Show MONTANA kendall miner the shaft at the gold links is down feet and it Is not thought that they will have to go a great deal farther to strike the ore body as everything indicates that they are nearing the ore the work has been pushed rapidly since the operations were commenced and the shaft has been going down in record time the developments of the near future will be watched with interest as the gold links is confidently expected to be one of the big producers of the camp before next spring tibby libby news M P allen alien of the real estate firm of cathcart allen alien spokane arrived in libby last thursday and went up to see J H geiger at swa swamp m p creek mr allen alien who is the assistant secretary of the silver crown mining company made the statement just before leaving on the train for home last saturday that it is the intention of the company to make a shipment of ore within three weeks and his trip up to see mr geiger who is also interested in the property was relative to the shipment of the ore helena record lewis and dark clark county is the scene of two of the richest gold strikes in its history one is the union and the other in the bald butte both give every indication of being permanent bodies and will no doubt result in the enrichment rich ment of local residents in no mediocre degree the strike in the union is perhaps the richest in the history of the state the ore running eighty per cent pure or at the rate of a ton at least no richer specimens have ever been exhibited in helena from the days day s of the placer discoveries the samples resemble a bunch of copper wires interspersed with copper stained talc libby news 0 R sturgis who is interested te in the bunker hill and boston bosto n mining company up on leigh creek was called out to spokane on important business last friday mr sturgis stated to a western news man that they had just completed a large house which would be used to live in A 20 foot well has also been dug and that work has been commenced on a store storeroom roon feet after the completion of the storeroom the next in line will be a blacksmith shop and a powder house mr sturgis says that it is their intention to run a ross eross cut tunnel feet long to strike the contact intact and which would keep them out of ajie the snow during the winter they expect to begin work on the tunnel about october and will work two shifts butte copper age the north butte extension stenson company is making headway with its recent bond issue or and it is reported that matters are in a fair way to resume operations it is said that when work is begun again a new shaft will be sunk showings made since the first shaft was started indicate that better and quicker results can be obtained by selecting a new site for the shaft the old shaft is down about feet and a promising stringer of copper ore was encountered in the last ten feet plans of the company for development with the new capital to be raised from the sale of first mortgage bonds have not been made public but it is understood that they provide for prospecting the ground in a thorough manner butte miner before the close of the month the boston montana company will be shipping its normal amount of about tons of ore a day to the smelter at great falls ten days ago all of the boston montana mines with the exception of the pennsylvania mine resumed operation and yesterday the latter became active in production though not with a full force of men the flues at the boston montana smelter have been completed and connected with the furnaces and the latter are now being blown in so that full capacity will be realized next week some little inconvenience is being felt at the anaconda mine on account of the accumulated gases from the st lawrence and mountain view mines at times the gases gather in the anaconda shaft and the miners are compelled to quit work for short periods the fires generating the gases are under control however and are confined to a limited area in the old workings |