Show MONTANA philipsburg mail parties coming up from smart creek dist district act state that charles boggs and his partner odonnell have struck it good in their mine there and are taking out some rich ore for shipment they have a well defined fissure vein that carries about eight inches of shipping ore the values are gold and copper troy herald wm calder was down this week from the dig big eight and reports that property in very promising shape they are working in the south drift in six feet of ore and have several carloads ready for shipment A 16 foot trestle feet long has been built across callahan creek from the mouth of the tunnel connecting with an ore platform from which ore will be loaded upon wagons and hauled to troy for shipment anaconda standard word came from bearmouth Bear mouth yesterday in the shape of a telegram to the effect that in the grant hart ford tunnel at garnet the lead had been cut which is the keynote key note to the magone ander son properties the properties adjoin the 0 mines on the one side and the famous nancy hanks on the other since last september constant shipments have been made to the washoe smelter and the last three cars netted 60 a ton this promising property in the heart of the gold district is owned by james A canty P A stevens james ross and dr F A ironsides all of butte butte intermountain advices advises from froin the georgetown district are to the effect that it is expected that inside of two weeks the roads will be in such a con condition diton that ore hauling will be started according to reports there is a very large tonnage from the various properties abating shipment some of this ore is said to run GO 60 to the ton and some even higher the silver lak company which took over the george and bonanza mines has quite a large force of men at work ng for extensive mining work by erecting an assay building and offices and a large bunkhouse for a big force of miners which will be put to work in the course of a few weeks A dispatch from virginia city says H jennin jennins jennings 0 s of washington D C managing director of the conrey placer mining company of ruby T D prier assistant manager of the company and M B E buck superintendent in of the madison river power com banys plant from which the dredges derive their electric power were in the city yesterday en route by auto to the power con com banys plant near meadow creek mr jennings trip here is incident to the starting up of no 4 dredge just completed which it is expected will be ready to commence operations a within the next week or ten days the new dredge is the largest in the world and represents an outlay of more than a quarter of a million dollars it has a capacity equal to all three of its sister dredges and after it gets to working regularly the output of the company will be doubled contributing to the wealth of the world more than in gold annually |