Show mi ni news of idaho and the great northwest wallace idaho dec 8 the idaho supreme court has reversed the decision of judge W W woods of the district court of shoshone county in the alameda success ore trespass case in which it was alleged that the success company had entered alameda ground and extracted ore valued at more than according to the findings of referee lawrence E of this SPECIAL correspondence line of the claim and its westerly end terminates against the granite or and that at that point the vein is nearly vertical and that it extends down into the earth at a slight dip to the southwest simply because lie he vein is cut off at that point by the granite or is no reason why it may inay be followed on its dip downward within vertical planes between the east end line wr 04 q photo by will C higgins Is located in the timber to the right scene at the mascot mine peter idaho the mine city whom judge woods commissioned to take testimony and award damages the decision was written by chief justice isaac IN N sullivan and was concurred in by justices william morgan and alfred budge the decision of the supreme court in part follows the district court erred in not making a direct and positive finding as to whether the apex of the granite vein of the success company is within exterior boundaries of the claim we conclude th that a under lunder the evidence the said granite voin vein has its apex within the boundaries of the granite claim and that such vein crosses the east end and the point where the vein ends against the granite under the provisions of section 2322 united states revised statutes the appellants are given the right to pursue the vein lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth the top of the apex of which lies inside the surface lines of said claim extended downward although such vein lodes or ledges may so far depart from the perpendicular in their course downward as to extend ten d outside of the vertical side lines of the surface location the appellant has pursued the vein within the vertical planes of the end lines and has not passe passed a beyond them and the evidence clearly shows the existence of the vein or lode in the granite claim and establishes its identity and continuity from surface downward in the 1200 foot level will go to supreme court the case is to ibe be carried to the supreme court of the united states according to charles Alc mckinnis Kinnis managing diorec tor of the alameda company in which william A nicholls former president or the stock exchange frederick burbidge general manager of the federal mining alining iS Sm melting elting company and F J finucane president of the holley mason hardware company of spokane ard are the controlling factors we have not received a full report of said mr mckinnis the supreme courts decision and we cannot discuss the matter int intelligently ellige antly until we do the alameda success case however horev er does not involve any points different from the ontario bstewart case decided by judge woods in favor of the ontario company which was defending title to ore bodies that had been trespassed upon in a manner that we regard as identical with the situation in the alameda suc cess controversy and tile the decision was affirmed by the supreme court we will carry the alameda success case to tile the supreme court of the united states if necessary and I 1 believe we will win I 1 believe the alameda has a better chance than the ontario bad in the stewart case we will enter an appeal as soon as we can in the ordinary course of procedure the directors have not talked over the matter in a formal session but I 1 know now they feel over it say case is ended stockholders of the success mining company were confident yesterday afternoon that the issue was at an end they were relieved and optimistic and pointed and that tile the shaft is being continued toward the 1500 foot level federal M S pays dividend the federal alining iS melting company which owns and operates mines and mills in different parts of the coeur calenes dA lenes has declared the regular quarterly dividend of the share on the preferred stock or payable december to stockholders of record november alst this will make the payments for the current year and will increase the grand total to of which was disbursed on the common stock prior to january 14 1909 the december payment will be at the rate of 1 per cent of the capitalization an advance of a fourth of ia per cent over former payments the federal company is operating mines at mace ace and wardner and it also holds a 51 per cent interest in the green SR 40 i pa 0 NN rp 7 W town of shoup on the salmon river idaho with satisfaction to the buoyancy of the stock on the boards an affidavit of president P J gearon made to the supreme court of idaho three months ago showed that the company had on time deposits in bank and other quick assets production from the mine was low in the summer months when only a little more than 8 cents a pound could be obtained for spelter but since the price has strengthened its production has approached the average which is in the neighborhood of 1700 to 1800 tons of concentrates a month it is now in a position to take full advantage of 12 cent rate the best of efforts were put forth to have tile the mine in first class condition regardless of what the ille decision should be in this connection it is said that the ore has been struck in a crosscut from tile the 1400 foot level hill cleveland group its principal producer is the property at mullan the chief product of which is lead zinc and do development v el OP in recent months is said to have practically doubled the ore reserves an excellent high grade shoot having been opened in an I 1 extension of the no 6 t tunnel the mill at the property has been increased to 1500 tons daily capacity and a much higher saving of the metal values is being effected by the new flotation and separation equipment installed several months ago it has been announced by officials of 0 the federal company that the union mill at wallace NV allace formerly under tinder lease to the stewart mining company and now being operated by tile the hecla company will be utilized in treating the morning Torning IN ores as soon as it it surrendered by the hecla company probably not later than january 1st ast the com pany intends to crowd production at the morning orning 31 to take advantage of preval prevailing lilla lead and zinc prices the mine is capable of furnishing enough ore to keep both plants working at the limit and it is pres presumed Umea that the output will be maintained at the maximum the morning to increase capacity the milling capacity of the A morning lOrning mine will be increased from 1500 to buo tons daily by february Febri iary 1st ast according to official announcement this will give the morning orning the most extensive treatment facilities of any property in the coeur calenes dA lenes with the possible exception of the bunker hill sullivan plants at kellogg and the equi equipment ment is of the most modern type extensive alterations te to the ATI mammoth ammoth mill at wallace now are under way iby by the federal company and when the betterments are completed the plant will be placed in service as an all adjunct to the morning lorning jil concentrator probably in the next sixty days additions will be made to the concentrating machinery nTa chinery old equipment will be rearranged and the plant will be reutilio on lines that will adapt it to treatment of the lafor morning ores zinc has come to be quite an important factor at the iM oming and the remodelled remodel led plant will provide for recovering this along with the lead the present capacity of tile the mammoth ammoth Al mill is tons per day and this will be increased to tons through the changes and additions now being made besides the changes in theafae the mammoth mill a new sorting plant is being built at the mine to meet the requirements of increased tonnage the morning orning 11 mine is developed to a depth of 1000 feet below the main working tunnel and on every level there are large ore reserves but the ore is not limited to the lower levels A drift west from the main tunnel which rs Is designated as the SOO level has exposed a great body of excellent ore bore in fact the amount of ore now in sight at the morning orning gives it rank among the worlds greatest lead mines in extent and quality the ore on the lowest level is practically the same as found in the levels above and judging from the results of deep development of other mines of the district it may reasonably be assumed that the sanie same conditions will prevail when another 1000 feet of depth is added the new silverado mill A thirty day run of the silverado mining companas Comp anys new ton daily capacity mill has demonstrated that the plant is effecting a saving considerably in excess of the recovery estimate according to C D secretary of the company after a visit of inspection of tile the mine and null mill located near osburn the mill was designed and construction supervised by W L ziegler who devised devise the treatment system especially for 01 ores said mr the plant N been treating only tile the output of tile the nell nellie mine and has been running but eight hours a day treating about thirty tons each period and assays essays of the tailings show hut but from a trace to four tenths of an ounce of silver to the ton a remarkable result considering tho the character of the material which is a grey copper ore we expect to begin receiving oro ore from our own property in a few days when the plant will be operated two and possibly three shifts we have installed five chutes in the mine and now are in shape to produce enough ore to keep the mill operating at capacity for an indefinite period production will be from a shoot opened for to feet by drifting on the 1200 foot level following a vein that ranges from eighteen inches to ten feet in width and averages four feet an upraise has been run for feet on the ore from the 1200 foot level and a has been sunk for feet intermountain dividend payment of the deferred dividend of 1 cent the share or due november was authorized at a meeting in spokane on saturday december 1st ast of the directors of the intermountain mining company which owns and is operating the old amador mine near superior montana this will be the second disbursement by the corporation a similar amount having been distributed october operations at the mill shut down for the last twenty days because of water shortage will be resumed in a few days when electric current will be available said aid harve H phi phipps P ps secretary water now is being pumped from the foot level and everything soon will be in normal condition we shipped four cars of the highest grade ore ever produced by the property recently the loon lake blue bird the loon lake blue bird copper mining company capitalized for shares at 25 cents each of which shares are to he be held in the treasury has been incorporated by andrew laidlaw H H lenberger lester P edge joseph mccarthy i and M L moe all of spokane to take over and develop the blue bird and dul pont claims adjoining the loon lake copi per companas Comp anys holdings forty five miles north of spokane washington charles E U agnew retired banker of sharpsville Sharps ville pennsylvania and J C haas a mining engineer of spokane also are interested in the corporation the same veins from which the loon lake copper company is extracting pres ent shipments to the trail smelter extend into our ground said mr Sch allenger the ledges are clearly defined within our lines lilies and the surface showing on the blue y rd which was the first claim located in the camp is regarded as the largest and most promising in the district we intend to io rush development as rapidly as possible and work will begin as soon as a crew can be recruited and supplies and material assembled sem bled the bluebird claim was located twenty years ago and a shaft eight two feet deep was sunk about that time according to men who worked at the property there is a fine showing of ore at the bottom of this shaft the dump showing some excellent the principal surface showing is on the bluebird a few hundred feet from the loon lake copper workings the malachite and azurite quartz is apparently identical with that obtained from the original surface workings on the 0 K claim of the loon lake copper company activity in republic section there is greater activity in the mines of the republic region in ferry county washington than ever before and the crude ore shipments from the different properties now are averaging about tons daily according to george S bailey av 7 z af 06 ling RN N san poll mill republic washington superintendent of mines for the northport North port smelting smelling Sm elting refining company controlled by the day interests of the coeur calenes dA lenes which recently purchased the lone pine pearl surprise group of gold claims from the republic consolidated mines corporation for we are producing a large part of the tonnage of 0 the camp and extensive development of our holdings is under way said mr bailey the third fourth and fifth levels of the lone pine claim opened by an incline shaft are being extended west on the vein and a drift is being run north on the vein in the pearl claim at a depth of feet the shaft on the surprise claim which covers 2700 feet of the surprise vein is being s unk sunk to the foot level and it is probable that an upraise will be run fro from m the foot level to make the working vertical instead ins tead of incline A foot shaft being sunk by con tract now is down sixty five feet on the last chance mine owned by the lone pine surprise mining alining company of which charles P robbins bobbins of spokane is president and general manger A new compressor plant and hoist have been installed at the property which has a remarkably good showing and it is believed that production can be inaugurated as soon as the shaft is down to the old workings opened from the insurgent claim adjoining shipments are proceeding from the knob hill hope and old republic properties the latter under the direction of the rathfon rath ton reduction company production from the hope which is under lease is being made from a new shaft feet north of the tunnel in which a depth of seventy five feet has been attained production Product ioD from the old republic is being made through the no 3 tunnel the carey mining alining company and the adirondack mining company are installing plants in the sheridan district eldorado copper organized the eldorado copper IN mining lining company capitalized for shares at 1 each has been organized by spokane and oregon men to take over and operate the banfield copper mine thirty two miles east of riddle oregon on the main line of the southern pacific railway the reported price is part cash and the remainder stock in the new corporation the ancor pora tors are andrew laidlaw and S W miller spokane C P ritter an attorney of indianapolis indiana and I 1 F W boyer banker and henry banfield one of the original owners of the property both of riddle the banfield mine is one of the best known copper properties in southern oregon and many well posted mining men regard it as the largest high grade copper de posit in the state said mr air laidlaw the group first was located in 1900 by two halfbreed indians thomason and cantile and two years later henry banfield a mining engineer acquired an interest eventually he secured title to the entire holdings comprising nine full claims and incorporated the douglas umpqua mining alining company to operate them development has been continued during the last fourteen years and six tunnels have been driven one above the other the lowest at the face being approximately feet below the surface these tunnels and drifts aggregate fully a mile in length and conservatively speaking there |