Show MONTANA MINE A glance at gold special corr to the sealed in iho excellent stage coach drawn by six black horses the word of all set ia up to the cr and wo rapidly speed out of helena and on south towards the railway As we pass along towards the foot of the range we soo here and there extensive placer workings and ditches bome of which have produced great values in gold and gone out of use while other claims are abill being worked to profit the celebrated PRICKLY PEAR DISTRICT lies along our route and is still yielding the precious metal from her placers numerous gold quartz led are being opened up and some aro very successfully worked and then reduced in stamp mills we stop at jefferson city twenty miles south of helena and spend a few hours the town has a population of berone hundred person sand does quite a business with the surrounding ranchers and miners the valley is well adapted for stock ranches and has been thus appropriate while numerous mines are being opened up in the adjoining hills ia our miles west is located TOWN OP the location is a pretty one and the population now reaches about all of which comes from the existence of the aita montana mining company which have their smelter located at the place and employ many men in mining and reducing ores the company own numerous mines which they develop and by a mixture of the various ores produce good returns for their works in rich bullion of their mines I alta montana in which three tunnels have been run into the steep hill which will aggregate one feet in continued length and reaching a depth of feet the vein varies in thickness opening out in some places to forty feet the ore running from sixty up to ounces silver and being composed of galena chloride and carbonate COMET has more galena with carbonates and essays assays from forty to ounces and a depth of feet has been reached with a tunnel 1100 feet in length the norther pacific has been welt developed with 1000 feet of tunnels reaching a depth of feet and ose running from forty up to ounces silver the ouster is new and little developed is well benned denned and some of the ore goes as high as ounces the company are well pro aided vided with means for developing their various mina and with the present machinery and ihil in process of erection erect ian few give promise of better returns than that belonging to the alta montana co WORKS consist of a concentrating mill and a smelling smelting sm elting works the concentrating mill is propelled by a large engine and the era pisses first through Blako crusher through two aea of cornish rolls which re duce ready for acion ot tha full set concentrators which separates by means ef seines and action air jets causing the worthless dust to be carried off through suction eans and the useless silex to separate in waste while good ore is divided into four grades ready for ni in the smelter tim r decea the ore to onn third of the ony ai tie coit t n about two dollars fur ion A i comet mine they are now putting up a set of water concentrating machinery cap able of reducing twenty fine tons of ore per day the smelter has in operation a water jacket cupola capable of working twenty fine long of ore perdy some of the ore mill easily and is put tho battery of fire stamps and then the pulp goes through the three bruchner rotary cylinders and is there ready for amalgamating three large burnac s are also used A forty ton capacity smelter is now being erected and it will soon be in operation when the works will treat daily about seventy five tons of ore the present product ol 01 bullion is about five car loads per week running three hundred and sixty five ounces silver and sixty five bollara gold per ton or between andrix THOUSAND DOLLARS per car load thy employ in the works the mines and hauling ores etc three hundred men and the present outlook is such as to class the property aud management as one of the best in montana the town is named in honor of mr W W wickes who is president of the company with michael snow vice president cole saunders nan agiak superintendent and C superintendent returning to jefferson city the stage bears w onward to boulder twelve miles further south and in the celes berated boulder vally the town contains three stores two hotels and several saloons with a population of one hundred changing routes the batte stage conveys ua to CATARACT a new town eight miles west then to basin which is larger having twenty or thirty buildings erected the past few months all because of the rich miner prospect around many ano nave lately been discovered here and a small gold stamp mill erected one milo above the town the quartz is mostly gold bearing and there S good promise of a prosperous camp in the new future gain at boulder and a ride of several hours us to salt bury or Gaff noys which is reached at midnight so I stop to take another route nd go to virginia city in the ride hera numerous small places are passed some of which in times past were noted for their golden product oct marshall jewel has made n feeble and adlo to explain away those damaging lale grams to florida since aug 16 have been transferred from washington to Newy orl for the payment of foreign gold ane aho linseed oil mill was destroyed by fire with the on friday morning leej sergeant a former member of parliament haa been retained by the crown as counsel to prosecute the irish agitators |