Show HENRY FORD AND OTHER OPERATORS ARE TO MAKE CENTRAL IDAHO BOOM A recent decision in idaho granting title to a large min mineral estate in the bayhorse badhorse Bay horse district custer county which includes the red bird and silver rule mines insured the advent of henry ford into mining in an important way writes a mining review correspondent mr ford has had a contract for these properties since 1925 and has done extensive exploration work on them they were owned by the cla clayton y smelting smelling Sm elting company which ceased operations in the late and the recent legal procedure was necessary to perfect title under the contracts last fall mr ford purchased a smelter site and a water power site and a site for an air airport at clayton between the red bird and the silver rule on the salmon river the livingston mines in the bayhorse badhorse Bay horse district about fifteen miles from the red bird has increased its mill throughput through put to tons daily from tons daily the ore is silver lead and the shipping ore and concentrates are sent to salt lake city via mackay for smelting smelling sm elting this is the property that W R crane president of the st joe lead company in his published annual review of lead mining developments said was it undoubtedly the b biggest i single lead strike in recent years the company is is controlled by strong new york interests A walker is president and john macguinnes of butte and new york is chairman of the executive committee the idaho hermit mines inc a new york company of which kirby thomas of new york is president thas has pur chased the hermit smith properties adjoining the livingston and lying between this mine and the silver rule at one time a producer of high grade silver lead ore with a record of more than output the idaho hermit properties are developed by several shafts and by two crosscut tunnels high grade silver gold lead ore was shipped from the development work which will be continued this summer to cut the mineral zone which showed ore on the outcrop over three claims length these properties are about ten miles south of the clayton group of mines on the same formation which includes the red bird the south butte mine being developed by the hecla company of the coeur dalene distrait the williams dryden operated by the golden center mines company of new york and the twin apex mines owned in salt lake city and los angeles it is predicted that this district will soon be as important in the production of lead silver as is the coeur dalene district of idaho |