Show MEN WHO OWN BUTTE MINES butte intermountain intel mountain not all of the large number of good min min ing claims in silver bow county are owned by the amalgamated montana ore purchasing company alice lexington boston montana butte boston colorado and other corporations operating here an impression which seems to have been conveyed to various parts of the globe by persons whose desire is said to be give the district a setback and prevent outside capitalists from risking their money in the purchase and development of individual properties in fact the number of claims controlled by all of the corporations combined is small as compared with individual holdings As an evidence of this it may be stated that james A murray alone is interested in between and claims among which are the alex scott and gem located right in the copper belt of the close in district mr murray has sold only a few of his good mines among them being the stella blue jay and washoe A few of the other individual holders are as follows A W barnard owns a half interest in the andy johnson a and nd all of the bonanza geneva mable yellow jacket the barnard placer a half in the a quarter in the corinthian and a halfin half in the kit carson also acres of mining ground in the city davis da vis estate owns about a dozen claims curtis majors own the gregory washington and an interest in the smokehouse J H curtis individually owns parnell john mitchell black warrior bland overman paymaster cleveland and hauser charlotto iodine milwaukee Carl caribaldi baldi grand junction wake up mat general sheridan marie and jacob strauss the two latter belong to the larmour estate but are in the hands of mr curtis estate of col horst owns the syndicate which adjoins the hesperus a half interest in the california all of the francisco home stake crown point sarah and a two thirds interest in the coms comstock tock the sarah is under a lease and bond samuel owns an interest in the exemption colleen bawn and cany on and all of the horses canyon S S alley owns the silver dollar and Au Audo dorizzi fraction J P reins owns interests in seventeen claims the other interests being owned by individuals thompson estate owns two fractions near the wild bill and the albatross and silver queen together with four other claims on fleecer mountain the latter are copper properties and are being worked under lease and bond thompson investment company owns 30 claims on the east side frank murray owns four or five claims on the east side H L frank owns interests in about abou t a dozen good claims I 1 patrick mullins owns between ten and fifteen good properties george H casey owns interests in half a dozen claims all considered good A V corry owns several promising properties largey estate owns interests in a large number of claims miles finlen owns a few small interests lee mantle owns considerable good ground james H lynch owns various interests W A dark clark owns many whole claims and several interests the foregoing list could be strung out indefinitely but the individuals estates estate and firms comprising it constitute a few of the larger holders A few other individual holders are peter conway dr G W blackburn W L farlin george W farlin george W stapleton john noyes david N upton dennis driscoll john metz jack duncil the estate of james larkin adolph wetzstein john A cannon hayes cannon W 1 I lippincott john W baldwin A J davis james A talbot silas F king the estate of james twohy john L leslie E L chapman charles odonnell F T mcbride k E H wilson john gillie joseph vivian C F booth john K R bordeaux J K matthews the estate of george W beal perry beal john A leggat rod D leggat C P drennan louis Lien Li enneman nenian charles schmidt william owsley john johnm M steward john Wool beater dan and W D thornton the latter owns fully 50 claims the majority of which are located at the east side sift of the flat |