Show MONTANA A lewiston dispatch says the e foot fon 00 tunnel ta in the barnes king mine was completed 1 last week the two ends of the big bore the tunnel was started in may 1905 and has as cost between le tween wa and nun it makes available enormous deposits in the north end of the property which show average values several dollars per ton more than any ore previously handled and practically gives the Barnes King a new mine lewiston argus judge george M nelson of st paul accompanied by W H dickerman of that city arrived here monday evening and will spend a couple of weeks in this vicinity judge nelson is the president of the chicago montana gold mining company which owned and operated the whiskey gulch property until last year when it closed down after two pay days had been passed the whiskey gulch property has produced a lot of gold and at times has paid well but it is claimed that it was operated in a hand to mouth sort of way the management never developing ore reserves ahead the result of this policy was that last year after the company had been in poor ore for guite awhile it was forced to suspend judge nelsons belsons Nel sons visit at this time is in connection with the companas comp anys difficulties and he hopes to get them all straightened out in a short time and is hopeful of resuming op operations orations erat ions butte evening news the east butte extension company last night took a lease on the oldest copper mine in the state the arnold at elliston montana montana the price named is but the company expects to make money from the start as its operations will be in ore after the first few weeks of work dr blackburn bought the property from walter arnold eight years year s ao ago and has drawn substantial royalties ever since before the days of railroads the mine was operated and the ore hauled to corinne utah and shipped from there to swansea wales the ore is high grade but there has never been any attempt to develop it at any great depth A tunnel will be driven to the ore vein from the side of the mountain and the ore taken out in the most economic manner possible james mcnabb left this morning with a gang of miners to be bein begin t in work and it is confidentially stated that ore will be shipped within thirty days some of the ore is phenomenally high grade varying from 10 per cent to 35 per cent recently patrick wall james neill and frank cooney visited the mine and were favorably impressed with it the extension company is confident that in the arnold mine it has a dividend producer which by judicious management should pay for itself we are not going to do any expensive development work said frank cooney we will be in the ore in a few days after we start our aim is always to work in ore to produce ore and pay dividends is what companies are formed to do and the red metal is what we are after theres no chance to lose at the arnold mine two carloads a day of ore are now being shipped from shaft no 1 where the recent strike was made |