| Show IDAHO the waters mining company will re sum operations at springton with a small crew victor waltman has replaced F waters as manager george watson reports that he is getting some good old ore from nu flu wood rat claims at ouster custer which he has been working the past three years A caterpillar engine has been purchased to haul ore from the tyler lease to the bunker hill sullivan mill bins at kellogg it is expected that twenty five tons will be hauled at a load using four trailers the hector at wallace is driving its main crosscut tunnel ahead at the rate of feet monthly and expects to cut its big ledge at a distance of feet from the ithe portal on the first of the month the tunnel was in feet lish lewis charley winchester and J S st clair have secured a lease on the dubuque mine near silver city which has been idle over a quarter of a century and will revive operations they will get out ore from an 18 inch vein on the and have a test run made to determine its possibilities ties arthur cooper and F L rowley who have taken a lease on the old crown point mine in government gulch near wardner report ithac the old wol workings of the mine have been cleaned up and considerable new development work started which has resulted in opening a vein of milling ore seven feet wide with high grade fourteen inches wide the mine was at one time an important producer H F and L N peck of winona washington have made a tentative agreement to talie take over the moon creek mining company ground near lV wallace allace the property is opened by about 2 joo feet of drifts the green hill cleaveland mine J at wallace is being equipped with a Nord nordberg berl compressed air hoist capable of lift lifting ilig nine tons from 0 3 feet and similar to those now in use in the butte montana camp chris is in charge of the aurora sampson property near the 11 E M mine in the coeur calenes dA lenes the company owns fourteen claims and is working on a lower tunnel 2200 feet long the surface tunnels show an ore shoot about feet long by three feet wide the ore is said to average about 10 per cent lead new buildings have just been completed at the lower workings ben L collins of spokane okane washington secretary of the HE H E M company states the company is considering a plan to ito erect a concentrating plant near the mine on the coeur dalene river in the northern part of the state the company recently started a new lower tunnel which ahl furnish a means of delivering the ore direct to the new mill the already has been opened by three tunnels and enough tonnage blocked out to warrant the erection of a milling plant several cars of the ore have been shipped crude under lease the interstate company in nine mile canyon in the coeur calenes dA lenes is equipping the mine with electric haulage for a distance of feet the milling plant is now ru running with three shifts to its full capacity of tons per day five four horse teams are busy hauling the crude ore and concentrates to bunn station the shipping point five more teams are it at work hauling from the companas comp anys sawmill near the mine for the ithe construction of twelve new bungalows and a 75 room hotel for employees all buildings will be equipped with steam heat baths and all modern n improvements H barnes is manager of the company nick sheridan is mine superintendent in and lou fogle is mill superintendent one of the most important coeur dalene mining deals consummated recently is the bond and lease taken by the idora hill mining company on the property of 0 f the tuscumbia cumbia mining company at a pr price ce of the deal was closed at wallace by H E winder and morton webster of spokane representing the idora company compan and D J whaley acting for the tuscul ni bia stockholders not all the stock of the tuscumbia cumbia was turned in on the present option but enough to give the idora people working control of the property the term of the bond is for two years with royalties on all ore extracted from the tuscul bia ground the idora is equipped with a mill which is running steadily from ores taken from the idora but with the addi addition tiou of the tuscumbia cumbia which is in shape for immediate production the mill can be run to its capacity and the shipments of ore correspondingly increased the ore is hauled from the idora mill to bunn station on the northern pacific railway where it is loaded for shipment |
