Show developments AT THE TWIN APEX AND OTHER IDAHO properties five and one half feet of crystallized carbonate lead ore sprinkled with galena has been encountered from the crosscut of the tunnel of the twin apex mines company on squaw creek close to the henry ford red bird mines says the mackay miner tile the new strike carries a value of 55 per cent lead from a general sample taken across the face of the vein this gives the twin apex company a fine body of shipping ore and the work of production is now in progress and shipments will be forthcoming soon from one to two feet of milling ore is opened up in the face of the main tunnel and work on en this ore body is being advanced the miner is informed that six men are now employed at the red bird and that in the adjoining properties something like thirty men are on the payrolls payroll 8 of the companies operating while additional men are being hired as work bequir requires es them the active properties are the twin apex hecla south butte and the ford mines new lively properties in the alto district at the head of lost river about twenty men are being employed by the several companies there operating with excellent results A good body of ore on the donahue group now in in tile the hands of the federal mining company is being prospected and ore showings throughout tile the district where work is being done is most encouraging cou raging to the operators the martin lease on the phi kappa has some excellent shipping ore and shipments have started by truck to the railroad at hailey it is estimated that around five carloads of good shipping ore is now on the dump A surprising development occurred last week when miners encountered ore carrying around in gold taken from the lease on the douglas claim of the phi kappa group this is entirely an unexpected element and is naturally very pleasing to the operators As work progresses on the fhe strong vein from which the shipping ore is being extracted the showing becomes better from day to day with a promise of steady production from the strike |