Show MONTANA active work is being started by the highland hig consolidated soli dated mining company on its property between bet iween the highland mountains and basin creek eighteen miles south of butte according to william maxwell state mining in inspector and president of the company tunnel is now in 1100 feet and will be driven 1000 feet further to 6 get under some veins which showed commercial values on the surface new machinery is being installed in the concentrator and flotation plant of jib consolidated at basin and should be ready by the first of the months month after which the plant will vill treat tons of ore per day until new equipment is is installed it is planned to hold the mill heads at 16 per ton so as to lighten tailings 6 loss since the heads have run between 28 and 3 30 0 per ton in spite of all precautions to lower them the snowstorm silver lead company has cut the niacin main vein on the foot level of the shaft workings it is five feet wide of normal value and feet from the shaft according to leo greenough president and general manager al ger this body contains high grade ore at a point beginning feet south of no 7 tunnel level feet above the scene of the last strike A drift will be run in this direction on the foot level the property is at troy opening a small 6 grip rip r which contained about ten pounds of ore A H S shatter haffer pioneer resident of montana and for twenty five years located near the highlands south I 1 of butte displayed enough gold to make a creditable display in a jewelers shop window at the lewis and walker assay office in butte a few days ago the ore is from a new claim located last august by mr shatter shaffer and miles comes from a vein ten inches wide discovered at grass roots it is a white quartz with tree free gold liberally sprinkled throughout and for show purposes is the most beautiful specimen shown in butte tor for y years ears the name of the mine is the metallic and it is owned by mr shatter shaffer and a few relatives A new body of ore has been struck in the property of the broken hill silver lead mining Coffi company pany at I jeron heron according to H W fairchild secretary treasurer spokane it is two and a half feet wide contains lead silver and zinc and is of high grade the body was struck in crosscutting on the no I 1 level at a depth of about feet said mr fairchild it dips into the hill whereas the other two ore bodies follow the contour of the hill it is well defined and obviously an ore shoot exploration of the property has been in the hands of the federal mining and anie ing company compan since october last the broken hill com coin pany wash was organized by walter J nicholls of spokane in october 1922 and the operations were conducted by that compa company ny until the federal entered I 1 |