Show PREPARING FOR production AND MILL EQUIPMENT AT in 1878 when col bernard was rounding up the rene gate Shee peater indians in the salmon river mountains of central idaho the scouts and packers found rich lead sil ver v float and in 1880 ike daly sam fontez danskin lurns urns kossouth elliot and others made discoveries that are now low attracting attention in the Seaf oarn district of custer county for or a number of years past a small group of pennsylvania business men with faith in the country and the cour age to back ack their judgment have been slowly but surely aided ed by y developing competent mining advice scientifically 4 number of veins in the district and now have reached cached the stage of being ready for production property ready for production tion t thi ahls Is property disowned is owned by the mines corpora piu pinn an idaho aho pation corporation J C hungerman president ey building bulldis bull din boise and comprises seventeen quartz lons ions batio cat and six mill sites there ere are six known veins on this property pron yearly nearly all of them trending northerly and south erly trenda are the gold veins while the easterly and lesterl westerly y able veins are silver lead veins also carrying gold old values A this active and continuous sinuous work has been prosecuted on carlp cahnt property n for the past eleven months a good modern has cuts been een completed andover and over 1000 feet of drifts cross that and i raises have e been driven on the different veins in in briod of time deuce dence the bulk of the th development has been on the provi traced a great mineralized shear zone that has been a distance latance of over feet over a vertical range of feet this ahls is by four levels and la has hi vein avem now partly opened disclosed scio sed a number of parallel ore channels all carrying high grade gold values running from to a ton in gold together with good width of ore of milling value some of these ore channels show the gold ore to be 70 to 90 per cent free milling while other values are associated with pyrite and arseno pyrite technically this vein is a replacement of a quartz diorite intrusive dyke and both the dyke and the ore will probably go to great depth machinery and milling equipment to come this company is still developing with a crew of ten men and preparing as fast as the snow conditions permit to construct a hydroelectric hydro electric power plant of h p install a cu ft compressor and a 50 ton fine grinding free milling gold mill the geology of this region is one of intensive activity the old precambrian complexes chist quartzite gneiss es and limestone have been intruded by tongues of the idaho granite and by later sills kassees and dykes of andesite and as well as acidic dykes of most of the veins cut all these sills and therefore are of later origin A postoffice post office at has been established at the mine mine and this past winter mail has been delivered weekly to the cary camp ip from stanley Stanle forty m miles iles away by dog train with the wonderful ore showings now on this property first in idaho gold production is expected to rank Seaf I 1 in a very few years |