Show < AS THICK AS FLIES Claim Jumpers Were Jumping Ev errtliinsr in sight Yesterday I Is estimated that there was more claim jumping Monday and Tuesday night in the districts around Butte than In many years before says tine Anaconda Standard The jumpers were particularly numerous and active In the loralities whore there have been some recent rich gold discoveries In the country east and southeast of Butte and especially in the vicinity of the Maud S mine where a number of good gold prospects have been found during the past summer the jumpers were a tick as flies around a molasses barrel bar-rel In many cases the jumpers were Irresponsible Individuals who went out weighted down with rifles and revolvers revolv-ers expecting to run bluffs on the ow ers of the grounds they had in view but there have been no reports of serious ser-ious encounters In several case claims were jumped on which the assessment as-sessment work has regularly been done for years In one case a piece of ground was jumped southeast of Butte upon which the owner has a residence and other Improvements besides a fairly fair-ly well developed mine on which he had done several hundred dollars worth of work during the past year but all this cut n figure with the jumpers and they Included the whole works In their new location Reports are made of other claims jumped that were no more open to relocation than the Anaconda Ana-conda mine and a number of lawsuits jumpers will doubtless be necessary to oust the Another field where the claim Jumpers Jump-ers got in their work is he Little Pine district near Melrose where some rich gold discoveries have been made during dur-ing the past six months and Camp creek was not overlooked A number of Butte men went to the latter district dis-trict some days ago and picked out their claims and put up their location loca-tion notices the moment the time indicted indi-cted the arrival of the new year A number of good claims were secured in many instances and in which they were legitimately open to relocation I having been abandoned by former locators lo-cators The amount of claim jumping in the county will be indicated by the number of location notices that will be days flied for record during the next few |