Show 0 MONTANA philipsburg Philips Phillps bury call cal gwinn and law ace ce winegar are in town today from their billow ilow creek placers with a big of st and several beautiful nuggets the fold old represents their first cleanup clean up of the e eason ason philipsburg Philips bury call james A murray of lutte and W I 1 higgins of deer lodge were h n the city last friday and with joseph dixon xon made an inspection of the antelope properties roper ties which are owned by mr murray I 1 ay and S silas las F king they went to deer lodge saturday where mr murray spent the ithe sabbath Sah bath it is understood that mr murray ray has received some flattering offers for a rhease ease and bond on the group of claims at antelope basin but has decided to do some nore work himself and for this purpose has given iven mr dixon a contract to run a 3 00 loot foot tunnel on the mountain ram claim to tap what is believed to be a rich ore body y A dispatch from livingston says the kimberly montana mining company expects 61 sio ao have its cyanide plant and new stamp t mill completed by july 1 at which time r work will start in the mines eighty I 1 t stamps alnas will be dropping on ore when the power is turned on millions of dol dollars larso borth 7 worth orth of ore is lying in the tunnels of the companas comp Mpa anys nyls mines waiting for the machinery to extract the values from the rock ac V cording to former receiver alexander L livingston the district gives every promise of becoming the leading gold producer in montana during the four months the property of the kimberly montana com banys property was under a receivership in gold was taken out and the main ore body was hardly scratched A leter written from cabinet says marshall marahall scott who is well known throughout montana as a prospector has made about the best strike of the season on his gold leaf lode and the gold crown two locations made late in the fall fal of 1902 they have feet located on this vein which is six feet between walls it is entirely free milling and assays essays show values of 54 and to take a piece of this rock and pan it it will make a string of gold two thirds the way around the pan the property is situated near the head of trail trail creek a short distance from cabinet the section heretofore had not been considered a good place to prospect the ca manipis camp is in a good prosperous condition cond itin the snow is all gone except upon the highest peaks dillon tribune the new copper smelter at the indian in dian queen mine on birch creek is in successful operation the smelt was blown in last friday and is turning out the finest kind of matte at the rate of worth per day thomas F stevens the manager of the mine says the smelter is a complete success and is highly elated over olef its installation and excellent output he also says there is enough ore in sight to keep the smelter going steadily day and night for at least five years this is the first copper smelter ever erected in baver head county and its successful and continuous operation will add materially to the prosperity erity of the county there are three shifts of six men each working at the smelter in the mine there are also three shifts working altogether there are ar about forty three men employed the indian queen is I 1 being worked under a lease by stevens robbins and ellis of butte and they are well pleased with their v proposition and think they are now in a position to make some money |