Show IDAHO work will be resumed on the eagle mountain companas Comp anys property in the near future the mine is located on the idaho montana divide east of burke the national copper mining company Compan yin in the coeur calenes dA lenes has a crew of men at work cleaning out the lower tunnel where a bad cave occurred last winter reports from mullan are to the effect that many of the lessees lessels at the hunter mine are finding large pockets of high grade silver ore in the old workings of the mine several carloads have been shipped from these leases with satisfactory results one shift a day is driving a crosscut from the bottom of the incline shaft in the north bunker hill mine in the coeur calenes dA lenes the crosscut is to locate a ledge which the company hopes to strike in about forty days work is progressing at the rate of five feet a day A new power drill has recently been purchased for the clorinda mine near clarks fork for tunnel work the life of one of these drills in the clorinda formation is nearly 1000 feet the one being discarded having done feet the company expects to strike the big vein in about feet more diore of tunnel v en it will be ready to ship it is understood that ahat the lawrence mine in the same district will soon resume work A two cent dividend on marsh stock payable june 20 to shareholders of record on june 10 was declared by the newly elected trustees of the marsh consolidated this will amoun mines company recently to approximately and will leave I 1 in a the neighborhood of in the company the last la treasury for development work years officers were reelected re elected edovard edwar pohlman president J V pohlman treasurer joseph mccarthy secretary secreta and gushing cushing moore trustee all of spokane the t on machine drills are in operation creek ere lookout mountain property on pine was installation of power near kellogg completed recently and active devel develop opulent the work started the drills are in use in ID lower crosscut tunnel which has beer been el tended feet toward the ledge on the i foot level with the new equipment and shift feet of ground can be broken per rapid progress made in extending the crosscut to the vein on this level in the upper workings the lookout vein disclosed a strong show showing flig of lead silver ores in carbonate form across a 25 foot ledge and to reach this at greater depth the present tunnel was started the alhambra concentrator on elk creek three miles southeast of kellogg is to have its capacity increased to handle tons of mine ore daily the entire mill will be remodeled and the work will be completed about june 1 according to stanly A easton baston president an addition of jigs rolls and classifiers will be made to the flotation machines now in use the tube mill is being re lined these improvements were necessitated by the recent strike of lead silver ore on the crescent group and upon completion active mining operations will commence at this time about fourteen men are employed in development work on the alhambra and crescent properties large chunks of rich gold bearing ore was received by W W johnson peyton building spokane secretary of the giant ledge mining company from its property in the coeur calenes dA lenes four miles above murray the ore comes from under the old gold shaft where rich ore was found several years ago several weeks ago the ore was struck in the north drift and was followed parallel to the ore shoot for thirty five or forty feet then a crosscut of the shoot was started and continued fourteen feet tests are being made of the ore which will show heavy gold value with some lead and silver the company sank a shaft feet below the creek level and from the bottom of the shaft has drifted both north and south in the south drift continued feet three ore shoots carrying strong gold values were found the north drift has gone about 1000 feet to the point under the old gold shaft where the new ore shoot was encountered recently stewart campbell new state mining inspector of idaho was a visitor at spokane recently on his first trip to northern idaho in fourteen years mr campbell is a graduate of the school of mines at the university of idaho class of 1907 but has confined his mining practice to the southern part of the state mr campbell has just completed a survey of the mining properties in bonner and Doun boundary dary counties and will soon visit fisit the coeur dalene district he had just been visiting the idaho gold and ruby Dro property perty near leonia regarding this he said the plan of placer mining at this property is unique the method of saving values lues is unique and so is the method of final nal reduction A method of separating black and d gray sands has been perfected and if the new concentrating plant works as suc Gess fully on a large scale as it does in the working model it will be a new step in wacer p acer mining practice it is planned to save values in lead copper and other minerals including garnets miscalled mi rubles rubies as well as gold the bunker hill sullivan mining company has acquired the mayflower bullion mine consisting of six claims located seven miles from halley hailey in the wood river district and will commence operations within a short time equipment has been shipped and work will start at once according to stanly A easton general manager of the bunker hill sullivan the mayflower mine was originally owned by the late colonel E A wall of salt lake and the bullion property was among the holdings of the wood river gold and silver mining company the two properties were operated in 1881 and since that time have produced over ever tons of lead silver ore with a gross value of the ore taken out has shown a high silver ratio materials and equipment have been shipped to the property at present the wood river power company is building a power line from halley hailey to the mayflower bullion seven miles the ore from the property will be shipped to kellogg and handled at the bunker hill smelter |