Show I 1 in n the C coe 0 e u r da I 1 e n e R region e g 0 n SPECIAL correspondence wallace idaho oct 19 A great deal of interest is being taken in the building of the idaho northern from banville Ean ville on the 0 R N six miles below wardner to murray in the northern portion of the coeur dalene district this branch road will be thirty three miles in length and it is expected that trains on it will be running on regular schedule by the first of the year and there cannot be any ques tion but that it will be of inestimable benefit and value alue to the great mineral belt which it will traverse besides which it will make accessible a wide scope of country which is heavily timbered i the idaho ern owes its origin to P F ON oneil ell and E P spaulding and it was through their et ef forts that the bonds of the new railroad were placed and construction st truc tiOn work begun from frola banville Ean ville the idaho northern follows a course up the north fork river in a northerly direction until it reaches the mouth of pritchard creek which it follows la in an easterly direction until murray is reached in whose immediate vicinity there are a number of exceptionally fine ning propositions noticeable among which is the property owned by the bear top mining company in the workings of which it is estimated there are in solid steel galena ore and in ore of a concentrating grade the company is only awaiting the completion of the road to begin the shipment of ore going 85 to the ton in the crude and expects to con sign at least tons of concentrates to the smelters shelters sm elters monthly the monarch mine is another property which will begin shipments of high grade galena ore as soon as the road is in commission among other prospective shippers being the black ho horse arse the granite allie and the chicago london in addition to these there are the pilot emma golden chest and terrible edith men are now pumping water out of the upper workings of the great monarch mine and when this is done an upraise from the lower tunnel to no 2 tunnel at feet in vertical depth will be A 4 it F ai wallace idaho from the southeast started and the mine will be in a position to ship ore from its large ore body in developing an foot crosscut tunnel was driven and then in feet a shaft of feet was sunk on the ore body wh which ach is from one to sl sixteen feet wide there are three feet of solid snipping shipping galena and several feet of good concentrating ora ore in the shoot the monarch has been leased to the coeur dalene north fork mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company pany y of which E P spaulding is president and the property wi will 11 be developed 1 by this company it is equipped with a twelve drill compres sor driven by water power from prichard and barton creeks a compressor a 50 ton concentrator and machine shops and boarding houses the thirty five claims are heavily timbered and the water supply is sufficient for the needs of the mine more than ilian 1000 tons of concentrates have al ready been shipped and several hundred tons of ore is on the dump ready for treatment tr heavy machinery will be installed by the coeur dalene mining company on its property embr embracing acine 2800 acres of patented ground along the banks of prichard creek in the coeur dalene district and active operations are to be resumed early next year after a long shutdown shut down the property was bought outright from the locators and owners several years ago at a cost of the idaho idaho northern railroad runs along the bank for eleven miles on the holdings the owners objected to the right of way of the line at the time of location for the reason it passed over their richest ground however the matter was adjusted out of court and the company will use machinery of sufficient lelent power to handle X FIN X 4 W nr L 4 1 p 7 P afie morning mill and concentrator mullan idaho the uneven bedrock which is mostly hod slate and quartzite the property was worked by a hydraulic power last year but the scarcity of water waier has hindered ope operations ra so far this year raleigh P trimble mining expert and david goodsell of portland owner of a mortgage on the keating mining property are at wardner idaho to complete this years assessment work the keating is tied up in a lawsuit instituted by jack keating the original locator in which he is suing to regain possession of the property it is likely the differences will be adjusted out of court in which event operations will be resumed with a large force the property is fully equipped with machinery necessary for the economical working of the mine on which a large large amount of money has been expended in development the mine was closed two years ago A shaft had ben been sunk to a depth of feet and a station cut preparatory to drift drifting ino it has filled up with water one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is as to be expended by the management of the chicago london property in the murray district idaho among the improvements being a ton concentrator so arranged chat that its capacity can be doubled at any time the concentrator will be located at the mouth of paragon gulch and within a short distance of the idaho northern railroad one of the biggest ore bodies on the property has already been exploited for upward of feet and is several feet in width all the way the ledge has been traced on the surface for more than 2000 feet and in addition to this a large amount of development work has been done announcement is made that t on the corrigan property owned by the fed arar eral mining smelting smelling Sm elting con company pany will bc resumed in a short time A crew has bean been engaged to pump water out of the workings wp rk to prepare for active mining A twenty drill compressor and ele electric atric motor will ivill be installed as soon as the machinery arrives the ground for the building is being prepared now an electric pump will aa be installed at once on the foot lev level e 1 the power line from the washington water power companas comp anys system now being nearly completed to the property As soon as these arrangements are made a crew of seventy miners will be placed in the mine and the development work carried on in a large way engineer rush white and master mechanic hale have been on the ground during the week looking after the sites for the compressor and preparing the way ay for the installing of the machinery and electric apparatus the company has issued the following report for the year ending august 31 net earnings a decrease of dividends a decrease of balance a decrease of deficit previous surplus an increase of profit and loss surplus a decrease of I 1 two feet of ore running 11 per cent in copper er 7 per cent in lead and ounces of silver to the ton has been broken into afi on the property ty of the butte coeur dalene mining company located near the hunter and snowstorm mines at mullan spokane men are interested in the property the strike was made in the drift on the vein run from the end of the foot crosscut tunnel the vein has been drifted on for feet and the ore shoot at that point is about seventy five wet feet in length in places the shoot is three feet wide solid and there is sufficient cieni ore in sight to make a big mine A car of this ore is on the dump and will be shipped as soon as the new wagon road has been completed in speaking of the star mine the daily press says that the ore body in the star mining company companas comp anys s P property r near mullan which chic h is already exposed for over feet will be feet in length at least is the indication resulting from the cutti cutting n of the vein by the continuation of the crosscut tunnel th the e long crosscut crosscuts cross cuts was fas driven in until within 40 feet of ithe vein when the tunnel was ti off tai diagonally 1 atonally ago nally the vein was isec aed and dr drifted 1 eted on for over 1 feet exposing g several feet of ore practically the entire distance the ore being galena partly shipping ore and partly high grade concentrating cent rating ore the men then put to work continuing the old crosscut in a straight line the ledge was encountered in feet and crosscut it proved to be nine feet wide q with four feet of high gr grade ade concentrating or pr c at alt a ae depth ath of feet from the surface the rhea cross crosscut cui was continued on feet past the vein for prospecting purposes drifting eastward has been corni fenced to connect the present drift with the long drift in the ore it will require feet of work to accomplish this connect connection ioli when the connection is made the ore shoot will be open for feet approximately according to the present outlook as the ore gives every indication of holding I 1 out while tale the connection is being made two shifts of men are employed under the management of E H moffitt of this city twenty men have been at work for the past two months the idaho silver lead mining company A operating near murray has let a contract t for feet of tunnel work to ed el eisman s man who will employ two shifts in th the per perform forn arice ance of the contract this tunnel will be run to tap the ore showing in the upper levels of the mine four feet of fine galeria galena ore have been uncovered the eldorado mining 1 t company whose group of five claims is located near kel logg within a short distance of the paymaster master mine is 19 working a small force in mine development the company is now not running a drift on the vein the drift now having a length of feet it is anticipated another feet will be required before the workings are under the rich crop pings showing on the surface the eldorado is located within feet from the 0 R N railroad work is being pushed in the development of the cedar creek mine at murray adjoining the sunrise and the granite and allie five men are at work at present WK ain IS 1 ak ulm the mammoth and standard mils wallace idaho who are driving ahead for the east and west ledge already in the performance of development work one ledge has been cut which is twenty five feet in width and which carries high values in lead and silver the company owns twelve claims and the showing is most encouraging clem weyer and peter lehmacher of wallace are the principal stockholders in the company in ill commenting upon the big creek district the press of wallace says continued activity in the big creek district near wardner is very perceptible this increasing development of this section is 11 directly traceable to the activeness of tho the development carried on by the liston listen mining company of which matt baumgartler of spokane is the manager the company is successfully developing a large group of claims located about five miles south from the mouth of big bl creek a tributary of the south fork of the coeur dalene river about fourteen months ago the bom company pany Y started a long crosscut tunnel and during the last month has exposed a vein of carbonate ores feet in width while the average values at present are not great some very rich carbonates have been encountered containing native silver and occasionally casio nally some galena ores the company has now started to drift on this immense ore body and by continuing its drift to the upper workings under the shaft a depth of feet w will allbe be gained and by following the vein east the properties can be developed with the present workings to a depth of nearly 2000 feet the there re is no doubt the liston listen company has opened up one of the strongest veins known of in the coeur calenes dA lenes A force of miners will be kept at work drifting and to further develop this vein thoroughly durl during i the winter so confident are the owners of the liston listen company that they have engaged the services of H M lancaster who has recently surveyed a new tunnel site this tunnel is to he be 1050 feet in length giving an additional depth of feet the company intends to drive this tunnel at once and connect the same through a raise with the upper tunnel A wagon road has been built to the lower tunnel site and the company is in a position to haul ore any time during the winter |