Show IDAHO the Stem winder has installed a bull jig at its plant at wardner and is equipped for handling forty tons a day the copper queen mine at tendoy was recently examined in the interest of one of salt lakes big smelling smelting sm elting concerns the stephenson brown company working the alder creek lead mines near mackay has tons of 35 ore on the dump and is preparing for shipments harry S knight of salt lake manager of the wilbert mine and mill forty miles from arco recently stated that the mill would resume operations before the first of july the seven troughs coalition mine at seven troughs is now looking well with high assays essays on the 1150 and 1200 foot levels two shifts are to be put on at once george E coxe is to have charge of the reopening and operation of the wall street mine at bonanza custer county which is owned by the wall street mining association composed of chabis and salt lake men the montana mine on estes mountain in the yankee lford mining district cus ouster county is again operating and ore is being treated in the nearby sunbeam mill wm wim T oster has a lease on the property and is working six men M C osborn commercial agent of the washington water power company of spokane has closed contracts with several mining companies in idaho for additional power the western silver lead mining company which operates the odd fellows group near wardner has contracted to put in a 50 horsepower motor and air compressor the snowshoe mining company in the mullan district situated east of the snowstorm is installing a 75 horsepower motor and air compressor the ray jefferson mining company located on beaver creek in the nine mile district contracted to put in a 75 horsepower motor and air compressor the treasure vault mining company west of the rex hex mining property in nine mile canyon contracted for power and will put in a 75 horsepower motor and air compressor final payment of on his option and bond on the amazon manhattan mines on beaver creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes has been made by john H a wallace attorney presumably representing the consolidated soli dated Interstate Callahan mining company which now has acquired full title to the property the bond and option on the amazon manhattan group was taken by in december 1912 for 10 per cent of which was paid at the time 40 per 1 cent december 3 1913 and the re 50 per cent on june 3 under the option the purchasers were required to do certain development work on the property this has been done through the no 3 tunnel of the manhattan claim which has been carried forward some 1400 feet opening a fine ore shoot over feet in length this ore shoot previously had been opened in the no I 1 tunnel where it proved to be forty feet wide and on the no 2 level I 1 where it was feet wide opening the ore on the no 3 level has added to the value of the property which at the time the option was taken was reported by engineers to have worth of ore in sight the adoption of a new method of mining in the national mine near mullan will necessitate closing down the mill for several weeks that enough ore may be broken down in the to keep the mining operations erat ions a level or two in advance of the treatment demands about july 1 by which time the plant will have been given a thorough tryout milling will be suspended and attention devoted entirely to underground development according to announcement no made by one of the heavy spokane shareholders in the national copper company instead of extracting the ore as progresses necessitating installing heavily timbered stag ings built tier to tier from the floors of the the method commonly practiced the national will be worked by breaking down all the ore in the before any is removed recently the mill was given a complete test more than tons of ore being put through and the results were even more satisfactory than the company and the builders anticipated demonstrating that it was able easily to care f for or the normal daily capacity tons and it is believed that even tons can be handled through it in a day the mill has been running on ore f from r om the dump which will be exhausted soon and it is estimated that it will be from three to five months before operations will be resumed As many men as possible will be worked under ground during the shutdown |