Show MONTANA A special from anaconda says zinc ore is said to have been found in the old blue eyed nellie mine once a famous silver and lead producer six miles west of anaconda A W patterson who represents spokane people and charles brown representing the frank brown his fathers estate have been working the property fora for a year or more and are reticent as to their plans but it is known that two carloads of the ore have been shipped to an oklahoma smelter and according to the tests that have been made of it the rock will run between 30 and 40 per cent zinc the freight charges from montana to oklahoma are high but it is figured that even when these are paid there will be a handsome profit on the ore smelted smelt ed according to current reports the management has an immense body of this kind of ore blocked out and when results are learned from the methods used in the smelters shelters sm elters for treating this sort of ore it is altogether likely that different arrangements will be made for handling it and possibly for working it at the mine |