Show BELL LIKES IDAHO robert N bell metal mine inspector for idaho was in salt lake early in the month on business connected with the min mining ing industry of his state which he describes as being in the most flourishing condition of its history idaho says mr bell is the most thoroughly mineralized mountain state in the west and probably carries a greater variety of commercial metals and minerals in quantity than any other state our metal output for the current year will exceed the gross value and in dividends and the new discoveries of the past summer in ill gold silver lead zinc and copper ores that have been made in the south central portion of the state will shortly expand the big volume of production and profits now being made by our coeur dalene operators several of whom are now taking an active interest in the development of discoveries tributary to the south end of the state the federal companas comp anys new star mine on wood river is proving a bonanza its new mill is nearly completed and this property is likely to rank third among tile the zinc ore producers of tile the west within the next ninety days other discoveries of lead and zinc minerals especially in the granite and porphyry formations of our central mountain sections are of such a nature as to promise an important shift in the most active center of production at no very distant date |