Show NORTHERN IDAHO MINE OWNERS SPEND HUGE SUM IN development ravenel macbeth secretary of the idaho mining association recently reported that the sum of was expended in 1926 in an effort to increase the mineral wealth in fen northern counties of idaho this was by non producing development companies producing non dividend paying companies in the performance of assessment work and the location of new claims no expenditure of the large divid end disbursing companies usually large and impressive was included details that contributed to the were supplied by mine operators and others of the ten counties the years expenditures in each county follow benewah benejah four companies assessment work location work bonner thirty seven companies assessment work location work boundary eighteen companies assessment work location work clearwater twelve companies assessment work location work idaho forty four ilour companies assessment work location work kootenai seventeen companies assessment work location work latah three companies assessment work location work lewis one company 2000 nez perce three companies assessment work 1 f location cation 0 work 2650 shoshone two hundred and fifty two companies 4 assessment work location work total north idaho itemized labor supplies mine equipment mill equipment power plants ore transportation the companies employed 1378 men and assessment wor work k and location work employed men a total of 1570 employed assessment ent work was performed on claims owned by individuals and location work on new claims located by individuals |