Show LATE BUTTE ITEMS the suit of the anaconda company against the butte both operating at butte montana has been settled 0 out ut of court and the latter company has resumed operations the davis daly has cut a 4 foot vein ot of rich ore on the 1200 and has located the vein vein on the 1500 the mine is now shipping tons a day the new ores making this possible on the 2600 level of the snowball vein the north butte is reported to have made a rich strike the company will have a new hoist in operation at its granite shaft in the spring which will be largest in the camp and capable of lifting ten tons 1500 feet a minute it is electrically operated and of horsepower senator dark clark has announced that about the first of april he expects to be sending to tons of elm orlu ore to the timber butte concentrator the butte and london has received its new electrical hoist and expects to have it in position by the middle of the month when the shaft now filled to a depth of 1000 feet or within one level of the surface will be and sinking resumed to the 1600 the west steward mine of the anaconda company has been closed for repairs the shaft needs much re timbering and the engine and machinery will be overhauled the berkeley will soon be started up the november output of the company was 25 pounds of copper the work of enlarging the ore bins at the butte mines and at the washoe smelter at anaconda is nearly done the concentrator of the east B butte atte is to be enlarged from to tons and the capacity will be brought up to make the company able to produce pounds of copper a year material for the improvements is about all on the ground and provision has been made for a pipe line to bring in an ample water supply the work of shaft sinking was stopped at 1500 feet where a station was cut and a crosscut is being run out to feet to cut the vein opened on the upper levels when the ore is reached the shaft will be put down to 1800 feet the old dutton button shaft 1300 feet deep an and d a mile southwest of the center of the camp is being reopened |