Show TO REOPEN SILVER LEDGES leate ready to follow the old workings to great depth although the gentlemen composing it decline to discuss their heir plans at this ume time it hat has leaked out that a wealthy syndicate has bas decided that the old silver ledges at herour which aich were abandoned in ISIS have been neglected too long lone and it if negotiations now in progress are put to a ft successful termination tion those ledora will he be under it systematic development the present season reason as are their auriferous rivals to tills this end overtures over turea have been made to a a number of those upon whose proportion the sliver silver lodge ledge appears and it to Is understood such overtures as affords very assurance at this time that the deal 1 11 win will be successfully closed within the next few cw days the owners have hold had quietly stacked up before them a number or of propositions from which they are permitted to take their choice the sindi vindicate sindicate cate has offered to buy or bond or leao and to show that it Is composed of responsible men Is but mc essary if to nl mention atlon that among them axe are lion hon Tho thomas niona G merrill W who ho has extensive mining arten ats in blon montana tana mr hir J H conred conrad president of the montana coal and colic coke company and their northern connections discussing thi the project in the lobby of the baley house at mercur a few days since mr conrad who had been tr tramping amp over the ground arid and driving tits hla pick into the face of the old silver lodges ages for sev several rat days said ald it if those there neglected silver hearing bearing zones tones were productive of ore of such unusual ms in the party early day why 19 1 it that they are not capable of it with intelligent development now they were never systematically explored it if we a are to accept the evidence that Is today shown upon the abandoned om it was waa another exam instances quarrying as we see it in the earlier workings upon the gold zone lone when the ore pinched out or hen its values ton begun to shrink the jovn owna ra appey r 1 L r to have deserted descried it th thre the re may have 1 I 1 bayn cause for or setting abide tie such ore as it would not pay to lo market but it ft appears to me that the miner was nois fully lacking in n pluck in that early oy day to have thrown up the sponge over little think thing like a bunch ot of low grade rale ir knowing that within the lodice had been found horn sliver that yielded several thouane thou lands and of dollars dollar now crimy opinion there Is a way for the of there silver lodges ll gB and nd making mahln a bimetallic producer of mercur ill edcur of confining it to gold BOW al tone one at all events we are re prepared to give it the chai charioe and in the coni tract or deed aar bind ourselves to never go fo beyond the walls wall of the silver ledge lease this would of course be no difficult matter and would in my judgment sad ald another material branch to the industry that low lf rap rapidly adly making of marcur the gro atoot go kold id camp in the world there then would be b no need of the man V ho la Is digging out silver mixing kip with ills his neighbor the goldbug gold bug hue in 1 fact the matter with the two in the nation today they dont I 1 mix fix up clough but it if mercur has he silver long with its monster depo its of fid it be eted we are ltv wit willing I 1 ing to Und erts ke it and ret get to tc work just As e I 1 soon n a shimoe who are neblo eting alln the silver liams say lay w chat hat one of our propositions ions tiona they prefer the ledges to which the speaker re fer frn were those that art drew w attention atlen llon in 1869 to the bround upon which mercur I 1 Is 18 now located and involves those that were covered by the old sparrow hawk carrio carrie steele sliver silver cloud and others that were at the period spoken 0 of being prospected for or silver the result was the discovery of some nome very rich silver bres and the district in 1870 was or the tonnage front from tho the mines was wag never very great and six years after tho the founding of it the mines were worked only in a s desultory way the truth Is that the miners of that d day av contented themselves with what nature had exposed and when that was exhaust d no effort was mad danli 3 to ret got under ground it la is the belief that the main body of sliver silver ore that was SO BO rich at the surface surf Is to he be found on the lower levels ley als that conrad and others arc a tilling w to take a chance however and for the general re KOOI good of tho industry at mercur it la Is to tie bo hoped that terms may be agreed on As mr conrad remarks there to la no danger of the num man who to 1 mining for sliver silver treading on the to toes of the man who Is mining tor for gold cold as they are upon entirely different horizons with the gold above its white |