Show IDAHO the cyanide gold mining company twenty five miles northeast of 0 bonners ferry expects to have its new plant in operation in the near future the company purchased the property for more than 2300 feet of tunnels have been run on the property and it is said there is tons tons of ore blocked out extensive development is planned for the yankee girl mine on big creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes according to reports an expenditure of has been authorized in driving a crosscut tunnel 1000 feet to reach the vein at great depth this work is to be undertaken at once machinery is to be installed and connection made with the electric power line now in use in the big creek section section the rainbow mining and milling company has been operating steadily since last june on its no 2 property situated on the attle little north fork of the coeur dalene river eighteen miles northwest of ena ville vilie says george austin president and manager of the property the tunnel has been driven 1000 feet of which the first feet was a crosscut to the vein and the last feet in the vein the face is about under a surface showing of important promise and will be continued feet farther ore was found at several places on the way in according to reports from wallace the lease of the stewart mine near wardner to H childs of kellogg is being considered by the board of the stewart mining company there remains in the stewart mine a body of ore in triangular form containing to tons this ore was not convenient for removal through the main workings of the stewart but its removal from the opposite side of the hill will be easier it is said the lease under consideration is for a year or two mr child is an engineer for the bunker hill and sullivan mining and concentrating company milling operations have been resumed at the idalio idaho continental mine inin e near porthill Por thill according to A klockmann general manager of the property concentration was started on a basis of a shift a day and increased to two shifts recently said mr klockmann the third shift will probably be at work in a few days in the neighborhood of eighty men are employed in the mine and mill power for the operation of the mill has been available for a long time the place of its generation being at a point twelve miles from the mine and a far less elevation where the flow of water begins early water for washing the ore is derived from elevations above the mill its flow began recently and is sufficient the croesus mining company with a gold property four miles west of hailey may resume operations according to reports at hand expenditures on the development and equipment of the croesus are approximately and its yield is the property is entered by a shaft having a depth of feet and ore has been followed for feet by a sunk from the foot leyel level it is reported the vein has not been sloped between the and foot levels included in the equipment is a concentrating mill of about tons daily capacity the plans of the company have not been announced but it is assumed that they include an expansion of the shaft and development of the vein on deeper horizons reports received from kellog are to the effect that the jim blaine group of lead silver claims in the pine creek district of the coeur calenes dA lenes will soon be under active development plans are being made to continue to drift on oil the vein which was encountered at the foot station of the crosscut the drift has progressed some twenty feet on the vein and shows a well mineralized face containing values in lead and silver the vein is five feet wide with nearly a foot of talc on the side according to the surveys a drift of feet will reach a point beneath the surface workings at a face depth of nearly feet it is also planned to continue the crosscut from the foot station straight ahead for feet to reach the no 2 vein known as the jim blaine vein which has been traced on the surface for over a mile showing a width of ten to fifteen feet |