Show MONTANA it is announced that the new concentrator at the bielenberg higgins property near twin bridges has been forced to close temporarily because of a shortage of water but that a small force is maintained in the mine it is thought that the plant will resume full operations shortly this is the big mine milie of that section and normally keeps from forty to fifty men at work the intermountain copper mining company is shipping two carloads of concentrates and crude ore weekly ekly and is said to have sufficient ore blocked out to keep its present milling facilities operating two years this ore is all above the level and tile the estimate does not take into account known showings below that point the crude ore as shipped averages about 10 per cent copper the property is near iron Woun mountain tain and is under the of C 0 lawrence bullion production of the barnes king development company during january totaled an increase of about 14 over tile the december figures from the north moccasin mine at kendall george T mcgee manager 1984 tons of ore were treated with a bullion production of the gloster at marysville marksville Marys ville J W johns superintendent perin produced 1496 tons and the shannon also at marysville marksville Marys ville tons with a combined bullion production of the companas comp anys headquarters are at kendall an eastern authority says butte the camp of surprises is attaining new laurels the greatest copper camp in the world likewise the greatest zinc camp and the biggest silver producer now attracts attention as the greatest manganese producer in the world on the emma the butte detroit the general sheridan and other mines in the district the hitherto neglected manganese ores are being developed butte has yielded millions in silver millions in copper and mil lions in an zinc it will now yield millions in manganese nese engineer frank J davey of the tarbox mining company in a report on ore developments at the mine located at salte maltese saltese Sal tese s e says the drift has been extended feet easterly making the face feet from the main crosscut it has followed the and has been in ore continuously though somewhat bunchy in character some very fine lead and zinc ore has been taken out the last fifteen feet driven is in a large ore body it is clearly evident that the big ore shoot developed in the levels above is now being entered the ore is of commercial grade |