Show IDAHO wallace times fifty seven carloads of ore coke and fluxes arrived at the panhandle smelter at pend dorceille dO this week according to a report from sandpoint standpoint Sand point the big shipments consisted of twenty eight beigh t carloads of coke several cars of ore and a big shipment of lime work on the enlargement of the plant is progressing rapidly silver city nugget some excellent ore is being taken out of the ruth and other othe r properties on war eagle molin mountain tain the I 1 hidden treasure which is an extension on the south of the village blacksmith company owned by C conway Ascue nega bros and others is being developed and some i very rich ore has been found in which the gold can be very easily seen hailey times W E king the consulting engineer of the eclipse mining company which is operating the Wolf tone group of mines upon a lease and bond left last evening for lola iola kan intending to return to halley hailey in a few weeks the eclipse mining company has been operating the Wolf tone 0 group over two years it has driven a tunnel in over 1000 feet and the indications are that the main vein that the tunnel is intended to tap will be reached in fifty or sixty feet of driving wallace times the long crosscut tunnel planned by the directors of the copper king mining company of mullan is an assured thing states secretary harry ingalls of the first firs t assessment for levied over has been received the assessment just having become delinquent the compressor and other machinery is on the road and is expected daily As soon as the compressor is installed and connected with the power which is to be furnished from the stream held by water right the tunnel now in fifty feet will be pushed ahead with all possible speed weiser signal J S B carrel returned to weiser VI elser from a trip to hornet creek this week and reports that there is considerable excitement over the strike made in that section of the country some months since he said that the mine owned by peck bros nelson and clifton was showing up remarkably well for the amount of work that has been done the first portion of the shaft that was put down for the purpose of striking in the main vein was only thirty feet deep they have made a crosscut from this level and have driven their tunnel twenty two feet but are not through the vein which is showing up remarkably well mackay miner otto hudson and C B howard bring in the story from little lost river of an interesting discovery made in that locality about two weeks ago on some claims belonging to mike fallert will fallert and james fowler A single shot opened up the ground wherein the rich sand carbonate ore was hidden and a stream of the product poured out the miner who fired the shot removed his jacket and stopped the flow the ore has been assayed and goes 69 per cent lead twenty ounces of silver and about 2 in gold the streak of values lies between lime and quartzite porphyry walls and is about two feet in width boise statesman advices advises from the marshall lake district show much activity there the goodenough company is working on the foot level and is running on a four foot vein of ore that averages 80 a ton they are now installing a fifteen stamp mill to take the place of the five stamp which was too small to handle the ore blocked out mr brown a millwright from the east is super intending the placing of the new mill some rich specimens from this mine have been taken out at a recent meeting of the directors of the west goodenough company it was decided to do extensive development work on the property as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made this company ran a foot tunnel on their property last winter on ore assaying from to a ton |