Show IDAHO salmon city herald the strike in the beuna vista reported last week has proven even better than anticipated the vein has widened from four to six feet and the value has materially increased brandt mckinnie now have a solid face of good milling ore and the drift is apparently just entering the pay chute boise capital news J F white the well known contractor returned yesterday from a six weeks trip in the mountains about atlanta most of the time was put in on johnsons creek where mr white has valuable mining claims on this trip he found another fine ledge of gold ore specimens of which will run as high as per ton he expects to return in a few days boise statesman one of the most important of recent mining deals was consummated yesterday when the crown point group of mines at A dixie in elmore county was transferred by the dan reber company to a strong boston syndicate represented here by william sweet the negotiations began in february last and were closed on september 1 but it was necessary for the stockholders of the reber company to meet and ratify the agreement the latter company met at mountainhome Mountain home yesterday and took the action necessary to bring the deal to a close the sale was negotiated by T F halveston halves ton through william sweet the consideration is about silver city avalanche some fine ore is being exhibited from the banner mine located in coffee gulch and owned by john grete crete sr R H leonard sr and fred grete jr the new strike was made in the north d rift drift from the upper crosscut cross cut tunnel which has now reached a length of about 60 feet the ledge is fully 8 feet wide the drift foll following the foot wall and taking down about one half of the vein the whole mass of vein matter carries good gold values and streaks are encountered which show specimen ore the work has a depth of upwards of 80 feet from the surface all virgin ground the banner group lies parallel to and just west of the trade dollar property A dispatch from boise says news of the most important nature is received from thunder mountain the caswell property there is under bond to colonel dewey during the of the bond the cassells Ca swells have the right to placer mine on the surface some weeks ago the brothers told E H dewey they had uncovered a wonderfully rich streak three feet wide and running a ton this has been carefully covered up they offered to show it up if dewey would agree to pay off the bond their statement being verified dewey sent martin curran a well known miner into the mine to see the streak it was shown him and today he re turned and made his report it bears out the statement of the cassells Ca swells the assays essays have not been made but curran from one pan of material taken across seven feet of the rich ore panned out he found the streak had been opened for forty feet and that it continues on into the hill this is a streak or chimney in the general mass or mountain of ore hailey times A very important strike of ore isi reported from the black cinder group of mines on the hailey gold belt four or five days davs ago theore the ore body that was cut in the shaft some weeks ago was cut into on the and on the levels it was found to be about aj feet thick and to consist of two well defined stratas the vein is 38 18 inches thick and carries solid galena ore that assays essays between and TOO ounces in in silver per ton the other is two feet thick and carries free gold it is of a high grade but its value is not known to outsiders an east drift is running on the foot level that is expected to cut into the same ore body in a day or two if this happens the black cinder will be demonstrated to be a very valuable property |