Show IDAHO priest river enterprise the old tunnel in the farmer jones mine is still holding its reputation as one of the best in the country rock has recently been struck that is of extraordinary tra ordinary value panning per ton free gold the vein is 4 feet wide and shows no intention of running out the future pros peets of the mine are bright indeed boise statesman state mine inspector jaell H who recently returned from a visit to blackfoot says that he was inform edin pocatello that the moonlight company there had just st received the returns from a carload of or ore e it showed 17 per cent the result is highly gratifying to people people who are interested in copper proper tie ss near the gate city emmett pearl record for some time past it t has alas been known that there was a nice ledge about two miles long south of the lincoln mill but recently a number of claims have been staked and the whole group of six claims known as the buckeye group has been bonded to 0 N callender for mr callender brought down some of the ore which is very highly mineralized showing lead and zinc boise statesman the sampson mining company of halley hailey has been incorporated under the laws of idaho the who are also the directors of the company are robert hayes of pocatello major fred R reed of halley hailey C E cole F R brownlee and samuel friend the capital stock of the company is divided into shares of 1 each and its purpose is to develop mining properties in blaine county and elsewhere challis messenger probably the greatest clean up that was ever made in the history of sluice box mining in the yankee fork country was made at the lucky boy formerly old gen custer mill after it was closed down last fall manager macbeth had the floors of the mill taken up and all the ground underneath was carefully worked through el sluices there was about five tons of quicksilver secured and amalgam to correspond altogether enough to build a good ten stamp mill from the proceeds halley hailey times jack who carries the mail between soldier the rosetta district and the dollarhide group of claims at the head of warm springs creek and big and little smoky divide reports a good strike of solid galena ore in the dollarhide group of claims about two awo weeks ago the strike is in the lower tunnel that is driven drive to tap the ore shoot that was worked in the upper levels in the early days it shows from 18 to 30 inches of ore that is doubt les of the usual high grade of the dollarhide and hence worth about a ton boise Stat statesman ezman general manager 11 L woodburn of the war eagle consolidated mining company has returned from philadelphia where he perfected arrangements for prosecuting work on the famous sinker tunnel in war eagle mountain mr woodburn stated that the work would be pushed with all speed possible po sible superintendent F E wilson is already on the ground with a force of 15 or 20 men engaged in cleaning ing and re timbering the tunnel the force will be increased directly it is possible to work more men weiser world things are looking very bright for the copper mines of the seven devils district it will be remembered that the ladd metals co of portland put in a smelter at landore this summer for the purpose of treating the ores of that district they installed as an experiment i a patent wood gas converter for firing the stacks and gave the scheme an exhaustive test the scheme failed to work satisfactorily however the company has since rebuilt the smelting smelling sm elting plant enlarged its capacity and will ship in coke to smelt melt r in the good old way boise statesman colonel G W E dorsey will leave this morning for pearl to inspect recent developments in the independence mine belonging to the pearl company oi of which he is manager on that property a tunnel has been run on the vein some feet there has been ore for some feet but recently a large shoot has been opened the ore body is reported to be six feet thick and samples from it indicate an average value of nearly 13 a ton colonel dorsey has not visited the property since the new development knowing nothing more of it than is contained in from the superintendent in while he feels the discovery is important he desires to make a personal inspection spec tion of the find before making up his mind as to the value of the ore body |