The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-01-10
WALLACE NEWS

Wallace. Jan. s.-Frank r. Lowe of
Big Elk Mining company which owns
copper property In the st. Joe coun-
try. recently filed proof Of forfeiture.
claiming that Mrs Dosia McVety. now
deceased and formely wife of H. H.
McVety Of MissOula. had not had the
assessment work for her interest in
the Big Elk performed last year. Now
the county treasurer. as special ad-
ministrator of the estate of Mrs. Nc
Vety. has filed an affidavit alleging
that last June she sent to MIR. Lowe
$3.50 by registered letter to pay for
the assessment work on Mrs. Mcvety's
interests in the Big Elk and that the
registered letter was received by Mr..
Lowe.
The Snowstorm Copper Mining COM
pany owning a producing copper mine
near Mullan. has declared a dividend
of &22.500 for the month of January.
the dividend to be payable on Janu-
airy 20.
Never during the history of the great /
Bunker Hin Sullivan mine In the past
25 years has the property appeared
In better condition than II does today.
The Bunker Hill 4 Sullivan is the
biggest lead producing mine in the
world. Fine bodies of ore have been
opened up 500 feet below the Kellogg
tunnel. which gives a depth of APP
proximately 5000 feet on the dip of the
vein. Sufficient work has not been
IN ha %
bodies I'm these lower workings, but
they are said to surpass In the quality
of the ore the remarkable disclosures
on the Kellogg tunnel level on the
Kellogg teunnel level the ore body was
l2O feet wide. The output of the
mine Is heavier than at any time I'm
Its existence. The old ard new mills
are treating $500 tons of ore a day
fight among the directorate of
the coiusa Mining company has de-
veloped since the annual stockholders
meeting held November L. At that
time the stockholders removed from
the board of directors Ben c. Prick, NJ.
Moran and Ernest +. Moore. These
three have begun suit against the
Colusa and certain of the main stock
holders asking that the district judge |.
set aside the proceedings of the an
nual meeting as having been the re-
suit OF conspiracy to Gust the
plaintiffs. The latter claim the de-
PENDANTS held majority of the stock
Mt the annual meeting and took ad-
vantage Of this fact to prevent the
plaintiffs voting $4,000 shares of
stock. thus enabling the defendants in
the suit to gain a two thirds vote and
to remove the plaintiffs from the
board.
The SnoWstorm Mining company has
been made the defendant i'm a suit
brought by Jacob Thompson for $500
damages. Thompson alleges that i'm
1908 when the Snowstorm sued
Thompson and others. the mining com
paAy gained temporary injunction.
which was in force a year. but that
at the end of that time the district
judge found that the Snowstorm was
not entitled to the injunction which
order had kept Thomson
from doing work on his property near
Mui,an and adjoining the Snowstorm
ground. Thompson asks damages for
the expense and trouble he was put
to by the injunction and the suit.
An evident attempt of a firebug to
destroy the Stanley rooming house in
Mullen in which several families lived.
was discovered I'm time to prevent
serious damage. The discovery was
made shortly after midnight last night.
A bundle of waste had been saturated
With turpentine and covered with