Show MONTANA butte evening news T the he kent group of mines from which came the first silver ore that was ever shipped from montana has been bonded to dillon and butte men for and active work will begin at once the mines have been idle since 1893 estate litigation was largely responsible for this the mines according to colonel oleary were located in 1860 much rich ore was taken out which was hauled by ox team to nevada by rail to san francisco and then around cape horn to swansea wales for treatment dillon tribune frank B felt president of the chicago montana gold dredging company which company has been operating a gold dredge at bannack during last summer and fall returned to dillon the latter part of last week from the elkhorn mining district where he be spent some time a 1 looking lookin 9 over that district locating and buying claims and attending to other matters in connection with plans of himself and oth re capitalists to develop the district he went to butte saturday to confer with parties interested and returned to dillon monday butte evening news A fine big shaft 4 by 17 feet is going down on the butte and milwaukee pyo property perty the spur for the mine which the railway promised has been built for a distance but will not be completed to the mine for some time the new sinking plant is all in shape with the exception of the air compressor the foundation for this is not sufficiently dry to allow its use for several days yet the butte and new york interests were so impressed with the property that a new big engine was or dered for delivery in the spring in thes meantime the engine now going into place zt will be used dillon tribune ray L riley and dr daj F M poindexter spent last sunday at the cheh K kent group of mines in the blue win wing min 1 4 ing district looking after the properties inal in ik which they are interested they say that 1 aj their company is now working two shifty of men catching up the caved in on the kent mine and that very good pro 91 1 1 ress with the work is being made abou aboud i feet of the tunnel has been caught u and re timbered and is in first class shape the butte dillon dicion development company which has the work in charge is confident that it will be only a short length of time until the extraction of ore will commence anaconda standard the new departure mining company which is operating a mine twelve miles from froin dillon received returns yesterday on the first carload of ore shipped to the washoe smelter the values were silver 1 2312 8 ounces a ton gold 90 cents and copper 16 per cent the company has a c carload cload of second class ore at the plant but has not received returns on it the values in this load are estimated at 1100 ounces in silver a ton which is based upon tests made before the shipment the company reports four feet of ounce ore in the lower tunnel having opened up the shoot a few days ago and good ore in a dozen or more places in the mine from which it can ship without doing any dead work worth mentioning lewiston argus general manager H R B lamb of the barnes king development company was in the city from kendall this week and gave out some changes in the way of additions in the staff at the mine which is now as follows R B lamb general manager and consulting engineer W H brule formerly with the nickle plate mine superintendent W L henry late of south africa mine foreman L C dyke formerly with Strat tons independence at cripple creek engineer W F penwell accountant A D miles assayer and geologist P L pauly assistant engineer retained the new management of the big property has taken right hold of the work and the plans now being carried out will solve the two problems of very greatly increasing the output of the mine and reducing materially the cost of production |