Show IDAHO wallace miner the new trail aej cabins at the sidney group 0 of claims have been completed and arrangements are now on foot for extensive development the property is located in the wardner section and is owned by harvey M ross and associates A fine showing of clean shipping ore has been uncovered in the bed of the creen and this is now being developed at depth development will be continuous wallace miner A good strike of oe has been made on the property of the coeur dalene and idaho mining company on big creek during the week the long crosscut tunnel encountered the ledge and exposed a fine showing of lead silver ore some of this is said to ba b exceptional y h agi gi grade but beyond the fact that at this point the ledge is about twelve feet wide the full extent of the ore body has not yet been ascertained certa ined it is the intention to commence drifting at once elk city mining news newsome word reached here yesterday of a big rich strike jack harmon has made on his claims near the south fork of the clearwater river according to reports it will create a big sensation in mining circles when the facts are known the ledge is said to be the biggest surface droppings crop pings in the district the property where the new strike was made is a close neighbor to the anaconda and the georgia mines owned by the smith boys and all the properties are near the new south fork trail wallace miner A large shipment of rails and supplies has been made to the property of the samson mining company in the murray section for the past seventy or eighty feet the drift has been in ore whish gave assays essays of per cent lead and ounces in silv sih er to the ten the ore also carries values in gold but no assays essays for this metal have yet been made the property is located about seven miles up eagle creek in the murray section and is being developed under the management of A J brainard of wardner Wl ardner development will be continuous throughout the summer mackay miner the first weeks work on the weller weiler lease was largely devoted to putting Z the ground in readiness such as laying track repairing tools and equipment etc an old dump had to be moved off of the ground leased and this required some time but the grass roots revealed the ore under the dump and at this writing men are now fillin filling t cars from this part of the works while a nother another stream of ore is coming from the darlington shaft where a hoist has j just u st been put in commission in another month the ground will be opened up to much greater advantage and the tonnage materially increased thereby salmon city herald capt J H lan laar yon superintendent of the dark horse mine came to salmon on business monday he was accompanied by mining engineer J W caples who has been on the big hill the past week surveying the course of the long interstate tunnel which is to be used in drawing the ores of a mine in montana through the continental divide for shipment on a railroad in idaho it 13 1 tha greatest mining undertaking of this vicinity in recent years and the only job of the kind in the united states so far as known at no other place is a mine of one state worked from an entrance in another state although there is a mine in Cz colorado lorado which chic 1 has bored its main working tunnel through the continental divide |