resume work on the Hecla Consolidated mine at Melrose, Montana, this fall. The Foundation Company is backed by men interested in the Chief Consolidated Mining Company, one of Utah’s dividend payers, and Basil Prescott of Eureka, Utah, is its president. Under his supervision the Foundation Company did some work in the Hecla Consolidated property two years ago.

Dredge materials are on their way from the factory to the Tatem placers on Old Lincoln Gulch, which are being operated by the Lincoln Gulch Placer Mining Company, James E. LaFountain, general manager. Placer operations will be started as soon as the equipment is in place.

The Mineral Hill Gold Mines, Inc., J. A. Flint, manager, Three Forks, Montana, is operating a small mill on its property at Pony, Madison county. The company plans to increase the capacity of the mill and to connect with the lines of the Montana Power Company.

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for JANUARY 15, 1930

ANACONDA METALLURGISTS EXPERIMENT IN NEW PROCESS

Under its present system of operating, the Butte Copper and Zinc Company in Montana, subsidiary of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, is mining two classes of ore, a sulphide and a “pink” manganese. The sulphide is shipped for treatment to Anaconda, where the manganese is lost, and the manganese ore is shipped to the Domestic Manganese and Development Company, where any sulphide values that may be contained therein are lost.

Anaconda metallurgists are now testing a process, which, if successful, should mean a greater saving of all the metallic minerals and eliminate mining two classes of ore. The flotation process is being used in the tests, first floating out the sulphides, which go to preferential flotation machines for separating the lead and zinc sulphides, and then dropping the silica away from the pink manganese, giving a high-grade manganese concentrate, which, it is claimed, can be more readily roasted than the present crude pink manganese ores.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

Two December dividends were reported by Montana mines. These were paid by the Butte Copper and Zinc Mining Company, and the Butte and Superior Mining Company, both paying at the rate of 50 cents a share. The former disbursement was $300,000 and the latter $145,098.
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The initial mill unit of the Running Wolf Development Company, at Stanford, Montana, J. O. Helsing, manager, will have a capacity of 50 tons daily, with provisions for enlargement to 500 tons daily. Mine development has reached the 300-foot level, and it is estimated that $20,000 worth of lead, silver, zinc and iron values, are on the dump awaiting milling. The vein is of the fissure type, and varies from 35 to 5 feet in width. An assay made at the 300 level, shows 24 percent lead, 6 ounces silver, 3 percent zinc, and $5 iron, to the ton.
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Benjamin F. Stevens, Benjamin L. Stevens, Rosalie E. Stevens, George C. Whitcomb, and Charles Whitcomb, all of Dodson, Montana, have organized the Katie B. Corporation, to develop mining property at the old mining camp of Zortman.
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The last carload of ore shipped to the Timber Butte Mill, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, from the 400 Level of the South Grey Eagle Vein, of the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, netted $2,360, after payment of freight, milling charges, and metal deductions. Mineral values were in lead, zinc and silver. The 500 Level has been opened, and drifting is in progress to reach the downward extension of the vein. Samuel Barker, Jr., Butte, Montana, is general manager.
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The Boston and Montana Mines Company, W. R. Allen, president, has completed a narrow gauge railroad, from its property at Coolidge, Montana, to the Oregon Short Line at Divide. Development has been in progress underground for several months, and it is planned to place the concentrator in operation soon, according to Mr. Allen.
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The Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, general manager, Helena, Montana, placed its new 1,000-ton crushing plant at the Spring Hill Mine, in operation. Additional flotation machinery is to be installed in the flotation plant, which already has a capacity of 200 tons daily. The company has been realizing profit since the installation of its new machinery.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company has declared its regular quarterly dividend, payable February 17, to stock of record January 11, 1930. Payment is $1.75 a share.
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The Empire Mill of the Metalsmith Mines Corporation, T. N. Kerruish, general superintendent, Helena, Montana, has been remodeled, and placed in operation on a three-shift basis. This is one of the first all-flotation plants in the Marysville District, and has a capacity of 100 tons daily. Ore for milling is coming from the Bell Boy, and the Smithville Mines, and averages $20 in gold, copper, lead, silver and zinc. The cost of mining, tram hauling, milling, and other expenses, is expected to average $7 per ton, and after the second unit of the plant is installed, will be reduced to about $4 per ton.
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It is understood that the Montana Copper Corporation is making plans to install a 500-ton daily flotation plant at its Moffet Mine, in the Tobacco Root Mountains, in Madison County, Montana.
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Tests made on the ore in the Timber Butte mill, in which the ore was concentrated in the ratio of 13 to 1, returned a concentrate, assaying 26 percent copper. A half-mile tunnel is planned to cut the ore at a depth of 1,200 feet. William C. Siderfin and Charles J. Stone, Box 374, Butte, Montana, are interested in this organization, as are New York and Washington, D. C., men.
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The Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company, is building a 250-ton mill at Philipsburg, Montana, equipping it with the flotation process. J. C. Yob is superintendent of the company.
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Surveys have been made for a transportation tunnel to serve 11 mining properties, on Grouse Mountain, in the Troy District, in Montana, and the work will be started as soon as the contracts for power have been returned from the East. The survey for the power line has been completed also. The tunnel will be about 6,000 feet in length, and about 8x9 feet in the clear. It will reach its objective, the Silver Strike Ground, at a depth of probably 2,200 feet. Between $75,000 and $100,000 will be necessary to carry the work to completion. Kansas City capital is financing the work, under the name of the Mecca Mining Company. Dr. John B. Crutcher of Kansas City is president of that organization, and also of the Liberty Metals Company, and the Silver Strike Mining Company, a new organization in the same district. Associated with him in making plans and carrying the work to completion is J. F. Powers, Box 807, Troy, who is general manager for Liberty Metals. The properties along the course of the tunnel have been proven to contain considerable ore, although it has not been mined to any extent.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

Under the management of J. F. Powers, Box 307, Troy, Montana, the Mecca Mining Company, buildings are being constructed to house a crew during development. A compressor, large enough to run three drills, is being moved from the Montana-Sunrise Mine, and will be used in driving the long tunnel in Mecca ground.
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Six mining claims, about four miles from Sheridan, Montana, have been taken over by a group of men, known as the Broadgauge-Tamarack Mining Company. Alex. Leggat of Butte, Montana, mining engineer, is president and general manager of the new organization, and with him are associates George Martin, W. E. Curry and A. McTaggart, business men of Butte, and E. M. Smith, also a business man at Billings, Montana.
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The Gold Creek Dredging Company, Patrick Wall, vice-president and manager, Butte, Montana, has received more than half of the machinery to be used in its dredge, which is said to represent an outlay of approximately $250,000. Forty-two carloads of machinery are necessary to complete its construction. Work at the present time is delayed somewhat, awaiting the arrival of a shipment of Oregon Fir, representing an investment of $19,000, and which is expected shortly. The point at which the boat is being set up, is about 1,000 feet north of the ghost city of Pioneer, between the town, and the railway tracks.
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The Crystal Lake Gold Mining Company, R. Pulver, president, Twin Bridges, Montana, has made application for patent, on the Pauper’s Dream, Gold Hill, Hammerway, and the Happy Go Lucky, lode mining claims in Madison County.
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The Ardsley Butte Mines Corporation, B. E. Sawyer, general manager, Butte, Montana, recently shipped four consignments of ore, from its Highland Group, in the southwestern Butte District, and one carload from its Virginia City property. These shipments gave net smelter returns of from $11 to $102 per ton.
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The Telegraph Mining Company, recently organized, intends to develop a gold property, near Elliston, Montana. Capitalization is $5,000,000. The incorporators of the concern are William J. Harris, Fred A. Davis, and Richard W. Nuzum, Columbia Building, Spokane, Washington.
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It is understood that the Royal Montana Mines Company, recently organized, has been financed by Montana men, for the development of the Black Eagle, the Gray Eagle, and the Native Silver mines, in Barton Gulch, near Alder, Montana. A force has been engaged and regular shipments will be started shortly. C. E. Hasler of Alder, is head of the organization.
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Good showings of ore are reported from the Comet Mine, near Boulder, Montana, where a force of 32 men are employed. Frank McNulty is foreman.
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A recent report on the Zonolite Mining Company, C. N. Ally, general manager, Libby, Montana, is to the effect that a new conveyor will be installed in the spring, to facilitate the removal of ore. The cost of its installation is estimated at $70,000. Zonolite is a new mineral, and has remarkable qualities as an insulator.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

The Anaconda Copper Mining Company disbursed its regular quarterly dividend at the rate of $1.75 a share in May. The sum disbursed was $15,449,100.
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The old Monte Cristo Mine in the Rimini District, 20 miles southwest of Helena, Montana, has been organized as the Monte Cristo Mining Company. E. J. Mo, formerly of Big Timber, Montana, but now of Seattle, is the moving spirit in the enterprise, and with him are associated Mrs. Helen K. Mo, F. C. Jackson, and Robert Farrington, both of Seattle; John W. Dowling and J. P. Taylor, both of Hamilton, Montana, and W. D. Wilson of Basin. David Kirby, Mrs. Mo’s father, discovered and prospected the ground 38 years ago, and shipped some ore to the East Helena and Anaconda smelters. Later, the W. A. Clark interests spent about $25,000 in development. Two important showings have been located. One is a 12 to 14-foot vein in the tunnel, from which samples assay 32 ounces silver, $8 gold, and 7 percent copper, and the other showing has yielded 55 ounces silver and 77 percent lead to the ton.
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The Great Divide Mining Company, Marysville, Montana, is moving the compressor, steel sharpener and some other equipment from the Gray Eagle Mine, near Osburn, Idaho, which has been worked for a time by Montgomery Waddell, vice-president and treasurer of the Great Divide Company. The latter mine is in the vicinity of the Bell Boy and Empire mines of the Metalsmith Mines Corporation, which has erected and is operating a modern flotation mill.
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W. H. Carroll, R. Lewis Brown and Thomas L. Tutty, all of Butte, Montana, have incorporated the Butte Revenue Mines to operate the Revenue Mine, near Norris. The ground is equipped with mining machinery, and was formerly worked by the Revenue Mines, inc. It is said that more than $2,500,000 in gold was extracted, to a depth of 200 feet.
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The Anaconda Wire and Cable Company, has acquired through its subsidiary, the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company of California, all the property and assets, except certain accounts receivable amounting to $71,567, and unimproved real property, of California Wire and ‘Cable Company, in exchange for 12,000 shares of the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company.
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The Butte Copper and Zinc Company, A. J. Seligman, president, 42 Broadway, New York City, is shipping about 350 tons of pink manganese ore, daily, to the roasting plant of the Domestic Manganese and Development Company, J. H. Cole, president and general manager, Milwaukee Depot, Butte. It is reported that within a short time, the company will ship daily a substantial tonnage of crude manganese ore to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at Pueblo, Colorado.
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The Diamond City Mines Company, M. A. Ellis, general manager, Townsend, Montana, has commenced the season’s work. Production is from an open pit, and a gas shovel and hydraulic equipment are being used. Robert Neilson, 912 Hoge Building, Seattle, Washington, is president of the organization.
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The Tip Top Mine., Inc., O. V. Miller, Libby, Montana, general manager, intends to enlarge its 25-ton flotation plant, build a dam for water power, and put in a compressor for cheap power. At the present time only about four tons of ore are being mined daily. The system of mining is from a tunnel, and from an open pit. A small force of four men is employed.
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The Parker Process Mining Company is again working its gold trap on the Vermillion River, near Trout Creek, Montana. Tacoma, Washington, capital has been brought into the organization by Drs. J. M. Ogle and J. Henry Hook, who recently visited the ground with Calvin H. Barkdull, engineer of Seattle.
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Plans have been laid to continue the 500-foot prospect tunnel in the property of the Grouse Mountain Mining Company, at Troy, Montana, and a compressor, drills and other equipment, are being hauled in to facilitate the work. S. S. Haugen of Troy is president and manager of the organization.
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Foundations are being prepared for the construction of a 60-ton oil flotation mill on the property of the Liberty Metals Company at Troy, Montana, S. F. Powers, general manager. This plant is to be completed by July 1, and electric power connections established. Underground, a crosscut is being run 150 feet to tap the undeveloped [orebody} 400 feet long, 225 feet high, and one to four feet wide. Fourteen men are on the payroll.
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The Glengarry Mining Company, Cooke, Montana, George Rich, general manager, is making preparations to complete the erection of a mill this summer. Gold, silver, and copper, are the principal minerals in the ore. Thirteen men are working.
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The Princess Gold Mining Company, H. C. Harris, secretary and manager, Box 445, Thompson Falls, Montana, has just completed its mill and is producing. The mill is a gravity concentration plant, and can handle 100 tons of ore daily. The mine has been opened to a depth of 700 feet, and lead and silver are the principal minerals found in the ore. About 20 men are on the company’s payroll. W. S. McCurdy of Thompson Falls is president of the organization. George A. Snow is mill superintendent.
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Before the end of two months, the Emmons-Howard Mining Company plans to be extracting the gold content from its placers, near Trout Creek, Montana, according to H. H. Howard of Spokane, Washington. Nine men are working at the placers, and installing a sawmill and pipe for a hydraulic giant. On June 2, the officials of the company and the Montana Road Commission met at Superior to discuss the building of a road from Superior, through Trout Creek, and into the Clearwater District in Idaho. This road would cost in the neighborhood of $150,000, but the decision reached at their meeting has not reached us yet. The mining company has 640 acres of virgin placer ground, and the distance to bedrock is said to average eight and one-half feet.
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The Comet Consolidated Mining Company, F. C. McNulty, mine superintendent, Boulder, Montana, intends to either build a 100-ton mill, or remodel the old mill on the ground, and install selective flotation equipment in it. A new gallows frame 65 feet high, a 250-horsepower double drum hoist, and a gravity tram, are to be installed. The tram will connect the ore docks, either at or near the shaft, with the ore bins at the mill. Operations are confined to the 400-foot level, but the installation of the hoist will enable the company to operate to greater depth. About 40 tons of ore, carrying lead, zinc, gold, silver, and copper, are being mined daily. The operating personnel includes: F. W. C. Whyte of Anaconda, Montana, president; T. C. Russell of Butte, general manager; C. A. Trout of Butte, assistant general manager, and Mr. McNulty. Thirty men are on the payroll.
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The White Pine Gulch Mining Company, A. G. Staton, president, Havre, Montana, expects to ship some ore this fall. This mine is only a prospect, but a 60-foot dike of ore that runs from $80 to $112 a ton in gold, silver and lead has been opened. An 80-foot shaft has been sunk on the ore, and a tunnel is being started. Two men are working.
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The Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, general manager, Helena, Montana, has started stoping the East Orebody, where values are running higher than in the No. 1 Orebody of the Spring Hill Mine. A drift has been run through the ore 200 feet, and the limits of the deposit have not been reached. Development is through the No. 5 Tunnel. In the No. 1 Orebody, from 15,000 to 20,000 tons of ore were broken in one round, which consumed almost a ton of powder.
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Within a few days the Golden Valley Mining Company expects to be working three crews of miners at its property, near Superior, Montana. Stanley M. Brown of Spokane, Washington, is manager of the company, and Gus Nygren, an experienced placer miner, is superintendent at the mine. The pit is equipped with modern machinery, is electrically lighted and supplies are ready for work.
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On June 1, the Butte Independent Mines Company intends to start sinking one of its shafts from the 250-foot level, to a depth of 1,000 feet, according to John A. Roos of Butte, who is acting manager for the organization. Silver, lead and zinc are the principal minerals in the ore, and the ground is owned by the company. W. C. Siderfin, also of Butte, is president.
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Montana Lead, Inc., has decided to install flotation equipment in the mill it will build at Red Mountain, in the Rimini District in Montana, this summer, according to a recent report received from President and General Manager P. B. Barbour, Box 782, Helena. More than 4,800 feet of development, attaining a depth of 1,200 feet, have been completed in the mine, and have insured a good supply of ore, rich in lead, silver, gold, copper and zinc. Thirty men are on the payroll.
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On its 600 Level, the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, Samuel J. Barker, Jr., manager, 15 West Broadway, Butte, Montana, has opened some of the highest grade gold ore found in the Grey Eagle Mine, at Basin, since it came under the present management. The west face is in more than 15 feet of milling and shipping values, containing copper pyrite and grey copper. The east face has been driven more than 860 feet from the winze, and is in ore that assays 17.5 percent lead, 15.6 percent zinc, 67 ounces silver, and $14.40 gold, to the ton. Manager Barker estimates that $1,200,000 worth of ore are developed in the Grey Eagle.
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L. E. Neale, general superintendent for the Glacier Silver-Lead Mining Company at Libby, Montana, has tuned in the 850-ton mill, and started it operating on a two-shift basis. It is understood that the flow sheet has been so simplified that the mill can be operated by one man on each shift with a helper, to feed the crusher. S. B. Holbert, 617 Peyton Building, Spokane, is consulting engineer for the organization, and is now directing the placing of chute lips and the stoping of the west vein on the 400-foot, or main haulage level.

rehab · NEW MAP OF GREAT FALLS, MT TMJ 6 30 1930

NEW MAP OF GREAT FALLS, CONRAD REGION, MONTANA

A new map showing the geologic structure of the Great Falls—Conrad region, covering about 4,500 square miles in north-central Montana, has just been completed by the geological survey, as one result of field investigations in 1929 in furtherance of its work of classifying public lands with respect to their mineral value.

In addition to the structural features, which are depicted by contours on the top of the Madison limestone, the map shows the areal geology, the principal roads, railroads, settlements, etc., in the area, and the location of all wells drilled for oil and gas outside the Pondera, and Bannatyne, oil fields.

It also includes representative stratigraphic sections for the western and eastern parts of the area. The scale of the map is 4 miles to the inch, and the area specifically covered is Ts. 20 to 80 N., Rs. 1 to 6 E. and 1 to 5 W., Montana meridian, including parts of Toole, Pondera, Liberty, Teton, Chouteau, Cascade, and Lewis and Clark counties. The field and office studies involved were made jointly by C. E. Dobbin and C. F. Erdmann, geologists.

A few copies of this map are available at the offices of the Geological Survey in Washington, D. C., at 815 Fratt Building, Billings, Mont., and at Shelby, Mont., for distribution to those having particular interest in the area.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930

for JUNE 30, 1930

MONTANA

All of the property, claims, leases, equipment, and supplies of the defunct Wilmont Madison Organization have been acquired by the Virginia City Mining Company, recently organized under the laws of Montana, with a capitalization of $100,000, divided into $1 non-assessable shares. The Virginia City Company also controls the Silver Bell Mine, where it is estimated that the values in the dumps alone would pay for the installation of a small mill. Butte, Montana, and California men, are back of the organization. Its officers are: Rupert Garrison, president; Frank M. Wright of Virginia City, vice-president; F. W. Bleck, cashier of the Elling State Bank, secretary-treasurer; George B. Allen of Virginia City, and Julian A. Knight of Twin Bridges, counsel. Financial arrangements are being made to start development.
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The Montana Park Mining Company has been financed to the extent of $500,000, by men on the Pacific Coast, according to vice-president and general manager C. E. Hasler of Alder, Montana, who has just returned from San Francisco. The funds will be expended in the development of the mines formerly operated by the Barton Gulch Mining Company: the Metallic Mine owned by the estate of the late W. O. Thompson; the Native Silver, and the Black Eagle, all located in Barton Gulch. The mill on the Barton Gulch ground is being remodeled, and will be used to treat ore from all of the mines.
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The Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, general manager, Helena, Montana, expects to receive its new ball mill from the Hardinge Company, Inc., about August 1. This is the third Hardinge mill that the company has purchased and installed, and it has a capacity of about 200 tons in 24 hours, which is equivalent to the capacity of both of the seven-foot by 36-inch ball mills now in operation. Additional ore bins, and some other equipment, are being installed in connection with the increased capacity. On account of the low market price for silver, lead, and zinc, no work is being done on the company’s properties at Winston, 25 miles southeast of the Spring Hill Mine.
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The report of the North Butte Mining Company as of May 1, 1930, showed cash and cash items amounting to $453,880.52. The company resumed operations on April 11, 1929, and in the year ended March 31, 1930, shipped 77,294 tons of copper ore, and 11,056 tons of zinc ore, or a total tonnage of 88,350, with a net value of $604,629.88, and a metal content of 5,464,573 pounds of copper, 2,708,478 pounds of zinc, 122,795 pounds of lead, and 243,095 ounces of silver. A special meeting of the directors will be held on July 2, at which meeting the authorized capital will be increased from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 shares. The additional stock will not be sold unless necessary, and, if sold, present stockholders will be given the first opportunity to purchase the new stock.
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According to John Semple, 200 Symons Building, Spokane, who has examined the property of the Golden West Mining Company, near Libby, Montana, the vein in the Little Annie Mine has increased from three or four inches, to 30 inches. To date, about 160 feet of development have been completed on this showing. The ore in the New Discovery, an adjoining property, is in one place 30 feet wide, and can be seen at the surface 100 feet. Some of the early development will be done in the latter ground, and considerable tonnage is expected. Gold, lead, silver, and zinc, are found in the ore. Fourteen men are on the payroll.
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The California Mining Company has taken over the mining property, under bond and lease from the Alder Gulch Consolidated Mining Company, near Virginia City, Montana. Frank Ziehosch of San Francisco, is in charge of the ground, and intends to install a dredge. The machinery is scheduled to arrive on the ground by July 1.
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Rather extensive development is in progress at the Flathead Mine, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, under the supervision of John F. Dugan, Box 499, Kalispell, Montana. The ore mined during development, is hauled by truck to Kila, and shipped by rail, to the smelter and, in spite of the high cost of handling and the low market for silver, is more than paying for the operation. Forty-two men are on the payroll, exclusive of the men who are operating six trucks, and who are working under contract. The camp is assuming sizeable proportions, with an office assay room, blacksmith shop, boarding house, 15 two-room cabins for the men, and the superintendent’s house. Experiments on the ore are being made with a view to installing a mill at the mine.

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The Glacier Silver-Lead Mining Company, L. E. Neal, general superintendent, Libby, Montana, is milling an average of 100 tons daily, in its enlarged plant. The ore is silver-lead, with some values in gold, and iron. The work is on a one-shift basis in the mine, and one and a half shifts are working the mill.
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The directors of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company,have announced a reduction in its dividend from $7 a share, annually, to $8.50 a share, annually. Accordingly, they will disburse the quarterly dividend on August 18, to stock of record July 12, 1930, at the rate of 87½ cents a share. Reductions have been made in the subsidiaries of Anaconda also. Greene Cananea has reduced its dividend from $8, annually, to $3: Andes Copper halved its dividend, and will pay 87 ½ cents a share, quarterly, instead of 75 cents.
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During the first 15 days in June, the Montana Mines Corporation, at Helena, Montana, Gust Carlson, general manager, handled 8,083 tons of ore, or an average of 205.5 tons a day. Since the first of this year, the company has been handling a gradually increasing tonnage of ore.
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The Nugget Placer Mining Company, S. M. Logan, president, Kalispell, Montana, has constructed 200 feet of sluice boxes, 150 feet of steel rail riffles, and 150 feet of block riffles, on Libby Creek, near Libby. A 60-horsepower dragline machine has also been installed, and it is estimated that it can handle 1,000 yards of gravel, daily. The work is supported by local capital, and in charge of W. R. Logan.
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The Standard Silver-Lead Mining Company, Charles Hussey, secretary and manaager, Empire State Building, Spokane, is said to have followed a vein of ore for 450 feet in the lower level of a property in the Winston District, in Montana. The ore averages a width of about five feet, and contains good values in gold, silver, and lead, with a small percentage of zinc. The ground was abandoned 40 years ago, on account of the high cost of and marketing the ore at that time, and extracting has only recently been taken over by the Standard Silver-Lead.
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Air connections have been established in the lower tunnel, of the Commonwealth Lead Mining Company, R. B. Garff, general manager, 219 Colfax Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah. This property is in the vicinity of Melrose, Montana. The first round of holes was drilled on June 9, and during that week, a tunnel, 5x7 feet, was driven 45 feet.
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The Jodie Mining and Development Company, C. W. Potts, president and general manager, Waterloo, Montana, has suspended the development of the Strawn Mine, ending the extension of the lease and bond, under which it had been working. Some good leads of milling ore have been opened, and a mill is included in the program of further development.
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The Crystal Lake Gold Mining Company, E. B. Pulver, president, Twin Bridges, Montana, has made application for patents on the Sunbeam, Sunbeam Fraction, Bessie, and Thelma Mining Claims, in the Tidal Wave Unorganized Mining District, in Montana.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

For the quarter ended June 30, the net profit reported by the Butte Copper and Zinc Company, A. J. Seligman, president, 42 Broadway, New York City, was $87,196, after the payment of taxes and all expenses. Figured similarly, the net profit for the corresponding period in 1929 was $53,364. The net profit for the first six months of the current year was $18,242, against $98,108 in the first half of 1929.
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The Superior Mines Company, John C. Graham, general manager, Superior, Montana, is ready to start sluicing ground formerly operated by the LaCassee Brothers, of Missoula. About 4,900 feet of flume have been completed.
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The Bimetallic Mining Company, John O. Hoffman, superintendent, Troy, Montana, is driving its tunnel into Grouse Mountain, at an average of three feet daily. Power equipment is used in the work.
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The accidental discovery of an ore shoot, by a fall of rock, has been reported from the property of the Federal Silver Mining Company, managed and largely owned by I. L. Earnheart of Troy, Montana. The ore is a foot wide, in a three-foot vein, carrying gold, silver, and lead, and is about 110 feet from the portal of the main tunnel. Mr. Earnhart intends to connect with the power line now being built to the Liberty and Mecca camps.
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A surface plant, including an office, bunkhouse, kitchen and dining room, is to be completed on the Harpole ground, near Avon, Montana, within 30 days. It is expected that the water ditch, three and a half miles long, will be completed about the same time, and two shifts of four men each will be engaged in placering. The next step to be considered in the construction program is a light and power plant, so that three shifts of miners can work. V. A. Harpole is the principal owner.
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Four men are in steady employment in advancing a tunnel in the property of the Victor Gold Mining Company on Granite Creek, near Libby, Montana, and its portal is said to be within 175 feet of the downward extension of a surface cropping of iron. J. H. Eby, Box 488, Spokane, Washington, is in charge of development. After cutting the vein, drifts will be run to the point where the diamond drill pierced the quartz. The work will require about two months.
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The Emmons-Howard Mining Company, C. L. Emmons, 844 Third Avenue West, Kalispell, Montana, has opened two pay streaks while prospecting, and is getting ready to install a hydraulic giant, and an automatic hoist. The crew is to be increased.
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The Basin Montana Tunnel Company, Samuel J. Barker, Jr., manager, 15 West Broadway, Butte, Montana; has run drifts both east and west on the Grey Eagle Vein, on the 600 Level of the Grey Eagle Mine. The east face carries high values in silver and zinc, and the west face is still in copper ore. On the same level, and in the south Grey Eagle Vein, a 20-inch width of ore has been opened, that assays close to 700 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Jardine Mining Company at Jardine, Montana, H. C. Bacorn, general manager, has shipped the first of several carloads of tungsten concentrates to the eastern market. The tungsten occurs in the form of scheelite, and the concentrate is of high grade, the carload just shipped assaying 74.65 per cent tungstic acid, and will return about $25,000. This is the only mine in the state producing tungsten in commercial quantities. Work at the present time is confined to production of tungsten, and to some development work, but when in normal operation, 150 men are employed. The property is well equipped with a hydroelectric plant, 40-stamp mill of 200 tons’ capacity, arsenic and cyanide plants. The ores carry gold, arsenic and tungsten.
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During June, the Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, manager, Helena, Montana, dressed 6,018 tons of ore at an average cost of $2.47 a ton. Considering the number of days in the month, this is the highest production during any month of the current year. The cost of milling has been steadily decreased from $8.68 a ton to the figure quoted for June. The average value of the mill heads is $6 a ton, chiefly in gold.
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Churn drill prospecting equipment has been moved to the property of the Virginia City Mining Company, eight and one-half miles south of Virginia City, Montana. The drill will dig a six-inch hole and has been set up near the test shaft on the original discovery. Several holes will be dug in an effort to test the gravels. Rupert Garrison is president of the company.
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The Leiter Gold Mines Corporation, recently organized, has taken over the Leiter Property on Wisconsin Creek, about 10 miles from Sheridan, Montana, and is to receive considerable development. A tunnel driven 800 feet, when the ground was under the management of the Gladstone Mines and Reduction Company, is to be continued another 1,000 feet, and drifting done on the Gold Eagle Vein, which it expects to reach at that point. The Lakeshore Mine, on the same creek, and for a time operated by the Gladstone Company, is to be dismantled. The Lakeshore Property was closed down in 1928 after several years of unprofitable production. Cecil L. Elliott is superintendent of the Leiter Gold Mines Corporation, and was in charge of the ground under the Gladstone management.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEW REPORT ON COOKE CITY MINING DISTRICT, MONTANA

For almost 40 years small amounts of lead, zinc, silver, gold, copper, and platinum ores, have been shipped annually from the New World or “Cooke City’ Mining District, which is just outside the Yellowstone National Park, close to its northeast corner. A report recently issued by the Department of the Interior, as Geological Survey Bulletin 811-A, describes this little-known District, and will be of great interest to mining engineers, geologists, and tourists. The report, which was written by T. S. Lovering, of the Geological Survey, and may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., for 50 cents, describes the geology and ore deposits of the district, and contains a map showing the roads, trails, buildings, drainage topography, and geology of an area of about 50 square miles.

As the district is 55 miles from Gardiner, the nearest point on a railroad, it has been little visited in the past, although the famous Grasshopper Glacier, and the rugged beauty of the highest mountains in Montana have attracted tourists there in ever increasing numbers each summer. To such visitors, the illustrations, map, description of the glacier, and account of the history of the district will be useful, and to anyone interested in “Cooke City” mines, the descriptions of the mines and geologic formations, and structure, and the discussion of the commercial future of the district, should prove of great value.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 30 1930

THE MINING JOURNAL

MONTANA

The Blackfoot Gold Mining Company, Mark Welch, President, Missoula, Montana, has put its new mill into operation. The mine is operating on two shifts, and 17 men are employed. According to M. S. Thompson, General manager, 80,000 tons of ore are blocked out. The property is nine miles from Helmville.
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George Weiglenda, R. R. No. 3, Lewiston, Montana, is planning to build a mill at the Grassy Gold Mine, which he is operating. A road is being built some distance beyond the old town of Maiden, steel cyanide tanks are ready for ore, and the old wooden cyanide tanks, which Weiglenda recently purchased from owners of the Kendall Mill, are being moved. Eight men are working in the mine.
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The carload of tungsten concentrates, shipped recently by the Jardine Mining Company, H. C. Bacorn, Jardine, Montana, General manager, assayed 74.7 percent tungstic acid, and returned about $25,000. The original content of 2 percent arsenic, was lowered, by roasting with wood, since roasting it with coke did not lower it sufficiently.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company is confining work at the Flathead Mine, near Kalispell, Montana, to development, because of the present metal prices, according to a reported statement by Jack Dugan, superintendent. Thirty men are employed in extracting 40 tons daily, of ore, said to average 50 ounces of silver, per ton.
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The R. J. Price Mining Company is working seven men, in two shifts, on its silver, lead, and gold property, consisting of 15 claims, near Noxon, Montana. The mine is equipped with power drills, and a tunnel is being driven to cut the main lead, at a vertical depth of about 450 feet. Two miles of truck road, are being constructed to the mine, which is 14 miles from the Northern Pacific Railroad. R. J. Price, individually, is operating the Freeman Property, in Copper Gulch.
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A reorganization has been effected in the operating force of the Crumby Mining Company, at Manicke, Montana, Charles Luding has been elected as President; O. B. Anderson re-elected as General manager; Jens Jensen elected as field man, and Sam Aiken chosen as Secretary-treasurer. Anderson is a Manicke man, and, with the exception of Jensen, the others live at Whitefish, Montana. Development is being pushed through a tunnel, which is 600 feet into the hill. It is well timbered and comparatively dry. A well-appointed camp has been established, and a compressor house, and shop, are near the mouth of the tunnel.
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The Standard Silver-Lead Mining Company, a Washington corporation, of which Charles Hussey, Empire State Building, Spokane, Washington, is Secretary and Manager, is negotiating an option on the holdings of the New Gould Mining Company, in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. The property involved, is a one-half interest in the Forbes and the Tecumseh patented lode mining claims, near Bear Tooth. The other half interest is owned by Owen and Bessie M. Byrnes.
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According to President and General Manager P. H. Barbour, P. O. Box 782, Helena, Montana, the Montana Lead, Inc., at Rimini, has reached all the objectives planned, when the company was organized, July 12, 1927. Twenty-five men are working during six days a week, and indications are favorable for a larger crew this fall. Development is carried on through the Red Mountain Tunnel, which has reached a length of 4,250 feet, and has cut ore at depths of from 600 to 1,200 feet. Considerable drifting has been done on veins 7, 8, and 9; the latter of which is five feet wide and carries milling values in gold, lead, silver and copper.
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MINE PRODUCTS DISPLAYED AT MONTANA STATE FAIR

Specimens of precious stones, gems, agates, marble, monumental and building stone, and slate for roofing, as well as other products, were included in the mining display at the Montana State Fair, held August 18 to 23. Special spaces were assigned to the large producers, including the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and the American Smelting and Refining Company, which exhibited their raw materials and finished products.

Considerable attention was given to the non-metallic substances, facts about the uses and value of which were given. Motion pictures showing the operation of mines and reduction plants were shown.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1930

MONTANA

An extensive program of development is starting on the properties of the California Mining Company, in the famous Alder Gulch section, of Madison County, Montana. The first work will be the exploring of the lava-capped channel, to bedrock. This company also has properties at Grass Valley, California. The head office of the company is at Virginia City, Madison County, Montana, and a branch office is located at 509-511 DeYoung Building, San Francisco California. Frank Zichosch, is Engineer and Superintendent. The Montana property was taken over in May, 1930, from the Alder Gulch Consolidated Mining Company.
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The Montana Mines Corporation, Gust Carlson, General Manager, Helena, Montana, during the month of September, treated 6,490 tons of ore at its Spring Hill Mill, near Helena. In the period from August 15, 1929, to October 1, 1930, the company reduced its notes payable, and interest, by $93,460.46.
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The Lincoln Gulch Placer Mining Company has been formed with a capital stock of $1,500,000 by J. F. Clifford, of Great Falls, and Oscar Burkland, and James E. LaFountain, of Butte, Montana. The principal office of the company will be at Helena.
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The North American Development Corporation has been organized under the laws of South Dakota, with main offices in the Hirbour Building, Butte, Montana, in an effort to revive promising mining and oil developments, which are idle because of lack of capital. The officers and directors are W. L. Smith, attorney; R. D. Mast, oil royalty specialist; S. B. Crocker, formerly with W. A. Clark and brothers, Charles S. Bonner and W. T. Mitchel, Jr. Smith is of Billings, Montana, and all of the others are Butte men.
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George H. Short, mining engineer, 506 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah, has an option on the property of the Commonwealth Lead Mining Company, near Melrose, Montana. The option, it is said, has been taken in the interest of one of the big smelting companies, and exploration is in progress to determine whether satisfactory ore conditions exist.
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Extensive development is planned by the Leiter Gold Mines Corporation, operating on Wisconsin Creek, about 10 miles from Sheridan, Montana. Several eastern men connected with the organization have visited the property. Cecil L. Elliott is General Manager at Sheridan.
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The vein in the Little Annie Mine, 35 miles southeast of Libby, Montana, has widened from a few inches, to two and a half feet, according to official announcement of the Golden West Mining Company, William Herbert, General Manager. The tonnage in sight justifies shipping, but instead they are blocking out enough to insure the installation of a mill, so that they can recover the lead and zinc in the ore, as well as the gold and silver, and save the freight costs. A Diesel engine has been installed, and a 10x12 Chicago pneumatic air compressor, with a pipe line to the mine, and an air receiver, will be ready for work in a few days.
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The Diversified Mines Corporation is being organized to take over the properties in Montana under bond, to the Associated Metals Corporation, and its subsidiary, the North American Mining and Smelting Corporation. Donald A. Callahan, of Wallace, Idaho, President of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company, is President of the new concern, and Wakeley A. Williams, 458 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, formerly engineer with the Granby Consolidated, is Vice-president. One of the mines has ore that is worth about $20 gold, 33 ounces silver, and some lead, and by adding a small amount of equipment, can be placed on production in 30 days.
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W. O. Trenor, of Roanoke, West Virginia, has purchased a group of mining claims in the Basset District, near Townsend, Montana, for the Fanny Mining Corporation of Virginia. The group includes the Fanny Claims, 1, 2, 3 and 4; the Western View, the Broken Hill, and the Roanoke. John Kangas, from whom the ground was acquired, will have charge of it during the winter. Considerable development is planned for next spring.
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The St. Joseph Lead Company, laid off about 250 men at Hughesville, Montana, and retained a crew of between 50 and 60 men, to carry on maintenance and development work. It is understood that considerable construction and development, including larger pumps, a ventilation system, and the sinking of shafts, is necessary, and the company’s action is probably to make these improvements. H. B. Willcomb is in charge of the Montana activities.
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rehab · ANACONDA SAFETY AWARDS STEWARD MINE TMJ 11 15 1930

ANACONDA COPPER HONORS HER CREW AT THE STEWARD MINE

The crew of miners at the Steward Mine, of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, is credited as one of the safest in the organization. It worked 7,118 shifts without a single lost-time accident.

H. B. Tunnell, is foreman, Richard Curran, assistant foreman; William Murphy, safety engineer, and Percy Tretheway, shift boss.

The first 10 shift bosses on the company’s payroll, who have had no lost-time accidents for September, or for two or more consecutive months are:
Tom Connors at the Tramway Mine;
A. McKinnon at the Mountain Con;
Percy Tretheway at the Steward;
A. B. Goodell at the Anaconda;
F. Holland at the Badger State;
Thomas Blackler at the Anselmo;
Knute Voll at the West Colusa;
Harry Mitchell at the Mountain Con;
W. Clark at the Badger State;
and E. E. Humfeld at the Tramway.

rehab · MONTANA MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 15 1930

MONTANA

PIC: Aerial view of Great Falls Reduction Department of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, situated at Great Falls, Montana. This plant contains largest electrolytic zinc plant in the world, an electrolytic copper refinery and wire and rod mill. Black Eagle Dam and power station in left foreground.
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The compressor building at the January Mine, near Winston, Montana, was destroyed by fire recently. The damage is estimated at $1,000, and is being repaired as quickly as possible. The Standard Silver-Lead Mining Company, Charles Hussey, Empire State Building, Spokane, Washington, Secretary and Treasurer, had an option on the January Mine, until recently.
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The Bird’s Eye Mining Company, organized early last summer, has built a number of cabins in the Hog Heaven District, and has ordered an air compressor for drilling. The principal development in progress is the driving of a tunnel, and samples of the ore show values in gold, silver, and lead. The company is leasing the ground from the state. O. A. Britell, of Whitefish, Montana, is President of the company.
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The East Butte Copper Mining Company, Philip F. Beaudin, General Manager, Butte, Montana, has announced that it will close its Pittsmont Mine. This property has been producing about 4,000 tons of copper annually, which was treated in the reduction plants of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The shutdown may not be permanent.
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The outside buildings and machinery at the Iron Daisy Mine, on Prospect Creek, near Thompson Falls, Montana, were destroyed by fire a few days ago. The Princess Gold Mining Company, H. C. Harris, Secretary and Manager, Box 445, Thompson Falls, is operating the mine, and intends to replace the damage at once.
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The Golden West Mining Company, William Herbert, Manager, Libby, Montana, has received about 4,000 feet of pipe, which will be laid from its power house and compressor, to the mines. A length of 1,500 feet to the south, will reach the New Mine, and the remaining pipe will lead north to the Little Annie.
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The Midas Gold Mining and Milling Company at Libby, Montana, is considering driving a tunnel to relieve water conditions. Although the mine is idle now, plans are being made for further operation. Gold and tungsten are the principal minerals in the ore. Jay P. Graves is President of the organization, and Frederic Keffer is General Manager, and Consulting Engineer. They may be reached through the home office, 1103 Paulsen Building, Spokane, Washington.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company and its subsidiary companies as a group, which includes the Andes Copper Mining Company, the Chile Copper Company and the Greene Cananea Copper Company, will curtail production 10 percent. This is in line with the curtailment that is taking place in all of the copper producers in the world.
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In order to concentrate production at a smaller number of shafts, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company has shut down its Stewart Mine. The men will be given work at other shafts.
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The Montana Sunrise Mining Company, Troy, Montana, has purchased eight tons of equipment and supplies, from the Union Iron Works in Spokane, to carry on winter operations. The order included two air receivers, rail, and steel. A raise is being driven from the No. 10, to the No. 7 Level, and has been completed 175 feet of the distance. R. H. Hutchinson, 310 Hyde Building, Spokane, Washington, is President. A. H. Littlefield, Box 1262, Spokane, Washington, is Manager.
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A revival of many mines in the Bannack District is expected, upon the completion of a power line from Dillon. The line will serve the I. B. Mining Company, C. W. Stallings of Bannack, Vice-President and Manager, and upon its completion the lower grade ores will be developed.
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The Basin Montana Tunnel Company, Samuel J. Barker, Jr., Manager, 15 West Broadway, Butte, Montana, is making preparations to drive a long crosscut tunnel, which should cut at depths of from 500 to 1,200 feet, many veins that have been worked near the surface. Nearly 50 veins are said to cross the tunnel site, 21 of which are classed as major veins, and with a length of three miles, this tunnel would cut most of them. Its portal will be near rail transportation, thus affording economical handling of the ore.

The project has the endorsement of Engineers Arthur V. Corry, of Butte, Walter Gordon Clark, and Newton W. Emmens, of Los Angeles. The Basin Montana Company owns 1,800 acres at Basin, acquired four years ago, and for two and a half years, has been particularly interested in the developments of its Grey Eagle Mine, which the new tunnel will open at depth.
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The Kilburn Placer Mining Company is running an open cut, 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide, to bedrock, to provide a dump for tailings and to gain grade. The objective is about 500 feet ahead. As the open cut advances, a flume is being built, 18x30 inches, with six-inch drop to the 14-foot grade. Several thousand feet of virgin placers are available. The pay streak is from 35 to 40 feet wide, and 16 feet deep, in granite formation. The largest nugget taken from the workings was worth $80, and smaller nuggets that were worth as high as $350, have been taken from adjoining claims. Kilburn Placers include 1,280 acres near Helmville, Montana, and are being worked by hydraulic methods, with caterpillar tractors, for handling boulders. Eight men are on the payroll. Ralph R. Kilburn, 531 South Sixth West Street, Missoula, Montana, is President and General Manager.
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A group of Butte mining men have acquired the Henderson-Bielenberg mining property, on Bear Gulch, east of Twin Bridges, Montana, and are making preparations for its operation. Accordingly, they have organized the Inspiration Gold Mining Company, with a capital stock of 2,000,000 shares of $1 par value. Frank C. Ball, and Iver Rhude, are mentioned in connection with the new incorporation.
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At a recent meeting of the Blackfoot Gold Mining Company at Missoula, Montana, eastern capital pledged sufficient funds to put the mine on a producing basis. Seven men have been engaged in development of the mine, eight miles from Helmville, throughout the summer, and a reduction plant has been established. Plans are to hire an additional 15 men and to operate both the mines and mill. Mark S. Welch, President, and W. S. Thompson, General Manager, are directing operations.
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The Golden West Mining Company, William Herbert, Manager, Libby, Montana, has completed the installation of a complete line of mining equipment, including a Diesel engine and compressor. Drills are pounding in the Little Annie Mine, where the ore shoot has been followed 176 feet, and is from three, to four and one-half feet, wide. The ore is principally gold. Three carloads have been shipped to the Bunker Hill Smelter, and one to the East Helena Smelter, and one of them has returned more than $8,000. Oil for the Diesel and supplies are sufficient to last through the winter. Specifications for the concentrating plant will be determined after a substantial tonnage of ore has been mined and tested.
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MONTANA MINING NEWS

CLARK & EMMENS PHOTOGRAPH BASIN MINES FROM THE AIR

One of the first airplane pictures of a mining proposition, in Montana, is being exhibited in Butte, by the Montana Stock and Bond Company, and H. H. Melville and Company. It covers an area of about four square miles, taking in all of the properties of the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, located on Comstock Hill, about two miles east of Basin. It also shows the main highway between Helena and Butte, the Boulder River, and the line of the Great Northern Railway. The picture was taken under the direction of Walter Gordon Clark, of Los Angeles, and Newton W. Emmens, now of San Francisco, California, both reputable engineers.

At present the Basin Montana property is being surveyed, in order to definitely locate the portal of the long crosscut tunnel, which will cut at depth some 50 veins, within a distance of three miles. It is planned to start the actual driving of this bore, about February 1. William H. Hax, President of the company, is now in New York, to attend the annual meeting to be held at the company’s office there, January 15.
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The Liberty Metals Company, J. F. Powers, General Manager, Troy, Montana, has completed its new buildings and bins, and is laying the foundations for its machinery. This is an oil flotation plant of about 50 tons’ daily capacity, and will mill the ores from the Montana Sunrise, a nearby mine.
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At its last regular monthly meeting held at Dillon, Montana, the Beaverhead County Mining Association discussed the feasibility of building a custom mill for the benefit of mine operators in the county. Another matter of interest was a discussion of what effect the state taking over federal lands would have on the mining industry.
The officers of the association are: George W. French, of Argenta, President; Pearl I. Smith, of Dillon, Vice-President; and Roy B. Herndon, of Dillon, Secretary- Treasurer.
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Thomas C. Russell, C. A. Tout, and T. E. Butler, as directors for the Madison Mining Company, at Virginia City, Montana, have filed papers in District Court to dissolve the company. According to the notice, the company has no assets and no intention of resuming business.
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The Mineral Hill Gold Mines, Inc., has taken over the Boss Tweed, and Clipper groups of mines, in the Pony District, in Montana, from J. L. Templeman of Butte. The new owners are operating the mill and building a connection to the lines of the Montana Power Company.
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The Iron Mountain Mining Company, M. I. Leydig, Manager, Superior, Montana, has acquired the Atlantic and Pacific Mines, in the Pony District, in Madison County, from the Elling Estate. Henry C. Burnstine, of New York City, is President of the Iron Mountain Company.
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The old Minah property, a mile and a half from Wickes, Montana, is being reopened by Henry M. Lancaster, Box 34, Alhambra, Montana, and associates. This mine was first opened in 1870, and has produced several millions of dollars in lead-zinc-silver ore.
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The Montana Sunrise Mining Company, on Grouse Mountain, near Troy, Montana, is completing a raise from the No. 10, to the No. 7 Level, and is building a road to reach the Liberty Metals mill, where the ore is to be concentrated. Production is scheduled to start early in the spring. W. O. Templeman is engineer.
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The Galena mining claims, comprising six quartz, and two placer locations, in the upper Hot Springs District, in Montana, have been acquired by Spokane, Washington, residents, known as the Empire Gold Mines Company. The 40-ton mill has been supplemented with a ball mill and production is expected to start in January. Gold is the principal mineral. The directors of the organization are: Dr. E. E. Loeffler, President; H. V. Sandahl, Mrs. L. Taylor, Mrs. J. E. Forrest, Secretary-Treasurer, of Spokane; and H. L. Martin of Long Beach, California.
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In the near future the California Mining Company, Frank Zichosch, Engineer and Superintendent, Virginia City, Montana, will install a 500-ton Ellis ball mill at its Bell Mine, in Alder Gulch. In the Spring, a Sauerman dredge, with a capacity to handle 300 tons an hour, will be in operation.
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PENTABASE PROVIDES MORE POWER FOR IMMEDIATE NEEDS

Steady development is being maintained on the north side property of the Pentabase Mining Company, at Wolf Creek, Montana, according to President and General Manager Bert B. Davis. Within another 40 feet, the No. 1 North Drift should reach a large vein, which shows high values in copper, silver, and lead. From this drift, a crosscut is being driven through very hard quartzite, to a vein that lies on its contact with the lime shale. The new Creek Level Drift has been driven more than 40 feet on the Lincoln Vein, which has increased to a width of nine feet and shows considerable iron-stained, crushed quartz, with zinc, additional to the copper, silver, and lead values.

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