Show LARGE INTERESTS IN CONTACT CAMP United States Clark at Work in Sec Second Second ond Butte Bute Contact which Is to b be an important pint point on the new Twin line of railroad which ha has ben been completed almost to the tho lne line has lt lit literally mountains of copper ore caring carrying strong values In siver silver and gold according to Frederick A Grham Graham of Federick Reno who recently visite vIsited the camp The district acquires its nae name from the Im Immense immense It and mense contact between limestone granite taking the coure course ot of ft a great horseshoe wih with arch to the westa westa lne line traceable for 28 miles of contact 2 mies What gives those whose faith ha has ben been pinned to the new camp the strongest hope that I it wi will become a second Bute Butte according to Mr Graham Is that the most powerful Interests In the country are getting In strongly The United States Smelting RefinIng lining company h has acquired control of claims the Iv Ivy Wison Wilson group of The Interest Interests have just tlc talc tn en bonds and leases to te the extent of 2 0 Senator W V A A Clark has taken ov r the Brooklyn mine and Is its eight claims long known as the only shaf shaft proposition at shaft being down 3 feet feet feetS S V Kemper of Bute Butte transferred this property to Mr Clark who wi will spend tact putting the shaft through the con contact Sam Snider ot of Minneapolis formerly of the and te the Calumet l Hecla has acquired Groux control of the Bonanza group of claims and Anderson of Minneapolis a partner there ot Snider but Independent of 11 him at Contact Is the Anderon Anderson group Deal With Guggenheims The Mining company owns the Delano group of claims There Is now SouP a deal on for tor this Tere group and the Armstrong group to the Guggenheims The Seattle Contact corn com company pany Is one of the strongest and eat cst holders of the camp James Raleigh of Ely who left Con Contract tract only a week ago wf will In the onlY spring and resume work on the Raleigh group Mr emphasized d the fact that Contact Is a bi big proposition a sort which al au copper men prefer to the reverse He said that Gerge George W Maynard of New York a wel well known mining engineer has estimated the gen genera era average of the ore bodies there at from 6 to U 11 per cent But said Mr Graham some S SO have been been shipped out whIch ran nearly 15 per cent 0 aVerage With a a railroad through the United States Smelting Mining Refining corn com pany wi will be abis to ship from 3 to 3 tons a day which wi will average as high as 7 1 per cent copp copper Ther There Is no timber at or near Contact Building material I Is plentiful however in the for form of granite An available quarry Is not tar far from the camp This wU will probably be In requisition In the spring when an of people Is ex expected expected |