Show 0 IDAHO hailey times H F the salt lake mining engineer took out two additional miners to the ornament ohio group of mines this morning mackay miner good reports continue to come from the empire copper company s mine which is being worked quite extensively by leasers leaders lea sers the shay engine has been run quite steadily for the past three weeks and ore shipments are leaving regularly for the smet lers of salt lake several of the leasers leaders are developing large bodies of very good goodlord go odore lore and the prospects for increased shipments are very good ely city mining news with the 10 stamp mill running day and night saving a high per cent of the values and with 14 ore exposed in tunnels and shafts a distance of 2000 feet on a single jingle lead and with ore exposed in two parallel leads the american eagle mine on seigle creek now gives great promise that it will soon equal if not exceed its output of gold of a few years ago when the present manager A W boyd was in charge ely city mining news the copper and gold strike on anderson butte made by wm win simpson a short time ago is even bigger and better than was reported by this paper last week mr simpson was in for supplies again the first of the week and reported he had found the other wall and that the ledge measures a little more than feet an average assay of the surface rock gave better than 12 in gold and about 26 2 per cent copper A picked sample gave 72 in gold ely city mining news C S batchelder the new superintendent at the south fork mine since the spokane men acquired the property was in elk city the first of the week he reports the quartz mill and the saw mill both are running the latter turning out timbers for the mine and lumber for the new buildings that are soon to be erected on the property A power plant is one of the big things planned for the near future the south fork will be word working full force in the course of a few weeks wallace press F W brownell president of the federal mining smelting smelling Sm elting company today confirmed the report of the big strike in the morning mine mr brownell said that the reports that had been printed of the discovery of a fine body of ore in the lowest workings of the mine are true A crosscut from the shaft sunk from the big b 19 tunnel has opened up three feet of shipping ore and there are five feet that are nearly as good in all there are eleven feet of ore the ore has been uncovered at a depth of approximately 1800 feet from the surface the strike means much for the mullan mulian dis district brict wallace miner work is to be star started ted soon on the verda mine which adjoins the mineral point on mcfarren gulch at osburn according to J E lefever mine manager for the company two men have been kept on the property for some time but no development has been pushed we expect to run a 1500 foot tunnel to tap the lead at depth as soon as possible said mr lefever thursday and should get very good returns from the ore body at that point the surface showing and the ore which we have taken from open surface cuts runs very high in copper with good silver values on the mineral point adjoining us very fine ore has been secured and our samples show about the same type |