Show IDAHO ID AHO A contract has been awarded for sinking an additional feet of shaft in the morning mine at II mullan electric power connections for the operation of a new compressor has been installed on the flynn group on canyon creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes the carbonate mining alining company plans to start development work in the near future the company owns a group of claims near beeler in the pine creek district of the coeur calenes dA lenes development work on the property 3 owned by the pine creek mining and milling company will soon be under way the company owns a group of claims on denver creek oin in the pine creek section of the coeur calenes dA lenes the caledonia mining ning company is dis bursing the regular quarterly dividend of this is at the rate of a cent a share the company has 1800 stockholders the current disbursement will increase tha total dividend payments to A large body of silver lead ore has been reported on the west hill of the intermountain mining ning company properties in the coeur calenes dA lenes the report to the company said that there are three distinct and well defined chimneys on the west hill all connected by an ore shoot of considerable dimensions men plans for constructing a mill on the jack waite company with property near wallace has been made and it will have a ton capacity ore is being trans transported poi arted by two motor trucks from the mine to prichard a distance of thirteen miles shipments are averaging 55 per cent lead the silver content being low contracts for additional feet of work in the crosscut on the slovenian vonian mining companas Comp anys property at wardner have been let the crosscut is now feet in length and expected to reach the vein at 1200 feet leaving feet yet to run the present contract calls for a drift on the vein should it be reached before the feet is completed the jim blaine and bristol properties in the pine creek district tributary to kellogg have been merged into the jim blaine I 1 silver syndicate the jim blaine property is located about one half mile from the main forks of the creek surveys for the new tunnel which is to be driven from the creek level to cut the bristol and jim blaine veins have been completed and work will soon be under way consolidation of three groups of mining claims located in the mullan district including the lucky boy the silver bar and the goldbar is to be effected according to TNT D needham of wallace one of the owners of the lucky boy A crew will be put to work extending a tunnel to the lucky boy vein surveys are said to indicate that it will require feet of additional work to reach the lucky boy ledge stockholders of the consolidated inter state callahan IN mining fining company have received checks for dividend no 17 the dis trib ution wasat was at the rate of 50 cents a share and totals the total dividend disbursements bur since dividend payments were started in april 1915 are 1676 a share or a total disbursement of the development of the lipsic vein and the ve n encountered recently on the no 8 level of the interstate mine and paralleling this vein is proceeding rapidly the nabob mine on pine creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes will join the ranks of the regular shippers according to reports re calved in spokane the raise connecting the lower and upper workings has been completed and other details worked out for the economical handling of ore from the mine to the mill all the ore bins at the mill are full of ore and ore is broken in four in the mine ready for movement to the mill the three compartment raise connecting the different levels was completed recently A station has been cut at the top of the raise and a hoist installed A crew of sixty to seventy five men will be employed underground and in the concentrator A change of conditions regarded as favorable for development of ore has been disclosed in the property of the montana idaho copper company at adair according to E J kirby secretary treasurer the tunnel has been driven feet and throughout that distance it has been in the wallace or newlands quartzite said mr kirby ten days ago the tunnel entered an intrusive dike of diorite consisting chiefly of hornblende these intrusions are common to the coeur dalene region veins and ore shoots are found frequently at the contact of intrusions tru and quartzite the tunnel lacks 2200 feet of its objective which is a point under the monitor shaft but the change of conditions makes possible the disclosures of ore before we reach it in addition to feet of tunnel driving the company crosscut feet in search of the richmond yein vein |