Show couer calenes DA lenes 1913 output special correspondence spokane wash may 10 reports of sixteen of the producing mines in shoshone county idaho for 1913 filed last week with assessor W H herrick at wallace show net profits of as against for the same properties in 1912 an increase of making the earnings the greatest in the history of the mining industry in the coeur calenes dA lenes the gross output for the period was 2039 2 tons greater by tons than for the previous twelve months and the gross value was an increase of 2 extraction cost was or an average of a ton 73 cents higher than in 1912 transportation and smelter charges were or a gross ton an increase of 23 cents and the net ton profit was a decrease of 44 cents due to the marked decline in lead prices while the gross value of the product increased from to improvements and betterments ter ments decreased from to t the hercules leads the list taking the coveted honor from the bunker hill and sullivan company which goes to second place and the greenhill cleveland company in the producing class for the first time is third stewart is fourth the hecla company drops from fourth to sixth place ontario increased its profits and snowstorm healas profits decreased the last chance and the success for the eleventh consecutive year the gold hunter company shows a net loss and the interstate callahan the federals standard mine the sierra nevada and the alice also report net losses no report has been filed yet by the marsh company or the tyler lease and the caledonia and high land surprise did not operate during the year the detailed reports follow hercules tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation cost of reduction betterments bunker hill and sullivan tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction better betterments monts royalties greenhill cleveland tons extracted gross value 2 cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments and cost of lease stewart tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments federal morning mine mullan mullah tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation por tation and reduction betterments heda hecla tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction Ietter betterments ments 32 on ontario tarlo tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction snowstorm tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments federal last chance mine wardner tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments tamarack and custer consolidated tons extracted gross value cost of extraction including milling cost of transportation and deduc tion betterments success tons extracted gross value cost of extrac extraction transportation por tation reduction and betterments not segregated gre gated federal mace mines tons extracted 2874 gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments sierra nevada tons extracted gross value 58 cost of extraction and exploration cost of transportation cost of reduction 2242 alice tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction gold hunter tons extracted gross value cost of extraction cost of transportation and reduction betterments consolidated interstate callahan tons extracted gross value cost of extraction including milling cost of transportation and reduction betterments net profits for 1912 1911 and 1913 follow mine 1912 1913 hercules B H S greenhill cleveland stewart federal hecla ontario snowstorm tamarack and custer 57 success alice totals veins in the baaba mine 3 near oro n v ville washington recently taken under tion by the united mines company which OD iii D reiter of spokane several prominent t davenport business men and farmers and J L harper recently organized are chajid cha s ing from lead silver to copper copper s saying as high as 5 per cent across a twenty foot vein has been encountered i 1 I the 90 foot shaft and the company is plan nia ning to continue sinking to the 1000 foot level british columbia capitalists having agreed to furnish funds to construct and operate a ton sampling works at oroville to treat the output work on the plant will begin in a short time according to mr reiter the vein on the baaba one of the three properties in the oroville district controlled by the united mines company averages sixteen to twenty feet wide for feet states mr reiter the I 1 lead silver values to the point where the copper was encountered run from 1 4 to 40 the ton the average being about 7 shafts have been sunk at either end of the shoot one of them being down seventy feet and the other ninety feet we have ample facilities cili ties for treating the low grade ore the 3 company having a 20 stamp mill and 60 ton morris driven by a hydroelectric hydro electric power plant on the owasco ewasco group which we have under option five miles distant this with the sampling works which will be under construction in about thirty days will treat our entire output for some time but in the event of our requiring additional facilities they are obtainable nearby articles of incorporation of the milwaukee limited mining company capitalized for have been hied filed with the state auditor at olympia the incorporator incorporators are A J albring who is president of the corporation fred N davis and D D mckay all of spokane the company owns a group of lead silver claims on the pend oreille river six miles from metaline washington and the extension of the idaho washington northern railway from metaline to the international boundary now under construction runs across the property formerly owned by the Met metaline allne limited company which lost it under foreclosure of labor liens there are feet of tunneling on the claims the upper bore feet long exposing a 42 foot vein of low grade lead silver the lower tunnel starts feet further down the mountain and now is in feet it is believed that the will be e vein showing in the upper level and the encountered in a short distance new company expects to resume developments pre aident according to about july 1 albring |