Show IDAHO idaho city world J turtle and fred lekow of boise own the jumbo quartz claim in eldorado gulch about a quarter of a mile west of the road the ledge is three feet wide and samples assayed of all grades of the ore show the average to be 28 a ton the richest ore assayed a ton halley hailey times W william illiam oconnor has over four feet in width of galena and carbonate ore in sight in his garfield claim near muldoon this was shown up in the devel work that he is doing idaho city world leslie powell and wm win eaton have bonded their and magnolia quartz claims on miller mountain to thomas coe of salt lake the bond was given for eighteen months mr coe will soon put a crew of men to work to develop the claims mullan mirror the hanging wall in the powhattan property was struck tuesday the oue one hundred foot contract recently let is nearly completed the company held a meeting last sunday night in wallace and decided to crosscut the ledge to determine its width and the quality of the ore which is lead carbonates and galena boise statesman william E bhame is an in the city having recently come from the marshal lake district he has with him some magnificent specimens of gold ore from that section mr bhame says the veins there n are care true fissures in a formation of granite and they are small but rich their width is from one two feet but the 9 grade rade of the ore is very 1 high he believes the district will open up into a very important mining section and he regards that field as an especially inviting one for capital halley hailey times the minnie moore shipped five carloads carloa ds of ore last week and it will ship as many this week it would do better could it get the cars but the shortage of these is so great that it cannot always get the size of cars and seldom large ones yesterdays yesterday is shipment was a 30 ton car but this is larger than common as the minnie moore can seldom get larger than 25 ton cars the shipments average about twenty tons a day and as the ore sells at about a ton this means a yield of 2000 a day that will be increased when more cars can be got gob |