Show MONTANA the original bannack mining company 1 lorenzo price jr manager operating at bannack is now devoting its attention to sinking in the washington and excelsior shafts heavy equipment is being stalled at the former with the intention of pushing the work to the level A big tonnage of milling ore has been opened on the level of the property the ore which was struck in the crosscut on the level of the tarbox near saltese maltese Sal tese a few weeks ago has proven to be an offshoot of the main vein which has since been opened manager richard daxon reports that an immense ore shoot is now being entered and that it is showing steady improvement preparations are under way for continuing the shaft to another feet of depth and the blocking out of the ore on an elaborate scale the mines operating company under the management of alfred frank has made the second payment of on its option on the property at butte the total payments will amount to or 75 cents per share tor for the control ali the company is shipping from to tons daily from the property to the tacoma and utah smelters shelters sm elters the ore runs about 4 per cent copper and gives a good profit the march production is estimated at net het reports from the bannack gold mining companas Comp anys property at bannack are to the effect that the estimated tonnage no now nov v blocked out for the new mill is in the neighborhood of tons of an average value of 1120 in gold A recent discovery is said to show five feet of ore averaging a ton and another eight feet of ore of a grade for sixty feet off the hill raise the ore averages 12 a ton it is said that the new developments have doubled the value of nt the property it is under the management of george T hansen of salt lake the davis daly copper company W L creden general manager has started crosscutting on the 1000 level of its property 3 at butte for a possible easterly extension of the big ore body on the level of the adjoining emma property now under development by the anaconda company this shoot has been opened for a length of to feet varying in width up to sixty feet abet it is regarded as the top of the body and the anaconda company is crosscutting on both the 1000 and 1600 levels of the emma to open it at greater depth |