Show news of the coeur calenes dA lenes SPECIAL COR correspondence correspond wallace idaho june 8 possibilities of securing nitrate from the home builder properties near couer dalene idaho and the building of a big nitrate plant in spokane are being investigated by jay P graves capitalist and builder of the granby smelter an expert is now making an examination of the properties for mr graves an investment of several hundred thousand dollars in the installation of a plant would be necessary if lie he should conclude to operate on a large scale the property of the home builder company is composed of forty three claims six of them patented lying eighteen miles east of coeur d abenes idaho and a few miles northeast of the fourth of july canyon road it contains a dike having an estimated width of feet in which a mile of work has been performed an analysis is said to have disclosed the elements regarded as valuable in the manufacture of nitrates the report of the chemist is said to have been confirmed by two government chemists within recent months the tests being made by engineers and chemists in the employ of mr graves are expected to enter into all possibilities of the ore manufacturers transportation costs and sale the process of extraction considered feasible contemplates the use of six converters each of which will produce pounds of ammonia a day the first unit of such a plant would cost the installation stal lation of a power plant to the capacity of the water flow on the property would cost more the idaho continental ore hauling from the idaho continental mine near port hill will begin about july 1st ast with four three ton automobile trucks roads have been completed and the company now has a great quantity of lead silver concentrates waiting for transportation milling operations began in april and up to the middle of may tons of concentrates had been produced the ore content is 65 to 70 per cent lead and 25 to 30 ounces of silver the zinc content running from 1 to 2 per cent the company is planning to haul ore during the winter on the lower twelve miles between the main and the shipping point twenty six miles distant for this purpose the trucks have been equipped with tires tire from ten to twelve inches in width the haul in the upper reaches of the road will be made with sleds the company is employing men which force will be increased to when hauling begins the mine is owned principally by albert klockman of spokane the transportation problem kaffl ani mine owners of the pine creek district te ie N in the coeur calenes dA lenes are continuing cigoi as bously their campaign to secure rail transi tran of n tation for that region A petition bearid Vs et many signatures has been sent to official ai of the oregon washington railway benal N ai lin gation company setting forth the need a ra the road and the necessity of rail trans pop afflic nde tation in order to get out the lead ani rie zinc so earnestly advocated by the govern leine ment for war purposes it is of course a imel pecked this petition will be taken up by ataria a the railway officials to director general lf mar mfr lip adoo judge george turner of spokane kant ato former united states senator will person rs ally present the petition to mr mcadoo as gate ate soon as the railway officials have passed UK or upon it ik P antii A splendid lot of ore has been held up ed ever since floods of last winter washed away ava yom pa several miles of new track and otherwise it fiffe t damaged the right of way president J D frd ati ferral of the oregon washington railway mel itse navigation company is said to favor the antl building of the line 4 I 1 zinc price satisfactory northwest mining men having zinc properties under development are exultant ovet over 01 the announced announcement ent by president wilson to B ing the price of zinc at 12 cents it is ex pecked that a number of properties in the pro iro coeur dalene region which have been beel H closed down and others which have reduced li as their output will resume under the new ne te price it has been hoped for some time that the presidents proclamation would put tt 5 the price somewhere around the figure g of en it is sufficient to guarantee a it wh te tory profit to a number of concerns while have been most seriously affected the price is established until Septem september berut ast 1st only it is the confident belief of min mining ingo op that afla t orators that it will be continued after time amon among t the larger properties which w benefit are the success which is expected to reopen after quite a lengthy shutdown shut down dowd the douglas which recently dis discontinued continued the interstate callahan ray jefferson 0 zon manhattan morning and the const tion |