Show BUTTE SUPERIOR the butte but te super superior or companas comp anys mill is now turning out a higher grade of con cen last year the concentrates aver aged close to 50 per cent zinc but recently as high as 54 per cent has been attained the management manag ament has succeeded in getting operating costs down to 5 a ton or on at the rate of f four our cents a pound fut fui the spelter produced there is every probability that an agreement m ant will be reached out of court between the W A dark clark interests who own the elm orlu adjoining the black rock and the butte superior in connection with the controversy involving ore bodies in the extreme west end of the black rock claim both the dark clark interests and the butte superior have been carrying on exten extensive sivo development work in the disputed ground and that an amicable understanding as to 0 ownership ship will be reached there is said to be little doubt A despatch from butte mont says ore reserves at the butte superior today are standing at the greatest figure in the history of that company there being approximately tons of ore actually ba blocked ock out and practically in sight in readiness f for or mining the tonnage for march ran about 33 tons sloping operations are being conducted from the to the 1400 foot levels inclusive with development work in x ess cess on the 1500 and 1600 foot levels with attention directed particularly to the I 1 plans of the butte superior provide tor for the thorough development of the 1500 and 1600 foot levels before there is a resumption of sinking it is said and there will be no sinking this year and perhaps 8 none in 1915 as the area embraced by the 1600 foot level the bottom level of the black rock at present is of such magnitude there is said to be enough territory to keep the company busy developing its 1500 levet level the remainder of the year this situation has been brought about by the determination that the large of black rock on the 1400 foot level is extending easterly into the four johns claim and at a distance of more than fifty feet from the end line of the black rock the carried the high grade values that prevailed in the black rock and had a width of about thirty five feet of pr practically solid ore averaging about 18 per cent zinc and 10 ounces of silver drifting operations now are being carried eastward on the 1500 level into tile the four prospect that the same p ore re johns with every I 1 body on the 1400 will carry its size ani and B oston boston commercial downward it grade as goes |