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Show gon. company, that has other promising claims. South of the Paragon group are the May and Edna. Rich strikes were reported in these properties some months since and shipments of ore will be made to the smelter smel-ter here. As the shut down of the smelting work was due wholly to the lack of ore, there is reason to believe that the management has chanced its tactics and will modify the previous pre-vious excessive charges that closed the market mar-ket against it. The action of the company has been taken none too soon, for shipments from the Belt Mountain mines are likely to increase in quantity and importance. The completion, of the NEW WOLF CREEK ROAD to Barker has made it possible for other mine owners to make shipments. Hauling over that road has already begun from tbo Mortson and Woodhurst mines. Contractors are making two trips a week, taking eight tons a trip. The cost of hauling from the mines to Barker is $5 per ton, which, added to $4 per ton freight rate from there to this city, makes a considerable reduction over the old way of hauling ore by team direct! -to Great Falls. By this route they are alsi able to ship in larger quantities. THE COAL SUPPLY for Great Falls will be largely increased by the action of the Great Northern road iu making a special rate from Belt. Tbo charge hitherto from that point has been $2 a ton, while from Sand Coulee nearby it was only $1. That practically f.hnt out tha Armington and Belt coal from the market. P. J. Shields, who has a. larire claim i.f hi WAS TOO GRASPING. ' Great Falls, Mont., Oct. 5. After being shutdown for several months, the smelter here has started up five of its roasters. These have a daily capacity of 100 tons of ore. The United Smelting and Refining cora- pany is believed to have received assurances that ore shipments are to bo resumed shortly, short-ly, that will justify it in operating all the roasters, and enable it to treat 400 to 500 tons a day. The stacks at the smelter will likewise like-wise be fired up before long. It Is stated that the smelter "people, who put their charges high, have agreed to make better rates. If this is done large shipments can be counted on from the barker mines. Prior to the washout on the Montana Central Cen-tral railroad last spring, the output from the Top Hand mine was shipped to the smelters at Omaha and Kansas City, but when traffic was suspended on the road shipments ceased. Onlv one carload has been shinned own at Belt, has bonded several other smaller small-er coal properties besides leasing the Cast-ner Cast-ner lands. He has begun work on the mine and will push the output. Nevada Mines. There has been a heavy flow of water from the ore vein between the MOO and 400 levels on the Belcher, that delayed work on the upraise till the first of the present week. A little smokeless enuine has just been received re-ceived to haul ore out of the Sutro tunnel. Work has stopped on the Eureka mill on the Carson river, and all the hands paid off and discharged. Reno Journal: Captain Griffith, is finding very fine ore in the Trinity mine in the Peavine district. The face of the drift is iu quartz which carries considerable ore of eood quality. A paying mine at Peavine would greatly benefit Reno. Austin Etveille: Superintendent Bray, of the Big Creek antimony mine, after many months of dead work, baa put his force of men extracting ore. The first shipment of many months, of ninety tons, was made last week, and if the price of the mineral will justify, large shipments will be made frequently. fre-quently. At a" special meeting of the directors "of the Savage Mining company it was resoKed to ask the directors of the Norcross Mining company to hold a joint meeting with, them for the purpose of trying to arrive at soma conclusion relating to operating both mines through one shaft. Until Montana women refuse to pose for the silver statue which is to be erected by Montana at the World's fair, tbe commissioners commis-sioners should not seek the services of Ads, Rehan or any other non-resident Montana, has woman as beautiful, as perfect and as graceful as ever inspired the genius of a sculptor and aa effort should be mad to have the statue a Montana production aa . much in the beauty of its outlines as in tbo silver of which it will be composed. Butte Miner, i . .... since the line was repaired, but this showed that the returns are large enough to warrant the continued profitable operation of the mine. Owners of the Top Hand and other mines would prefer shipping their product to Great Falls if they could get it treated as cheaply as at the smelters elsewhere. The rate is much higher to Eastern points. A $10 rate was promised, but has not yet gone into effect ef-fect The rate from Barker to Great Falls is $4 a ton, and this alone will be a great saving sav-ing in transportation. The ore from the Top Hand is hauled three miles by wagon before being loaded on the cars. Operations at Barker are now confined to the Top Hand, which is worked by a tunnel that is in 550 feet. It is owned, by the Para. 't 1 |