Show FINE SHOWING IN THE MASCOT charles peter of isalt lake president and general manager of the mascot mining milling company owning a promising and valuable group of mines in the wood river country out of hailey idaho lert left for the east soon after the dinst on business pertaining to company affairs before leaving on this trip inar peter received a most encouraging letter from E Ram an exper encee mining man who is general manager for the company who said that at the present time he is driving a tunnel on the Shaf vein in which there is a very fine showing of ore that goes 50 to 60 per cent lead and from 60 to 90 ounces in silver to the ton at the same time lie he is drifting on the silver fortune lode in which the pay streak is from five to ten feet in width this immense vein is fifty feet in width and it is the intention of the management to crosscut cross cut the zone every fifty feet ithe company hopes to have its new hydroelectric hydro electric power plant in commission sometime in march Mar cli together witia generator air compressor and machine drills when this equipment is in running order it is purpose to open up the four veins of the property by making connections with cross cuts upraises up raises and dinzes so that they will find an outlet through the perkins tunnel from the mouth of which an aerial tran uway will be constructed to convey the low grade ores to the milling plant to ibe be erected this spring the high grade ore will be hauled to the railroad shipping point a few miles distant robert N bell state mine inspector for idaho in mentioning the mascot Ta scot in his article on idaho which appeared in the annual review number of the mining review S said aid some good ore was discovered on the mascot mine at the head of east fork where some immense bodies of complex sulphide mineral were disclosed during the years development that warrant further extensive work and give promise of the ultimate disclosure of extensive bodies of valuable ore in both lead zinc and copper minerals |