Show thunder mountain activity nampa ti idaho ida ho general manager dewey of the thunder mountain gold and silver mining and milling company has received reports of another important strike at that property A shaft was started about feet east of the large which has been supplying the mill with ore and at a depth of two feet a body of ore was opened which assays essays which is a higher value than has been obtained in the big there was no expectation pec tation that the ore would be encountered so near the surface this discovery proves that the ore shoot is over 1000 feet in length and it has been worked in the stopa to p a width oi of twenty five to fifty feet and it is not known how much farther it extends I 1 as no cross cuts have been run the strike is one of the most important that has yet been made mr dewey has received the bullion returns for the month of september which show that the bullion exceeds the assay value the total was which is within 41 of the full assay value of the ore crushed without considering any loss in the tailings during the month the mill crushed 1067 tons of ore assaying per ton the tailings averaged and the percentage of saving was the showing would have been much better had it not been for experiments with a coarser screen than had been used a low grade of ore being used for these experiments R W purdum general manager of the belle of thunder mountain mining co last tuesday closed up a deal through which I 1 he if secured for the belle company options on three additional claims adjoining the sunny side group these were the black horse the gem fraction and the boise fraction the black horse belonged to thomas neighbors of boise and the option calls for the gem fraction was purchased from dan caswell for and the boise fraction was bought from martin curran timothy regan and thomas neighbors for making for the three claims 1 I have taken these properties under bond on long time payments said mr purdum under no other conditions would I 1 purchase undeveloped property 4 MINING SCENE IN THE HILLS it is understood that no cash payments were made the purchase of these three claims increases the sunnyside Sunny side holdings to fifty six in all and there is no question but the ground just acquired overlies over lies the great ore blanket and will be proved up by the drill now in operation mr purdum and superintendent abbott left for sunnyside Sunny side wednesday the statesman of boise says B E 11 dewey has received from superintendent haug of the dewey mine at thunder mountain the first quarterly report for october covering the period from the to the ath it makes an astonishing showing the report shows tons of ore was put through the mill during the eight days the average battery sample was 2195 a ton and the average tailings sample the indi bated savings on the plates being 1931 a ton or 88 per cent the east end of the big from which the ore is being taken remarkably it is richer than has improved ever before and the ore body is unknown it is further shown by the report that the being sunk into the rich ore channel from no 1 level at a point feet east of the is still in ore as high grade as previously reported the report at the close of september recorded that the ore had been opened at a depth of two feet and that it assayed |