Show MONTANA butte miner at the minneapolis cor bin property in the vicinity of the boston corbin a great amount of development work is under way the shaft is now down nearly feet where a station is being cut preliminary development work on this level has opened up two feet of good quality of ore the values running high in copper and carrying considerable gold and silver arrangements have been made for installing ii surface plant to be operated by electricity to work the property at a depta of 1500 feet butte miner maj jesse B roote president of the keating gold mining company yesterday shipped to one of the directors of the company in duluth a number of samples of ore taken from the foot level of the keating mine the samples show an ail average of 20 per cent copper and 1750 in gold it is stated that the company has about four feet of this ore and it is announced that regular shipments are to be made at once to the butte reduction works in this city in addition to the gold ore which is being received at the works at the rate of two carloads a day considerable sid erable of the ore that is now being shipped to this city averages a net return of about 50 a ton to the company |