Show Butt Wins the Drilling Contest DENVER Nov 10Special telegram to TnE HERALD The drilling contest has excited an interest in Denver that is unequaled equaled in the history of contests of strength endurance and skill The Butte team which made the best record last night arc old Colorado miners and were compelled to work all sorts of schemes in order to get to Denver and got into the contest con-test The Leadville team was backed by he entire population of that city and jcadville money was begging for someone to take it To night the crack Carbonate town team T P Kennedy and Thomas Vrinker on whom the silver of tha mountains moun-tains was placed made just 291210 inches being 810 of an inch less than Page and Regans record Conse uently the Butte men tonight own the town The Leadvillers are hunting ip friends with capital They had bet as high as 6 to 1 that their team would beat the Butte record The five leaders are Pago and Regan Butte Mont 29 1516 Kennedy and Rinker Leadville 2U Lundquist and Faimer San Juan 26 Mullin aud Oates Gilpln county SJtJ Harrington and Mann Pitkin 263 Short and Manuel Gilpin 2 A special contest has been arranged for tomorrow night between the Butte and eadvllle teams for 4000 a side The con est will be forblood as D good deal of feeling feel-ing has been aroused The Butte team leaned up SOOOO tonight The granite rock on which the tests were made is adamantine amantine granite which costs 5 a foot to mine Black powder has no effect on it and giant barely cracks i but dyamite is the only explosive that ever displaced i It known is among the hardest and densest granite |