Show IDAHO last spring charles kaufman alex aiex derring and G johnson of burke located eight claims the group being called the indicator in trapper creek a tributary of pine creek and have just discovered six feet of iron carbonate high in lead and silver salt lake city and ogden utah capitalists are now operating the k properties ot the empire copper company at mackay who hold an option on the stock it Is stated that tests are under way looking to the installation of the christensen process for treating the ores frank M leland remains as general manager and ralph R osburn as general superintendent at the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago Boston mining company held at wallace recently a new board of directors was elected and an encouraging cou raging report made by manager cyrus W gossert who has had the development of the mine in charge for a number of years much of the stock of this company Is held by residents of spokane dr john R neely being the vice president the report of manager gossert in part follows the property has been operated steadily for the last two years the flume and wa ter power plant have been completed and about feet of tunnel driven with machine drills operated by a small outfit owing to the limited amount of water controlled by the plant our operations were confined to the freshet seasons and the work was continually hampered by lack of adequate power in june last year the company suspended operations in the tunnel entirely and has since then devoted its available income to acquiring and installing a new and much more powerful waterpower water power system it was necessary in order to carry the work ahead on this new power plant to buy and erect a small saw mill which now is located within a mile from the mine and within the united states national forest reserve and to purchase fro from ni the government timber for lumber needed in the construction of flume and buildings the flume now completed is nearly a mile in length the grade for which in many places was made through solid rock the head attained by this flume is approximately feet the company has purchased a compressor of ample size to run several air drill machines together with a pelton waterwheel water wheel with which to operate it this machinery is installed on concrete foundations in a new building erected for the purpose As soon as the penstock is placed to connect the waterwheel water wheel with the flume thes the plant will be ready to operate in addition to this new equipment many minor permanent improvements have been made such as the erection of a bunk house a commodious cabin wagon shed and stable laying out trails and roads installation of an electric lighting system and a telephone line two new claims adjoining our property have been located and added to our holdings work in no 6 tunnel up to the time it was temporarily discontinued showed very encouraging results and gave most promising indications of the value of the property justifying the confidence of the officers of the company in its future prospects work will be resumed in this tunnel very soon the property is two miles south of wallace |