Bisbee daily review., 1907-12-08
BUTTE DISTRICT.

works.
 
 BUTTE DISTRICT.
 BUTTE, Mont, Dec. 6.-The Butte
 Coalition company has stopped all
 work at its mines, except development
 in the Rarus, where about 175 men are
 still employed. The only ore mined
 now is taken out in the course of de
 velopment work. Work is going on al
 ten different places in the mine, and
 from four of them ore is obtained ay.
 eraging about fifty tons per day. When
 the curtailment order went into effect several months ago, the Coalition com.
 pany was mining 1900 tons per day.
 The company argues that it can best
 use its time and treasury In opening
 its ore bodies and blocking them out preparatory to a big output when the demand for copper is again normal. The Rarus shaft is being sunk deeper.
 It is now 2000 feet deep. The lowest level in the mine is at that point and is known as the seventeenth level, from which the south vein has been crosscut, but no drifting on 1t has been done. On the sixteenth level the south vein has been crosscut and a drift about 400 feet has been driven on it, opening splendid ore body, larger and of higher grade than on any of the upper levels. The company is al so crosscutting for the north veins and Is driving a crosscut into the Minnie Realey for the purpose of opening that property at greater depth. The Minnie Healey will eventually be mined through the Rarus and Tram way shafts. The new Tramway shaft has reached the HOO foot level, from which a raise has been made for sev- eral hundred feet, but the shaft has not been enlarged and timbered all the way. The Coalition company is open ing great bodies of ore in the Rarus and Minnie Healey, and when the de mand for copper becomes normal again the company will be able to mine aL most unlimited quantities of ore. The trouble in the past has been that it could not mine fast enough because of the limited amount of development work that had been done.
 Proving the correctness of the theory of John A. Ryan, superintendent of the the North Butte Extension copper company has opened into a fine ledge on the 300 foot level, and the gives promTse of becoming an important producer of high grade COD per ore within the next six months. when 1t is estimated that the lower levels will have been opened up and explored. The vein, which was cut at a distance of about fifty-two feet south of the shaft, shows a width of thirteen feet in the roof of the crosscut, and it widens to fifteen feet at the floor. Ill Is well mineralized the entire width and shows encouraging values in sil- yer, gold and copper in an average as say. StringeIs of very nigh grade ore appear at intervals.
 Substantiating the theories of the mining experts who are familiar with that portion of the district. the shaft on tbe> property of the Pilot-Butte Cop-I per Iising company has cut a vein at ! U1fsrH UT dUVuI 5VV feet I fIys sfII1r 4s i iOw down below the see see foot foot level, and he vein is still in the shaft and shows | width of about four feet. While this s not the vein which the company is | seeking for development, it proves theI character of the property. The malt will be sunk to a depth of at east 500 feet before any crosscutting VIII be done. At the latter depth it is considered certain that the Berlin vein Till be reached. On the north of the '1iot-Butte the Elm Orlu claim is show lg splendid values and regular ship lents Of high grade ore are being lade. q
 The Pittsburg 6 Montana Copper nv haE reasgrTVzoI 5 running it's smeiter to the full fur ace capacity, treating it's ores by thel ame process used when the smelteri 7as In operation before. It will be remembered that its plant was closed { owin during the spring of 1906, De- ause the production of the mine was hen only about 100 tons of ore per ay. Since then, and up until the pres nt time, the company's ore has been reated by the Washoe Copper com any at Anaconda-
 At the Raven mine work has not nly steadily continued since starting, ut the force is being employed on he surface removing the old dunn to 1ake more surface room for additional uildings, to house larger and better urface equipment as additional depth reached. The shaft, which when resent operations began was TOO feet eep, has attained a depth of 9G5 feet, nd will be continued until it reaches he 1900 foot level. A station has been ut at the 900, and a crosscut Is being riven to the ledge. It is the inten- lon of the management to also cross ut 10 the ledge from the HOO foot ,ey ], and again at 1500 foot level.
 Crosacutting to the veins has been tarted fin the Greenleaf by the Boston Montana company from the 1000 tation. It is anticipated that the first ein will be cut within thirty feet of ne shaft and the second about 200 set south of the shaft A big station as been cut and pumps installed. The rst vein to be reached was cut in the haft at a depth of 800 feet, where two set of it assayed 12 per cent copper. ne first vein cut in the shaft at a epth of $50 feet was five feet wide nd assayed about per cent in cop CT and some silver. After the south rosscut has been driven to the veins. no;her will be started north.
 The Parrot company has suspended inning operations entirely, except for mall amount of development work. he suspension will continue until the opper market improves. The nomi- al production of the Parrot is about 50 tons of ore per day. which pfyes