Show i MONTANA phillipsburg Phillips burg call J H grant who is operating a gold property near willow creek was in the city monday mr grant is associated socia ted with daniel olson of dakota who owns a half interest in the property which is known as the dakota and adjoins the blue bird mr grant says he is opening up a big ining there the latest assays essays on a threefoot three foot pay streak averaging about 30 in gold and I 1 per cent copper mr grant says there is a ledge on the property 1000 feet wide which will give average values of over 3 per ton and he is of the opinion that this body of mineral can be worked at a good by the cyanide process it is a huge mountain of ore and can be quarried out at small expense A kendall dispatch says the gross output of gold from the kendall and the barnes king mines has already passed the million dollar mark that is a tremendous output from two mines one of which has been operated not yet two years and the other but little more than a year the ore produced in this district does not average over 7 per ton it means that approximately tons of ore have been extracted from these hills there are lots of claims lying idle on the same mineral belt which if developed would probably turn out to be just as good as the barnes king or kendall mines the trouble with many of the owners of these undeveloped claims is that they want a million dollars so to speak for a piece of ground that is unworked and has no particular values uncovered but they set an enormous price upon their property just because it is located near a big paying proposition |