Show MONTANA sheridan enterprise D G davies has completed his house and assay office at brandon and moved up a load of sup supplies plies to the claims tuesday sheridan enterprise W W leonard will commence work on the minnesota mine in dry georgia gulch soon the property adjoins the minnie dillon tribune T W poindexter returned the first of the week from the ajax mine tom said they had gotten the stamp mill he purchased at the ajax as far as Stanch fields place but the roads were too soft to continue he and walter fox started for the copper queen with the mill butte miner by the bursting of a converter shell at the M 0 P companas comp anys smelter in Me aderville last evening at about W E edwards an employee was painfully but not seriously burned about both arms and both legs by the molten metal he was taken to saint james hospital where doctor haviland was called to dress his injuries at a late hour he was resting nicely and his condition was not considered serious edwards lived at the braund house butte miner A deal by which the gold en sunlight group of mines five miles northeast of whitehall was transferred to eugene ring was consummated monday and mr ring left yesterday for new york where he will arrange for working the claims on a large scale with eastern capital back of him mr ring is well known in mining circles of the northwest having been interested i for years in various districts especially near butte and for some time has been negotiating for this group philipsburg call john H price who is temporarily in charge of the gold reef properties on south boulder was in the city last week mr price states that since the suspension of operations at the gold reef he has made an important strike in one of the tunnels on the bell cow mine in fact mr price states that the strike shows a larger and richer body of ore than that in sight when the properties were purchased from snyder huffman mr price believes that operations will be resumed by I 1 mr loomis early in the spring with greatly I 1 it improved milling devices philipsburg call george W wilson W ilson who is now e in the office of the bo boston sv montana company in butte came 0 over er 1 sunday and monday went out ou to 10 the fisher f jack properties on rock creek near the 1 hogback jie he wag accompanied by andy hudson and walters who will run the raise through to the surface i e on the southern cross the showing g on this property is said to be very encouraging and it is not unlikely that active operations on a large jarge scale will be prosecuted during the I 1 present year it is probable that the butte I 1 parties who are interested in it will put up I 1 a mill this summer butte intermountain general manager W H godfrey of the montana and st paul mining company is in butte from sheridan mont from mr godfrey it is learned that the mining properties of the company named are in excellent condition and are promising big results mr godfrey was interviewed about the prospects of his properties and lie he said well there are several promis i ing veins in the fifteen mining claims of the company and some rich streaks that assay rover over a ton many assays essays in the openings ings made in the william mckinley and other properties will go from 10 to 20 a ton the development in one group amounts to at least 1000 feet of tunnels and other openings and work is to be continued r right aright along I 1 have the strongest faith in the properties when they have been adequately opened and developed the people of sheridan also are of the opinion that they will become great minos mines there is plenty of water where the mines are located and other natural resources which will make the working of them easy beside the fifteen quartz claims of the company there ls is also over six miles of placer ground of a favorable character which the company jia has an option on |