Show r i mine ine development deve 0 ment in montana BY CHARLIS CHARLES COPIN copenharve HARVE butte mont molit may 10 the butte du ath property one of the most famous minn QS ag experiments in the butte district is to e disposed of the electrolytic plant the ri ride e of captain wolvin is to be dismantled nd the property sold for the benefit of the creditors redi tors according to the order entered by adge mcclernan in the district court in eJu tte iet ct claims of workman aggregating h yere vere entered and in behalf of the claimants attorney carroll of butte asked for the of sale receiver everett was directed f cpr 0 ascertain and report to the court the cost off t dismantling the plant he affixed his signature to the order requiring the sale ot or 11 personal property in the hands of the deceiver ec eiver which can call be sold to advantage evit without hout materially injuring the usefulness bi lf if the surface plant and future operations el the order directs the sale of all supplies such as chemicals pipe fittings zinc copper and lead fittings tank linings copper liars ars bus bars leads electrical connections sead anodes all cathode bars shovelling sho velling rna chine all pumps motors transformers crushers portable churn drills ana either surface material 1 I the sale is to be made to the highest at public auction attorney john V bowyer wyer representing receiver everett has filed a petition asking for an order of court the sale of the property to satisfy aft claims claims in bonds debts and wages amounting gjul told to jt di the black friday group of gold claims miles southwest of the famous keating old properties in the radersburg burg district pa glas tas been taken over by an eastern syndicate DP ormed by E N breitung and others at a drice rice reported to be the corn com janys holdings consist of the black friday bo thursday thursday no 2 and a number of ther claims covering about feet of a 1 vell veil defined vein similar in character to the formation or mation in the keating mine the ship ants bents to date have averaged 42 to the ia 3 on bal w east butte to ship fol during the coming week th the e east butte tec te extension tension company which has quite a tract ro of mining property lying to the west of the east butte companas Comp anys claims will begin shipping ore to the Pitts mont smelter smelt e r A force of men has been busy cleaning out the water and muck in the bottom ot of the no 6 shaft of this company there was about eighty feet of water to be pumped out and the work is about completed A new compressor has been installed and Is operating with electric power about two sets above the station a well defined has just been opened up the vein here has a width of two and a half feet it looked at first as if it were only a pocket but further development nas shown most satisfactory prospects seven men are now at work and ore is being taken out for shipment on the opposite side two feet of ore that averages 15 per cent in copper and 20 ounces of silver to the ton has also been opened up tile the prospects are good for the company to make big money immediately on the showing in this level and development work including the sinking of tile ane shaft and development of lower levels will be planned the leasers leaders who have the no 3 or westlake shaft have sublet it to johnson and weinberg under the lease and bond the new leasers leaders pay 25 per cent royalty and of this 15 per cent goes to the east butte extension oll company on all the ore taken out of this shaft weinberg and johnson will husn ane work rapidly and expect to ship large quantities of ore in the near future as there is a good amount of ore blocked out there now and it promises to pay well with copper and silver at their present high prices one of the officers of the company said last night we believe that with the development of our lower levels the east butte extension company will be able to operate one of the best paying mines in the district the properties of the anaconda company the east butte company and the davis daly company all lying in close proximity to ours are showing splendid values with we have not attempted attempt ed to go down to any great extent but with the ores we can take out on the levels already opened up we believe we can make enough at the present price of copper and silver to furnish a handsome profit and also supply the needed funds to sink and crosscut and develop the property development of butte great falls crosscutting at the butte great falls property in the north butte district is progressing at a rapid rate and it is now expected by the management to cut the big genevieve vein within the next two weeks the crosscut on the foot level encountered the V G vein at a distance of feet from the shaft and have been put to work drifting on this vein some splendid showings have been already made with some peacock copper ore in the vein it is estimated that about feet more of crosscutting is necessary to reach the genevieve after the latter is reached it is planned to continue the crosscutting to the dewey vein and at the same time drift on the genevieve and ascertain the extent of it in sinking at the butte zenith city some very promising ore has just been encountered in the bottom of the shaft which is now down to a depth of feet the work of sinking to the 1000 foot level will be continued with all possible speed at the foot level no further crosscutting will be done until the sinking of the shaft to the 1000 level and crosscutting there has been finished the exploration work on the foot level proved very satisfactory is the crosscut was run for a distance of feet south where a vein of sulphide ore was encountered this was not the big american vein which is some distance further south but an intermediate vein in sinking two feet of talc was encountered in the shaft and the vein filling has been getting better steadily some picked samples show over 3 per cent copper butte tonnage it has been found necessary to reduce the tonnage output at the butte mine to permit of more extensive development tile the hoisting capacity is so limited that the rate of production of or ore e that has been kept up for the past four months could not be maintained and also handle the waste that the development of new ore bodies made necessary however the management is confident that they will be able to again increase the tonnage to normal within three weeks the ore now being mined is running fully as high in copper as it has in the past and the property gives every indication of proving to be up to expectations with the present high price of copper the showing for the balance of the year will probably be the best in the history of the mine the montana gold mines company has just been incorporated to take over the mammoth group of claims located at coloma mont including the following quartz lode claims mammoth mammoth site mammoth junior Ita rambler Dibler valley alley Nr ana crystal spring the group is located in the mouth the district is at the head of the garnet mining district eighty five miles from butte and twelve miles from bear gulches that contain the nancy hanks shamrock and other famous mines the equipment of the mammoth group consists of a ten stamp mill a compressor plant shaft house and bunk house for men the contact and Al mammoth ammoth veins have been developed through a shaft of a depth of feet and four drifts about feet along the vein the total workings aggregate feet and production to date has amounted to about the two veins mentioned run for a distance of about 1500 feet in the companas comp anys property it is estimated that the present workings contain about tons of blocked out ore with about of values the company plans to continue the maln main mining and draining tunnel a length of about 2000 feet for the purpose of cutting and draining the two veins and cutting four intermediate veins the crosscutting will begin at once and it will require about seven months to complete it sinking at butte london sinking at the butte london property in the east butte district has reached a depth of 1525 feet and the work of completing the shaft to the 1600 foot level and putting in the station there will require shout about thirty days several more stringers of ore have been encountered and the ground is becoming very highly mineralized the indications are that another vein will be encountered shortly the ledge cut through some time ago was a forty foot one and made a good showing crosscutting will begin in june and will be pushed both north and south as rapidly as possible walter harvey weed the copper geologist and publisher of the copper handbook has become managing director of the crystal copper company to talce take over the crystal copper mines in the cataract district in jefferson county the properties are thirty miles east of butte and have been operated in a small way for twenty five years mr air weed recommends building a mill and doing development work this will cost paul gow formerly superintendent in of the pilot butte company will be in direct charge of the work |