Show IDAHO silver city nugget an air pipe line is being installed to the upper levels at the banner mine and the work is expected to be completed by tomorrow evening and the drills running by saturday morning it is reported that good ore continues to come from the upper levels and that the company is prospecting the tip top claims and has a very good showing there wallace miner the miners working at the silver cable have drifted more than ninety feet along the vein and its extent has not yet been determined according to the report of george cook who is on the ground directing work he also adds that the vein widens the farther they go in and that there is now five feet of high grade shipping ore exposed in the breast of the tunnel leadore standard H gilster G W pillars and L S perkins owners of the hidden treasure group of fourteen claims situated at about two miles north of ten mile creek and about one half mile up dry gulch are working the property with the intention of winning out on a gold basis perhaps before the snow flies it is stated that assays essays have been had from the property which ran into the hundreds in gold the country shows a contact between mica schist and quartzite wallace miner the tarn tam oshanter OS hanter mining alining company is pushing work at their property with all possible speed and two shifts of miners are working in the tunnel the tunnel is being extended feet and a contract for this was let some time ago the tunnel has been driven in all more than feet it is reported that a good showing of gray copper has been exposed by the work being done at the property the property of this company is located west of wallace and is owned principally by outside parties mackay miner W L jenks of goldburg was here the latter part of last week and stated that the mining industry on patterson creek had been revived and that there was more doing in this line now than ever before the first mill installed on the creek is now in running order and the second mill is now being put in the installation of these mills came after a trial shipment of tungsten ore from the properties on this creek and the ore proved rich and the deposits of this rare metal there are said to bethe be the largest in the world |