Show THE GOLD DUST MINING CO company owns big gold property in idaho which is favorably mentioned from time to time the mining review has made mention of the gold dust mine in leesburg district lemhi leahi county idaho owned by the leesburg gold dust mining company of salt lake the company has been developing this property for a number of years and it has opened out into a big proposition according to the standard of leadore idaho which says the leesburg gold dust mining company with field of operations at leesburg lemhi leahi county idaho is capitalized at par value per share R A hasbrouck of salt lake city utah is president of the company and wm win S burton also of the city of the saints 1 is s secretary and treasurer the office is at no 61 continental block salt lake city the company holdings comprise four claims the gold dust independence hasbrouck gold placer claim and the burt placer claim the two former mentioned claims being patented theres a good 10 stamp mill on the property of about forty tons capacity equipped for amalgamation the building which covers the plant is large enough to accommodate the placing of extra machinery of more than double the present capacity for reduction of the mines output A cyanide plant the tanks machinery and lumber for which are now on the ground is to be installed to treat the tailings as it lifts has been proven by practical test that by this process 95 to 98 per cent of entire gold values remaining in the tailings can be recovered mill and mine are connected by a covered tramway about feet long which connects with the main working tunnel a crosscut cross cut which intersects the lead feet feit from daylight blacksmith shop tool room etc are so placed as to be convenient to both mine and mill offices boarding house and residences all substantial log buildings are admirably located within a few hundred feet from the mill pure water for domestic and mill purposes is ample and the property is covered with a heavy growth of pine timber suitable for fuel and mine timbers an excellent water power can be obtained at five miles at a small cost that would generate electricity for light and power the poles are already on the ground for stringing the wire which will be accomplished at a very moderate expense ores from the gold dust vein have varied from to per ton samples from the entire vein which measures over eighty feet wide were penetrated by the crosscut cross cut ran from to in gold per ton sample having been taken by three different parties the ores carry small silver values averaging about a half ounce in the white metal to 1000 in the bellom metal the situation of the property is an ideal one in all that pertains to locality and facilities tor for easy and economical working the mines are a part and parcel of the big granite sandstone contact of the district in the very heart of the mineralized zone which has already made leesburg famous as the producer of in placer gold and at the distance of only fourteen miles west from salmon and the railroad the pla cering area of old time leesburg was about five miles square and one claim alone in the camp produced 1000 for every square foot of surface during the early rush for placer gold in leesburg quartz mining was little thought of and the exploration of the great contact lode has been the result of a more recent date ultimately the leesburg gold dust mining company was organized and a course of systematic development inaugurated the up to date result of which has far exceeded the brightest anticipations of its projectors to give the reader in general an idea of this property that has for lain dormant through lack of enterprise to open it up we now quote a paragraph or two from a report made on the property by newton hibbs a mining engineers engine erd of wide reputation the gold dust mine demonstrated the first practical lesson of values in the contact veins here an ore body of comparatively high values eighty three feet wide has been exposed not less than two million tons of this ore are in sight in the gold dust mine the owners of the mine are extremely conservative therefore one of the proven mines in the country has attracted very little public attention the gold dust mine alone holds a second installment of millions to be yielded fielded to the worlds commerce by the old leesburg district I 1 the gold dust mine is on this great mother lode wh ch fed to the leesburg placers by erosion from its mere surface this contact cavity was a riffle and the millions of placer gold were only a portion of the values that went through natures sluice with the tailings the haidee 1 the abandoned and other groups of quartz claims cross these contact n offles fales for more than five miles every gulch sluice that covers this riffle added to that cleanup clean up this great mother lode riffle holds more than more for the modern quartz miner |