Show Idaho aiiiiinpr Notes The Boise Democrat in its review of the mining industry says Dorman ha sunk 125 feet o his Wil low creek mine The shaft is sunk on the ledge it is in ore all the way down and the bottom shows the highest grade The ore averages 25 Merrett Twogood returned last week from Idaho City near which place he had just finished a forty days run in a shortgulch placer claim He and partness cleaned up each 6 per day I in that time Last week Captain Bledsoe with two men took out fifty tons of ore in the Willow creek mine owned by the incorporated in-corporated BMse company He says the men will take out as much more wi this week and when fully opened from thirty to fifty ton a day could be dumped I desired The rock so far has averaged from 10 to 16 but it is believed the grade from this on will be better Sherm Zehner has left at this office samples of some of the richest silver ore ever brought to tow They show two or three varieties and among them beautiful specimens of native silver They oame from the Morning Star on Cottonwood 2500 pounds of which ore he brought down in sacks last week He will sample the lot and ship it The ore is high grade and carries a little gold A plucky young prospector Jimmy Hart junior has a quartz claim in Curlew gulch that he is developing single handed He comes down every few days to Torrences foundry and sharpens his own tools and returns to work like a veteran His shaft is I down ten feet The ledge is about three feet wide and prospects well in free gold The industry and pluck displayed by this specimen of young I America will meet deserved reward Everybody hopes so at least The one stamper works all right I Captain Baxter informed the writer this morning that he yesterday tested one of the little single stamp mills that he is now making with a four hours I run and that it worked to a charm Of ordinary top rock it will crush to I flour fineness about one hundred pounds an hour I is a complete I I quartz mill understand and as perfectly per-fectly equipped with battery screen etc as a ten stamper He now has two of these mills ready to put up Almost every ledge yet discovered has streaks of free milling rock from which wages could be made by a cheap process These little milts are made for that very purpose and nothing better bet-ter has yet been devised to enable a poor prospector to prove the value of his claim and at the same time make wages |