The sun., 1907-11-18
copper pr production ;s,,S e5ral..d to tn. various


MISCELLANEOUS. S,s7S sSO.O.S
iS.I7S s.s7s.sOO
The production Of the Butte Coalition Com
pany Has been further Curt1lled ana lSO men
mining about 500 tons of ore "A day. but
| the amount has been reduced below 100 tons
The Eastern directors have been anxious to
| st.pPnd OperatiOns in Coalition mines en-
| tircly. A. q. Carson. general manager Of the
| North Butte and Butte Coalition Company.
| predict, that copper will he selling at isC
again before the first of the yenr and the
mines running full capacity.
Al work has been stopped ON the properties
| Of the baNis-DHlN company. The company
| hus had considerable funds in several bHnks
The shaft NJ the Parrot Company has
! renChcd n depth Of $50 feet and croNscutting
! on the aUO and >. 900 h1s been started,
" W King. speaker of the Montanl House
OF Representatives, one OF the men EhO sold
thu Barnes King mines TO the promoters who
| sold them 10 the BaTnes-king Development
! Company. has she'd some light on the deal
| lir OOutrn,licts he statement of the promoters
/ that they uaid 81 .2n0OOo and says the owners
! received iISt $3.50 lHN net for the property.
The sum stat cd IN tho transaction was ~ .2OO-
WO that hcing the capital stock Of the old
! promoters Of ihc deal 20 per cent. The hrO-
! lnuters therefore received cOmnlission, Of
! 81 600 from the original owners. In addition
/ tO the rakeOiT they took from the new COM
: puUv, voting themselves s4OO.OOO more out OF
the money subscribed by the stockholders OF
| the latter King says he still believes that
| the property " pay good interest on u .Oo0.S
WlU. ltC. ne 80 bclleNcu Wnen ne sold
! the mines. hut that he never approved Of the
capitalization OF the new company al o.. 600 O0O
and never saw any report of any person that
S,T1 T%S ,hst tie n pTomoISTs had fmii and free
access To all the books and papers IN any way
! concerning the IuiuO aud thut nothing was
misrepres,nied or concealed from them.
kIng asserts that the mines had yielded good
dividends an 81 2oo.01 for several years and
vogr q pHviug property a. tho time Of thc
tr9usfrr. lie thought a yeers ore supply
vH. hluck"d on, AZ that time: Ming frankly
-'t,- that u Was because Of the likelihood OF
tho riur pct erlug out that he was willing 10
sell. Diamond drili explorations by the new
company have recently disclosed one new
ore body, but the ore runs but little more
than - TO II" ton aud by itself would not pay
70 nilu". taS month u cost the company
3pN utaI 10 produce SlS.0W.
The Pittrburg and Montana Copper Mining
Company has Resumed operations at its
sWcitrr eaat Of the city: mining has alrO been
resumed The snielter which was built ~
an experimental plant Tor new process, has
been ul'uo-' completely remGdeled aud
tht process nov employed IL the same
,hst "a us' 81 other smeltcTS Of the district
u has a capacity Of about i5O tons Or ore
day.
Copper ore in commercial quantities has
been opened Ht th" G0O and 500 foot levels
pr the tOlIS1- leonard Extension mine.
! The infringement claims that With very little
more development work ~ could mime ar" for
,AiIm"nt. The vein on the ,O1 ayernges
SOC RUS about > per cent. The ore also
csrr,e~ some silver Five distinct veins
have been Pucuuni cred IN the COlI-a 1 Leonard
shai' aud crns>cnJ-, A drift II nov being
rIuI along the vein ~ he SO1 and CrosscuJ
II heing driven from the other side Of the
SHAFT also. 4 vrOs-cui south from the shaft
on the $40 has .ut a four foo vein of SIlphide
ore. much of w'ich Is milling ore.
UELtNN. Nov. i2.--A good strike in gold
hl~ hePu made on 'hc properly of stuart
Fuller IN the Iron Mountain district. MissOula
county. The qnar,z is vsry rirhi me G%ld
assay has a. vet heen obtained
splendid -trik" is reported in the copper
Age mine near Satesc. u is bod of ore
eight feet wide in the face OF a t5U loot drift
n depth of lOo. Tn" ledge has not been
tppi " de TLsOTa II sulphde Oi good quality.
4 large body oi shipping ore has been
opened up al the grass root, on the western
The ore Is tebg deS Seloped hY an open cut,
II is aulphidc. \ croSscul ~ being driven
has come distance vet 10 So. The strike
wa made III y peculiar ranner. Parties
Wirre-le'i ~ the lroprT,F we're TEmS 10
on stripping away the -urtacc matter they
. r'mr upon the ore bod, l. -,-,., -,
thomas y. Miller. a-saNer IN SharEe oi ia"
United state, H--dv office IN This city, las
made his report for October. Fergus county
hqs Ar-t place a gam ~ = gold producer,
NissOUa AMI Mad lh" total receipt
for tie month we're slnn.t of which slSa.n12
Wa IN gold ard 81, tG6 ~ silver. Montana
,cpfTinutpd SINhu~u. Other rereiUt- we're.
Prom Idaho s,.1.H. N"VHda. S5.5.. Wash
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~, ~ In ,,roducs at ieast q OOO tons a dat.
W. iva. ,,'h " ~ k,,I ~ suuniI. thS comnan, a.
-, "a ~ St,,,b naknta rhe coal Ia br,iminona
~ ~ Ni;iyvs,,I,es ~ present uses about =; 0Oo
,, ~ ~ ""aI n csay and the present ontnnt
81 ita iowa mines is only about I. SEQ
The report of Surveyor General y. Frank
Cone of Montana for the period ended
nrfober ~ shows THAI since the close of the