Butte Miner (Newspaper) - October 17, 1876, Butte, Montana PUBLISHED A copy one month m One copy six twelve 5 fo by Carrier 50 ets per We to Uie Carrier each month will be furnished on C o p p e r o p p 1 i s B UTTS O B Office oil Broadway Calls promptly attended to In town and THE FAVORITE EATING Board Single Come atul yet a Square Meal r SCOTT JOS KOSENTHAL Manager Montana rW Physician and Office at Residence Calls In town and country promptly attended and Popular Hotel of the Western Slope Notaries and Collection Agents MONTANA SCOTT Proprietor BUTTE CITY MONTANA Their ud their As some account of the history and quent fortunes of the men who first located claims on the Comstock lode or who through the purchase of interests the constitution of mills or ise became prominently n itu its early annuls might piove of interest to the general reader we will at this stage of our and proceeding to speak oJ the eia of its active development give to the public such scraps of information on these points as we can now recall to mind to pick up from HANKING AND is SILVER BULLION DUST VIRGINIA CITY All of SX a HOUSE BRICK Deer Lodge City Montana Tip WOULD TO THE Hear and vicinity teat wo have established In business here and are In ofa large stock of Pine Well-Furnished Booms Accommodations Excellent Roods General Variety MONTANA CONFECTIONERY AND TOBACCOS CIRTON HOUSE BUTTE CITY MONT ROBERT GIRTON Good Accommodations for No Bar in nor Saloon near the House Guati will Good Attention per week Hoarder Kay on Lodging 50 The public will Hml this ra Dry Goods HATH AND CAPS MOOTS SHOES served at the outset that a large portion of these men once seemingly so favored of for- tune or who enjoyed such rare opportunities tot the acquisition of wealth are now moderately abjectly poor Although but little more than seventeen years have since the occurrence of these events half the first locators on the Comstock lode are dead while very few of the of large means results great degree to their liberal and improvident its coupled very often with a less life v Comstock himself proceeds realized from the sale of his different pieces of mining amounting perhaps to twelve or fifteen thousand dollars altogether After remaining about Virginia City lor five or six years during which he made many prospecting tours into the country adjacent he left his old stamping grounds and went to Montana where he perished from a pistol shot through the head inflicted by his own hand while laboring under temporary ity This condition of mind was induced by hardships exposure suffered while on an exploring expedition in the mountains of that Territory during the winter of failing no niggards it went at the tame time pretty freely Theodore being now the only one of their number who has much property left A G Hammack one of the primitive stock of miners on Gold canon managed to secure partly by location and by purchase considerable interest in the Central Chollar and Yellow Jacket grounds the 100 feet he held in hating been received fiom the owners for running a short open cut on the claim sold his in the tral for got set eral thousand dollars besides for his other Interests and left in the to his family in to have been a good reputation among his companions for honesty possessed ti aits of character He is reported to have been killed during the rebellion fighting on the Confederate side though his advanced age over sixty renders what Papers in Mining and Scientific Press being again m solution may be ran and completely recovered copper ig now ready for the refining 1 which refining does not difler from the nary process I he plant of the Monnier process bnt Monnier Process pleasant AND NOTE Congress tional Kent mills make all weights sizes qualities Onionskin anil correspondence Note and Official all sizes styles colors and prices writing und copying school Ink Carmine BLANK Day books Journals ledgers account and memorandum books every variety VARIETY pocket cutlery pocket books all styles of pens and pencils paper rulers and general variety goods Hotel De Mineral JIUTTK Hauswirth Brothers PROPRIETORS Having opened the above house with Hotel accommodation for In we will be pleased to have the patronage public and will endeavor to give satisfaction SADDLES AND BRIDLES CIGARS AND TOBACCO The Patronage of tie Public is D Deer Lodge and Helena Montana DEALERS IS Paints QUs Glass CHEMICALS C K S I X And a Large Assortment of all kinds of ASS AYERS MATERIAL Stationery Hooks Wall Taper Building Notions Jcc Ac from first hands In the East at low Reasonable Hates to Regular Hoarders BUGS C E N T E N N I A L sums MONTANA Q W BEAU PROPRIETOR ill these tours to find any mineral deposits of value he never succeeded in re- storing his wasted fortune but died leaving neither money or possessions behind For a number of years Comstock as case also with many of his made some money testifying in da in regard to their early location along the great lode that now bears his name millions of dollars being sometimes dependent testimony of these men Old Virgin NOTIONS KTC the no true proper cognomen died in destitute which after him a ulcer the outbreak of the excitement a few of his old cronies having contributed to his support wards the hist His death was caused by ad- years and a rather free indulgence i alcoholic stimulants a habit to which he ai pears to have been long addicted As stated he received nothing for his interest i claims upon the great mother lode nor di he like many others benefit by his know edge of the locations first made along it hi demise having happened before any of th more important legal contests came on 0 all the original claim owners none fared s badly in a pecuniary point of 01 a man who in so far as there tva in being on the ground de served to have profited from this To the ladies we will sny thai we hn vo thn b-s or goods line ever in Jim re can rail yourselves HAVE ONE PRICE ONLY t JA COBS SORTER PUBLIC BUTTE MONTANA Collections Made Remittances Promptly Forwarded Have complete Abstractor till in Summit alley und Independence Districts trn v a ow Jli we are enabled to sell goods at prices that DEFY COMPETITION season a very large mid nro prepared Hew Store Hew Opening MONTANA On Broadway East of Main DEALER IS Merchandise Consisting In part of TOBACCOS Canned Goods Etc Also an assortment of New House New Furniture Good Accommodations Guests will Receive courteous attention and their wants will be carefully looked to Board nn day E Lodging 50 The patronage of the traveling public Is re G Cosmopolitan and Si louis CONSOLIDATED C Proprietors Having as above of goods direct from Eastern 1 respectfully solicit a nubile price of goods P brick 37 AND 39 MAIN HELENA MONTANA JW 0 on or before September AVo Kill retain flic St Louis Hotel using for while mines will kin cad In the Cosmopolitan Mils of arrangement we can ALL THE Tlic will be kept first-class In every re- spect and tables supplied as heretofore the very host In fact be our endeavor to keep consolidated THE BEST IN THE TERRITORY and avail themselves of the comforts of the caravansary will enter nl COSMOPOLITAN 1 ZIMMERMAN FRUIT I have just received a supply of fine pears mid from Call and try JOHN THE CHOICEST RESIDENCE LOTS To i Butte City repose situated on Broadway and Park streets and Montana and splendid view of the beautiful Summit Valley These Lots are now OFFERED FOR For the Prices moderate and terms for those who wish to purchase for immediate improvement Also good lots for business houses on Main street for sale 0 V'S E S T 0 It E JV T business stand on Main St Good dwelling Park has well and nil conveniences Mines Sought Sold Leased ami P Sanders Helena A J Helena T J Robinson and Win H Weimar Co Morris Virginia on Broadway near corner of The Monnier process lus been Nevada in this considerable interest is manifested m it This process has-been at a number of establishments with considerable success so that it is no We give a detailed description of the process about a year ago from the pen of nell of this city and as several enquiries have been made concerning it recently give space to consideration of it It was intended principally foi HOI king ores but is adapted to the treatment of a wide range of ores the process consists as n Calcination of the metallic sulphides with a portion of sulphate of soda or other similar salt 2 of the calcined ore 3 and of the sulphates 4 Reduction of the sulphate 5 Smelting into ingot copper 0 of my gold i esi The working details lie substant allt as The ore is mixed with the sulphite of soda and crushed fine enough to pass a So 24 screen is next roasted in a muffle a revolving the sulphur will begin to burn within an hour after the introduction of the oie and that time but jittle fuel is needed until to ward the end of the i ic aci d cl by of part of the I DIH little Foi complex copper ores probably no could be built on any plan with a less amount of week is required for the and products through the tanous operation It is estimated that ingot copper can be in works of this from a ten cent ore for five cents per pound considerably than by Geiman plans of fusion Very little labor is required The use of metallic Iron for the precipitation of the copper is avoided the use of soda and the method ol reducing the sulphate of copper Tins soda is used continuously with but little loss small as only heats aie process enables all the t metals m the oie to be while the can be acid concentration of poor is not so as in the fusion processes and 01 es can be w 01 kcd Dm ing is probable that i double salt of soda and copper is formed which helps to keep the ln a soluble form The washed has almost the ance a d richness of cement copper by metallic iron and undergoes the same species of actual con- sumption of sodi does not exceed one per cent for each ope ition The lo s of copper is not mote than pe cent and be eten less with management A weak point in the Monnier process as well as m some others is that it requires con- its solutions and ma country fud ls high priced and disadvantage But that maj be it is probable that where the are rich to bear bJ that nothing has ever above all others Giant MIXERS I Great Reduction in tlie Price of Giant No 1 per Hound by the case Ixo 2 loo pound retail per by the case Agent Kutto ind Silver Bow BUTTS MONTANA of Gold Silver Copper and Lead Promptly und correctly made tinner of all of Shipping Ores Will examine an n mining Will to tno representation of mines surveys und patents Charges I refor by permission to the Edward A y s street San Francisco Front streel a- Peter who realized more from hi Comstock claims than any other o he original locators along having in the Jail of 59 received from John 0 Earl am Judge for his interest in tin Ophir ground had for several years been a resident ol the Washoe country Be sides mining he also engaged in farming laving been the owner of a well of land situated about two miles below on the Carson river was a man of good appearance and possessed ol nore education and intelligence than most of his companions though exceedingly and at times supposed to be a little flighty 01 ome subjects He engaged in a number oi unprofitable enterprises among others the of a capacious and costly stone ice commenced in the fell of 50 at Virginia having been the first structure of large intensions undertaken iii that place He lid to see it finished having died the text year in a lunatic asylum very far from eing the that in his dreams of great he imagined himself destined to be- ome Patrick McLanghlin the same fall disposed of his ground to Morrison Hurst for the trifling sum of nor did he ever after succeed in raising any large stake out of Washoe He left the country poor and has of late been following the laudable but illy requited and uneventful calling of a sheep herder in California a bonanza that yields him probably from ten to fifteen dollars per month of net profits Of the Winter brothers John Joseph anil Theodore who at one time owned be- tween them extensively in the best mines at Virginia City and Gold Hill all are living on or near a large ranch owned by Theodore on creek in this State The boys removed with their parents from California to the Eastern some years before the ery of the Comstock lode having been dents of valley at the time of that They followed farming and ing having belonged to what in early days denominated the The mother of boys of great energy anil decision of the sons took after tinies rather an excess of i while the larger ion of the escapes as The iron copper and silver are com ei ted by the sul acid into sulphates ind the sulphate Soon all the sul not combined with the soda 01 oxides is expelled A low led heat snow reached and the sulphates of non and per suffer decomposition acid at combined in this form has been stored up and is now evolved by the greater heat Being nascent its combining power is of in- tense activity and force and it attacks any and all metallic oxides or sulphides ing converting them with great rapidity i nto sulphates the copper and ver present are soon torn into soluble sulphates iron oxide and gold remaining un- converted and insoluble In this stige of the roasting the value of the sulphate oi soda becomes apparent it holds fast to the excess of sulphuric acid formed during the eaily stage and carries it on to the point While by other methods of roasting to sulphates only a portion of the metals are retained as sulphates and the balance is to an insoluble form by this method the acid is retained until required by the copper and silver when it is given up at the right time and those metals are recovered with great ease If the saving of the sulphuric acid evolved should be of consequence the gases from the furnace may be led into the usual lead chambers The roasted ore is next placed in tanks and lixiviated with cold water The use of hot water is to be avoided as it would dissolve a greater quantity of base metal sulphates ly those of lead and The ng water highly charged with copper ind soda sulphates is conducted into tanks containing copper on which ver is precipitated form is ce whence it may be recovered by methods The large amount of sulphate of soda lit in the liquor must now be recovered and jias ever been which will do Us woik than the process just It ind copper as well is the gold that nny be in the At the mine in it is applied foi working the We late had no opportunity of learning changes they maj have mt there for then special object but the full process is as described abot e -5 F Minmy P es f on the Anj citizen of with a sense m composition would ask no bet ter fun would think than to act as guide to some Massachusetts stranger on a Sunday evening through the city of the Comstock The one hundred and saloons of C street glaring lights and widely opened doors the sound of No 46 for a and the resounding yell of the brass baU invitation to the melodeon the cigar smoking lounging laughing and swearing crowds upon the street say nothing of the sights upon the street a little down the hill from c street What a horror would they send the veins of the staid New Englander Would not his established ideas that the earth was made for the children of the lord i thJ the people of New ire M children be somewhat Are we m he exclaim r and if his companion had hit f he would answer No we are on the Com- stock 011 the Comstock is indeed something going on in all the mines and dog fighting at life rate track gambling in the saloons lounging on the forming a ris Whether we ought to be proud of ifor r is a question which aced not be dis- cussed since we cannot alter the existing condition of if we would Bnt tamly we can send any New Englander to the blue laws and the bitter Sabbath the valuable know ledge that although Boston l f may be the hub of the universe Jias tone very lively spoke Fee tie What with tlie at first a good deal of for future operations To effect his the solution is run into crystallizing anks and left for several days when most f the soda will crystallize out The is interrupted before the sulphate of opper begins to deposit and the solution is un into an evaporating furnace In this ic hearth is a wooden box lined with lead his is only moderately heated It receives steady supply of liquor to maintain a con- tant level In this furnace the sulphates of oda and copper as they crystallize are raked ut while the final charge is to ryness Some 60 per of this sulphate f soda originally present is obtained from ic first crystallization which as soon drained and dried is to go the round The JO per cent bal mce is not lost nt is recovered in a following operation The dry sulphates of and soda are ext mixed with charcoal and heated in a furnace -As soon as fluidity is sulphurous acid is Thp is gradually heated to redness at hich temperature it is kept until all the acid is expelled sulphate soda remains and the of copper into mixture of red oxide and metallic copper C o mug Oses unburned James C of this has recently patented through the anU P e-s latent an unproved process iol and a notice of which will be of interest to the The intention consists in with the ores to be petroleum or other highly ble oil and then he ores in a ble furnace and setting fire to the mass so that the heit by tho combustion of the oil will smelt or the ore Usually the ore w 11 require to be being with the oil but where it is porus and fri ible it Hill ab- sorb sufficient oil for the purpose can be dispensed with This process is intended to be specially applicable for treating cinnabar and sulphur ores from is to remove tha portion m the shape of fumes the sats he is able to treat es of ore m the same way and not the expense the fuel used but can attain results as the oil will ind reach particle of fhC ore the roasting willl be more thoroughly and t M While in Oregon William nf UUnd ori by Mr w to be worth tiiM o the Urn i copper ore from ihV
