Show BUNKER HILL BUYS BABY JO by dr J L safford ord leadore idaho may 12 one of the most important events to happen in leahi lemhi county for many years past took place here a few days ago when the bunker mill company of the coeur calenes dA lenes took over the baby jo property their representative J W gwinn has taken charge of affairs and it is mr gwinns ghinns purpose ot put the old lower tunnel in shape which has been caved in for years after which it will be driven ahead under the ore that was open ed above this will give L them at least two hundred feet of sloping ground between the two levels the bunker hill company like most big concerns feel their way carefully and make few nii mistakes stakes if in the estimation of their engineers a property justifies it the company will spend their money in opening it up and after proving it to be a mine they are willing to pay a good price for it one thing about the bunker hill company the men working for them will not be asked to wait for shipment returns for payday pay day and the merchants and others who do business with them can depend on their money when it is due it is anticipated that before a month passes the bunker hill will acquire another property for it is a well known fact that dr R N bell thinks very highly of the kimmel mine and the two properties can be developed and mined from one central point at a great saving in cost the kimmel management reached the of the first contact some time ago and are still crosscutting cross cutting to the north and should cut another contact in the near future 1 the there re are three distinct contacts on the surface and each one showing 1 good I surface ore and until a crosscut cross cut has been driven through all of these the owners will have but little conception of 0 the ma magnitude Z of their ore bodies should the other two parallel contacts prove to be as good as the one already cut it would be the biggest t lead silver deposit ever unearthed since the beginning of time the kimmel crosscut cross cut was driven through approximately feet of ore at least eighty feet of which is good mill feed and with an up to date plant of large size the greater part of the balance of the big vein would pay to mill as it can all be broken by the caving system besides depth shows a better grade ore or a higher concentration of values rather for a sev enty foot sunk on the crosscut cross cut level shows higher values in lead silver as depth is attained the bunker hill company will undoubtedly settle this question by installing a hoist and sinking several hundred feet W F mills a diamond drill man from salt lake city has become considerably interested te in the mining game here mr mills has bonded several groups of claims and after a hurried trip to salt lake returned again for the purpose of perfecting his holdings dr robert N bell state mine inspector for idaho spent a week here in company with h J W gwinn from the staff of the bunker hill engineers dr bell acknowledged I 1 being very much impressed with tho the great showing here |