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and necessitates shutting flown paft of mill for a month or two in winter.These three miles have large bodies of ore some places 60 to 80 feet wide, and the square set system of timbering is used extensively, with native timber which is not over abundant and consists of fir, pine and oak, and is getting more expensive each year, as the distance gets farther.The mines are run by having a white man as foreman and several shift bosses. Mining is all done by hand by natives and Chinamen, which is very efficient here, and their wage being twenty-five cents a day. YVe are installing a few air drills on development work as experiments, but I don’t think will ever be used extensively as labor is too cheap.The ore from these mines is milled by the common gravity stamp mill and about 40 to 50 per cent, of gold M amalgamated, balance is in concentrators. which are cyanided and an extraction of from 83 to 85 per cent, is receive^.They are now experimenting with a tube mill with better results, having an extraction of 93 per cent. Very fine grinding seems to be what is needed with this ore.The names of the thre'e mines that I have already given you is.also the name of three camps where the mines are located.Chittabalbie was the first mine worked here by Leigh Hunt. It was small but very rich. It is now shutdown,Maibang is another camp and mine with 40 stamps on property and run for several years but is now shut down, but mine is still running with pretty good prospects.\ PAin OC if rtfir
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Belgrade Kendall Miner
Belgrade, Montana, US
Fri, May 17, 1907
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