Show new di discovery near leadore ida word has reached salmon idaho that a vast body of 0 high grade lead silver ore was just recently discovered on the great contact as it outcrops on little eight mile this discovery which has resulted in the location of five full claims shows 70 per cent lead sulphide at the surface in massive blocks and in association with auver iced eted oxides and carbonates the elmira group of claims for such is its name lies about eight miles distant along the contact from the baby joe and the ore in that vicinity runs higher in silver than the ore of the baby joe or kimmel the assays essays of this ore showing ounces and better of silver per ton A carload of this ore would net the shipper about says the salmon herald jas corcoran made discovery jas as corcoran made the discovery and attended to the work but he is backed by J H coles T J stroud T P dunlap and wm win kadletz all of whom are in on the new find fred pratt and johnny britt returning monday from leadore visited the ground and brought to salmon about pounds of the ore which amazes the beholder with its apparent richness it outcrops strong and a ten foot open cut which is all the work that has been done to date has yielded about pounds of the ore it is the intention to make a shipment to the smelter right away and for this enterprise an auto truck can run right up to the works to the casual observer it looks like the biggest thing that the leadore district has yet given to the public near the sellers mine this new discovery is just across little eight mile from the claims of pete and geo sellers on which they have been working patiently and diligently for the past year they sunk a shaft feet deep and from the bottom of it they cross feet through quartz porphyry before encountering the ore they then ran through sixty feet of low grade milling lead ore and have a fine showing without a company to back them the sellers boys have done more work in that country than any other two men in it coal deposits near the lead A marvelous geological paradox has been found on the leadore group of claims three miles north of the baby joe and also belonging to jas corcoran and others directly over the contact the tunnel runs through an eighty foot vein of coal this coal lately pronounced bituminous by the geologists of the government has been known for a long time to exist but it has merely been scratched in the workings and has been mistaken for manganese oxide this discovery will make necessary the rewriting of the textbooks on geology inasmuch as such an association of lead and coal has never before been known or believed to be possible other work progressing the baby joe company has lately let a contract to drive a foot crosscut in the lower tunnel the kimmel is also working a good bunch of men and both these properties are shipping ore |