Show MONTANA butte evening news the butte super bior is not contemplating a new shaft as was reported bad ground troubled seriously for a time but careful miner like workmanship triumphed over the conditions and work is going forwards forward with speed the shaft is now down about feet butte evening news W B orem deputy mine inspector has received word that a strike of considerable magnitude has been made on the new departure near dillon the letter states that a body of ore assaying 1008 ounces in silver has been cut in the raise from the foot level an average shaft sample it is stated will run ounces to the ton butte mining review the syndicate that recently purchased the barnes king has made the final payment on the purchase price of the property the final payment was a very large sum the local men who have been made wealthy through the darnes barnes king are john P barnes J T and M L woodman in addition to the purchase price the old owners received more than in dividends between 1901 and last fall so that they have realized a total of from this kendall property butte mining review there have been marked improvements in the shaft of the clara bell mine of the montana copper and silver mining company near clancy jefferson county during the past few days and the indications point to the uncovering ot of abundant shipping ore before another month the vein is making ore at a rapid rate the shaft is now down feet and is seamed with quartz streaks carrying silver and gray copper the ore averages several hundred ounces of silver to the ton at feet which will be reached very shortly drifting will be commenced on the vein butte evening news new E L mayo has returned from wallace idaho where he visited the alameda mine while looking through tunnel no 3 he came upon a drill hole that had not been blasted the hole was about two feet deep the mine foreman caused it to be loaded and fired when the men came back in the drift after the smoke had cleared away they were astonished to find that the drill hole which they had fired out of curiosity and for the entertainment tain ment of a visitor had opened up a big ledge of fine galena ore mr mayo brought some samples home with him they are on display at the brokerage office dillon tribune A fine nine foot lead of ore was exposed in the kent mine in the blue wing district last week by a cave in while the workmen were engaged in catching up the old tunnel an assay of the ore has been secured by R L riley and dr F M poindexter and it goes from ten to sixteen per cent lead and averages oer fifty ounces of silver to the ton on monday while the work of cl clearing earin the old tunnel was in progress water was struck which flowed out in such quantities as to cover the track in the tunnel and stop all work for more than a day the water had been damned up in some of the old workings by cave ins lewiston argus the green campbell gold mining company with a number of stockholders in the east and west has suspended operations at its mines in the silver star district of madison county the company owns a number of claims and several mines from which many years ago a great amount of gold was taken the company beitl a good mill but neglected to secure a water supply but depended on the water taken from the mines that however sufficient and instead of treating tons of ore daily as the company has expected to do with the new mill it could only take care of about twenty tons before work can be resumed a water supply must be obtained and additional machinery for the mill is also necessary dillon tribune dan burkholder returned to dillon yesterday from the polaris and elkhorn mining districts where he took some north dakota capitalists whom he had interested in a number of mining claims in the polaris district partly owned by him A big deal was made with the north dakota parties in which seven claims were disposed of by mr burkholder and his associates to the north dakota men A company is to be organized shares of stock issued shares of which will be treasury stock and extensive development work on the claims will restarted be started at once articles of incorporation will be filed sometime next week no stock will be sold for less than 25 cents per share A more complete account will be given in next weeks tribune |