Show IDAHO hailey times J george Arkoos li brought to town yesterday a sample of cube galena from the working level of his co comet im group of four claims situated near the croesus group of mines it is almost pure metal and must carry fully 82 per cent of lead to the ton mr arkoosh says that he has a four foot face of this ore and nearly two carloads ready to ship wallace press louis feltman one of the pioneer mining men of murray has made his cleanup on his placer property and has shipped ounces of gold to the government office at helena mont the gold assays essays 1875 to the ounce making a total valuation of mr feltman is also heavily interested in quartz mining claims in the murray district he is nearly seventy five years of age and still hale and hearty and assist in the development of his various properties elk elic city mining news the yearly assessment ses work on the major mining prop erty joining the buster was completed this week and a vein four feet wide which appears to be the buster lead was struck a few days before the work was stopped the major comprises four c auns A crosscut was run sixty five feet and the shaft was continued ten feet the vein where found pans gold clear across the major is owned by G L L baskett and mike alike bagley of elk city and george V herrington ring ton of spokane wallace press A report was given c circulation reu lation today that the bunker hill f e sullivan was negotiating for the purchase of the gold hunter and the american commander properties manager dennis ryan of the hunter who is also a part owner of the property was asked what he knew of the report its all news to me he said in reply if anything had been going on of that sort I 1 would have heard of it so there must be nothing in the way of truth in the story stanley A easton manager of thet bunker hill sullivan said this afternoon there is nothing to the report of such negotiation being under way v silver city nugget the work of developing ve the banner vein from the crosscut tunnel is progressing very rapidly the north drift is now in feet and the ledge has widened out to over fifteen feet A crosscut cross cut of the vein is being made at the face of this drift to determine the width of the vein at this point but the hanging wall has not yet been reached numerous feeders or stringers of rich ore are encountered in this work and it is pronounced by all miners who are familiar with the ore shoots on this mountain as a sure indication of approaching a large body or rich ore the south drift on the same ve vein in has been getting wider as the drift is carried further in V we iser signal engineer C W luck left thursday morning for black blac k lake where he will run underground surveys in the gold coin mine for a large amount of tunnel work the mining company contemplates doing this winter it is the intention of the gold coin company to start up their big mill next spring and the underground der ground work is for the purpose of getting the mine in shape to produce ore to keep the mill in operation one piece of work contemplated by the company is the making of an upraise up raise from the lower level to the upper one to secure better ventilation for the miners also a means of escape in case of explosion cave in or other things that occur in underground mining operations |