| Show THE CARTER MINING COMPANY A dispatch from missoula montana to the butte intermountain says last night in the office of the secretary and treasurer of the company thomas N marlowe the stockholders of the carter min mining I 1 ng milling company met to receive reports from their officers and to select directors and for the coming year the meeting was well attended and the reports submitted were listened to with manifest satisfaction manager LC mauv mc zy jeffeys statement showed splendid progress at the mines and the report of the secretary treasurer showed a good financial condition at the meeting it was decided to continue the prosecution of work under the present policy and ample results are looked for during the year to come the following directors were chosen H L shepard louis greis L C mcheffey davis graham john schramm L schramm J C kelley william thompson A 11 hazeltime the board organized as follows H L shapard president A N hazeltine vice president L C mcheffey manager thomas N marlowe secretary treasurer all these officers were honored by reelection election re to the positions held during the past year the carter mining milling company was organized during the year 1907 the theor organization owning eight claims located about three northwest of carter since that year considerable improvement work has been done on the property and now the company is in position to gather some paying results from the properties experimental shipments have brought splendid results and the members of the company are confident that they hold ons ona of the best gold propositions ever uncovered in western montana the initial work done at the mines was to sink a shaft and while that work was in progress some mighty rich looking ore was uncovered A test shipment assayed 2800 to the ton and later shipments taken from a lower level yielded even better than that later a lower tunnel was driven drive 1 on a raise to connect with the shaft in the tunnel a wide vein carrying gold silver copper and lead values was struck the gold alone running to the ton another shipment of pounds of ore carrying gold was sent to helena for treatment and yielded over or over 2 per pound this ore was taken as it was encountered in the vein no attempt being made to choice bits for this tet test this shipment was made ast november and since that time other equally good reports have come from the mine anine the company is now running a lower tunnel 10 0 give a depth of feet on the vein anis tunnel is now 1200 feet in length and will be drilled still farther the com company is well equipped with cars steel rails cabins bunkhouses bunk houses and smithies and is ready to advance the development of its properties rapidly A good trail has been made between the mines and carter and a road for teams has also been constructed down creek to ashmore a siding on the puget sound railway six below superior the property is located about four miles from ashmore the nearest railway point but that place is reached by an easy grade road during the past few days the direct directors ois of the company have been gathering in this city for last nights meeting and a lot of good stories have been circulated concerning the value of the carter property L C mcheffey exhibits with great satisfaction a number of solid gold buttons cast from metal molten from ore taken from the carter mines while harry L shapard has for some time been carrying a paper weight worth which was cast from the same run or mecal |
