Show MONTANA butte evening news J E mer was elected president of the argenti mining company at a recent election of officers the other officers elected are J W king vice president A J davis treasurer treasure r and A T morgan secretary these officers with henry mueller make up the companas comp anys board of directors for the first year the company has a bond on a group of claims in the argenta district which it will mine for copper an air compressor and drills for the company were shipped a few days ago and will be used in driving a tunnel on the properly ies butte evening news the ophir claim located at the foot of dakota street is reported to have been sold recently toa to a new york syndicate for S A hall a real estate dealer of butte who manipulated the deal left for the east last week and it is said he took with him plans for the operation of the mine line these plans include the organization of a company with a capita capitalization lizal of the ophir is a full claim and has not been developed on the large veins to a greater depth than feet some smaller veins or offshoots off shoots from the larger ones traverse the property and some of them contain very rich silver gold ore deer lodge silver state Phillips phillipsburg burg and vicinity is pretty well excited over a recent strike of a two foot vein of ore that runs to the ton in gold silver and ana copper the principal value running to gold the discovery made made about six miles north of phillipsburg Phillips burg by X bennett and gus irish the news of their find leaked out last monday and it is said that since that time quite a good many claims in the vici vicinity lifty have been taken up by different parties the work on the rich vein has been slight but it said the ore body shows every indication of being permanent the vein being nowhere less than two feet in width with well defined walls wisdom breezes ed came down from the ibex mine tuesday with about pounds of ore samples showing all the different grades of pay rock which have been developed in the property some of the samples will run over in gold and silver but the main dependence of the new corn com is the immense bodies of low grade rock carrying values of from 10 to 20 mr says that as soon as spring begins to open bunk houses and cookhouse cook house housa will be erected at the mine and all the men put to work who can be used to advantage earley next fall he expects to erect a concentrating cent rating plant he left on the stage for butte yesterday morning with his sack of samples marysville marksville Marys ville mountaineer the veteran prospector john P brusewitz Bru who has resided near ophir mountain for the past twenty years has recently struck a rich body of perfectly free gold ore on one of his claims near the head of ophir gulch on the mountain in which the cave is the claim is the one which john A rowan at one time had a bond on and later thomas cruse of helena bonded the same property mr rowan sunk one shaft about 18 feet deep in which he was within three feet of the rich ore mr brusewitz Bru went into this shaft and drifted just three feet and opened up a body of ore four feet in width which will average 40 gold per ton some of which will go up into the hundreds as it is perfectly bristling with native e gold visible to the eye the ore is a brown oxidized quartz much decomposed lying between porphyry and lime the porphyry also runs from to per ton mr brusewitz Bru deserves much credit for his many years of work on his properties and it is hoped that he will be richly rewarded for his push and energy butte mining review one of the richest strikes in recent years has been made in the liverpool mine near clancy in the north j I 1 err ern part of jefferson county a foot of ore ord being struck on on the foot level last week assaying 2000 ounces of the white metal tile the miners have been sinking on the ore body for the past week which shows no nd sign of any either in value or in quantity the ore will run from to a car it is practically silver glance I 1 and sulphur ets the strike has resulted in much excitement in lump gulch an effort to keep the news of the find a secret was made by the mine officials but the miners began exhibiting rich chunks of silver ore to their friends and the discovery was made known much activity is being manifest in lump gulch mining circles preparations are under way for the opening of the free coinage hope and several other properties I 1 the keiths and a number of other butte k men who recently organized the montana copper and silver mining company are mak ink preparations to install a hoist and begin work on the clara bell property located in the neighborhood of the liverpool mine lewiston argus oscar stephens and his associates have rec received dived the returns on the 1 first car load of ore shipped d by them irom from the cumberland mine at maiden to helena the shipment consisted of 17 tons and the returns on the lot amounted to or about per ton the owners expected this ore to run at exactly what it did and the showing is in every way a satisfactory one there are not many mines in the country that can ship ore of such value and while the vein is not a very big one at this time it is widening all the time and the indications are that the property wll be able to ship shio with regularity very soon when it is remembered that oscar stephens peter rosso and R M calkins the owners only started their campaign of development last summer the result so far is really remarkable and it is already demonstrated that the C cumberland um is a mine the result is a body blow to the little group of knockers with which even this section is cursed and who have been busy predicting the direst failure for mr stephens and his plucky associate but it is a big thing for fergus county and certainly reflects credit on the men who went ahead and spent their own money in demonstrating that their faith in the property was well founded 0 |