Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-11
They Represent the Rockefeller
Interests.
MANY MEN PUT TO WORK
Each Day at the Shelters, While the
Railroads From Butte are Pre-
pairing for More Business.

1t is claimed in Anaconda, and the ru-
more are ~substantiated by the press of
New York, that experts in the employ
of the Rockefeller interests in the ANAL
gamated Copper company are making an
inspection of the mines in Butte and
smelters in Anaconda. This cannot be
verified here, other than strange men
have been seen in company with some of
the officers Of the company going to and
from the works. Ex-General Superintend-
ent ]. S. Dougherty, who has been out
for several weeks, made an inspection of
the smelters with Marcus DAILY a few
days ago and about the same time the
presumed representatives Of the Amalga-
mated company from the east We're re-
ported to be here. There have been ru-
mors of a new manage Of the Amalga-
mated company on the streets for he
past four days, but nothing to substanti-
ate the report can be learned.
Additional men are being put to work
in the shelters right along. The B., A.
& p. railway is putting it's tracks in the
best possible condition, and is building
new sidetracks in several places along the
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eral hundred men are employed making
ready for the hauling of something on a
large scale. A new yard is being con-
structed at Silver Bow. Every section
house on the line is full of section hands,
employed with regular crews. There are
also a few extra boarding camps along
the line to feed the extra men, who are
fixing up the tracks for a big haul.
The Northern Pacific railway has about
$50 men repairing it's Montana Union
lines between Butte and Stuart, and there
are people who claim that this line will
be used as an e line for the
hauling of ore from Butte to Anaconda.
This morning the B., A. & P. advertised
for so section hands, who are wanted be-
tween Butte and Anaconda.
Everything is looking up in the Moose
Lake district, west of Anaconda. Mel
Lennahan, who came in from there yes
terday, says every prospector and owner,
as we'll as the miners, are feeling jubilant.
Some large deals are on, and will be con-
summated before long, unless all signs
fail. The Anaconda Recorder says:
The first discoveries and locations made
in the camp are the Senate group of five
claims-the Senate Hillside, Snowslide,
Chance and Gem. 1t is expected that
within a short time a deal will be con-
summated for the sale Of this group for a
sum reaching six figures. At this time
development work is being done on all
five claims by night and day shifts. All
told, 400 feet of tunnels and wines have
been driven and thus far the showing is
remarkable. In a crosscut tunnel in the
Senate, which taps the ore at a depth of
IS feet, the ledge is IS feet wide. It car-
ries copper %sulphides and is considered a
good concentrating ore. 1t Is in a fine
Ito ~~~ r.ny
two feet of the lead on the hanging wall
Z per cent copper and the remain
3 per cent. In a winze in the upper
tunnel, at a depth of 40 feet, the ore runs
30 per cent copper, 10 ounces silver and
ounces gold
During the last few weeks representa-.
tives of Spokane capitalists have been
man samples. Agents of New
York and Boston capital are now on the
ground, and will make a thorough in
spection Of the group. 1t was expected
Otto Stalman, former superintendent OF
the Anaconda shelters, would be here by
this time to examine the Senate claims,
but he was suddenly called to Glasgow,
Scotland, by the syndicate he represents.
There is every reason to believe that
before snow flies these properties will
pass into the hands of capitalists, who
will reap the benefits of the prospectors'
toll and hardship.
The Anaconda company has two men
in the camp watching every development,
and if there is anything good lying
around they will not be likely to let it get
away from them. The Anaconda people,
through John S. Dougherty, one time Of
fered to take a bond on the Senate for
5000. 900. They We're to pay s., 800 and de-
velop the mine TO a depth of 700 feet. All
hut one of the partners agreed to the
proposition. This one declined to deal
with Dougherty because he once dis
charged him, and the deal fell through.