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Show MONTANA MATTERS. PenobNCot'a I'rtMlucltous A lrNs Currengtonduut l)e-leiitlai l)e-leiitlai tlie Tiiubvr 1 alters. Helena, Mont., 22 Three thousand thous-and ounces of retort valued at $50,000 from the Penobscot minp, are now on exhibition at Hen h field Bruj. bank. The owner"ot the above mine who bonded it a short time ago for $300,-000 $300,-000 refused to accept Ihe proposition, and paid tbe fur (nit of $5,000. The mine is now eaid to be rebondid lo extern parties for $400,000. Cire.it ii,tt-rc;rit in manifeuted over the Lnuhnr ihacussion in congress and indigntition m expressed at tbe report ot the special agent of tbe interior department from tbia piacs. Tba largtBt mill in tbe territory averages about 6,000 feet daily. Since the en fjreement ol tbe timber law the mills bave been running on timber previously previ-ously felled. When that it consumed they propose waiting the action, of congress before felling more limber. Mimug operaliona, quartz excepted, were practically suspended laH foil before the law went into operation. 1 can't say what effect tbe law will bave on that interest. Cord wood id now as cheap as heretofore, owing tj the unprecedentedly mi'd winter, but thn wood being meetly from dead timbbr is not nearly eo valuable for fuel. The timber cut in Mod Una is all used by citizens of ibe territory and the supply baa rurely if ever exceeded ex-ceeded the demand. |