Show IDAHO stewart campbell mine inspector of idaho made an ai inspection spec tion trip through the coeur dalene mining district recently n and reports great activities the hamburg american mine has made a strike of good galena in its lower tunnel according to reports the property is on the little north fork of the coeur dalene river the marsh mines consolidated is resuming operations that were interrupted by the fire at burke july 13 the installation stal lation of ventilating pipe is proceeding and when completed the work of drifting on the vein will be resu resumed nied directors for the idaho gold ruby mining company meeting in spokane recently reported that they had decided to put the companas comp anys operations on abash a cash paying basis 0 E bender president said that labor would now be paid in cash instead of with notes since june the copper king mining company at mullan has bas been diamond drilling portions of its ground not prospected by the lower tunnel workings the work has been in charge of the diamond drill contracting company of spokane the copper king company has expended about in this work and the results have been more favorable than expected another carload of ore will be shipped from the western union mine in the coeur dalene immediately according to herman rossi of wallace managing director much important underground work has been done recently to lessen the cost of mining drifting on the ore is proceeding and the appearance of the property is said to be unusually good at t this his time two of the main buildings of the hecla mining company have been roofed recently according to reports received at u spokane and all other work is proceeding rapidly indications are that this big rn mine ine of the coeur calenes dA lenes will again be in I 1 operation before the first of the year one of the buildings will I 1 house the hoist and compressor and the other is for I 1 the blaek black smith shop machine shop and warehouse two strikes in the giant ledge mine three miles north of burke and two miles in a northerly direction from the hercules 1 m mine ine have been reported at spokane recently development work on oil the giant ledge is being pushed john J stanford J consulting engineer en b ineer of spokane said we are working w two machine drills one is in the crosscut from the shaft on the foot level the other extends southeast in the drift 0 on the same level work will be resumed on the now famous star tunnel in the coeur calenes dA lenes at practically the same time that the hecla company resumes operations in its own property according to james F mccarthy manager of the hecla company the th star tunnel is being run from the hecla workings into the star stai ground the operation being the jont joint undertaking of hecla and bunker hill interests it is the biggest development enterprise now in progress in the coeur calenes dA lenes attorney donald A callahan of wallace director of the callahan zinc lead company and president of the galena mining company was a visitor at spokane wash recently the galena is doing a good deal of development work which will be materially hastened as soon as the new hoist ordered this summer is installed said mr callahan this will be done at once we have added considerably to our housing facilities for men and will be able to increase our force when the hoist is in |