Show IDAHO salmon city herald it is reported that the high five mine at blackbird has just encountered an 18 inch body of high grade ore this property belongs to de groot brothers and major dugan it is also said that south weidner have a nice new bunch of ore in the hawkeye Hawke silver city avalanche G W venable the gentleman who holds the bond on on the banner group came in thursday accompanied by martin isenberg and gabriel davidson new york capitalists for the purpose of making an examination of those claims which are the most promising of any in this section hailey times samuel allen alien superintendent of the della delia mountain companas comp anys mines came to town early yesterday morning in a cutter before the crus crust t had softened so as to render travel very slow the deep tunnel is in nearly 1400 feet and must be driven between and feet additional to tap the vein it will give about feet of backs three shifts are driving it by hand and they make an average of feet per month boise statesman some important developments are promised in the friday mine at pearl one of the oldest properties in that district the friday mine has shipped considerable sid erable ore the results having been very satisfactory to the owners considering all the attendant circumstances it is understood to be the purpose now to develop the property extensively with the view to materially teri ally increasing the output the plans thus far outlined contemplate the construction of a mill and the installation of other machinery pierce city miner thomas wilkinson principal owner and manager of the celebrated wild rose made our office a pleasant call sunday mr wilkinson says when his mill starts up which will be in ina a few days it will make the banner run he has a large quantity of very rich ore the richest ever yet taken from the mine mr W is contemplating running a 1000 foot tunnel on this property which will tap the ledge at a depth of something over feet where he is almost confident there is a very large body of ore this impression is derived from the fact that the ledge at the surface was only four feet wide and at the acot level it is thirty three feet wide with increased values A dispatch from roosevelt says bert haug the new superintendent of the dewey mine arrived here yesterday over the warrens trail after a hard snowshoe trip he was accompanied by fillmen and other assistants T si who will be employed in the operation of the mill which will start up march 10 the mill has been idle for three months pending repairs which have been completed A new tunnel has been run on the dewey property tapping the ore body feet deeper than the level upon which all former drifts were run this gives a total depth of feet from the surface of the big ore dyke the experts who were sent in last summer by the pittsburg stockholders outlined the tunnel just completed as a preliminary test of permanency of the dig ore body that was exposed by about 2000 feet of drifts and cross cuts on the foot level the dyke was found to dip away from the tun riel but the foot wall was encountered in a raise from the face of the tunnel feet from the entrance at a point under the which had been sunk thirty five feet in phenomenally preno rich ore the foot wall of the dyke was cut on the dip fifteen feet above the foot level the result of this tunnel assures the installation stal lation of the stamp mill next fall it is the opinion of superintendent haug that the present 10 stamp mill can be operated on the reserves of high grade ore and thereby save all of the expense of installing the big mill and building the tramway to io the new mill site on monumental creek one and a quarter miles from the mine |