Show MONTANA SAPPHIRES leader great falls mont ten large boxes containing pounds 0 of f sapphires sapp hires were brought to moore from the new mine syndicate mines above utica last week and were consigned to the companas comp anys house in london england says the lewiston leniston news speaking of the yogo sapphire industry in which mr H 0 chowen of this city is heavily interested the stones were all small and will be used mostly for watch jewels this shipment is valued at several hundred thousand dollars the fergus county gems are among the finest in the world some interesting history relating to the discovery of the worlds most famous sap chire bearing deposits which lie in the yogo country near utica was told to the news by mrs john burke of utica who is the wife of the original discoverer of the american companas comp anys property the english companas comp anys mines were discovered in 1891 and in the following year mr burke who was a practical miner started out looking for an extension of the lead after some labor he found the same vein which contains the precious blue stones for several years only development necessary to do representation casdone was done by mr burke but for the last six years that he owned the mine he worked it on a small scale in 1906 mr burke sold his interest in the mine to the american syndicate which is composed of new york capitalists for four years the property has been operated by the company about have been spent in equipping the crushing mill sluicing plant machinery for the mine etc nearly all of the work is done by machinery at this time during the winter none of the matrix is sluiced but much of the precious stuff is being thrown on the dump to be sluiced near spring when weather conditions will vill permit it development work is now going on in the lower levels and the veins continue to show up bigger and stronger than ever in fact the yogo vein Is one of the wonders of the world it is about six miles long the english company having thirteen claims on it and the american seven beyond this distance of six miles much money has been spent to locate the vein but with out success since selling out his mine mr burke has found me rich lands of the judith to be a better moneymaker money maker than his world renowned sapphire mine |