The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-11

endeavor in the future to open 2 few good
mines Of is own. if such can be found on n its
il enough work is done as the landed hold
ingsiare Upward Of hundred thousand nsi acres
The Globe tract, lying next south Of the
Champion mine. is perhaps the most valna nin,
nnd t owner ohn l.ano is said to have
refused "A million dollars for it. Diamond
drills We're operated last season and are SAID
found, it rich. Whether drilling will be re-
sumed this season ia not known.
he n me the mns
continues.
Butte. May THE Amalsamated COM
pany has undertaken big enterprise In
to solve the shelter fumes nuisance at the
as the. company discovered that the poison
precipitated all over that section of the state
by the smelter smoke WAS running farms and
it set about to remedy the evil. The new
smokestaek vii be son feet high and nc, Is being
OF the on sn mel the sop the stack viii
measure 80 feet in diameter, while the base is
4? feet SQUARE. The top will be 500 feet above
the top Of the highest stacks now III use at
the smelter. The smoke will be carried to
the stack by long fumes made "a, of Of brick and
another i'i ,sSs S and the third Sill The hsrmf9
elements carried by the !smelter smoke will
be precipitated in the long gallery flume,
and a refinery for il will be built. Estimates
are also being made to handle other by pro-
hncs s such r. as sulphur ihd LAY
to its revenues. fhe point at which the tall
stack will discharge its smoke will be 6.lsc
lieved that it will do away with the trouble
some smoke nuisance
h Ks ha nss 81
the Combination mining claim Lain! Which, which lies
adioins some of the Boston and Montana
mines. The Combination is claim that has
been in conflict with the Betsy Dahl and has
been in litigation since iss5. For that reason
though it is in rich and developed part of
the Butte copper district, The new company
vded int shares at par value Of 81 So The
litigation over the ground was settled by
compromise few days age.
vile, just north Of Butte The ore is heavy
all s ,bronSh the large Vein The ore also car.
ries good quantity of gold.
4 number OF Butte men have become in
Of high grade silver and free gold ore have
ii. j. Shaw OF Butte has secured an option
Central America and h b; returned from =
on the I.oman-I .argey land grant. which CON-
tains eighteen developed mines. one OF which
has heen worked in q desultory way for 200
years. All Of the ore is gold bearing and can
be treated by the cyanide process. Mr.
Shaw considers the mineral reef Of the I.oman-
Largely grant the hest cyaniding proposition
on earth.
new corporation known as tho Montana
and Ajax Gold Mining Company has taken
over the rich Ajax mine IN the Big Hole coun-
try. The new company has capital stock
OF 81 nor. o6I.
lease and bond on a group Of claims in the
White pine mining district OF Colorado and
nd Joining the. May Ma2eppa property Tobin
has already blocked ont n lot OF ore in the
mincs which he says will run $40 to the ton
The Rose Gold Mining Company. n New
Jersey corporation, capitalized for r.. o00. 90.
has eight mining claims and two mill sites in
Jefferson county.
Ali tho mines OF tho Butte district. with the
exception Of the Mimic Healey and q few
Others that are closed by in iunc, lon In the
litigation between iieinge and the Anal
gamated Copper ompany. are again work
Ing full forces Of men, According to the
reports Of the secretary OF tho Butte NJ liners
ITnion there are again as many men employed
in the Butte district as there were two years
output. -,
the I nited States Assay ONCE in Helena
for April wer. the largest on record for that
month since the establishment OF the nice.
Tho receipt- amounted TO S2O8, 800, a gain OF
more than sTuoOO when compared with the
preceding tpril The receipts were confined
nrin cipailv to gold. Of which Montana mines
prod need sl72 .1d5. as compared with si03.3I.