Show IDAHO the lower crosscut tunnel on the big elk near adair has cut an eight foot vein assaying better than 25 per cent copper A H featherstone E L and herman m an rossi of wallace are among the owners number 4 tunnel on the mine in the sunset district near wallace recently cut the vein at a depth of feet and found three feet of ore one foot of which was nearly pure zinc ore the balance being mixed lead and zinc of a milling grade frederick burbidge is manager of the company mining is becoming more active at silver city the work at the sinker tunnel is to be resumed upon the arrival of T D babbitt from the east it is rumored that the trade dollar will resume and another shift is to be added at the silver city mill it is expected that the rich gulch will be reopened and the ruth has been made the basis of an incorporation looking toward further development of the property J H jones of spokane has purchased the controlling interest in the moyie mining alining milling power company controlling mining claims and power sites near bonners ferry from james la fountain and harry falk the purchase price was said to be the moyie holdings were originally staked out by the la fountain brothers and have been operated for several years under the management of J H turner of spokane washington that the property of the guelph mining milling company above burke will be under active development this season and that a large amount of work will be done was made plain at the meeting of the stockholders recently when reports for the past year were considered and officers named for the new year B coyle of walla walla washington was elected president W C boyle kellogg idaho vice president john B secretary mrs eliza treasurer the board of directors is composed of the following stockholders T J yarbrough walla walla W P recer walla walla H B tinker walla walla robert sterling kellogg william doyle boyle kellogg edward stein kellogg and dr E E brooks black lake three thousand feet under ground in the labyrinth of tunnels and shafts of the bunker hill and sullivan mine the largest lead silver producer in the world the moving picture man will photograph actual operations erat ions of an army of miners nash wayland an electrician employed at the mine which is located at kellogg has made this feat possible by obtaining an candle power arc light thus solving the problem of illuminating the underground maze from drilling and shooting with dynamite down in the mine to the mills and through every process the camera will follow the ore until it is loaded on the train for shipment to the smelter in addition to being shown in moving picture theaters throughout the country the film is ia to be placed at the disposal of the mining engineering departments of colleges for the instruction of students in the practical side of lead silver extraction |