Show IDAHO the north bunker hill mining company in the coeur calenes dA lenes is drifting west on the big vein and is near an ore shoot according to recent reports two shifts are working and advancing six to eight feet each twenty four hours the ajax mining company of spokane has started work on oil the mile of tunnel which it will drive at a cost of to reach a point directly under the ore shoot in the upper works the property is in the hercules neighborhood of the coeur ealenes dA IA lenes the hecla mining company recently declared a dividend of which is at the rate of 17 cents a share this disbursement bur increases the dividends for the year to and the grand total of dividend payments to operations are proceeding steadily at the properties of the company situated at burke and gem the blue bird mine located on blacktail mountain which shipped ore last spring has entered into negotiations with the northern navigation company to ship a carload of ore every week the vein that is being worked has widened from a few inches to three feet coleman and ward are the present lessees lessels les sees the east drift of the imperial mine in the burke district of the coeur calenes dA lenes has been extended over feet the full wid h is said to be well mineralized with lead crystals and galena scattered through the ledge matter the drift is about aco feet from the point where the management expects to encounter an ore body opened several years ago according to reports one of the richest strikes ever made in the property has recently been encountered in the bay horse mine eight miles west of huntington and miles from boise expert mining men familiar with silver properties claim that the strike is destined to develop into one of the largest in the history of the west there is now blocked out in ill the bay horse mine large quantities of ore that runs 50 ounces silver to the ton reports from wallace indicate that the recent strike of four f feet beet of ore on the foot level in the chicago boston mine two miles west of that town is about the most important in ill the coeur calenes dA lenes made recently assays essays of the four feet of ore returned per cent lead and ounces in silver and in the middle of the four feet is about one foot of ore that assayed 48 49 4 8 per cent lead and 42 ounces of silver the strike Is is i feet east of the shaft and gives a depth of about 1200 feet in sampling ore to determine the character of mill to be built the giant ledge mining company of spokane has received word from the property in the coeur calenes dA lenes that average samples from a are showing better than hall when the tunnel went through the ore body samples of this ore or have been sent in ill to our office in the peyton building spokane and are the best we have had said W W johnson secretary secretary t treasurer rea surer it is fine looking ore and I 1 am sure will run better than 50 to the ton we have several shoots of ore that will be sampled these slopes are on the foot level and as the same kind of ore was found in going down from the surface for feet we are confident the ore extends from the surface to the tunnel level |