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Show IMG WORK Gti BUTTE-DULUTH ILL The BuHe-Duluth property, located at Butte, Mont., which has been leased by A. Frank cf Salt Lake and associates, is rapidly being put in shape for milling operations, op-erations, according to local officials. A force of twenty men is at work and actual mining operations will be well under way by the middle of October. Changes in the , milling plant, are being made and the work Is being rushed to completion as rapidly as possible. It is planned to work the mine on a much larger scale than heretofore, the management having decided, after an examination ex-amination of the property, that a much larger tonnage can be produced and handled han-dled than was the case under the old management. It is understood that there will lie produced, on an average of 500 tons of ore per day and that this output, beginning be-ginning with November 1. will be maintained. main-tained. No work will he done for some time in the Montgomery shaft, located on t he north end of the property. Developments in the properties adjoining the Buttp-Duluth Buttp-Duluth on the nort h and east will be wat'herl. however. Considerable work is being done in the Bullwha-'ker and the North Butte properties, which mav re- ; suit in work being s;arted from the Mont- gomery shaft. ; Since acquiring the lease on the prop-i prop-i erty the management has made a num-her num-her of exneriments with the ores of the S Butte-Duluth which have resulted in so'me i changes in the milling equipment. It is jnot believed that it will be necessarv to i make anv radical changes in the machinery machin-ery nor to install much more than is now in the milt. Since the property was closed i down the machinery has been cared for land Is In good condltion- |