Show In the Alice Mine J Capt Thomas W Buzzo superintendent i superin-tendent of the Alice Mining companys properties at Walkorvllle Mont said yesterday that there were about plghty men at work a number of them being lessees The group Is turning out at the present between COO and 7QO tohs per month the ores carrying from 18 j to 100 ounces silver and 75 cents to 10 gold Mr B zzO was particularly hopeful of several new processes for successfully treating zinc olesThere is one perfected by B B Sadtler of Denver he said This inventor lines the retort with a chemical combination that resists the action of the iron In molting for ninety days This makoq the longest time retort known and the result Is tha he expects to utilize zinc ores carrying 10 to 1 per cent of Iron I Heretofore the presence of 2 per cent of iron hIs proved a serious objection in zinc ores In the United States bu tIn t-in Europe zinc ores have been treated carrying 10 per cent of iron due to cheaper labor and different processes 4A company Is being organized In Montana to work under the Sadtler process and Its works will be located near Basin between Helena and Butte where the facilities for operation are exceptionally good Another process Is being developed for leaching out the zinc leavlncr the Irfan and silica bon i n taming the metallic values for treatment treat-ment These are reduced readily In the blat furnace All this Is good news to Utah Idaho and Montana which have the same kind of zinc ores |