Show MONTANA butte intermountain intel mountain the montana corbin copper company failed to answer to the complaint of the western mining supply company and attorney forestell appeared this morning before judge lynch and asked for a decree by default after the proofs of the plaintiff had been heard and J B patterson secretary treasurer of the company examined a decree was granted by the judge for the sum of with interest and costs to the amount of in all great falls leader ben B thayer president of the anaconda copper mining company arrived in great falls yesterday in his private car washoe accompanied by john D president of the first national bank of great falls superintendent wheeler of the boston montana smelter and a number of other prominent men in the copper industry mr thayer and his party will inspect the B M smelter here after which they will leave for the southeastern part of montana to inspect coal owned by the amalgamated mr thayer has been on a trip of inspection among the lumber mills and timber lands in the western part of the state where recent fires damaged the companas comp anys property considerably A philipsburg dispatch says according to reports some very rich diggings have been opened up in the rock creek near this town the ground alluded to is a placer but thus far it has not produced any gold diamonds sapphires sapp hires and rubies are claimed to be the product being mined in a claim owned by waters their work in the diggings is over for this year but next spring as soon as weather conditions will permit it will be resumed with renewed vigor because the prospects are most alluring most of this season was required in getting the ground opened up and in building reservoirs and ditches but they got in a bedrock flume and from 12 feet of bedrock cleaned up about two gallons of sap chires and diamonds the value of which tar far exceeds the cost of getting the diggings in shape for actual mining 0 |