Show IDAHO murray sun three cars of concentrates a week averaging not less than 1000 per car are being shipped from the rex mine twenty one cars not counting the zinc shipments have been made at present no zinc is being shipped and will not be un until til prices are better the mine is being operated by a new company known as the united mines company which practically has a three years lease A five drill compressor and hoist will bill be installed in a few weeks A two compartment shaft will be sunk feet as soon as the new machinery is in place and the development of the property will be rushed with the utmost rapidity and i in n a short time the output of the mine per day will be materially increased the property has never been properly developed and for this reason the work now is just a little slow wallace times the character and quan quantity fity of galena ore exposed in the sonora crosscut of the ledge is holding out as strongly as first indications gave hope for states E 0 herring secretary of the company who spent friday at the property friday afternoon the miners had gone in three and a half feet further from the work of the day before and the entire distance showed the face and walls to be in galena of a milling ling grade making a total distance of eleven and a half feet that the crosscut has been driven in ore the character and amount of ore is holding out well mackay miner the property at ouster custer is holding out satisfactory with depth it is this property on which during last year a tremendously rich gold find was made at the surface it was dubbed the for the reason that logs had been snaked across the property for years and hundreds of men had crossed it but without vit hout the discovery that came in time tiie the L company is now driving 11 a tunnel on the vein having secured a vertical depth so far of ninety five feet and a fourteen inch streak of gold ore is being followed that averages in t gold old per ton elk city news the new GO horsepower boiler at the T thunder un er mountain oun ain mino mine was put in use the first of the week and tuesday md morning aning the 10 stamp mill and cyanide plant were started corking vor king double shift the hoist is in place and the work vork on the shaft that is to be sunk from the foot fiot level is well under way we have approximately tons of ore ready for the mill at this time mr boyer said tuesday and the mine is showing up in good shape in every part where development work has been done under the new management within the past year we will do no sloping but will aim to keep the plant busy on ore taken out in developing the mine wallace press power at the caledonia was turned on yesterday for the first time after the installation of the 25 horsepower hoist in the mine the power line from wardner to the caledonia was completed several weeks ago but the machinery had no not been installed at that time the line is almost a mile in length work will be commenced today sinking on the ledge and driffin drifting 1 I at the same time four shifts in all being employed twelve men will be employed now and more later the shaft is now down feet and drifting will be started at this point the shaft will also be sunk from here too some of the ore taken from the caledonia runs as high as ounces in silver and 50 per cent lead wallace press the new mill for the fhe charles dickens is nearing completion and will be ready for operation in about a month the machinery to be used is arriving and being installed and when everything is in place the mill wil have a capacity of tons per day the old milf mill which was burned during the winter had a capacity of tons a day the miners are developing the mine and are taking out only what ore is necessary for development purposes seg the bins being full to overflowing with ore ready for the mill since the mill burned two large I 1 ore bodies have been discovered in the mine and these are being developed with the view to ascertaining their extent the ore is rich in lead zin zinc and silver the charles dickens is about six miles froni from wardner on moon creek |