Show IDAHO the iron dyke property near homestead claims ore carrying values of 23 a ton in silver with a 20 foot ledge e and is equipped with a ton flotation plant but is not operating at present the copper syndicate properties in the same district are developing through b h a 2500 foot tunnel with crosscuts cross cuts and the vein vein is is 25 feet in width and carries values of 25 to the ton in silver gold and some copper frank M smith director of the bunker hill sullivan mining concentrating b company with offices in the paulsen building spokane wash has recently returned from the porthill Por thill district of idaho where lie he visited the idaho continental mining companas Comp anys property and reports the company shipping about twenty tons ions of ore daily with about 1800 tons of concentrates on the dump ready for shipment several persons from spokane sp okane wash and attended the annual meeting of the stockholders of the beer creek mining company at wallace recently the company does not expect to resume extensive development before spring directors chosen are L L sweet wallace president J F forrest otis olis orchards vice vice president preside rii Y joseph F morton wallace secretary treasurer frank R curran butte and john norman st regis montana with organization of the galena mining company the chicago boston mining company and the killbuck mining company two well known organizations of the coeur t A lenes will pass out of existence the galena company lias has been organized to take over the other two the new company will have shares of which will go to stockholders of the chicago boston and to stockholders of the killbuck the callahan zinc lead company of the coeur calenes dA lenes will control the new organization as it did both of the others forest service men put up a bitter fight against the I 1 echo abo mining company a fight which has lasted for years and after most of the stockholders had despaired of winning win and most of the directors had left the country the forest service men finally lost their case before the secretary of the interior and the company learns that it A can secure the patent it applied for it holds mining claims in the burke district of the coeur calenes dA lenes its claims are among the oldest in that region and mining men say the property is promising without officers or directors sufficient to hold a board meeting a justice of the peace has called a stockholders meeting to be held on the of this month at last report 0 A olin was president and G B harrington arrington ll secretary treasurer F D mcdonald of minneapolis returned recently recently y from a trip to the property of the idaho gold ruby mining company near leonia two years ago he spent a week at the property after lie he and other eastern men had become interested development accomplished since I 1 was there two years ago has been marvelous reports mr mcdonald this is particularly so of the equipment which has been installed for handling huge volumes of gravel in the last sixty days work has been confined to cementing the creek bottom for runs in future years this work has been necessary to bring the values into the sluice box with about 80 men on the payrolls this work should be completed within a few weeks |