Show IDAHO silver city avalanche marcus white who spent several days in town this week returned to his home at flint yesterday he will start his 5 stamp mill to crushing ore which he ha has s taken out during the winter in a couple of weeks or as soon as there is sufficient water supply salmon herald george plum showed the herald some fine copper gold quartz taken from the apex of a ledge in the leonh lemhi range a short distance above the indian reserve he says the ledge crops strong for a distance of two or three miles and that the top rock assays essays about 5 in gold silver city avalanche E L norton came in from de lamar yesterday and went out to the afterthought mine where he will repair and put in running order the hoisting machinery it is said operations will soon be resumed on that property it employs from twenty to thirty men when in operation mackay telegraph nearly everybody at custer has invested more or less in loon creek mines and me men n are going back and forth with supplies on to boggans some cross the divide to examine property and others to do assessment work dr allen alien says that every shot that is fired in the lost packer ind and some adjoining property raises the value of the stock mountain home herald dan reber manager of the crown point mining company returned here monday from salt lake where he has been on mining business tor for several months he reports great interest manifested by capitalists of salt lake and other points in idaho mining properties and predicts great activity in our gold mining districts the coming season salmon herald thomas pope and son horace went to leesburg monday to take up the work of development on the abandoned group they will devote the spring months to extending the crosscut and drifting this group of mines is attracting considerable sid erable attention on account of the recent discoveries of rich ore within its boundaries there will be need for some big head lines when the results of their exploitations are reported hailey times the men at work in the old tunnel on the hard times and excelsior claims struck ore last friday evening when formerly operated the claim yielded some ore from the the seam giving out operations were suspended recently some minneapolis capitalists took hold and john peterson their superintendent crosscut to the hanging it is in this crosscut that four feet of ore was struck some people here say that the hard times is on the minnie moore vein while others say it is not but it will in make ake very little imi e difference upon what vein it is if there is body of ore there a lewiston tribune joseph walker of the firm of smith walker of this city cit who own a half interest in the cave gulch strike returned yesterday from tacoma where he took a shipment of ore for treat ment at the plant of the tacoma Si smelling smelting Sm elting company the tests show that the bonanza ore runs in gold and silver values to the ton the smelter receipt shows that the ore carries ounces of gold and ounces of silver to the ton and the smelter management informed mr walker that the shipment of ore was Is as fine fille a as any they had ever received at the smelter the shipment made to the smelter comprised pounds |