Show MIKE TIKE Butte lont Nci Nd 20 Anaconda fire which burning since November lids gradually worked Us Its way VI downward until Wednesday last hat It had reached leached th level near the thi main from the tho Anaconda shaft Thoro is a b largo large worked out ln this i locality and the fire has attacked this andA and given off gas than the openings could take tako care of For this reason tho smoke has bus been forced through the tho shafts and the tempo temporary closing of this mine The Tho St Law Las Lawrence rence shaft is hi in commission n and the lighters able to approach the ha without difficulty through that shaft The lire can never reach below bolow the tho as the slopes from bOlow have not ilot reached to that lint I leel anti and there thiro is more than feet of ot solid ground under the 1500 throughout ithe lie entire length of the mine While the lire is perhaps worse at this time tinie than ever before In and may hilly mean suspension of operations through the tho Anaconda shaft than was expected the other properties of tho li company have Increased their ship merits ments so that tile tho full ore oro is isto going to tho smelter |