Show IDAHO development is proceeding on the mascot mine near halley hailey negotiations for purchase of the mineral zone mine two miles north of elk city are reported the orogrande Oro grande gold mining alining Com company sixty four miles southeast of stites is increasing the capacity of its mill twenty men are employed the south fork mining company near elk city plans to install a mill at the river and open the property by tunnel at depth the tunnel will add feet of ground the swastika mining company in the dixie camp of central idaho has widened its ore body from a fraction of an inch to six feet of good ore at a foot point in the new drift the major portion of the six feet of ore carries paying values the bear creek mining company in the coeur calenes dA lenes is rapidly removing ore from its workings the first carload of concentrates coi contained Rained 61 per cent lead and six ounces of silver to the ton shipments will be made at the rate of a carload a week the expends expendi expenditure ture of including the construction of a 1000 foot tunnel in the clarinda copper mine at sandpoint standpoint Sand point will be made during the coming year the tunnel will be driven at a point feet above the pen dorceille dO lake level and will tap the veins in the property above this level the construction of a ton concentrator and ope opening ning of new ore I 1 bodies is being done by the giant ledge mining company at its property in the coeur calenes dA lenes ore recently mined is reported to have assayed 36 and 39 t to 0 the ton in gold copper and lead the ore has been followed for 1400 feet from the shaft and ore is in both faces sixteen men are employed field parties from the state bureau of mines and geology will be at work in many parts of the state this summer according to francis A thomson dean of the idaho school of mines at the university of idaho moscow examination of ore deposits and the treatment of ore will be made the carple mine a copper silver and gold property at cabinet has been reopened ore is being brought to the surface and dumped shipping is expected to start soon the shaft is down more than feet and a tunnel has been driven fifty feet in order to strike veins at a foot level two shifts are being worked copper bullion said to be 98 per cent pure in the shape of ingots ingols is now being produced at the pope shenon mill sample blocks of it are exhibited about town this copper is produced by the new bradford process which promises to revolutionize methods of extraction in many copper mines of the west salmon idaho herald an unusual strike of copper ore at the alagy verdun property at darks clarks fork is reported to average 70 to the ton with small silver content the strike is a six teen inch vein of peacock copper which was reached at a vertical depth of thirty feet in a tunnel that runs sixty feet into the mountain work was only recently started on the property sinking of a shaft feet deep has been completed at the commonwealth mine at hayden creek near hayden lake preparations are being made to place a station set on the foot level the vein is twenty feet from the shaft on this level the foot level is feet under the apex the vein is 24 2412 Ys feet wide on the foot level where considerable ore is being disclosed the montana idaho copper company operating at adair has reached the point in its drive into the mountain range at this point the tunnel lacks less than feet of its objective which is a point under the monitor shaft the mine is operating two shifts and advancing nine to ten feet a day the tunnel is being driven outside ot of the vein ground is good and needs no timbering although considerable timbering was done before this locality was reached the silver triumph mining company operating near hailey has tapped a new body 0 of ore six to fifteen feet wide one to two feet of it is solid galena containing high values in silver the first samples contained in silver and lead to the ton the ore was disclosed in cleaning out an old cave and has been found to a height of seventy feet above the upper tunnel while its dip indicates can be found in a raise of 0 feet from the main tunnel three parallel veins lie in a zone feet wide the nabob consolidated mining company in the coeur calenes dA lenes has advanced its main tunnel feet since work was started in may says B N sharp manager of the property the last feet is in ore the face is thirty feet beyond the point where a raise will be started and the tunnel will be continued to the end of the ore body the work on the mill is proceeding and we have the equipment for the electric haulage system to be installed in the mine but will not install it until work in the tunnel is c completed mple ted |