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Show Reduction Works at Dillon. The silver-lead mines of Beaverhead county, Montana, outside of the Glendale district, have shipped within the past sixty days over $80,000 worth of ore. A big custom smelter should be erected at Dilllon. There are thousands of tons of ore lying upon the dumps of mines wit hin a radius of thirty miles of Dillon that could be reduced with a margin of profit, which railroad freight on a ton of ore from Dillon to Omaha is, say, $20. Twenty dollars on a ton of ore is a big margin. A miner who ships one hundred tons of ore to Omaha would save at least $2,000 by having it treated at that point where it is unloaded from wagons. Dillon Tribune, 3d. |