Show MONTANA butte inter mountain the senior class of the montana state school of mines recently spent ten days at barlin farlin mont studying the geology of the utopia mining district professor lincoln accompanied the class land and the work was carried on under his supervision it consisted in mapping the areal geology of the district and the underground geology of the indian queen mine the only important mine in that vicinity A kendall dispatch says some important improvements have been made in the long tunnel that leads from the shaft to the workings at the north end of the barnes king mine the tunnel has been widened in places and electric lights installed throughout this tunnel is drilled through solid limestone is almost a mile mil e long and all the ore that Is taken from the north end Is hauled through it in steel cars to the shaft the tunnel is perfectly straight and the electric lights shining through the entire length make a very pleasing sight butte intermountain inter mountain the old minnesota mine famous silver producer of the wickes district now controlled by the calumet corbin mining company gives promise that will make the michigan stockholders pockets bulge with dividends superintendent in W C hosking the superintendent who is in butte stated yesterday we have opened a big ledge we know we had before this is a blind lead at the bottom of the shaft feet below the surface running heavy in silver lead galena ore mr hosking is also superintendent of the corbin clancy creek property adjacent to the minnesota the corbin clancy is a butte company and sinking is just starting on la a nice chute of ore the vein is five feet wide two feet in ore mr hosking expects he will be in a position to make reports highly interesting to stockholders before the winter is over he will return to wickes tonight libby news chas mcdonald and son duncan arrived in libby on monday miller creek where in n company with geo mckay and tim i norton they have been doing their annual an nual representation work on the gold king group of claims in conversation with a western news representative the first named gentleman stated that they had been going down on the vein with a shaft but were driven out by water and arter after thoroughly convincing themselves that the vein was there they started a a tunnel much lower down downto to crosscut cross cut the ledge land and had up to date run in seventy five feet and would still need twenty five feet more of tunnel to crosscut cross cut the vein they will finish the other work some time this coming winter mr mcdonald stated that the tha ledge is twelve feet wide from wall to wall the rock between the walls Is is mineralized and gave an assay from 9 to in gold the assay coming from a streak ot of quartz about twelve inches wide he brought to town with him several samples of rock that look good and no doubt will assay big |