Show IDAHO elmore bulletin P F J conroy mana manager ger of the monarch group of mines and mills came down from atlanta tuesday evening I 1 and reports all matters under his control moving along nicely it required a great deal of repairing to put the old big lode mill in working shape but it was accomplished and the mill is now pounding out gold day and night salmon city herald H E ostrander came out thursday from blackbird having finished the annual labor on the venus group croup situated on the musgrove slope south of blackbird the outcroppings outcrop pings here are strong on a ledge 10 to 20 feet wide of copper bear ing quartz A crosscut tunnel has cut the vein at 95 feet it carries copper and has a rich appearance silver cit city y avalanche encouraging reports i still come up from the delamar delama r mine the new ore body found several weeks ago on the ath level west has also been opened on the ath and prospecting work is now said to be underway on the ath and other levels of the mine it is yet too early to judge of the extent of the new find but enough is known to give new hope and life in our sister town down the gulch wallace mining journal during the first six months of this year the empire state idaho mining company paid in dividends pretty good showing for two coeur dl dalone dalene mines the standard mine during the same period earned dividends of an ev even en and the bunker hill the other big mines of the district have made the same satisfactory showing the investor who holds coeur dalene mining stocks is a particularly fortunate individual he can draw his breath and dividends at one and the same time boise statesman william bullock who for many years was an employed of the united states assay office in this city has returned from thunder mountain where he went in his bis own interests and those of james H hawley and W 11 puckett mr bullock was so go fortunate as to secure two claims on the big belt he says it is the greatest country he has ever seen and that ahat it will make idaho the most famous state of the union he brought out many samples although yesterday was sunday tests were made of some of the ore much of it will easily run up to thousands of dollars lol lars per ton in gold while the general average of samples taken across a distance of over feet will not be less than 6 boise statesman W D southworth of the gold eagle mine in the neal district was in the city yesterday he states that work is is progressing 1 at the property in a very satisfactory manner and that the results are very gratifying the new mill of four stamps has been running for some time giving returns even better than were anticipated the work of sinking has been discontinued the miners being now engaged in drifting on the ore so far they have found no break in the chute which demonstrates it to be one of the strong est of the lower end of that biz bie district dr southworth 0 says he is prepared to continue development on the property without cessation and that he believes there will be no time for years when this will be unprofitable |