Show resurrection OF THE MONITOR special correspondence wallace idaho feb 24 the monitor mine in the coeur dalene district is to be extensively developed under the personal supervision of otis hill of spokane director and one of the heaviest stockholders in the montana idaho copper company organized several months ago to take over the monitor and adjacent properties according to announcement made by the directors who besides mr hill are H F debower chicago ill an dJohn L dirks and W J kirby spokane when the forest fires of 1900 swept through the coeur calenes dA lenes they left the site of the monitor mine a heap of ruins the foot shaft was filled with charred timbers and ruined machinery and though an extensive body of high grade copper ore had been uncovered the damage done by the fire stopped all further improvement upon the completion of the chicago milwaukee st paul railway bringing the road at adair within a short distance of the old monitor claims the company was reorganized as the montana idaho copper company A mining expert was employed and extensive surveys made the new company took over the monitor patented properties and located nine additional claims bringing the property to the line of the milwaukee road A perpetual right was secured from idaho to the waters of manhattan creek a mile of flume was constructed ted and a compressor plant installed A tunnel now is being driven 1000 feet below the foot level of the old monitor shaft shaf t modern air drills and machinery have been installed and substantial buildings erected the portal of the tunnel is situated 1000 feet above the tracks of the milwaukee road permitting cars car to be loaded direct from the tunnel by a gravity system in the course of the tunnel several ore bodies are known to exist which tile the management expects to reach within a few hundred feet |