Show IDAHO the federal mining k smelting smelling Sm elting company of wallace has declared a quarterly dividend of half a cent a share on its preferred stock this is equivalent to on the issue of shares the disbursement bur will be made on december 15 to stockholders of record on november 25 regular shipments have been made the past season from the golden glow property at boulder which is being operated by butte parties with oscar karri as superintendent recently some excellent specimens of solid galena were removed from the mine and ore shipments have been doubled the present values average per ton the ring bone cayuse mine near salmon city largely owned by fred brough jr is about to resume operations this old property which has been patented for the past twenty years has some forty tons of ore on the dump awaiting shipment which will average 40 ounces in silver to the ton and which carries a high lead content frank H skeels mining engineer of wallace idaho has recently completed an investigation of the clay deposits of the state under the direction of the state bureau of mines and geology in cooperation with the united states bureau of mines A report will be issued later showing the importance of the deposits of clay products such as fire brick tiling plaster of paris panelling terra cotta etc tests of the snow motor manufactured for a company of which major H H arm stead is the head will be made at the idaho continental mine porthill Por thill idaho and the premier mine stewart B C in a few weeks motors for both mines have been built at the union iron works spokane A klockmann general manager of the idaho continental says that he hopes to have the machine in operation within two weeks A lease has been secured on the alice mine located between mullan and wallace by M E anderson and associates of the latter named place the old workings have been cleaned out and already an ore shoot has been exposed for several hundred feet part of which is three feet in width showing values of 40 ounces in silver and 40 per cent lead the ton mill on the property will be utilized if justified by present developments normal production for all the producing mines of the coeur calenes dA lenes by december 1 is predicted by those in touch with the mining industry of the district slightly more than a montil month has elapsed since the strike of the international union of mine mill and smelter workers was called off on october 8 and all of the mines affected have resumed operations at both mine and mills and the normal production of the district is rapidly being approached immense high t grade ore bodies have been uncovered in the triumph mine adjoining join i ng the north star and independence mines of the federal mining Z smelting smelling company near halley hailey when the main tunnel workings of the old mine cleaned out it was found that some tons of 20 ore had been left standing by the old operators when the property was closed down in 1892 frank dillon E M will have charge of the new operations excellent progress is being m made 1 ade on the property of the pope shenon mining company in the salmon river district A new shaft is being sunk from the present lowest level about feet from the portal which will connect with the projected tunnel which is to be driven at the new mill level A carload shipment of the ore encountered in this working has already been shipped to the garfield smelter and is of good shipping quality the raise from this same tunnel has progressed a distance of feet and showed a vein of not less than two and one half feet for the entire distance |