Show MONTANA butte intermountain intel mountain A W mccune the salt lake millionaire and former contractor of butte who with several other americans is operating mines and railways in peru is at the present time contemplating an investment of from to in the construction of a railway to cross the andes and connect their mines mines with the nearest navigable branch of the amazon river the smelter of the cerro de pasco mines belonging to the company will be blown in next november with a capacity of tons a day the smelter is to be in charge of mr case who is at the present time in this country for the purpose of selecting expert smelter men to return to peru with him about twenty will be taken from this country and it is stated that about ten of that number will be select selected ed from among those in butte and anaconda butte intermountain the cobban realty capmany has granted a lease on three min mining claims for a consideration of 20 to eastern men who will commence at once to develop the property the claims leased are the north star the south star and the january and the length of the lease is eighteen months W N keller of columbus ohio is the man to whom the lease was issued but he is acting for a syndicate of eastern min mining ingmen men who have inspected the property and think it can be made a large producer this is one of several instances which have occurred lately in which capital from outside the state has been brought here to develop butte properties all three claims have been good producers in the past and have hake made splendid returns for their promoters the T he parties have an option which will enable them t ton chase the claims should they 0 pur desire to tod so at the expiration of th their air lease do |