Show NEW IDAHO developments special correspondence spokane wash nov 19 approximately has been expended in the last year developing the old webber mine 5 miles from pend oreille lake 50 miles east of spokane now owned by the pend oreille mining binin 1 and reduction company a corporation consisting principally of stockholders in chicago Il illinois linos and the showings are sufficiently promising that plans are being prepared for a concentrator to be erected next summer accordino according to si P donnelly of lakeview Lake view idaho one of the heaviest individual owners of the property the formation fon mation now exposed in the lower workings of the mine is said to be similar to that in the hercules hecla bunker hill and sullivan and other big silver lead producers in the coeur dalene region and according to mining engineers and geologists who have investigated recently there is every reason to believe that the pend oreille district is in the same mineral belt although from fifty to sixty miles further north A crosscut tunnel has been run 1500 feet into the webber ground since operations were resumed and a promising body of milling ore has been encountered at a depth depan of feet on om the dip of the vein drifts feet long have been run east and west from the intersecting point and the vein shows uniform values and width the entire distance james cogswell superintendent of the mine has sixteen men at work now and operations will be continued through the winter A two drill compressor plant was installed several months ago but it is evident that a larger equipment will be necessary soon rescue hescue car no 5 of the united states bureau of mines which has spent the last two months in the wallace idaho dist rIaZ demonstrating left this week for butte in the coeur dalene the car crew gave demonstrations to the miners of all the big properties more than miners in the various mines have been instructed in first aid and at least five men at each mine have been en instructed in the use of the oxygen helmets during the recent meeting of the spokane and montana divisions of the american ATner ican institute of mining engineers the car was brought to wallace for the inspection to of the members of the institute J AX M anderson who is in charge of the car expressed hi himself myself as well pleased with his trip ip to the coeur calenes dA lenes and with the merest interest displayed by owners and miners he says the big mines have installed apparatus for successfully coping with accidents the new mill of tons daily capacity beng beng constructed by the federal mining company at the frisco mine at gem idaho which the federal company acquired several months ago will be ready to operate by january 1 according to announcement made in spokane by otto krajensky Tra jensky superintendent of construction of the plant which will cost approximately the frame of the structure already is completed and the thirty two men employed are rushing it to completion to have it in readiness to receive the equipment before winter sets in the concentrator will have two floors feet by feet and will be twice the capacity of the old frisco plant abandoned in 1895 the equipment equi ament will consist of 14 jigs 14 franz tables three sets of rolls mills and will be operated and t two w 0 hardinge 0 iby by water conveyed to the plant through a new highline high line flume recently constructed there will be eleven men employed in the plant working in two shifts of five and six men each there are eighty men now employed in the frisco mine re timbering the main shaft and clearing the long timbered galleries in readiness for mining operations A covered tramway feet long from the mouth of the tunnel to the mill is beina built and will be completed soon |