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Show I THE RICHEST 3IIXE IX 5I0XTANA. Over Nine millions of Dollars in Siht-Fonr Men Take Out $100,000 in a month. Probably the richest mine in Montana, everything considered, is the celebrated Granite Mountain at Philipsburg. This is owned and worked by a small company of Montana and St. Louis capitalists, among whoni are Messrs. C. D. McClure and A. Lambeth, well known in Helena, the former of whom realizes an income of $6,000 a month from his stock in this mine. The following interview, relating to this wonderful mine, is contained in the Philipsburg correspondence of the New Northwest: ' , I visited the Granite yesterday and was agreeably pleased to find Capt. John W. Plummer, the affable and courteous manager of the Granite Mining Company, in his office and at leisure. After a desultory conversation, remarkable for nothing save its dryness, I finally got around to business and in the possession of the following startling items relative to tne present wealth and magnificent future of the Granite : "What is the lowest working of the mine, Captain?" "The adit known a3 Tunnel No. 5." "And the length is?" j "One thousand and fifty feet from i mouth to header." ...... "About what amount of ore is in sight, ! sir?" 'TSine million five hundred thousand dollars at a low estimate, a conservative estimate." "What is the extent of your weekly development in this level, Superintendent?" Superinten-dent?" . "Well, sir, four men develop one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars a month." - "What is the length of the ore shoot in this level?" ' H "We have now 850 feet of continuous pay ore." - - - 4 1 -v' "Your bullion output last month was?" "One hnndredand fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty ounces, the production pro-duction of our thirty-stamp mill, out of ore as it came from the header, unassorted or selected." ; ' - |