Show in nearby states ARIZONA the magma copper company superior has become a member of the copper and brass research association the man made fire in the sulphide ore bodies of the shannon copper company is still burning fiercely according to william Saunder cock superintendent in charge at gleeson when officials decide that the fire has accomplished its purpose the area will be flooded and the copper waters which have passed through this burned area will be pumped to the surface and subjected to leaching according to J A cavers president of the western chemicals inc camp verde operators and owners of the sodium sulphate plant at that city orders have been booked daring the last two weeks aggregating he added that the demand for the sulphate is growing at a rate that will compel large additions to the plant and a doubling of its output in a very short time dae lantz is superintendent in charge of operations root and will ship their first carload of ore re from the dairell mines in the cerbat carbat country this coming week says the kingman miner of the they have a force of men working and are opening 6 some very good ore carrying values in gold silver and lead this property has produced in years past some excellent ore and the showings at present indicate there will be a continued movement of shipping ore from the property root and have a lease and bond on the property which belongs to M B dudley BRITISH COLUMBIA the smelter of the consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting company of canada at trail received tons of ore from october 15 to 21 of this amount the knob hill and quila mines in stevens county wash furnished tons A quarter interest in the bell mine near beaverdell has been bought by harry lee in charge of operations for the federal mining smelting smelling Sm elting company in that district mr mcintosh an and d a former partner claim to have removed fortunes in silver lead ore from the mine trail the smelter city of the Kootenay Koote nays sy is is today a busy community with the consolidated mining 6 smelting smelling Sm elting company ltd working to capacity according to cordre the company has started using a huge new stack recently completed and work has been started on a second one which will replace the two smaller stacks now in use it will prove more efficient and give greater service the first payment on the purchase price for the lead queen group of mineral claims near Inver invermere In merey has been made according to reports received torn james L mckay of who entered into an agreement with W L wemple of new york city the property lies within the windermere mining division near its northern boundary at a point 30 miles northwest of invermere In the shipping station is brisco on the kootenay central branch of the C P R COLORADO manager ed chamberlain of the gold belt property better known as the silver plume tunnel says says the georgetown courier has taken a lease on the ham hamill ill tu tunnel nel property from mr schmidt mr chamberlain was in denver the firstos the week making plans for the extensive operation of his new acquirement and we look forward to most encouraging cou raging reports from this famous mine in the near future according to report the aspen smelting smelling Sm elting company aspen has completed all arrangements financial and otherwise for the turning of the hunter creek mill into a selective flotation mill of tons daily capacity this will be an exact duplicate of the flotation plant now in operation at midvale utah operated by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company R T walker field engineer for the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company and a group of several selective flotation mill experts and builders are perfecting plans and will start immediately the remodeling of the hunter hanter creek m mill just a small force of men is to be kept at the property of the kelso national company this winter and as soon as the esno permits in the spring operations at these mines will be carried on with vigor manager wilmarth who recently made a 23 ton shipment of heavy lead ore from the kelso mine states that he has about fifteen tons of steel galena ready for shipment at the josephine but that the hea heavy vy snows in that section will delay the shipment until spring this pile of ore has been carefully hand sorted and should run in the neighborhood of 70 per cent lead it is also exceptionally valuable for radio crystals and mr wilmarth is marketing a considerable amount of it for this purpose georgetown courier IDAHO the elsie K mine of Clarks fork captain A H wilson owner shipped a car of ore recently to the american smelt ing and refining company at east helena mont this car was strictly high grade handpicked hand picked ore and will run jiin around 50 ounces in silver to the ton and about 60 per cent lead the crosscut to the vein from the main shaft of the lead mine near wardner has caved along the vein since work was suspended and exposed stringers of solid galena at a depth of feet according to reports received at spokane from herman marquardt secretary of wallace the lincoln mining company a mile and a half belo below w osborne started its mill recently on a one shift basis it is reported that four feet of high grade milling ore was opened on the foot level the property is on the south side ore belt of the coeur calenes dA lenes a region which has been rapidly coming forward in the last two years and in which the sunshine on big creek is one of the best properties the tunnel of the option mining company on nine mile creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes is now in more than 1000 feet and approaching an the point where the vein is expected the tunnel is feet below the tunnel above and a variation in the dip of the vein may throw the v vein ein closer in so that it will be struck before expected or out to as great a distance as feet beyond the point where estimates place the vein mining and milling conditions will be improve improved ed by of tons tolls of zinc that the shipment next summer so concentrates yearly from the coeur dalene region will be possible according to frank M smith smelter director of offices in the paulson the bunker hill sullivan with the mining bureau of while addressing spokane building I 1 mr smith chamber of commerce recently the spokane mine of the sulli had in mind larger output from the star le van mining company which is undergoing development and of increases from the several other shippers including the constitution highland ahland hi surprise S u rp rise nabob sidney and tamarack custer the nabob is the only shipper of crude ore but the constitution may ship crude in addition to its concentrates increasing activity is being shown at the mine of the callahan zinc lead company in the coeur calenes dA lenes according to manager C W newton who says if the price of zinc remains as high as it now is the callahan probably will v i resume operations of its mill on a one shift basis in the spring the company has considerable ore extending from the foot level to levels above if operations are renewed exploration for additional ore also will be undertaken the grey eagle mining company leases of what is known locally as the kelley mine four miles west of bellevue have just shipped their second car of silver lead ore within the month electric machinery for the active development of this mine during the winter months has been installed large bodies of low grade ore are being opened up which will eventually require the erection of a mill two shifts are now being worked employing between fifteen and twenty men forty miners are now employed at the highland sur prise consolidated company on pine creek according to reports received at spokane from manager A L dempster who reports the mine and mill in splendid shape for a continuous heavy production the ore responds readily to treatment in the companas comp anys mill which has been enlarged enlar 6 ed and equipped with the latest zinc lead handling machinery the management will increase the output until 2000 tons per er month are treated M F howe is managing an enterprise on moose creek opening up the rocky mountain placer 6 ground round which lies just below the well known mcnutt diggings belonging to john E mullen says the salmon herald he has a force of several men installing a flume and other necessary equipment for the work and will put on a power shovel with which to open up tip a capacious tail race the shovel has been built at the salmon river power light companas Comp anys plant at salmon and it consists in the main of a 45 horse power gas engine which will operate a bucket of pounds capacity and will undoubtedly do the work intended W W business and mining man of kellogg and mike savage a prominent mining b man of kellogg who have been working a valuable lease on the old last chance mine at wardner have taken over the interests of the jack waite mine which were held by the estate of E C wisby of oakland calif former president of the comi company any and the interests of robert sheffels of spokane the jack waite is at the head of ea eale eagle 6 le creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes and has a 13 mile haul to the railroad at prichard in the past it shipped carloads of ore running 60 per cent lead although shipments were profitable th the elack lack of a mill and the long haul materiale mate materially riall y reduced the com companas comp p anys earnings 6 the washington water power company of spokane is making a survey of a route for a lower line which the jack waite desires built to its property in the spring MONTANA mines and droppings crop pings in the lead zinc silver part of tile the troy district of montana were inspected by engineers on the staff of the anaconda copper mining company recently according to word received at spokane four days were passed in the survey boston interests have purchased the entire stock issue and property of the retaken mining company in the neihart district the jib consolidated at basin has installed a centrifugal tri fugal pump at its tailings dam and is pumping its high grade tailings back into the mill the new east tail shaft is down feet NEVADA joralemon and hamilton who have been diamond drilling the old mines on treasure hill at hamilton have suspended work for the winter ira B joralemon who was in iii reno recently said that some more work may be done in the spring A huge nugget weighing four and a half ounces made up tip of gold and quartz was brought into winnemucca a few days ago by john handley the old prospector had picked up tip the chunk of virgin gold in the dunn glen range east of winnemucca the value of the gold is estimated at 75 the nugget is almost three inches long and only a spot or two of quartz is embedded in the pure gold the republic mine artine W in the chief district is now shipping pin another ten ton lot of gold silver lead ore taken out in the development of the mine at the foot level says the pioche record this shipment will make the sixth lot shipped from the mine during the past year the property is is owned jointly by L L burt and J W mathews of caliente and the production to date has been ampro approximately x irately 2500 lead being the principal value geor george geore e A kervin for several years in in charge of tile the mammoth smelter of the U S smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining minina a company compa ny at kennett kenne ft calif has been appointed superintendent of the thompson omeler of the mason valley mines company and spent part of last week at the plant in company pany with emmett D boyle general manager for the conr con pany the smelter has been reconditioned and is virtually virtual y ready to be blown in with the resumption of mining operations nevada mining press A real bonanza ore body has been found on the 1650 e f foot oot level of the con virginia an mine that is considered very v of y promising by president zeb kendall A narrow etreal astrea rich ore has has been developed and has widened into a full ju with face oi of quartz that assays essays 45 per ton in silver and gold inen assays essays as high as from the richest streaks three old are opening up the and if they do not 1711 run with into i col workings which has occurred before in this mine e w 0 ore sid erable frequency a substantial amount of shipping the e may be extracted the ore is wider than the dritt d rift and a extent of the strike has not y yet et been determined who own owl ar and A kiy dave irish and T E wessel in ely the dolly varden mine in the currie district were to ok r recently and reported that during twelve days two inen mi der and out thirty five tons of ore without the use of PO P caine with each days development the mineral content content is for worked di stronger the vein now being wor K of 30 feet feet wide and has been drifted on for a distance batill face ce from the foot level of the foot shaft 12 ounces ces pies carry 28 8 10 per cent lead and from 10 to id tive litY y of silver all solid sand carbonate in ittoli a be ready feet practically all shipping ore A shipment dij mil tile dolly as soon as hoisting facilities can be installed nevada the varden mine is located only fifteen miles fron from northern railroad with a downhill down hill haul all the way this favorable location adds very much to the value of the property and with these new developments it will soon become one of the big enterprises of the district the owners feel very much elated over their prospects and are pushing arrangements range ments for enlarged production as rapidly as possible control of the super six mining company operating at royston twenty eight miles northwest nort hvest of tonopah To has just been taken over by S F brock death valley clay magnate R C peters president of the peters trust company of omaha gilbert beesemyer Be esmyer president of the central bank of hollywood R S lytle of the doheny oil interests and nat P wilson of the corona mines of mexico they also acquired control of the eagle claim of the hudson mining milling company of salt lake formerly operated by the canadian leasing company it was from the eagle claim that a carload of ore was shipped about a year ago that returned per ton washington frederick keffer mining engineer of spokane spoke on pioneer days in boundary district british columbia at the monthly dinner dinne of the columbia section of the american institute of mining engineers held in spokane recently the emma mine company of spokane has filed with the secretary of state at olympia amended articles of incorporation increasing z its capital from to the company owns the emma robert and rochester view properties in madison county montana spokane men have incorporated the triple ledge mining company with capital stock of and will develop the property northeast of chewelah Chew elah wash near the united copper between bear and Chew alah creek A A mitchell and J H harruff of S spokane p okane are the owners A special meeting of the chloride queen mining company was held in the office of the company at spokane recently to consider increase in capital stock of the corporation po ration from shares to shares of 10 cents par value the property i is 15 miles east of colville st steven even nty it has recently installed a mill for treating its ore costing the regular monthly dividend of will be disbursed by the gladstone mountain mining company on november 10 to stockholders of record on october 31 according to announcement received at the spokane 0 office recently this is at the rate of half cent a share the forthcoming comin 9 disbursement will be the ninth and will b ring bring t the grand total to all paid in consecutive months the pine mine is near leadpoint leafpoint Lead point stevens county wash operations are directed by dan D dodd manager the proposed tram over the mountain from sidney nine mine may be extended so that it will 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