Show THE ALLIE MINING CO crosscut cross cut tunnel expected to tap big vein at early day standard leadore idaho the allie mining alining company of gilmore E C ross president and general manager has very nearly completed a foot crosscut which is to tap the big body of gold ore broken into last season and immediately intersection is made shipping will be in order to salt lake where the product is to be treated at the smelter although quite an extended write up on this property was printed in the standard last summer it may not be out of place to again mention some ome of the more important features connected therewith the strike was made at a depth of feet from the apex of the vein the dip being two for one from the perpendicular the find in gold being almost as unexpected as welcome the great mineralized erali zed zone of gilmore being characterized almost solely by the lead silver product which has given it a conspicuous place on the map of lembi lemhi county since the strike a course of development both continuous and systematic has been in order to date and with the most gratifying results A few days since a very prominent af E who made a most thorough examination of the mine estimated the ore actually uncovered and in sight to be tons while other mining engineers not as con serva tive have placed the figures to about double that amount the big bonanza for we believe the term can be properly applied to the allie has been sampled alf all round times almost innumerable and the last test made was by car lot to the chrismon sampling plant of salt lake city which returned values of 20 gold and forty nine per cent iron per ton As has heretofore been stated the gold is not free milling the make up of the matrix being for the greater part of iron manganese and by reason of so high a per cent in this iron the smelter people are to pay a royalty on the ores which will cover both smelting smelling sm elting and freight charges the mine is to be worked from point of intersection ter section with the crosscut cross cut by both overhand and underhand in conjunction with sinking all operations to be conducted under the direct supervision of manager ross who returned with his family from dubois pa last friday week within the next three weeks it is expected that shipments will be going out from the mine at the rate of a car per day |