Show NEW NEV I SMELTER SMELT FOR IDAHO CAMP DIP Boise and St Louis Men to Help Producers at Spring Mountain That all arrangements f r the build building buildIng building ing of a smelter In the tIle Spring Moun Mountain Mountain tain tam mining district Lemhi Lembi county Ida have been heen completed Is the assurance given by W E Clarke of the Clarke Oakey Mining company who is in the city for a day or two on business The proposition Is one that is backed by Boise and St Louis parties and the understanding is 18 that the th delivery of structural material and equipment will begin next month the purpose being to have the first unit of at atthe the plant In operation next spring The smelter Is designed to handle both lead leati and copper ores and the promoters of ol the undertaking David Curgino and H HL HL L li Fisher of Boise are said to have secured a great deal more money from St Louis operators who make a ape specialty specialty of such investments than will be necessary to see the proposition placed soundly on its feet According to Mr Clarke the smelter is to be located at a point that will be convenient to his properties the Iron Mask group the Gilmore mine the Wood and Hagenbarth properties and several others in the same region He says that Mr Fisher is now at Pitts Pittsburg Pittsburg burg for the purpose of securing a con contract contract contract tract with the Gilmore company that will insure a steady tonnage from the big lead mines All the other producers have agreed to give their ores oresto oresto oresto to the works and with the large amount of development that is going on and the showing that is being made Mr Clarke figures that th t the smelter will not be long in operation until the enlargement of its capacity will wili become a necessity Like most moat mines that are located miles from a railroad said Mr Clarke we wO consider the tile ores in inthe inthe inthe the Iron Mask property but with a smelter close at hand hana we are sanguine of the future We are now running a tunnel which is in over feet and which is designed to tap a vein of lead ore that outcrops on the surface An open cut has been run on n this ledge for feet teet It is ten feet wide and in the face there is now exposed a breast of car carbonate carbonate carbonate bonate ore that averages 33 per cent lead ead and carries some silver and some gold as well This ledge Is a fissure that hat cuts the formation at right angles S Sto to the main contact for tor which the tun tunnel tunnel tunnel nel is being driven and which will be opened at a vertical depth of feet The tunnel encountered a stringer of ot fine ore the other day and this is to show a width of anywhere from n a to twenty feet be before tore fore the main leage Ie Ic ge is reached Mr 11 Clarke states that the Gilmore company has been marketing mar all the he ore It could get teams to handle during I the he past season while its trac traction traction tion ion engine train has been making the round trip of miles to Du Bois every five days The Lemhi Union Mining lIning company Mr Ir Clarke says Is also making a fine showing It has about eight feet of lead ead ore on the level of its mine workings The Leadville company Is s doing well also and there is con ore piled on its dumps at the Several other properties are doing well and the expectation is that hat the region will prove another Coeur dAlene section In the near fu future future ture ure |