Show IDAHO it is reported that the old delamar mine at delamar has been sold the hecla mining company of wallace paid a dividend of 15 cents a share on the alt amounting to the owyhee owahee group in the silver city section located five m miles 1 le S north of the old trade dollar has been bonded to dr robert lyall the banner mine in the silver city district whose mill was partially destroyed by a will resume operations at an early date the big five mining milling company operating near fairfield expects to place its new milling plant in commission within the next few weeks the florida mountain mining company operating the old trade dollar mine at silver city after eighteen months development work now plans more extensive operation and will start mill operations early in the summer A shaft is being sunk feet from the main tunnel level which is known as the 1700 foot level the demming mines company operating in the demming district owyhee owahee county is installing a roaster and cyanide plant to treat concentrates winter operations at this property have greatly increased ore reserves A crosscut cross cut being driven will soon tap the sunset vein which has the richest surface showings in the district the st james mining company operating near wallace recently installed a compressor plant and work is being pushed in running the crosscut cross cut to the vein the property of the company adjoins the sunset mine in which a large body of high grade lead ore has been uncovered on the 1000 foot level mrs theresa james is president and manager of the st james company the lucky swede gold copper mining company of we wallace hace held a directors meet J ing recently and elected directors to fill vacancies as follows carl E berglund of stillwater still water minnesota and C M clark of alberton montana the directors attending the meeting being morris pearson of missoula montana paul E johnson of salt paul minnesota and rudolph johnson also of st paul the or ore e streak being followed in the lucky stone group located on mcfarren creek near osburn in the coeur dalene district has widened to two feet at the face according to superintendent john gilfillen the ore carries 35 to 40 in lead and silver and a percentage of zinc owing to the deep snow and difficulties of transportation development work has been halted for the time being but will be resumed as early in the spring as weather conditions permit william rember and william barrett both of hailey are reported to have made an important discoverer disco verey of high grade galena ore in the ajax mine in panther gulch in the deer creek section the pay streak is two and one half feet in width these gentlemen have a 20 ton shipment on the dump valued at from to fo co the ton the hailey news miner in speaking of the strike says there is more to be going on in that section the croesus is going to operate the independence is now again operating and also the north star several other old properties are going to operate including the mascot which will be shipping ore regularly as soon as the roads permit the old dingier mine in lemhi leahi county idaho which has not been worked since 1907 is to resume operations under the direction of a number of wallace and mullan men who have recently purchased the property and incorporated the gold flotation devel development OP company and who plan to install a flotation plant at the mill at once the property which consists of eighteen claims is completely equipped with machinery it was abandoned after an unsuccessful effort to recover value by the cyanide process but the machinery has been looked after and is in good condition the development of the flotation process is said to have made possible the profitable working of the property and operations are to be resumed at once |