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Show ! LOCAL ENGINEER OPEIBOr HIE Company Organized to Operate Old Montana Silver Properties, ! Arrar.ge.v.ents, whereby one of the old- j f st mines in Montana will resume operations opera-tions se.r.i. were consumma ted by J. Benton Leg. gait, mintnsj engineer, who re-1 re-1 turned bst night from Butte. Mont. While at Bi;tte. Mr. Leggatt. who is conMrueting r-glnoi-r and general superintendent of the Montana-Bingham Consoh.datod Min-:::g Min-:::g e..'inpaii-. organized the Argyll Silver I Mining eompan- to take over the holdings of the Ren ton Mining- cc Milling company, i a Unite corporation, which operated the l.e-a:i mines at Quartz Hill in the Vi-pr-r.t Mining district. Beaverhead county. I Montana, in 1107 and BH1S. Tr.e low price j of silver at this time and general financial j eonoitions forced this last-named company com-pany to cease operations. The Liggett mines, originally owned by ' Alexander J. Liggett, the tobacco manufacturer manu-facturer of St. Louis, are among the oldest old-est mines in Montana, it is s:iid. From Ls7 to lSo this property produced large quantities of silver ore. At me time of Mr. Alexander LIggetfs death in 16 the pronertv remained idle until J, Benton Ben-ton Leggatt went to Montana in 1SV0 to : c ngago in the mining profession. From ' 1 :H" Mr. Leggat t operated the ' property c.mtinuous.v until lS.t. when silver '.vas demonetized and when the mining imlus-t.-y received a blow f;om which it look ears to reciv. er. 'I operations were again resumed in l?-.'., ! when Mr. Leggatt secured a very faor-! faor-! nh'.e contract from the Anaconda smelter j p e o n I c . w ". . o w a r t e d t h e mine's n i g 1 : 1 y j si.iciotis ore for convener lining. At that ' Th-no the Benton Mining Milling company com-pany was organized in Butte to take over i t-ie property. ! The pronertv to be operated by the 1 Argyle Silver Mining company consists of I a number of patented nuarts lode claims J and millsites situated about forty miles ! south of Butte and twelve miles from Bi-ide Bi-ide Station on the Oregon Short Line ; railroad. j Bros. ;.t developments consist of a rnm- i Ve; of shafts varying in depth, from fifty 10 1;. Meet : the principal working shat on the Argy'e c.aim. which is evi?POd v l;h a pasoline h.oist ar.d accessories-. A 1 large tonnr-.ge of high-grade si-vor ore wp.5 ! t hipped from this shaft and workings 1 v i thin seventy-five feet of the surface. The company plans, according to Mr. Leggatt, Leg-gatt, to start development from the bottom bot-tom of this shaft. By drifting- each way. the management is conf.dent that high-g-rf..!e ore scoots should be encountered ithin a few feet, r.r.ci ;hat this one mine .-h "-uld be on a prod .:cing basis wi thin t.-v.vc months from the lime operations r.re resumed. ; "After perfecting the organization in ' order to pnroha--e the nv.nirg chums :"om thtr Tgcett heirs and to consolidate other pron;-ri ies in tl.e district, operations wiil ! eomrcer.ced on a large s a!e ' wit Inn i th'rty da;, f." said Mr. Leggatt lat night. ; ' Several St. louis and Sal; I-ako l-i;siness r..en are interested in the company, and 1 the compary will be adcptaie'v financed. 1 The office of the company w-jll be in Butte, j 7'iit the plo.-k wiU be listed on the local exchange." 1 The board of directors is composed of the following Rutte men: 1L A. Gr-'.lwy, . mnnager of the Butte. A naconda c Pacific Pa-cific railway, wliieh is owm-d by tho Anaconda Ana-conda Mining1 company. Mr. Gallw. y was lor-mer'iy manrger of tlie Tirrott Oonper ; c ompa r ; J. Bruce Kvi-mc r. member of 1 ie le--a! firm of Kremer. Sanders it I Kren.er; D. J. Charles, pi' ',den: of the : ?.ilners' Sjvins Bnk fc Tru?: company f Butte: F. 1 Melch-.r. president of the AVe-tern Iron Works el: Found: y: t 'h.irlis i V.. Bee be, president of th Pe. -be Bay a.-' a.-' t.'rain coir.pa n ; t'haries Avstln. sei retary i of the C hamber of c'omim-ree and Kotary i-lub of Butte, and Mr. Lv'att. ' Articles of incorporation were filed with 1 County Clerk ar.d Ueordtr Sam Anderson ;.t Butte Sept, inner 22. Capitalization is ' rht'l t divided into l.Ooo.C'VO tual sirt-s of assessable stuck. |