Show IDAHO ore from the ambergris mine began moving to the hercules mill at wallace recently and the mill is expected to begin operations at once A value of to the ton has been found in the high fiade streak struck recently on the no 7 level of the tamarack custer consolidated mining company according to reports from wallace ore has been struck by the tamarack custer custe r consolidated mining company according to reports from wallace near where the property is located the body had only been reached according to the report and its identity had not been determined development of the mining property of the Col lussos mining milling company fifteen miles east of montpelier is going ahead with all possible speed the company is finishing the building ill for the mill which will have eight levels and runs up the mountain side for a distance of 19 feet the terrible edith mining property near murray in the coeur calenes dA lenes has again changed hands and been taken under lease and bond by the chester co consolidated mining company which contracts to pay for it the property was taken over some months ago by bert and walter johnson who bonded it for th they ey shipped several carloads of ore and made some payments on their contracts then turned it over to the chester company two feet of gray copper ore was cut recently on the ne new w level of the sunshine mining company feet below the price tunnel level according to reports the mine is 10 lo located c ted in the dry belt of the coeur dalene region and credited with having paid all but on its bond of out of earnings the wage bonus paid employees of the coeur dalene region was reduced 50 cents a day on april 1 according to an announcement from wallace the miners wage is based on a day plus the bonus which is governed by the price of lead the bonus was 2 until the price of the metal was reduced in march the total reduction is several hundred thousand dollars to the year of the recovery of tons of ore removed from the morning mine of the federal mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company at mullan in 1925 the average metal content was 85 per cent lead 43 ounces of silver to the ton and 53 per cent zinc according to the annual report of frederick burbidge general manager this includes milling ore mined by les sees and bought from them at the end of the year the ore reserves were estimated at tons of developed ore and tons 0 of probable ore or tons in all this is comparable with tons at the end of 1924 and shows an increase of tons during the year said mr burbidge although tons were mined mackay miner while recent reports from the livin livingston 6 mine in custer county hardly confirm the first reports of the extent of the great discovery they nevertheless indicate that it is the most important disco discovery very in in idaho in many years and ranks the livingston among the great mines of the west the most recent report which appears to be authentic says that since the strike was made the ore shoot has been proved by drifting about feet and that it has an average width of 30 feet of this width 10 feet is said to be of shipping grade while the balance is all high grade milling ore the company is pushing shipments delivering both crude ore and concentrates by motor trucks to the railroad at mackay 65 miles from the mine |