Show IDAHO the bullion mining company in the couer calenes dA lenes will resume operations as soon as weather permits undismayed by costs of mining or the price of metals the callahan zinc lead company of the coeur calenes dA lenes has started a shaft to reach an additional feet of depth according to surveys allowing for the dip and strike of the ore the ore body should be cut within the next feet officers of the north bunker hill mining company declare de eldrO ina in a letter receive cl by stockholders holders recently the property is in the kellogg section of the coeur dalene district with the wage scale reduced somewhat and many idle miners eager to secure and retain jobs the mine managers of the coeur calenes dA lenes claim that they are able to get at least 40 per cent more work for the same money required a few months ago one of the largest strikes in the pine creek district was made recently on the sydney group adjoining the nabob property seven miles southeast of kellogg according to L M gay director the ore expose posed d carries good values in lead and zinc and a small silver content wage reductions affecting approximately 2000 employees of mines and smelters shelters sm elters in the coeur dalene mining district of of northern idaho has been announced they amount to 50 cents a day for mine employees and 75 cents for smelter men the reductions which become effective may 1 will make the wages of miners to a day and those of smelt ermen to i during the week ending april 15 the bunker hill and sullivan smelter has shipped ounces of silver to the united states mint at denver this is the second large shipment of silver during the last two weeks the smelter is operating one furnace and handling tons of ore a day this ore coming from the hecla caledonia bunker hill and sullivan and a few leasers leaders on big creek the new caledonia mining company is pushing development work as rapidly as possible with a crew of six men working two eight hour shifts at present the work is confined to crosscutting cross cutting the vein recently struck at a depth of feet fee t which carried values in silver and lead the vein was entered from the hanging wall side and has been crosscut cross cut twenty feet with no indication of the development work has started on the chilko mining and milling companas Comp anys group of eleven claims nine miles north of hayden lake within two months a two drill compressor will be installed so that work will be done by nike machine hine instead of hand the other drill will be used to start a tunnel feet lower on the vein which is expected to cut a chimney of ore which was struck in the present tunnel not far from the mouth indications Indication sare are that the orewell ore will improve to good shipping grade in the next fifty to sixty feet the closing of the copper smelters shelters sm elters at anaconda mont has in no way affected the construction work of the anaconda copper milling company holdings at conda idaho where its large phosphate mines are situated the camp is seven miles north of soda springs already the utah construction company has completed a seven mile spur to the phosphate beds A of men is at ab work at atthe the phosphate mine doing development work and putting up buildings the hecla mine will continue to operate for the present in the hope that conditions will change so that it will be possible to mine at a profit and thus avoid a shutdown according to a decision reached at a shareholders meeting held recently at spokane last years board of directors was reelected elected re the officers are J F mccarthey wallace idaho president W J C wakefield spokane vice president mrs sarah E smith chicago F J kipp carl landsee milwaukee wis dr norman los angeles directors L E hanley renamed secretary the sunshine mining company of kellogg operating on dig big creek will start construction st of a fifty ton capacity mill at a cost of and is planning other extensive improvements and development according to E C tousley secretary and treasurer the yankee boy and yankee girl groups of fourteen claims situated on dig big creek seven miles east of kellogg have been taken over on lease and bond by the sunshine mining company and approximately fifty men are employed in addition to the mill an assay plant will be built a seventy five horsepower motor and considerable machinery installed the sunshine company has considerable ore reserve which has a high cont content elit of silver assays essays on shipments recently made to the bunker hill and sullivan and east helena smelters shelters sm elters ran between and ounces of silver to the ton the mine is shipping three cars of high grade ore a month the officers are george kabel president william F P newton vice dent E C tousley secretary and treasurer |