Show MONTANA philipsburg call peter kelly is working a claim on the abe divide between the head of rock creek and the bitter root and has some good looking copper ore the property is developed by a tunnel feet in length and mr kelly believes that he is within a few feet of the point where he will tap the lead at a depth of about feet philipsburg call john grant the well known old timer who is mining at the head of mcdermott gulch about two miles above the corduroy road near willow creek was in town monday and brought with him the encouraging news that he had encountered the lead in the blue bird property upon which he had been working for several months the lead is seven feet wide and the ore he says will average about 14 in gold to the ton A special from marysville marksville Marys ville to the butte intermountain says A small crew of men are at work taking out ore from athe dickert kruger mines at silver camp 20 miles north of marysville marksville Marys ville the ore is high grade carrying gold and silver the stevens brothers are pushing work on their claims the hart nilles have been extending the main tunnel on the mike horse lead which is run on the lead a distance of over 1200 feet A crosscut run from the main lead of the consolation group owned by shone thurber has cut a parallel lead containing pay ore shipments will be made from the mines over the new road to wolf creek station on the great northern railroad which greatly shortens the old route to silver station J J murray and H marical are taking out high grade ore from the crown point mine at granite butte they have considerable ore on the dump which will be milled through the plymouth the plymouth company is working a crew of four men running a level placer company is on one the ellano working three drifts on the bedrock drain from he mouth of lincoln gulch more than 25 men being employed in the work the company also has a large force of me men m getting out timbers for the drain and flumes blumes it is expected that the drain will reach between 1500 and feet in length before pay gravel is reached the ground has been thoroughly prospected and is known to be very rich in coarse gold and the company is pushing work as rapidly as men can do it in order to be ready to commence mining operations as soon as the spring water starts |