Show mammoth in ff ledge of unusually high grade lead silver ore is is reported tapped in livingston mine custer county idaho after driving a 1300 foot tunnel which was completed early last month the livingston mines corporation operating in custer county idaho encountered the ledge for which the tunnel was driven and at last report had encountered a body of lead silver ore and had crosscut cross cut it for thirty eight feet twenty five jeet feet of this ore is reported to sample around 60 per cent lead and as many ounces in silver per ton toil the balance of vein material is said to carry around 30 per cent lead and 30 oz silver while a fire assay test of the entire 38 feet is reported to have given 53 per cent lead and 50 oz silver per ton stamping the strike as one of great importance the greatest event in the mining history of central idaho and a genuine boom builder for custer county ten fifty ton carloads of the ore were mined in prosecuting the crosscut cross cut and according to report the hanging wall of the vein had not been reached the ore taken out was calculated as being worth the mackay miner and the hailey times news miner have been devoting much space to the discovery and the news has been all over the country the property is located about fifty miles due north of hailey a few miles south of the mouth of squaw creek a tributary of the salmon river near clayton and a few miles below where henry ford is prospecting the old red bird mines the distance from mackay in a northwesterly direction is also about fifty miles and it is said that notwithstanding the lateness of the season prospectors and claim hunters are scouring the country for miles around from its accounts of what has been happening the mining review culls the following from the mackay miner strike proves vein for 2200 feet the tunnel caught the vein when driven into the mountain 1300 feet and taps the ore on the strike of the vein at a depth of 2200 the vein is opened up at intervals between that level and the apex by a series of short tunnels driven in sheer rocky cliffs and by shafts to shallow depths proving the continuity of the vein this early work of exploration was performed by the livingston brothers throughout a period of 40 years and from which openings these men had a return that enabled them to live in i i n affluence all this time the tonna tonnage r e developed in this strike is almost beyond calculation as is is a also iso its value so staggering and bewildering are the results of even a conservative estimate engineers place the value of the ore in sight at to what further depth the great vein will go no one knows but the granite formation which alone would cut it off is a mile way ore zone first struck two months ago the ore zone was first encountered about two months ago about the time of the death of the late james walker the managing director of the livingston mines cor corpora tion following his death it was only recently that operations were resumed in the portion of the companas comp anys holding where this strike was made A few weeks ago a 10 foot breast of ore was crosscut cross cut and followed for a short distance along what at that time appeared to be the hanging hang ingvall wall but which was broken through about the first of december disclosing the immense deposit three shifts of nine men each are taking out a 50 ton railroad car each 24 hours in driving the crosscut cross cut which is yielding values of about 1000 each tunnel foot ground prospected for forty years this property says robert N bell former state mine iu inspector of idaho who has been writing up that section for a special edition of the mackay miner embraces a large group of patented lode claims laid out across railroad ridge at an all elevation of over 10 feet above sea level this property was discovered by the livingston brothers 40 years ago and carried by the family for that length of time principally through the unbounded faith and persistency sis tency of A S livingston who has survived his years of strenuous effort in the property to a successful disposition of it at a good figure to the present company mr livingston during his long tenure of ownership traced this vein system for two miles across the rugged mountain slopes with 15 or 20 shallow development develop men t openings from which high grade ore was extracted and shipped these shipments totaling 20 in number varying from 5 to 30 tons never ran under 40 ounces silver and 40 per cent lead while some of it went a great deal higher mr livin livingston is still hale and hearty at 70 spends his summers on salmon and lost river and is highly gratified at the successful outcome of his years of faith in the deposit squaring away for greater doings this week the highway district officials have a force of men and tractors 0 opening p ening up the walker way a road that was built by the company to cut out one summit between the mines and mackay the fleet of trucks will now leave the highway at chilly for this cutoff cut off and it is thought the road can be kept open all winter at least a great effort will be made to do so the hydroelectric hydro electric power plant of the livingston mines corporation is now inadequate to supply the mill and mines with the necessary power especially during the winter alne months and an order for a diesel engine has been placed of 0 sufficient capacity to hook up the plant for the present of this one of the greatest ore strikes in the history 0 the lines tor for the s sec west means development along many tion especially in the way of power and road work already alarca y the management has arranged for widening the ane wall ya j way to 16 feet as soon as weather permits and addition additional hydroelectric hydro electric possibilities are being investigated railroad extension expected c L T to the extension of the mackay branch of the 0 S 3 the howell ranch 30 miles from the he present terminus is not at all unlikely with the coming of spring the r jaray ranch is at the mouth of the canyon canyo 11 where the walker its ith hits the dugway road through this canyon pass IV wi comparatively low summit calleon already a lower tunnel site farther down me the j from the tramway head house has been surveyed and which h are being perfected to start upon the long tunnel abild will give another thousand feet of depth on the strike s tn of two also afford a working tunnel for the ore production earea adjoining 21 mines the little fall and the transvaal 11 and ana and tu dually ally perhaps penetrate the old silver rule Ru leleJ territory a are the other claims of the livingston group condit conditions f ideal for this piece of work with an abundance 0 water etc at hand for mining purposes great future of district predicted tees a the development that has taken place here guadal g if b but bit it great future not only for the livingston group itse H ida jo ho for deep mining generally throughout the cen central ahead 0 of o mineral empire there is a long life of production experienced need ill the livingston vein alone A miner long af pf ile t oil n the the be butte and coeur dalene mining districts that dump made the remark that the child was yet unborn u of the e would live to see the day when the ore resources 1 vein were exhausted |