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Show WOLV1N AND HAYES STARTED BUTTE BOOM. The following eastern discussion of the Butte situation Is contained In a Thompson, Towlo bulletin on August Si . A Our Butte correspondent writes us that mining clalmB. which have been regarded as next to worthless for several sev-eral years, In what Is kuown as the northern part of the district, are now- a-tlays bringing prices which even JH dazzle the owners. A claim known as H the Ready Cash which an old timer fl has held for many yearn and which S a year ago could have been secured B lor $10,000 or even less, the other .day changed hands for $110,000. there H having been $10,000 paid In cash, and H an agreement to pay the reBt In tho H next twelve- months. Another claim H known as tho Xarraganset, which jvas H sold a few yenrs ago for $2.G4 at sher- H irrs sale to satisfy dollnquent taxes, is now under option for $75,000, while H there are several other Instances pf H claims selling all the way from ?S0,- H 000 to $135,000 which a few years H ngo could have been secured for tho payment of the taxes. H AH this boom nas bcon started by M Captain A. B. Wolvln. prcsldont of the H Butte & Superior Co.. an John. ir. H Hayes of the Utah Copper company, jH purchasing claims around, and ad- jH joining the Butte and Superior prop- H crty. "SH Then several Dululh people become " ,AflB active In buying options secured by S local men, and the fever to secure Ijl claims spread. Prominent among the Duluth people besides Captain Wol- H vln who are buying up claims, are S Chester A. Condon and ho is said to V have Thomas F, Cole associated with JH him. Mr. Colo and his associates M have six claims just oast of the North JH Butte Extension, and It Is also stated jfl that the samo people have options on fl other claims In the vicinity although S no record has yet been made of an 9 agreement for a sale. M The purchase of claims outright and 9 through options by Messrs. Wolvln and fl Hayes Is understood to -be In the In- B terest of the Butte & Superior Co. H |