Show IDAHO silver city nugget the silver city mining milling company is now running two shifts this property has an electrically driven compressor and air drills mining 0 men who are supposed to know claim that from a scientific standpoint this is a valuable property and will tap a rich vein of ore in their present workings this property is practically in town and it is hoped they will soon make the expected strike and find the yellow metal running into the thousands leadore standard at the copper queen underground matters both as regard dead work and ore breaking are being pushed under the direction of peter mark the new foreman who halls hails from helena mont and is considered every inch a miner the pump put in place last winter holds the water down admirably to the foot level on which level operations are being conducted the queen is working a force of thirty five men and has a steady output of three cars of ore per month net value of which copper gold is 85 per ton wallace miner tile the iron mask mine at carter is making a record for cheap operation era tion manager J B hunter reports driving the tunnel feet during the month of april at a cost of per foot the workings are in hard quartzite but the ground is breaking so well that it permits of good progress being made this tunnel is now in about feet two shifts are being employed on oil the work and two men will be added to the crew within the next few days the first ledge will be intersected by july 1 but this will not be exploited for the present as the management is desirous of reaching the main ledge and the crosscut will be continued with this object in view hailey times el oro mill is yielding about worth of gold amalgam per week eek the mill has been in commission on full time some weeks on picked ore the mill yielded in seventy two hours james mcpherson of hailey is the superintendent expenses are a week and cyanide tanks will increase the output elk city mining news piping at the golden rule placer is now at its best plenty of water is now running and the way the snow is melting will last for some time in the hills at the head of the ditch the snow is melting very slowly these cold days which is very favorable for placer miners the owners expect to make a good cleanup clean up this season as they are piping in good ground weiser american A H mcknight general manager of the alai Majestic estic mining company at dixie idaho county who has recently returned from washington D C is said to have stated that while in that city he learned that the gilmore pittsburg railroad is a hill line and that the work of 0 building the line from salmon to lewiston would begin this season as orders for the assembling of material at salmon have already been issued by president mccutcheon lewiston papers say that this information of mr mcknight is confirmed in part by the presence of engineer roberts and a crew of G P surveyors on the salmon river near who are checking up the work done last year |