Show 0 OLD COLORA DOAN HAS OPENED BIG MINE AT MINERAL IDAHO with a bundle of settlement sheets to verify his statements concerning what he had been doing in the way of opening up a new mine at mineral idaho during the past three years F G mccorkle an old time colorado prospector and mining operator dropped into town last week to enjoy a brief vacation and shape up plans for the future mr mccorkle after having taken a whirl at many different propositions some of which proved highly profitable and some of which quickly absorbed the money made out of others finally landed in the old camp of mineral washington county idaho located some claims and went to work during the past sixteen months mr mccorkle and his partner W B deal have mined and shipped seventy five carloads of ore from the tunnel workings on their egan enterprise group that have shown an average mineral content of about 75 ounces silver and around 4 per cent copper per ton approximately 1900 tons of this ore have been sold while some of it is still in transit and awaiting settlement the ore sold brought an average of per ton costs amounted to approximately 1080 1680 per ton and net receipts averaged the money so far received in settlements from the smelters shelters sm elters amounts to with more to come 1 I went into Mif mineral teral about four years ago said mr mccorkle and since then I 1 have worked early and late I 1 have never had a vacation since I 1 started and I 1 do not believe I 1 have lost three weeks time in the four years much of the time I 1 worked alone then I 1 took A T shane of idaho falls in as a partner later mr shane took a portion of the ground we owned and organized a company to operate it I 1 hold an interest in that company and expect it to prove a big thing I 1 do not know that my partner and I 1 will ever incorporate tho the egan enterprise ground it looks like a pretty good thing to hang on to and work as a personal proposition mr mccorkle states that renewed interest is being taken in the old camp of mineral which boasts of being the birst district in idaho to have erected a smelter large mining interests he states now are feeling their way into the old district and lie he is sanguine that a big revival is at hand |