| Show BIG MEN GRAB MINNIE MOORE AFTER FEDERAL M S QUITS WORK at midnight june the minnie moore mine in the hailey idaho district was turned back to irvin E rockwell R 0 ck vell by the federal mining 6 smelting smelling Sm elting company in just one week from that time rockwell had summoned oscar H hershey from british columbia harold boericke from philadelphia and R B mcginnis from san francisco and had closed the new deal the mine was taken over by the new men from irvin E rockwell on a basis of and on the same terms as were accorded to the federal mining smelt ing company when taken over by that tha t company over a year ago says the hailey news miner R B mcginnis an expert mining engineer of san francisco succeeds A E ring as superintendent of the property he is now on the job he has already assembled workmen and will push work at the mine with all possible vigor his first work will be a 1500 foot drift east from the bottom of the allen alien shaft oscar H hershey the famous geologist gave his unqualified indorsement endorsement indor and approval to the project at the minnie moore which involves the existence of the southerly component in the ore body cutoff cut off at the 1000 and 1100 foot levels immediately at the south wall of the wood river fault the complexity of the problem is enhanced by a double movement which includes a ha horizontal oriz displacement of several hundred feet as well as a dip component of at least feet a problem worthy of the acknowledged led ged genius of a hershey and a problem which the geologists of the federal mining smelting smelling Sm elting company preferred not to tackle the federal company timbered the shaft the mine mine and installed equipment of the very best but it made no pretense of exploring for the minnie ore just at that point is where the new concern will take up the problem and certainly the new men will have the best wishes of every friend of the wood river district everything installed by the federal company has been taken over by tile the new owners |
