Show in norby states ARIZONA the transcendent mining company near walker has resumed sinking upon the redcliffe vein A pay streak four feet in width carrying gold silver and copper to the extent of 50 per ton is being followed the superior and boston copper company T R drummond president globe is mining a carload of ore daily from the east extension of the dewey vein which carries 2 per cent copper and 15 to 20 ounces of silver per ton sinking upon the property prop efty of the barbara mountain Mounta ift mining company near mayer is proceeding at the rate of five feet every twenty four hours superintendent smith says that the foot shaft started last month will be completed by august 1st ast horn silver has been opened in the old gunsight gunfight Gun sight mine near cedar by brown and carney who are reopening the old producer about three tons of high grade said mohave to have values above ounces of silver have been sacked for shipment to the sampler J E russell and george potter Potte of prescott have located a body of antimony ore stibnite in character and are now preparing a carload for shipment ore as taken from the prospect runs 63 per cent antimony the ledge varies from four inches to one foot in width the arizona redlands copper company has taken over two claims from A L blumenauer in the mayer section this property is equipped with hoist hois compressor and a full complement of camp buildings the new owner says work of development will commence june 1st ast the sheldon mining company walker has been dumping its tailings into lanch creek since its mill bezan operations in december placer mine miners r and ranchers further down the stream have made demands for damages from the tons of slimes deposited upon their lands the verde mines and milling company W F burns general manager prescott reports the cutting of ore during the sinking of the shaft the vein was uncovered on the foot level extending the full width of the shaft A station will willbe be cut at this point and the ore drifted on it is reported that resumption of work upon a large scale by the mining company will take place before july alst 1st this company took over the zero property in the hassayampa Hassa I yampa district this property in the past was a producer of high hig h grade silver ore but has not been worked since 1893 A large tonnage of low grade ore is in sight the united verde extension mining company jerome has absolutely denied the recent rumor of mining troubles underground statin stating there has been no movement of the ground and no danger of fire the company states that these reports which caused verde Fx extension tension tock stock to fall several points and created considerable uneasiness among stockholders were without foundation the navaho lead mining Com company finzi win has started development of the otsego mine in the mccracken mountain section the compa company riv has sixteen men at work ind this number will be increased as work progresses T A moore president of this new company is known as the builder of the moore theater the washington hotel the arcade building and the lincoln hotel of seattle washington the belmont copper mining company formerly the north butte at superior which is being developed under the direction of chester hoatson mine mine superintendent has completed over feet of development work this includes a vertical shaft feet deep the new company took over the property on april 1 1925 and since that time work has been confined to the necessary preparations for sinking the shaft to additional depth A steel and additional equipment together with surface improvements were made A contract has been arranged for the sinking of the three combar compartment ament vertical shaft to the 1200 or 1300 foot level on completion of the shaft sinking cross cuts will be driven to the various veins ira B b joralemon Tora lemon san francisco engineer is consulting engineer for the company BRITISH COLUMBIA at a depth of 1600 feet on the vein slope of no 12 level of the whitewater white water te mine in the slocan district a fine body of silver lead ore was struck recently according to word received from the mine the new discovery is the result of advice given by R H pat stewart consulting engineer that construction work is to begin immediately on a ton tod milling plant at the eugene mine at moyie east kootenay B C to treat the tailings on the dump of that old producer is officially confirmed from the office of the consolidated mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company of canada at trail the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has secured an option on a controlling interest in the hattie gold mines located in the painkiller lake area ontario under the terms of the option which runs for four years the A S R co will pay all development expenses i install all necessary machinery and erect a to ton n mill expenditures are arc to total annually until the mine is brought to production or the option is dropped which is possible on six months notice in the event of which all machinery goes to the hattie company now that the snow is off the hills we are doing much surface work on our property the red bird mine at tine the junction of the salmon and pend orielle rivers british columbia about north of spokane said F R mining engineer of spokane wash the vein is large and the values good he added the ore is of a shipping grade oxidized with some sulphide carbonate of lead zinc and some silver samples assayed recently gave zinc 4 per cent lead 24 per cent and some silver total values over 45 the sample was taken on oil an average across the width of the ore body COLORADO the first monthly report made by lessees lessels on the governor to the ouray agent for the property discloses that a pocket has already been opened near grassroots grass roots that fairly sparkles with the yellow metal some bunches of the are estimated to be worth worth between 15 and 20 2 a pound work has been started by the andy lowe gold minin inz c company on its property near dumont not far fron idaho springs A crew of men under the direction of janies W wilson who is president of the company has started to 0 cleara out the foot tunnel run on the ledge many years ago when preliminary development work was being done the company is building a blacksmith shop which is almost completed and opening up the roads for the hauling of mine materials and later the hauling of ore it is reported from idaho springs that a rich strike has been made by rutherford and gardner operating on the republican mines company ground under lease who are reported to have opened up a dhigh grade streak assaying better than 2000 ounces silver to the ton the vein matter runs about 18 inches in width IDAHO three and a half feet of ore was opened recently on the deep tunnel level of the highland highlan d surp surprise rise mine in the pine creek district coeur dalene region th cyanide gold mining company has received returns of on its second shipment of gold and silver precipitates sent to the bunker hill smelter at kellogg the property is near bonners ferry the first shipment brought 1454 A third shipment will be made in a short time ajax mining company of tone the coeur dalene district has called a special meeting for the stockholders june 27 at burke at which it is proposed to increase the capital stock from its present to to liquidate its indebtedness and provide funds for development work use of an airplane in making an ins inspection p action trip to a mine was inaugurated two weeks ago byc by C M nicholson a mining engineer of spokane and bliss moore a civil engineer 91 neer of Lei lewiston viston the trip was made from lewiston idaho to the property of the leadore mines company at Ie leadore beadore adore in lemhi leahi county a distance by air line of miles the federal mining smelting smelling Sm elting company which owns the morning mine at mullan plans to sink to lower depths and is advertising for bids to go feet deeper with the main shaft the walls of the shaft are to be of concrete the lowest present level is 1850 feet below the main working tunnel and about 2650 feet below the surface of the mountain officers of the leonia gold mining company operating near bonners ferry expect that the first cleanup clean up of the season will take place early in july to be followed by a cleanup clean up in depte september aber or october three hundred thousand yards of dirt and gravel have been washed since sluicing began this spring or more than was done in the fourteen years the property has been worked the alma ray mining company at its annual meeting of stockholders recently at kell kellogg ogg elected these officers john H gaby president D H barnhart vice president and nd C B forbes secretary treasurer these officers cersy with tinier elmer brown and peter engle compose the board of directors plans for a resumption of development in the lower r tunnel were discussed and a one mill assessment was authorized the company owns a group of claims north of ivel loSS adjoining th the i e lombardy group on the east and the he eldorado dorado property on it the ithe he west MONTANA the snow storm silver lead company operating near troy y will complete sinking and cut a station in the latler tr part of may according to leo greenough president the e company is said to haven have made a longtime long time contract contra dt for its lead with the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company and for its zinc with the vielle montagne company of belgium under favorable terms A M chisholm iron ore operator of duluth evander B schley of moore schley new york and charles ffolliott Fio lliott railroad contractor of st paul directors of the butte midwest mining company are inspecting the com banys property in the western portion of butte during the past year the company has developed a large body of ship iping aping ore above the foot level in what is known as their prospector i actor property I 1 the smuggler mining company headed by alex walker has taken a lease and bond on the legal tender group near clancy the property was developed during the early days and was operated by butte investors a number number of years ago the veins while narrow show high grade silver values the smuggler company is operating the emma B mine on mill creek near sheridan and the welcome stranger mine near grace the montana railroad commission has wired the interstate ter state commerce commission protesting the proposed new freight rate of the union pacific railroad on zinc ores and concentrates from the coeur dalene mining Ai district strict idaho to portland oregon for export this rate was to become effective on may 18 and was made to cover shipments of zinc concentrates to belgium it is said that the new rate discriminates against montana smelters shelters sm elters both in receiving b ore and in shipping finished products to the eastern markets three mining companies are operating in the frog pond basin district of the sapphire mountain range at the headwaters of rock creek according to A price townsend of philipsburg mr townsend said the frog pond basin district is one of the coming mining bisections of montana the whole district lie he said carries vast quantities of low grade milling ore the ore contains gold with silver and lead it is practically virgin territory for a year ago there was little more than a pack trail into it now the mining Z 1 operators have built a great deal of road there remains remains yet five or six miles of road to be completed this will be built by the government NEVADA lt it is reported that the golden eagle mining and milling company of phonolite nye county is contemplating placing in commission the 60 ton mill built in the district distri cf in 1919 the millias mill has been idle practically since it was built with the exception of a brief period when ore from the broken hills section was treated according to reports from san francisco the kennet smelter sm elter is to be closed down early in august during 6 the past year the fhe kennet smelter has taken a large tonnage of ores from the nevada mines with the closing of the smelter at kennet this market for low grade ore from nevada mines will be closed the reno journal states during the month of april the comstock merger mines inc treated a total of tons of ore at the mill at comstock according to a statement of operations of the company the shipments from the middle mines group virginia city being tons the largest months tonnage 11 vet sent from that place the balance of the shipments being from arom gold hill the tonopah mining company shipped from the des ert mill at millers says the tonopah mining reporter of the twenty six bars of bullion worth making a total production for april of thursdays shipment representing the cleanup clean up for the last half of april total production for april from the producers of tonopah amounted to production for may will be considerably larger b it is stated what is believed to be a continuation of the lead silver vein found in the property of the elko ruby mining company near lee ihas has been discovered twenty miles south of that property near the mouth of harrison pass by loy and joe lang who have hav departed for that location with the intention of spending the summer developing the property the two brothers intend to develop the property this summer and then call in a mining engineer to za go go over it and determine its worth gross production of the elboro mines company at jar bidge in elko cou county rity for the first quarter of 1925 was from the treatment of tons of ore having an average value of per ton according to the companas comp anys bullion tax statement to the elko county assessor deductions included charges for mining development reduction and sales or a total of leaving net proceeds of on which the company paid bullion u ilion tax net proceeds for the last quarter of 1924 were 4 everything b hoisted out of the buckingham b mine in the battle mountain district the first half of may was ore according to report of general manager b E A S T this his would indicate that the development work continues in pay ore in the two weeks eighty one feet of new work was completed and tons of ore were added to the now over tons on the dump the report shows further that water development for the mill which states is being planned has also begun and that the for the north foot level has now connected with the north foot level thereby providing good ventilation for that part of the mine announcement is expected in a few days that the gilbert mammoth last hope mining company will announce the date on which visitors will be permitted to view the workings in the tunnel on that property on that day all work will cease and visitors wil be given run of the ground says the tonopah mining reporter judge B F curler attorney for the company is authority for the statement that between forty and fifty tons of high grade t ore have been extracted from tile the rich shoot cut in the mammoth tunnel about two weeks ago and now stored in one of the tunnel cross cuts awaiting shipment it is said that five tons of this ore will average 1000 per ton and the rest around J V marshall W A southard and joe gazala who are operating a lease on the delano property are working on a vein with a nine foot width several large boulders weighing several tons and carrying good values have been shot down in the working 6 mr marshall when interviewed said that it contained considerable high values but would grade down to 18 per cent copper over tons of shipping ore is waiting on the dump and the showing seems to ro p please lease the miners in every respect the tunnel some dis down the gulch which they are driving for the nevada bellvue mining company and which is to tap the upper workings is now over feet along it is estimated that some eight or nine hundred feet need yet be driven in order to |