Show MONTANA nineteen suits none of which was for less than against the north butte mining company of butte have been thrown out of court by the upholding of the montana compensation statutes by district judge J J lynch the suits aggregated about and resulted from the big fire of june 6 1917 manager A H jones of the barton gulch mining Gom kompany pany backed by eastern associates has bonded the high up mine in hungry hollow near virginia city and is planning extensive improvements the property is already developed and is said to show a aaby heavy tonnage of mill ore ready to be broken down values average around 16 with rich streaks running into figures it is probable that the early operations of the new owners will include mill construction manager W A kittrell of the vermillion lead silver mining company states that development of the companas comp anys holdings twelve miles from trout creek should reach a point by april 1st ast where it will be possible to start mill operations A good tonnage is opened in an upper tunnel and a lower tunnel on the mill level should reach the vein early in february this work already has opened a blind vein fourteen feet wide carrying values of from 12 to 27 in gold the vein in ta the ie upper tunnel is said to average 50 superintendent E G gnaedinger of the intermountain copper mining company with holdings ten miles from iron mountain reports that the mill there is now running two shifts A from the is down about sixty feet and when the foot point is reached an intermediate level will be run this work is in ore shipments average three or four carloads of 15 per cent copper concentrates per month occasional shipments of crude carry about the same percentage and the coni company pany is just finishing which supplied twelve up a surface deposit carloads of this grade advices advises from saltese maltese indicate that the property of the tarbox mining company there richard daxon general manager probably will be in the shipping list by february the new ore shoot on the 1000 level has been opened for about feet to the east showing around three feet of shipping ore the drift exposes the ore for a w width edth of eight to nine feet with neither wall and it is said that the showing here alone war rants construction of a mill the drift to the west also is expected to enter ore soon A satisfactory feature of the new shoot is the decrease of zinc content compared with the lead |