Show IDAHO emmett index several pieces of machinery chinery for the lincoln mill at pearl are now how being taken in this machinery was ordered about eight months ago and should have arrived last fall millan mirror A strike of rich ore is reported to have been made this week in the tarbox mine at saltese maltese Sal tese in which william daxon of this place is interested the ore was found in the west drift feet from the bottom of the shaft the drift will be continued another feet silver city avalanche fred gerling was in from the homestake Home stake group of mining claims this week considerable development is this winter being done in this section and good showings are made there is a whole mountain of ore in the home stake group and some very good assays essays have been received weiser world M A dally james P gray W D manley and W D lovejoy are arranging to work the short bar placer claims on little salmon river what work has been done there has brought good results mr dally and others expect to go to that place in a short time and commence active work the claims are nicely improved with buildings orchard garden spots etc boise capital news sam wilson the mining minin g man returned last evening from the coast where he has been visiting his mother and is stopping at the overland mr vilson ilson is superintendent of the dundee glasgow mine on profile creek in the thunder mountain district and he will leave for there the last of next week to investigate the big strike which is reported to have been made in the mine a few days ago silver city avalanche the hoosier mining company is send sending 11 ag cork ork ahead at a rapid rate only a short ti sipie P e ago a new boarding house powder houe blacksmith shop snow shed etc we were re completed completed two large tunnels are being run on the hoosier property ones one on each side of barnes bames gulch galch I 1 mr jens jenson having the c contracts for both of these undertakings in tunnel no 7 on the east side drifting to the extent of 1500 feet is in progress while on the west side in tunnel no 3 feet will be run these tunnels will tap two different ledges at a great depth those competent to io judge speak in highest terms of the outlook for the future of the hoosier companas comp anys properties mullan mirror D A mckenzie manager of the bullion mine located three miles from borax says of the property we are sinking a shaft with eight men and are now down fifty feet and we expect to strike the lead on the dip within the next heiteen or twenty feet we had a good showing in the upper workings the prospect tunnel is in on the lead feet and for feet of that distance the tunnel is in ore the vein is twenty feet wide and for fourteen feet in width will give shipping ore with sorting wa we have made a si survey irvey for the wagon road from the property to the railroad a distance of enree miles and work w ork will start in the spring on the completion of the road we may ship assays essays give 4 in gold and over 14 per cent copper silver city nugget joseph holland has given an option on his joseph mine on the northeast point of clorida tl orida mountain to parties who promise to make the first payment on the property february 1 the price named for the property and the names of the parties have not been made public but the property being considered a valuable one by parties here and the fact that local parties on a three months lease last fall opened up a vein of ore out or which they took values running from 30 to upwards of per ton and now have about 1000 1060 worth of ore piled on the property would indicate that the option was not secured at a small figure his claim is situated just east of the palmer group upon which an option was secured and a cash payment made last month and is contiguous to the richest shoots of ore in the trade dollar mines |