Show MONTANA butte intermountain intel mountain W P jahn of milwaukee one of the principal men in the recently organized pilot butte mining company which took over the plot claim owned by the pilot butte dopper copper mining company Is in the city making arrangements to start operations when the pilot butte copper mining 1 company ceased to work the property the machinery was disposed of and now it has bc been aen necessary to buy machinery this has already been arranged for and it is expected that in the next few weeks an operating plant wil be installed edward hickey president of the tuolumne is vice president of the new company and J W pratt a prominent butte business man is a director the mine has been developed to the depth of feet butte intermountain the work of getting the moulton mine a silver property located in the walkerville Wal kerville district and owned by W A dark clark in shape to produce is progressing along at a good rate under the direction of T S kilgallon who is now in charge of all the dark clark mining properties in this district the moulton was closed down at the time of the silver collapse as it could not be operated at a profit recently mr dark clark was able to make an agreement with the anaconda copper mining company for the treatment of the silver ore from the moulton on terms which he believes will enable him to operate the property at a profit consequently just before leaving the city he gave orders to reopen the mine with the exception of the first feet the shaft has been found in fine condition and just as soon as this is repaired the active work of mining will be commenced the moulton is down feet |