Show MONTANA mining alining companies operating in butte anaconda anaconda na conda and great falls have announced f lu increase of 50 cents a day in the pay of beir air miners affecting about men ader the new scale miners are to receive 75 a day and it is thought that the ad lice ce will satisfy the men and end talk a possible strike of the recent in rease lase of 2 cents in the price of copper proximately I 1 cent will go to the rail ads in advanced freight rates ere about eight tons of good ore per day is nv being ng shipped from the st lawrence lne ill at saltese maltese Sal tese henry M lancaster genal manager the ore showing in the low r tunnel still continues strong and the a gement expects that the same big ore t dy opened above will be encountered 1 len en the e prie present sent work reaches a point un goo der the upper workings it is at an additional depth of about feet and is to be the main outlet when connection is made the old anselmo mine at butte at which watering unwavering un operations commenced a year ago is again on the list of producers and is shipping about fifty tons a day with an increase probable operations are through the trifle shaft which has a depth of feet with workings on the and levels total drifting on ore approximates feet with ore ranging from three to six feet in width values are in silver gold boid zinc and lead the work is under the direction of joseph C pyle and is being done by new york interests production for the first half of the current year of the east butte copper company of butte totaled pounds of copper of which two thirds came from the companas comp anys own properties and the balance from custom ore mainly from the davis daly this is an increase of practically pounds over the first halt of 1917 the bulk of east buttes production comes from its Pitts mont ground the company is hoisting about tons of ore a day and is treating a like tonnage of tailings oscar rohn is general manager the butte copper zinc company will pay its initial dividend on july the amount is 50 cents per share the company owns the lemma emma mine at butte together with a number of contiguous claims lying between the emma and the davis daly the anaconda copper mining company is working the emma under a fifty fifty profit profit shar ing arrangement and is shipping about tons of manganese ore daily together with tons of zinc lead silver ore the former is a carbonate known locally as pink manganese and is coming from two big shoots on the and 1000 levels it carries around 37 per cent manganese |