Show MONTANA butte copper age the butte copper company has cut into the edith may vein from the foot level of the original shaft on its property which is located directly east and adjoining the properties of the north butte mining company the vein shows a width of 2812 feet between the walls which are well defined the crosscut cross cut which is being run rud north has also intersected the hanging wall of the old joe vein showing copper and silver values the crosscut cross cut re reached ached the vein about sixty three feet from the shaft and has penetrated the vein a distance of about eight feet the foot wall has not yet been reached and the width of the vein has not yet been determined the assays essays from picked samples show from eighteen to nineteen per cent copper thirty ounces of silver and in gold to the ton the average of the ore at the intersection of the crosscut cross cut and the vein gives returns of from twelve to fifteen per cent copper ounces of silver and in gold old it is the intention of the company to drift both ways on the vein and the west drift will be carried into the new shaft which is being sunk about feet west of the old one with the new shaft connected by the drift operations will be confined to it and the development of the property will be carried on from that point libby news J H sessions foreman at the porcupine mining companas comp anys property on granite creek has sent word to J J hibbard the manager of the company that another streak of solid galena has shown in the tunnel in which work is being done he says this streak of ore lies between the streak in which was found the big chunk of ore last fall and the east wall bearing out the theory of those who control the proper ty that the vein at this point is about awen ty five feet wide the distance between the e east wall of the vein where is exposed a streak of solid lead from a few inches to j t about a foot wide and the streak from which was taken the big chunk of ore last fall i jt is about twenty five feet and in between these two streaks there is a jumbled up mass massa of ledge filling which will probably cut out oua sl with depth the new discovery tends to tp h help out the theory that this stuff will cu out and the presence of another streak 0 solid lead will not in any way injure t taj value of the porcupine claim the streak 0 H ore on the west wall Is about thirty inched inch across and here is found some high gra grail 1 silver lead ore an assay from the ore fro aroi this big streak went in silver and leas lea of which amount 93 was in silver the 0 oj was a little better than the average b bb not from the best fir |