Show MONTANA butte intermountain intel mountain the butte company will commence shaft sinking in a few days the water has about all been removed the shaft is down feet and it is proposed to proceed with sinking at once to meet the up raising party from a depth of 1300 feet the work of cutting through from the 1200 foot level of the black rock mine of the butte superior company to a depth of 1300 feet in the pilot ground is making rapid progress and just as soon as it is completed up raising will start to meet the sinking party in possibly a little over three months the pilot shaft will be down to a depth of 1300 feet A libby dispatch says the steam drill which was taken to the placer ground south of town recently is now in operation and holes are being sunk on the land for the purpose of thoroughly testing the ground it will take several months to prospect all the ground as the machine can only drill about ten feet a day C B campbell of colorado springs colo who is the finan cial backer of the enterprise has been on hand this week to watch the operations in case the ground proves to be as as rich as the preliminary tests indicate it is his intention to put in a large dredge on the property there is approximately 1000 acres of land on libby creek that is thought to be rich enough and otherwise suitable for dredging and mr campbell has an option on about half of this the work is in charge of G F hinton placer min ng expert butte intermountain the july production of the anaconda copper mining company smelters shelters sm elters was as compared with pounds in june included in the production of the anaconda company smelters shelters sm elters is the output of the north butte and tuolumne mines which during the past month would be about pounds of which pounds would be ore the latter company slightly reduced its output last month but this month there will be considerable of an increase and present calculations are that the output tor for the present month will be somewhere between and pounds deducting ct the production of the north butte and tuolumne companies the actual production of the american company for july was 18 pounds the production of the east butte company for july will run about pounds |