The Anaconda Standard

MINES NEAR CABLE
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 In 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 some day one will be built in that section.

"No work to speak of has been done this year on the Cable, but I have had a force of men working on the Warm Springs creek ditch and have worked over some of the old placer ground. We have applied modern methods to the work and have done pretty well, even in working ground that was worked years ago. One of the improvements is simple but works wonderfully well. In the bottom of the sluice boxes we lay railroad iron rails on four-inch cross pieces. The big, heavy rock is carried away quickly and with less water and less force by having a smooth surface over which the waste glides away while the gold settles down and is caught.

"Most of the work done this year, however, was dead work, repairing the ditch, which has been neglected, and next year we will open up some new ground.

"Politics I don't know much about except what I read in the Standard, and I should say this is a year that will keep the best of them guessing. I hear from my home in Iowa, that usually is so surely republican, that it is hard to find a democrat willing to run for office. I hear that the republican leaders are not boasting. One of them, in writing to me recently, said: 'We shall need every vote we can get.' The farmers of Iowa are tired of this protective tariff rot, which has been talked to them for years, and now look to the financial question to assist them out of the hard times which press about them, even to the wall. It is the only issue to-day and the farmers are awakening to that fact. Iowa, that has been 40,000 republican, is in the doubtful column this year."