Show IDAHO emmet index the director of the mint gives production of gold and silver for the year 1902 as gold silver silver city nugget the addie ad die mill has been running for a number of days on a quantity of ore culled from the dump at the empire mine it is reported making big wages for the parties who assorted the stuff out and had it hauled haded to town hailey times A strike that assaid is said to be the biggest in this country the past twenty years is reported in the claim of vancil carpenter near muldoon they have an ore vein of high grade galena that the surface for twenty feet 1 is s stripped on it is said to improve with depth mountain home herald charles keeley of vineland N J and a wealthy shoe manufacturer spent last week examining the snake river pl placers er near this place he returned home wednesday evening taking with him a large box of dirt from the banks of the snake which he purposes testing thoroughly weiser signal G M bacon superintendent of the snake river bridge work returned from salt lake thursday morning and is again at work sinking the cofferdam he went to salt lake on business and while there consulted the weather bureau manager who promised him good weather for several weeks salmon herald C L siegmund has got back from six months spent in developing his ground on loon creek which consists of a group of nine promising claims they are located about feet south of the lost packer mine he is enthusiastic over loon creek and says it is coming out at the big end of the biggest horn in the band boise statesman articles of incorporation were filed yesterday by the gold bullion mining milling company of weiser capital stock directors P W johnson F P E brown and charles E crawford of council and W L anderson and charles A willis of weiser the purpose of the company is to id carry on the business of mining milling and treating and reducing ores emmet index the contract for hauling the concentrates from the united mines concentrator at horseshoe bend to the railroad at emmett has been let four teams will be required to do the work the concentrator has been started and shipments will commence at once john cruise manager for the mines let the contract A boise man secured the work and will furnish the four teams the men will make their headquarters in emmett silver city nugget the fifteen tons of ore hauled from the rooster camb mine to delamar for experimental treatment by cyanide process is reported by mr orford to have made a savings saving up to 82 per cent of its assay values which was very satisfactory considering that the ore has been considered refractory if we were correctly informed not getting the information direct the ore produced 34 per ton the veins on the claims are wide and show good values tor for the entire length mr orford promises premises that there will be something doing in that district next spring emmett pearl record superintendent wyman is one of the happiest men in pearl tuesday morning witnessed the connecting of the workings in his margaret mine the drift running from the checkmate side meeting up with the drift from the bottom of the margaret shaft A two and a half foot body of good grade ore is now exposed and with this showing mr wyman feels justified in the erection of a new shaft house which he will arrange to commence immediately dia tely and if the work can be pushed along fast enough will be commenced with the view of doing some milling this winter the showing is excellent weiser world R C mckinney and E P hall have recently received some samples of ore from the main working tunnel of the heath mining company in which they are largely interested which is of very encouraging character the company is running a crosscut cross cut tunnel for the hanging wall of the contract it is now in about feet and has a perpendicular depth at the lace face of about or feet the samples which they received from the foreman mr 0 C holland is full of pyrites oi of cop per and iron picked pieces run as high as 30 per cent copper and 5 in gold the ore is particularly sought for by smelters shelters sm elters on account of the excess in iron which it contains the heath group is most favorably located for economical mining as the property can be opened to a depth of more than 1500 feet through tunnels timber is in abundance close at hand and fine water power is available on the property development work will be continued steadily I 1 throughout the winter |