Show IDAHO fremont rowe aged 64 of wallace for me last twenty years superintendent of the hecla mine at burke is dead the late mr lowe came to the coeur calenes dA lenes in 1899 at the Hypo mine near kingston a small crew of men are at work driving a new crosscut tunnel in the direction of what is known as the second ledge the work has advanced feet and within a short time the vein should be cut as stringers of quartz have been coming in and as the tunnel advances the stringers are becoming more pronounced and show more in copper production for the past year custer county led the rest of the state with a total of pounds having a total value of according to the report of state mining inspector R N X bell for general mineral production however shoshone county led the state and was only surpassed in two branches copper and lead bannock county was well toward the front in gold production within the next two weeks the new fifty ton mill erected by the idaho mines leasing company at their black bear property will be put in operation says a pocatello dispatch the company is understood to have leased the property for a long period and already have enough ore mined to run the mill two years they contemplate shipping at least five cars of concentrates each month after the mill is put in operation W B horn sam hershberger and henry downing of salmon city who have been for some time developing a group of quartz claims on dump creek lately struck the real pay chute of the property and dug into ore that assayed eight ounces gold and twenty two and a half ounces silver to the ton driving e on the showing which at first was only a few inches wide it is said to have widened to twelve feet and in appearance has improved in character the sterling silver mountain company developing a group of claims adjoining the yankee day boy has five men at work the management reports cutting a blind ledge when the crosscut was near the foot station the ledge shows a width of eight feet and is carrying good values in gray copper A drift will be started on this vein the first of the month and at the same time the main crosscut will be continued toward its objective which will be reached in feet considerable interest in the pine creek district of the coeur calenes dA lenes at attaches to the development work under way wayon on the property now now owned by the jim blaine sil er syndicate the company is develop developing ing a hil highly mineralized belt by means of a long crosscut tunnel designed to give approximately feet vertical depth on three of the prominent pine creek veins the bristol midnight and constitution the jim elaine company has a good showing of ore in in its upper workings carrying values in silver lead and zinc I 1 the big creek district of the coeur calenes dA lenes long known as the silver bearing belt of the district is attracting unusual attention owing to large 6 amounts of development work under way and the erection of the second concentrator on the creek steady shipments are going to the smelter from the big creek mining Coni company pany equipment for the 50 ton concentrator for the sunshine mining company operating the yankee boy and nd yankee girl properties is on the ground and it is planned to have the mill in operation early in the spring that the mines of the coeur dalene district are doing their share to take care of the population of that district during these dull times is evidenced by the fact that more than men are now employed the bunker hill sullivan company at kellogg 0 is employing 6 1200 men in the mines mills and si smelter nelter the morning mi mine mineah neat at mullan an has men the hercules company is employing men in its mine at burke and its mill at wallace the hecla company with a mine at burke and mills at gem and wallace is employing t men the tamarack mine at nine mile and the mill at frisco in burke canyon employs men it is estimated that additional men are employed in the smaller mines the annual meeting and election of officers of the montana idaho copper company recently held at spokane wash reelected elected re the following directors and officers 11 1 1 F debower of new york president john L dirks of spokane vice president and W J kirby of spokane secretary and treas treasurer ufer obese with george B may of tekoa and otis hall of spokane constitute the directors the company is engaged in carrying out ou an extensive plan of development determined upon more than three years ago by driving a tunnel projected to extend nearly feet over feet of which has al ready nady been bored into the mountain from a point near adair a station on the milwaukee raJ railroad road the work on the tunnel is going on steadily at the rate of feet a month the new railroad rates from coeur dalene points to the northport North port and east helena smelters shelters sm elters effect a big saving on the higher grade ores and under the least favorable conditions are 50 cents lower a ton than the old rates while the greatest saving per ton is the ores chiefly affected are the hercules and tamarack custer going to northport North port and the company ore and that odthe of the leasers leaders in the morning mine owned by the federal company which goes to east helena the new rates are 3 per ton for 30 ore and increase 25 cents for each 10 increase in value of the ore up to for ore above there is a flat charge of 5 the old rates were per ton for ore under 60 for ore between 60 and 65 and between 65 and the new rate for 70 ore is 4 while the new rate on 50 ore is as against the old rate of |