Show MONTANA butte evening news east butte has I 1 tons of ore blocked out according to president sulivan and its income on royalties and the precipitating plant amounts to a month or better while the market is unsettled the company will give more attention to development than to production butte evening news the tunnel of the black canyon mine is now in thirty feet in the ore and is advancing rapidly A 40 ton mill has been ordered and a cyanide plant will be installed an air compressor will be installed at once and machine drills used the quantity of rock that will be broken in this way is enormous as the ore is soft butte evening news the barnes king company operating at kendall fergus county is reported to have largely increased its force of employed emp loyes with a corresponding larger output it had noa not been the intention of the company to increase the output until the completion of the new mill in october but this plan was changed because of the favorable opportunities presented se both in rich ores ample supplies and plenty of water big 1319 hole breezes news comes from the old rochester once prosperous gold mining camp of madison county that a find of high grade copper ore has been struck there samples taken run fourteen per cent copper and the lead is said to be a good one this discovery will have the effect of stimulating mining operations in the district old prospectors who have stayed by the district have always claimed that rich copper ore would some time be found there dillon tribune harry H armstead jr manager of the silver fissure mining company operating at polaris arrived in dillon aroln om a six weeks trip to new york city the latter ater part of last week where he went to attend to business matters of the company he was accompanied back by capt munson morris of new york city who is largely interested in the silver fissure min ing company mr armstead and mr morris left dillon for polaris last friday going via armstead and taking one of the traction trains from that place to polaris butte copper age the southern cross mill at cable will be one of the most complete cyanide plants in montana having all the latest features in and such as will make for economy of operation when the mill starts the mill will have a capacity of about tons per day the percolation or sand plant to treat about eighty five alve tons per day and the slime plant about thir ty five tons amalgamation will precede after amalgamating the ore goes through dorr classi classifiers flers which separate the sand and slime the sand going to the percolation vats and the slime to the moore process this moore process for the treatment of slimes is the first plant of its kind to be installed in this state and will interest cyan iders in montana when in operation it is a process used in other section of the united states and very successfully at a point on the hillside above the mill is a cement reservoir of gallons capacity which will store the water for the mill this reservoir is to be covered with a good building thomas dark clark is general manager at the southern cross and is working thirty men at present the mill starting will necessitate double this number |