Show 0 MONTANA butte miner miller crosby leasers leaders of the bertha near corbin have struck a new ore body which runs thirty per cent copper and seventy ounces of silver to the ton toll A lewi lewiston ston special says J H machor mick superintendent of the gold reef mine at giltedge Gil tedge has handed in his resignation to the management of the company and will leave early in march for a visit to the new mining camps in southwest nevada on his return from the nevada mining camps it is expected that mr mcccormick will assume charge of the work on the north moccasin mining companas comp anys properties in the kendall district butte miner the red bird company of helena is letting a contract for sinking a one hundred feet from the level of the copper hill mine near austin there is a big body of ore which will be crosscut at the greater depth the company will also take ore from the old workings of the red bird and do extensive development work on that property A new strike was recently made in the reliance in high ore gulch under I 1 bond to the red bird company butte miner S R and john egerton have just returned from a visit to their properties in lincoln gulch for two years they have been pushing a bed rock drain they have just struck a remarkably mar kably large body of rich gravel the fuli full extent of which has not been ascertained the recent work has developed one of the largest and most notable deposits of drifting gravel ever found in montana the property is owned and controlled by helena men and their friends in the east plans are under consideration for machinery to work the ground economically on a large scale lincoln gulch has been worked for forty years many millions being taken out from a narrow area on the higher ground where further work was impossible because of the water underground |