Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-19
To EXPLORE
FOR COPPER
COMPANY WITH AMPLE CAPITAL
ORGANIZE TO OPERATE
THE EMMA MINE.
OPERATIONS WILL
BE BEGUN AT ONCE.
Promoters Believe They Will Discover
the Western Extension Of the
Great Copper Belt.

What promises 10 develop into the big
sest mining proposition started during
the present year is just now being put in
: shape to begin operations. 1t is the or
ganization of company to open up the
Emma claim, which carries the largest
lead in Butte, and which has been ira
ditionally known as the mother" lode
of the Butte district.
The Emma has never been developed
solely, it is claimed, for the reason that
it belongs to an eccentric millionaire of
Minneapolis who had no desire to de-
velop it himself. and because of his pc
culiarites he would never consider a
proposition to lease and bond until very
recently. A short time ago. however,
w. w. Mcdowell. of the firm of Rey-
nolds & Mcdowell. succeeded in getting
a lease and bond on the claim for $1lO,-
600. and a company has been organized
to begin work.
The parties propose to explore for cop-
per. ara feel confident they will find a
big copper mine. The lead begins in the
Ancient, one of the Clark claims, in the
southwestern part Of the city, and runs
in a northeasterly direction up through
the Moonlight hill. OF late years the i'm
preston has gained ground in Butte
that any big lead, close in. if followed
deep enough, will prove to be copper
mine. That has been the experience,
and there is not a single deep shaft in
the southern portion of the district that
has not found copper. Figuring on this
basis and the knowledge that copper has
been found on the southwesterly end Of
the lead. while the character of the
ores in the Moonlight hill is well known,
the promoters of the new undertaking
feel there is not much doubt but they
will find copper mine if they go deep
enough.
The company will accordingly begin
sinking It once in a shaft which is al
ready down on the lead. o03 feet, and
which was sunk few months ago by
the Heinzes while they had temporary
control Of the property. 1t is the inten-
tion to sink 500 feet and then explore the
lead. The shaft is now in low grade ore
which carries both silver and copper. 1t
is the only shaft on the west side of
Main streets where operations for cop
per have ever been conducted, and if 4
mine is found, as the promoters fully
believe one will be, it will be Of vast i'm
portance to Butte. as it will open up an
entirely new copper field. The vein is
300 feet wide, and if it turns out to carry
copper in paying quantities in the lower
depths, it will be one of the big copper
propositions of the country. The COM
pany has steam hoist and shaft house
in place, the engine being capable of
going 1000 feet, and the work of sinking
will begin in few days.
The new company is composed of l.:
men, several of whom are among the
largest capitalists of the city, and three
of them are SO close to the Amalgama ted
interests that it is suspected that the
Amalgamated may have an interest In
the work, though this is denied. The
names of those having al interest in the
new company are withheld, as they will
not allow their names to be used in con-
nection with the matter until they know
whether or not they find a mine.