Show idaho city world frank P willis left today for neal where he will have charge of the construction of the chill chili mill for the overlook group of claims owned by an eastern company the mill will have a capacity of tons in twenty four hours mr willis says it can be put up in thirty or forty days wallace mining journal the little chief company whose property lies a half mile north of mullan and adjoins the hunter mine has every arrangement made for a winters campaign and manager daxon has a force of men at work extending the lower tunnel the little chief already has a fine showing of ore and will be among the big prize winners the atlas mining company of wallace operating a group of claims on stevens peak has let a contract to alexander mcdonald and otto brown of monarch to drive the prospect tunnel a distance of feet about feet of work has been done on the property the lead was encountered by a crosscut tunnel at a depth of sixty feet but although the lead matter was mineralized no pay shoot was encountered A special from wallace says the arlington mining company organized a short time ago ag and controlling two claims at the head of prospect creek a short distance east of burke has let a contract to continue the tunnel fifty feet on the vein which consists of iron carbonates and quartz mixed with lead and silver A number of open cuts have been made and two tunnels aggregating gre gating feet have been run the new tunnel will give a depth of feet the directors of the company ate are B E snyder fo and frank roberts of burke daniel kane of gem S M jackson of murray and W N morphy of wallace idaho city world frank P willis superintendent perin of the tahoma dahoma mine at atlanta says the company has an ore shoot feet long the ore body averages ten feet wide and runs from twelve to fifteen dollars a ton the mine is opened feet deep by tunnel the old shaft on the monarch mine has been sunk feet deeper making a depth of feet the monarch ledge is ninety feet wide and has three pay veins one on each wall and another in the center center of the ledge A crosscut has been run to one of the veins which shows good ore the company employs thirty men silver city avalanche mr john hogan has been in town the past few days from his fourth of july claim the showing made in this property is something enal considering the amount of development work done that so rich a piece of r ground could have lain undiscovered and I 1 idle so long seems a miracle the main S ledge of which is strong as it possibly could be and carries high values in gold in fact the fourth of july property 1 is 7 S a veritable mountain of precious mineral in itself and 01 V even with an extra estr a large force of men it seems as if it td the end of eter aay anity to exhaust this t hi bonanza of its untold valuable contents it as is not surmised that a i the owner of this property has value extraordinary in this mine but a most positive v facek silver city nugget george W palmer has sold his group of mining claims situated on the northeast side of florida mountain S the deal was made though A J orem son of salt lake lahe by mr 0 S wigglesworth during his absence it is understood the property propel ty goes to mccormick reaper people of chicago A small payment has been made and another payment is to be made during the present month and each ensuing month the price to be paid has not been made public but the impression has been given out that mr palmer has accepted a much smaller sum than he had formerly held the properties at but that it is sufficient to keep mr palmer on easy street during the declining years of his life this group of claims lies east of and adjoining the trade dollar lines and north of the holland and miller walter mines and is considered here to be a very valuable property there are seven whole and fractional claims in the group 0 |