Show 0 IDAHO hailey times the bottom of the new croesus shaft has been in ore for ten days the ore is being piled up on the dump and looks quite rich but the management refuses to release any information and the employees will not tell about it emmett index smith mckay of denver was in emmett yesterday arranging for the hauling of two carloads of mining machinery i to the united mines companas comp anys mine near horseshoe bend ground has been broken for the new fifty ton concentrating mill and mr mckay expects to have the work completed within three months silver city avalanche R C facer is doing development work on mine claims of low grade ore out near the homestake Home stake his claims look better as they get deeper and will undoubtedly make a good mine mr facer will soon put on an extra force of men he is putting in supplies for the winter and work will continue until the property is thoroughly tested boise statesman the lincoln mill at pearl is now run by electric power the motor was started some days ago and since that the machinery has all been connected with the new power and is running smoothly mr kennedy had the pleasure of turning on the power after the connection had been made everything moved smoothly from the start and in thirty seconds the mill was running at full speed mountain home herald ex governor hunt returned here thursday afternoon from a visit at the new black warrior gold mines where he spent a couple of days examining the ledges he says all that has been said and printed about this new gold find has not been exaggerated and he predicts a great future for black warrior he brought with him some specimens of very rich gold ore taken from the ledges recently discovered weiser world A complete quartz mill engine and boiler passed through weiser the first of the week consigned to the key stone company at warren the mill is a merrill two stamp quadruple discharge mortars and will crush about fifteen tons per day in the outfit is a blake crusher etc the boiler is of the locomotive type while the engine is a standard atlas the company has everything arranged for the placing of the mill in position at the mine and expects to have the plant in operation within a few weeks hundreds of tons of ore are piled on the dumps awaiting the mill mountain home bulletin the minerva mill at atlanta is rapidly nearing completion mr G W elliott is the contractor the minerva is under the able management of mr walter brown and promises to soon rank as one of the great dividend payers A most careful estimate of the ore is sight at present places its value at a million dollars while the greatest depth yet attained is only feet the ledge is opened on the surface for a distance of feet with an average of thirty feet of milling rock boise capital news ad fralia has been appointed superintendent of the ella hill anine at neal to succeed S J baldwin Dal dwin who resigned the first of the week wee mr fralia was in town yesterday buying supplies he said a crosscut cross cut tunnel has been driven feet and would be continued over feet farther to intercept the main lead and some other smaller veins in addition to running the tunnel a force of men he said is at work drifting on a vein that was crossed near the portal of the tunnel development work on the property will probably continue all winter A wall wallace ace dispatch says the strike in the lower tunnel of the hercules is marvelous each shift shows it to be greater and its worth now is the tunnel is now into the wonderful ore shoot sixteen feet of this twelve feet is pure galena it is ore that does not have to be milled but can be shipped at great profit as it is taken from the mine the four remaining feet is of concentrating ore the tunnel has not yet cut through the shoot and it is not known what its true extent will be it is probably the richest strike in the history of the coeur calenes dA lenes silver city nugget the electric motor was removed from the blaine mill tuesday and is now being set up at the big florida mountain mill at dewey As the boilers and engines were left intact in the blaine when the electric power was turned on at once and no delay in running the mill was occasioned casio ned by the change of power william thomas the old time engineer who has been at the mill at dewey is back running the engine like it was his old friend the electric power is rapidly being installed in the florida mountain mill at dewey debok with the probability that the blaine mill will be closed as soon as the former is started salmon herald thomas pope arrived tuesday evening from leesburg with a large sample of ore from the abandoned lode the sensational strike of which was reported last week the ore body measures eleven and a half feet wide over ten feet of which is rich auriferous iron stained quartz and the remainder tale talc the assays essays of this sample taken with great care show a gold value of 1410 per ton for the entire ten feet the talc has not been sampled but it probably contains pay values the discovery has a surface depth of feet and an apex depth of about it is a wonderful find and adds one more to the growing list of bread winners in the leesburg district that the abandoned is a good mine is proved beyond doubt it is under bond to newton hibbs and G W thompson the latter of whom resides at lewiston |