Show MONTANA philipsburg will regan the popular young engineer of granite but who has lately been a resident of butte returned to this city monday evening to accept a position at the hope mill mrs regan will arrive in about ten days and the couple will again a ain take up a residence among their many friends in this section anaconda standard al lowry who has been working tile the nancy hanks mine there under a lease from samuel I 1 ritchey has again caught the rich pay streak of gold ore and is making regular shipments the ore says the doctor averages a ton in gold and some of the carloads sent out each contained and worth of ore this is the same class or ore which lowry formerly mined in the nancy hanks but in prosecuting the work of development a horse was encountered and some time was required to penetrate it the ore came in on the opposite side however there being about a foot of it butte evening news preparations for sinking to the 1500 are being made on the ravin mine A new cable has been ordered for the work which will commence as soon as the rope is in place the mine is now being worked on the 1200 level the stock of the raven company is enjoying a boom along with the rest of butte coppers it is said to have jumped to 5 a share with orders coming in from the east john berkin vice president of the company has gone east to place the stock on the market the raven property which consists of the raven and sneezer lodes lies immediately west of the mountain consolidated mine butte intermountain the new mill on the mining companas comp anys property near unionville Uni onville six miles south of helena was started up on new years day the event is considered an important one as it marks the resumption of work on one of the most famous gold mines of the west a property that had been idle for many years the mill will crush from fifty to seventy five tons of ore a day it has twenty stamps and is said to be the most modern mill in the state the stamps are operated by electricity the power being obtained from the mississippi river plant seventeen miles east of helena the mine is now being wired and all of the levels and stations will be lighted with electricity three shifts of men working eight hours each are employed in the mine frank L sizer well known in this city is manager of the property |