Show MONTANA butte copper age the colusa calusa leonard is going after ore the company has cut five ledges in sinking to the and has now low decided to run a crosscut cross cut at that depth A sump has been cut at the and a gallon electric pump installed on the south side assays essays show two and one half per cent copper in the ledge six ounces of silver and considerable lead and zinc are also present the colusa calusa leonard it is predicted will achieve splendid results and this belief is based on present development butte miner reports of the most encouraging cou raging character continue to come from the mines of the lump gulch district near clancy the shaft on the clara bell the property of the montana silver and copper mining company is now down feet and from present indications it is believed that the ore shoot will be cut within the next fifty feet the ore shoot which at a depth of feet was about feet east of the shaft is apparently dipping toward the west as bunches of ore are being found at different times in the shaft which is being sunk on the vein dillon tribune frank williams general manager of the work at the blue eyed annie mine owned by the elkhorn copper mining company in the elkhorn district was in town several days this week on business matters for his company he stated that the lead of ore the strike of which was wag reported in our issue of last week had been penetrated by a tunnel and was found to be ten feet wide the ore is all mineralized four feet of which goes seventy seven ounces in silver eighty cents in gold 98 per cent copper and twenty four per cent lead A car of the ore will be shipped to the salt lake smelter next week it will be freighted down to the polaris smelter and from there transported to the railroad at armstead by the silver fissure mining com banys traction trains butte miner A report came from corbin yesterday that a seven foot vein of ore had been cut in the daphne shaft of the new boston mining company eighteen inches of which assays essays better than ten and one half per cent copper forty ounces in silver and one dollar in gold to the ton it was stated also that there is about three feet of low grade ore in the vein assaying about two and one half per cent copper and six ounces in silver the daphne is one of the oldest locations in corbin having been located about twenty seven years ago and with the badger mohawk alpine snowbird and jumbo and two fractional claims is the property of the new boston company these claims adjoin the properties of the boston corbin company and of the cor bin wickes company being located between the two |