Show MONTANA butte news with the closing this evening of the M 0 P smelter butte will be in a fair way to lose its odious reputation as the great smoke burg of the west th the passing of the smoke nuisance e has been gradual one after another of the smelting sm na elting plants of the city have closed until tomor row will see butte discarding its si sm elting and standing out essentially as the worlds greatest and most prosperous mining city butte news the hazel mining company whose properties lie four and a halt hall miles south of homestake Home stake has average as says which are particularly encouraging to the men who propose to develop the ground these assays essays run ounces in silver in gold and 8 per cent copper it would appear that but slight development would be necessary to make the proposition a lucrative one the company was incorporated in may of this year its claims are the mammoth hillside gray copper last chance and nickel plate A tunnel in the last chance strikes the vein at a depth of feet in this vein there are seven feet of lead matter with a streak of high grade ore eighteen inches in width spokane review the bear creek placer mining company operating near libby mont has completed its hydraulic plant and gravel is now going through the companas comp anys sluice boxes the co company is a private one with a total capital of and the chief stockholders are spokane business men the company also owns the old aride cride cryderman Cri derman i aman placer sixteen miles from libby on libby creek the old cryderman Cri derman is about acres in area last winter the whole of the com banys property was prospected and during the winter all the machinery and lumber for the flume and buildings were taken in on the snow and some of the buildings were completed before the snow was off the ground fifteen men were set to work constructing ting a ditch and putting in the necessary piping this work was completed last week and water turned into the ditch the pipes have all been tested and the work of sluicing begun |