Show MONTANA wisdom breezes the experimental run at the ajax is finished this week and it now remains for the cleanup clean up to determine further operations at that property should the result of the run just made meet expectations tat ions there is no question hut but what there for 10 store are extensive improvements in 19 which both mine and mill chief among the proposed aerial tramway Anac anaconda ollda butte and butte miner the bidding for pres ores in melters elters are sm granite granite county the minimum niini muni percentage of silica they require is 70 which they will work for 3 per ton for every unit higher than 70 and up to go 90 they allow 15 cents giving V the shipper all the metallic values in the ores this premium will give quite a stimulus to mining in granite county sheridan enterprise good reports have been received this week from the properties of the montana overland mining 0 company this company is operating on wisconsin creek and also on old baldy an eighteen inch vein of gold ore was discovered the other day in one of the claims of the lower group the ore assays essays 98 per ton in gold and four ounces in silver the manager godfrey feels good over the find and W H 11 1 1 well he may for he has been untiring in his efforts and he deserves success on the upper group work is progressing progression 1 favorably and the indications are that the lead is not very far distant I 1 butte miner while running on a crosscut on the foot level of the mammoth mine at coloma a new vein was cut about fifty feet south of the vein upon which the level had been run it shows about eighteen inches of good ore carrying high values in gold A drift has been started on the vein and the ore body is increasing in width as the drift advances the mammoth has ordered additional boilers and a new engine to supplement present power facilities at the big shaft house in order to continue the present plans for the systematic and extended development of the mine considerable quantities of water are being t encountered in some of the levels but this will be handled by smaller pumps to be installed in the lower workings butte miner carl bergstrand the well known gold creek mining man has purchased the and swanson group of properties in the royal mining district the deal calling for a cash payment on november 1 of and on may I 1 of next year the group comprises the tussle hope hope extension and curvey quartz mining claims and the little creek wacer placer mining claim the principal development work on the group consists of a shaft which has been sunk feet in a s trong strong lead ad all the way down from which the smelter returns give an average value of 30 to the ton in gold silver and copper the new owners will at once proceed to develop their purchase upon an extensive scale and those who are familiar with the district predict that by spring the property will be among the big producers of this section of montana A special from butte says i A great copper strike has been made in the east butte district and property in that portion of the city y is taking a sensational upward bound the e report ort of the strike has just become public though the discovery was made several days ago in the mines of the pittsburg and montana company when a vein of copper glance eleven feet wide was cut the vein is an extension of the silver dow bow owned by the butte and boston and the dutton button owned by the new east butte mining company the latter company by the strike becomes assured ol 01 tremendous ore bodies as it is already working on six other veins that pass through the pittsburg company ground the east butte and pittsburg have become rivals in bidding for mining property in the east butte district and ground has jumped to extraordinary prices the amalgamated company owns some ground near the pittsburg and in direct line with the big strike the east butte mines are shipping several hundred tons of ore a day but the company is prepared to increase the output to tons butte mining review the cleveland and mining company which is operating on the west slope of the rocky range about seven miles southeast of butte has found the task of driving its tunnel into the mountain such a hard job that it has decided to do its drilling with machine drills worked by the power from an air compressor the company intends to drive the tunnel between and feet and has completed about feet of the work but the rock is so hard that progress by the hand drilling method is quite slow lt it is understood that the compressor has been ordered and will be installed as soon as it is delivered the tunnel is being driven to catch a vein which the company has reason to believe traverses the mountain at a point between COO and feet from the entrance to the opening the veins in that section are gold bearing and carry good values in the yellow metal A little farther north ore has been found tint that assays essays more than 1000 per ton the average of the pay shoot being about the size of the shoot is not generally known but is said to vary from an inch to two feet |