Show IDAHO the gilmore mining company of which E h C ross of salt lake is president will start sinking its martha shaft another feet this will make a total depth of feet in february the company shipped twenty afif fifty ty ton cars averaging sis 18 to the ton TI the copper uranium mining company I 1 any has haa let further contracts for work at its lost river properties it is stated that an office will be opened in salt lake with alfred cole secretary treasurer and manager in charge the allie mining company has shipped another car of rich ore from gilmore to the salt lake market this is the second high grade shipment and represents the february output the lot weighs about fifty tons and mine assays essays indicate that it will run well over a ton the vein is now four and one half feet wide with an average value reported to be over a ton walter st germain and D C nicholas are beginning work on their lease of the no 4 tunnel at the yankee boy property ton on big creek near wardner they have completed preliminary arrangements and will now take up the work of extending the tunnel to the vein and expect to be able to begin shipments at an early date the ore will be carefully hand sorted thus bringing it up to an exceptionally high grade the lessees lessels will have about feet of ground in the lease ore assaying per ton has been taken from this tunnel in the past two shifts will be used the idaho montana company has two men employed on the tunnel of the property above burke the tunnel is at present about feet and depth is gained foot for foot the outcrop on the property is good and the company feels confident that a well defined will be found at a recent meeting of the board of directors held in wallace it was decided to continue work indefinitely as the reports given out were promising an assessment was levied on the stock the officers of the company are R B hoffman president harry harris treasurer J H wixom secretary the president and treasurer being on the directorate with F P miller J H pew and peter johnson in the bunker hill and sullivan mine at kellogg all trolley wires wire s are being taken out to eliminate danger to workmen the company in common with other mining companies of the coeur calenes dA lenes is making a big feature of the safety first policy electric storage locomotives are being installed to haul the ore in this underground der ground city except in the kellogg tunnel three locomotives weighing three tons icons each already are in operation since the big mine instituted this policy the accident list has been materially reduced according to general manager stanley easton aton the miners are admonished to bo be careful as they enter the mine on each shift and a huge electric electr lc sign near the end ot the kellogg tunnel announces safety first the most important mining deal in recent months both from the standpoint of the amount involved and the influence the transaction will have on the situation in the mullan district of the coeur calenes dA lenes was recently closed by charles 19 mallette who negotiated the purchase of the controlling interest in the missoula copper company iby by the snowstorm mining corn com anay at a price said to be more than the properties are one and three fourths miles apart through the efforts of mr mallette a number of missoula montana stockholders representing more than shares pooled their holdings and transferred them to the snowstorm company for a price p rice said to be approximately 50 cents the share |