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Show ABOUT CAPT. BEN TIBBY Woll-Known Mining Engineer Who Is Now laving in Salt Lake. The Butto (Mont.) Evoning News has tho lollowing good ihints to say of a former old-timer in Butte, but now a residont of Salt Lake. Capt. Bon Tibbv is one of the best-known mining export6 ex-port6 and minoralogtsts in tho West, Iiororcd and respected wherever known 0. his strict integrity, a qunlity which has stayed with irn through all the years or a long life worthily spent. en T,,b'- a well-known mining cnKi- Parrn?"nLrm0r.ly VPerlnto"S Of the Parrot conpor mine, has boon SDendlmr n few days i n Butte renewing oW I acaunint ances. There has been man - ami ran d changes slnco Captain Tibby wa" acUve-ly acUve-ly Identified with Butte mining Interests but he has not changed. Tho honest In in high esteem, for It was men Uko Tlbt v who blazed tho way for Biitte's nruaon! wealth and greatness. Mining engrme?s come and go. but those who laid the basis of Butte's wonderful record can bo count o.(l on two hands; and upon thP btJi" m'SJJ1' ,Um 'lt(;vr,ly of t'fls handful? men. millions havo been Investci n,? hundred', of millions have been prod n 1 Among them nil Captain Tihliv pro-cmlnont, and no one Is hi 3 tilled to tho warm welcome which oV ways awaits him. "'"en al- Captnln Tibby has given hl? attention through life to the studv 'o? mines and mlneralosy. and o K not only In Butto, but thrm.,.ifk.nown mining world, n.s a m nine 1 and mLU,? oxport. His services have been ft'"eral slant demand and his record a CP" ablo one. His Butto friends wpT' moro than pleased to lea fn thnt . e hasecured c.ulto a comfo'rtabVocom! haben0 tho rich copper zone of -Ulzonn i.no..m territory which has glvci the T,h i" Ue wonderful mines as Un le dVer do r-n1 per Queen. Calumet & Arizona C?P" crs. Tho Captain says the Sfi,.n? per mine, with which ho Is Tnmi ) A 1 COn-ed, COn-ed, will be one. of the lareMt 'v onncct-of onncct-of copper In the couny00pr!;ors aro ready to handle a lorce T nn,, tho-v oro on an economical basis? tonm,Sc of |