Show IDAHO melvin T rowland of nampa has taken over the Pal dalmadge madge group located in owahee owyhee county at a stated consideration of 32 active development will be undertaken in the spring the tucker mining ining Nl company has suspended work at its property near II mullan until spring owing to the difficulty of se curing supplies president peter bahn reports that a four foot ledge was struck on christmas day at a depth of feet showing good values in copper and silver F H vahrenkamp of salt lake consulting engineer for the copper basin mining company states that shipments from the companas comp anys property located near mackay bac now average about five carloads a week it runs 7 to 12 per cent copper 5 to 6 ounces silver and about 1 in gold to the ton the general average being about 40 per ton the company plans to have a now new milling plant in operation by spring john A percival of new york president of the great interstate callahan has purchased the alpine mine on the north fork of the payette river twelve miles from banks the property was in an isolated section until a railroad was recently built into the region but it shipped high grade silver ore as far back as twenty five years ago the new owners have commenced work and have started a new tunnel to cut the vein at a depth of feet below the old workings complete returns from the december operations erat ions of the empire copper companas Comp anys property twenty miles from mackay show that in that month the mine turned out tons of 15 ore with gross earnings of and net receipts of since fred H vahrenkamp took charge of operations last november the producing capacity of the mine has been raised per cent over the previous normal record and it is expected that the january earnings will be about |