Show IDAHO mackay miner the last shipment of ore from the hurst lease on the empire copper company mines went 23 in gold and around 10 per cent copper this gold value is unusual in this neighborhood elk city mining news word was received in this city this week that the chilian mill on the buckhorn mine in the ten tell mile district has been put in commission at the present time they are running t the ore through what has accumulated on the dump during development this same company also own the wonder and are constructing ting a wagon road to the ore dumps when they will run on ore from this property wallace miner the new electric hoist which has recently been installed by the bunker hill sullivan mine was tried out this week a number of the officials of the company being present to witness the test the new hoist is of a later design than any heretofore brought into the district it is said to be a very powerful one and to be capable of easily handling the entire output of the mine the tests were entirely satisfactory to the officials and the new machinery will be in daily operation within a few days sentinel A W regner one ot of the heaviest stockholders in the united placer mines located at lucile passed through here this week en route to grange ville and other outside points the object of his trip is to purchase a saw mill arrangements range ments have been made to construct a flume down cow creek opposite lucile down which wood will be carried to salmon river this wood will be used for fuel at the big pumping station of bf the U P M company work on the flume construction will begin as soon as the lumber can be sawed silver city nugget work on the property of the silver city M M company is going on very satisfactorily Th emain the main tunnel is now in about feet and it is expected that the american eagle vein will be cut any day now at about feet depth the old workings on that thal vein were all surface and showed good values in gold about feet further in the main ledge of the die company will be reached the crown point only one shift is now at work with machines but another shift will be used early in the year the crown point claim is situated about feet above silver city on florida mountain the vein probably a continuation of the pluto consists of three feet of altered rhyolite containing stringers of ore the values are almost exclusively of gold C I 1 cook is superintendent of the workings |