Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-10
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MINING DIFFICULTIES
 N BUTTE MONTANA The Sliding of Butte, Montana, Is Playing Havoc With
 Big Shafts.

Boston--A leading engineer who Is thoroughly familiar with the Butte camp. having inspected underground ali of the mines of the camp end worked in many of them. makes the following statement:
 The Butte hill is sliding and is playing havoc with some of the lead ing shafts of the district. I understand that the Parrot Co. has stopped sink ing it's main shaft which is now down 1900 feet. Its shaft is like a cork screw. the ground having slid to such an extent that the shaft is practically unworkabfa and the Parrott is making preparations to take Its ore through the Neyersweat and Anaconda shafts.
 Both these big shafts. however. while still workable. are in had shape and are causing considerable trouble. l understand the engineers of the Ney- ersweat have recently given notice that they will not be responsibie for accidents in operation throukh that shaft
 q predict that all of the big mines will have to move their main ~"ss.c in time down on the flats. as the whole hill is gradually moving and tire main working shafts are caving in in con sequence. The Butte veins from the hill dip south. so that the cross-cuts are getting long way from the old shafts.
 "1he Davis-Daly shafts are being 10. cated near the flats. and I predict a great future for that eom~nny. There fs absolutely no question as to us ore, bodies. as they are absolutely known to exist under the Davis-Daly ground. both by the Amalgamated and the Heinze interests. Why. it Is no se- cret in Butte that the Boston & Mon. tana Co. has been operating under the Baltic claim of the Davis-Daly Co and has taken millions of ore belong ing to the company That is com mon camp knowledge and has been re- ferred to in Heinze-Amalgamated liti- gation in the courts.
 It takes time 10 open biz copper mine. and do not look for the Davis Daly Go. 10 be much of a factor in copper production within a year. Give it two years of development and the result will be startling. because it has an immense territory which carries the main veins of the camp. This Y lions of dollars worth of ore by tHis time had it not been tied up in litiga- tion in the past all of wlich. however. Is now over. .
 Tt should not be forgotten that the Davis-Daly properties are practically virgin. that is. this company possess es the ore from the surface and it nec- essarily has an enormous task to cnen up these veins to permit of a largs production. but it has the ore and the management and the treasury possess- es s2.000,0JO in cash. That will more than see it through. It may need smelting facilities of it's own later on
 Butte Coalition will in time make splendid record of production ana profits. That company has derived from the Amalgamated all the benefits Heinze ever fought for. It secured 80 per cent of all that was coItended for by Heinze. and there was never time when Mir. Heinze and his asso- ciates would rot have settled for 80 Der cent of Ais demand.
 The great increase in Butte copper production in the future will come from the Davf5Daly and Butte Coan- tion properties in my opinion"