Show WELL KNOWN OLD MONTANA MINE GOES TO NEW COMPANY UNDER OPTION I 1 I 1 according to mining truth of spokane one of the most interesting operations in montana at present is that of the montana idaho copper company which has acquired under tinder bond and lease the well known east pacific anine mine five miles south of winston winston is on the original main line of the northern pacific 25 miles southeast of helena the price agreed upon for the property which was acquired through a helena bank was although there is a profit record prior to 1904 of from a production of montana idaho obtained the mine on unusually favorable terms after extensive inquiries by the bank into whose hands it had fallen mine has been idle for eighteen years east pacific has not been mined since 1907 henry M lancaster then of wallace and some associates from the coeur calenes dA lenes opened up the no 4 tunnel lowest in 1915 but abandoned the project without taking out ore since then the tunnel has caved badly montana idaho having discontinued work on its property at adair pending results of the richmond in driving the long tunnel into adjoining ground was looking for a developed mine to operate and had optioned option ed a property in british columbia but took on the east pacific as the more likely prospect under direction of supt bupt S P burr who has moved to winston from adair a force of ten men was placed at work cleaning and timbering the tunnel mr burr reports that the crew has advanced to the last cave before the station and he hoped to be through about the time this edition of mining truth appears october 16 then the pumps will be started and the and no 5 level this level is feet below no 4 and feet below the outcrop ore in and dumps the known ore shoot is 1500 feet long from the surface down engineers estimates give tons of ore used as filling and left on the dumps that runs 8 in go gold id silver and lead and can be milled at a profit these values are based on samples taken and analyzed by J henry longmaid and there are other exhaustive e reports written by L S ropes and C H hand from which some of the following facts are taken the group comprises eight quartz lode locations patented situated in a low spur of the crow mountains the altitude of no 4 tunnel being feet there are also alo three claims a timber claim and a placer location the east pacific lode which appears in three claims was discovered in the early when a foot shaft was sunk and surface cuts were made in 1886 it was purchased by john W kendrick veteran general manager of the northern pacific railway and the winston brothers railroad contractors of minneapolis for whom the station was named A shipments of ore commenced steadily in 1889 bought by bell in 1896 1 robert A bell of helena bought the mine in 1896 he shipped ores valued at nearly in the following ten years bell made large profits from production but got into a financial tangle in new york and was forced to discontinue operations he is now an oil operator in texas but st still ill holds stock in east pacific mining company he insists that large profits are still obtainable from the lower work ings and from the mill feed left in the W J kirby secretary of the montana idaho engineered the deal by which the latter company took over the property |