Show MONTANA actual work has been begun on the concentrating cent rating plant for the elm orlu at butte mcgrath calnan expect to increase the force of miners on the bonanza at silver lake tuolumne copper company has its mines in excellent shape at butte and is now mining a better grade of ore than in 1912 A dividend of ten cents a share is payable may 15 the following officers of the prickly pear mining company owning claims two miles from jefferson were recently elected J 0 uM murray urray of helena president lee dever vice president H AT brooks secretary and treasurer the recent rich strike on the davis daly on the 1400 1403 foot level at butte has opened up into a twelve foot vein of rich ore and the company has 1500 feet along the vein and 1400 feet above it which will be explored there are eight places that the vein can be opened up from the 1400 georgetown is active the southern cross is shipping regularly to anaconda and accommodations are being prepared for more men bob lindberg is shipping from the holdfast charles bostrom is tunneling and on the georgetown gold the baltic is developing its low grade lead john D fields manager of the basin mining milling company of granite Graul te county has placed an order for worth of equipment the Al mckeever cKeever brothers of new york are backing the company the leaching plant will have an increased capacity of about tons about men are employed the east butte copper company of butte produced pounds of copper in 1912 from the treatment of tons of ore containing per cent cop per at a cost of per ton of ore and 97 cents per pound of copper the average price received for copper was 1669 cents a pound it is stated that at the washoe plant at anaconda experiments have ju justified stifled the erection of a plant for the commercial leaching of sand concentrator tailing the system is said to employ sulphuric acid which is regenerated when copper is precipitated by hydrogen sulphide prepared from an iron matte resulting from the treatment of auriferous pyrite wages of underground men at butte were reduced to a day when copper went below 15 cents in march the agreement with the miners provides for wages of a day when copper sells above 17 cents band when the price is between fifteen and seventeen cents so that it is expected that the rate will be again increased shortly due to the better position of copper |