| Show 1 1 COEUR DALENE ANTIMONY special correspondence kellogg idaho sept 6 the coeur dalene antimony mining company which has acquired the antimony mine on pine creek near kellogg has a force at work re timbering the shaft preparatory to un mi watering the property and getting it read ready y to operate pumping and hoisting machinery have been delivered at the mine and probably will be installed in a few days the foot shaft has about sixty feet of water in it and some of the lower laterals literals late rals also are flooded but it is believed the mine will be and the workings repaired in about thirty days the property formerly was operated for many years by a new york manufacturing jeweler who utilized the product in his factory he constructed ted a mill and smelter at the mine and is said to have shipped not less than 1500 tons of high grade antimony precipitates the smelter was of the sublimation type and still is in a good state of preservation but it probably will have to be rehabilitated before it will be in shape to treat the ore again the mill also is in very good condition and can be repaired at nominal expense the property is developed by feet of drifts from the shaft exposing two shoots of ore one about feet long and forty feet wide and the other a sort of ore chimney the deposits c contain oil a considerable quantity of 0 high grade ore averaging about 50 per cent antimony Y As soon as workings are repaired and the machinery installed the company will in cre crease ase its force and begin ship shipping ping J |
