OCTOBER 2023 Ghost Towns and History of Montana Newsletter From The Jefferson County Sentinel, Oct. 29, 1891 MINES NEAR CABLE From The Anaconda Standard Newspaper, Oct. 4, 1896 J.C. Savery Has a Good Word to Say About the Properties. He’s Making Improvements The Gentleman Also Talks Politics and says That Back ln His State People are Tired of Protection Rot. J.C. Savery came down from Cable yesterday and visited friends in Anaconda. Mr. Savery is the owner of the famous Cable mine and has long made it a custom to spend the summer months in the mountains of Montana, partly on business, but more particularly for his health. “There is more work being done on Cable mountain this year than in any year for 15 years,” said he last evening to a Standard reporter. “Extensive operations are in progress on some claims, on others only prospecting and representation. I believe some very fine properties will be found there. The entire hill is full of mineral, on the east side free milling ores, on the west side the base ore which requires smelting to treat it. It is not right to call it low grade ore, because it is not; it will assay high, but the usual method will not save the gold.” “The Southern Cross is a good mine. It contains immense bodies of ore, and there are others in the district of the same class which it has been demonstrated cannot be handled as the free milling ores are. I think a smelter will handle this ore successfully, and that someday one will be built in that section.” Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Accessed via: montananewspapers.org
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