Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-05-02 | Page 8 | Butte Mines Curtail Mining of High Grade

BUTTE MINES CURTAIL MINING OF HIGH GRADE Pollock Private Wire Butte May 1 Orders ers have been issued to nearly all shaft bosses of or the tho Amalga Amalgamated mated and presumably to North Butte and Butte Coalition to mine less ss first class ore are In some mines the miners miters have been taken off entirely entire The presumption is that the tho companies find they can make malte money under tinder present econ economies economies on lower lowr grade ore oreTho The Tho production of the district for April Aprilis is estimated In excess of pounds of copper North Buttes share was pounds Butte Coalition produced from the Harris Harm mine alone the Anaconda production is in excess of pounds and Boston Montana nearly pounds The March production was about pounds So that April will wili show an increase of nearly pounds pound or 33 35 per cent