Show MADE M AnI SUCCESS OF SILVER FISSURE Henry H. H Armstead jr Tells of Mining Operations at Polaris Mont Mont HAS RICH SILVER ORE r I SI t Treatment lion Long n a Great f Problem Is Sol cd by New cw NewW cw I h J I. I 9 W Process 1 roc CoS 4 f I Highly enthusiastic over mining conditions t lons In Henry II I Armstead Armstead Arm- Arm stead stend Jr g general manager of or the tho Sil Silt Silver SIer SI- SI Sil- Sil t ver er Fissure Mining company operating c at Polaris Montana arrived In Salt Sail Sal L Lake Lako ko Sunda Sunday on Oil 01 his a. way to Now New York i on a n hu business trip He lIe Ie is 19 registered j at nt tho the hotel and ami will wl remain remaIn romain re ro- main In the city several erl days He lie le I will wl mAJ make only a short visit to the tho f great grot f eastern metropolis It ft It being his Intention to return est wih within I a 4 month i Mr 1 Armstead f Is well veIl wel known In JI ch I II rue gratify gratify- i lug Ing Ilg results attained by his company i at at which company Is composed compos ed c of if men num prominent In the tho financial C of if Now New ew York baa Iia great t credit upon 1 Mr and andi i lie he hau cri como comA to be IJO JJ as ono one of or orth th the tho most ful mining mininG operators 3 In II the state of Montana I After It had hat been len operated in a desultory for Cor twenty years year during lul which time It I was several everl times abandoned on account of the fact that thatIs hat Its Is previous operators fal tailed failed d to find lind findan an nn economical and proper means of tr treating the tho rich sliver silver ore 11 Mr Arm- Arm stead with wih his associates acquired the Polaris mint mine about two years ago f hut but not until after he had absolutely J A 4 ell Hol solved the lw ore 00 reduction question U to Treat Ore On t. t Prior to the time lime that Mr Armstead Armstead Arm- Arm t stead took hold hoM o of the properly all al t Its It operators operator found fount It exceedingly ex- ex r to treat the ore on account k o of or Its hl highly character Before Before Before Be Be- fore acquiring the property Mr Armstead Armstead Arm- Arm stead tea made made- numerous exhaustive tests jr which Involved Involve of f A use a specially special special- M j ly iy constructed furnace and anil nd a formula t. t t. t t which out After AfUr this par- par I p nl nt of r reduction 1 had hall G lA-en lA l lor l'or I worked or cc out put on 00 1 a ft a small mul scale It I was tried In iii one o of the tile old Heinz sm smelters smelt smelt- Jers J- J ers JM Ju Butte Butto Bute which was remodeled I I for or the purpose A consignment of oC approximately three hundred tons of or ore was u Used us-ed t to th the tile large largo test at Bute Butte Butle which was a great grat success UCC f the slag n assaying ln something less than thirty i ce cents ls a n ton tomi In order older that I freight charges to Bute Butte Hutte which are aro a a. large largo item might b saved Led the Silver Fissure company has hus jU just l completed a IT I specially constructed ton hundred smelter at tho the mine I which I is located thirty six miles mies northwest st of oC the town j. j of or on tho Oregon Short F. F Line Speaking of oC conditions at at Polaris Mr 1 Arm Armstead teul said ld s. s Our smelter hn has only recently been finished It I will wi bo blown lown In just as soon oon as us we wo can cn be be assured that there will wl bo a steady dell delIvery cry of coke and antI coal at our railroad station As H Is we well known there Is la a great scarcity of or coal In consequence of If the heavy kr winter demand f and ant It I is IH difficult to toJ g J get t c coke e In lii an any great quantity on Ott n account ac ac- ac- ac count of ff tile the tt lack of oC cat CUI CULS The fhe Oregon Lf Short Line Lino company however 1 is do- do Ing t the e lest best It I Ilo possibly cnn can and ant w we aro are hopeful of or getting tho the smelter ii In operation at ut an date 1 I i early t PJ g Vork orl In II Mine i During the time we have havo ha had the thc property wo we have haw been n pushing worl work oil ih J th the thC old oltI workings which c consists of thou thousands of feet of tunneling and opening up new ore oro bodies Wo We feel fee greatly over O the results w wo we have hav attained At present we have hav ore In sight Night to run ou our smelter melor for a long term of oC years cars W Waro We aro are howl t however pushing the work In th the i milo mine with wih as larco lae a a force as al tho the i 1 t will wi various accommodate tunnels tunnel t drifts with 11 rl tho the raIF raises result etc that c. c wih every ty A ti tO ore Oc shot ahot are growing larger at V Tho Tile of traction trains has successful for I ell fU fO J 1 In purpose connection with the z Polaris proposition Our first wih train t did such uch good work oik that t recently we wo de decided do- do Nl duet to tf put another train In opera opera- le- le oper- oper 1 f r p tion ton between the tho railroad and the LM o mine and the two are nrc iio now giving ore 1 V t tho time best bent of or bett t satisfaction On t man many tills the trains are pulling from fifty I ff r to tons ton I sixty hc They OI fr operate te over O a t road read that we built bui ourselves which at 1 fl no point has hal a n grade of more than 4 1 1 r i I per r cent ti r f Mr r report that thai there i Is Isa Ii t a n rumor current In Montana to tho the i effect that capitalists pro- pro f j P O to build a railroad to connect t in iii II Lemhi count county Ida with wih the Oregon Short Ort nn Line Lino from the time town tOWEl ik of Arm tead Mont Tho The distance be be- and antI Armste-ad Armste Is In about r o n c miles M Mr ten 1 says t. t r 89 ft j that It is generally known that lint a surI ur- ur I voy vey for Cor such a railroad hUB baa been com com- f and that It H l Is 1 the general belof bet be- be t lof hot that flint the plan will be carried out wi b. b i I In 1 would the b bd near nar of future Inestimable Such value a rai railroad to 1011 the 2 section of oC tw 1 county anti and the tH Lemhi country In Idaho which h I nic ato rc at JH enl by h. h t |