Show IDAHO weiser signal it is reported that coarse gold has been discovered at sand hollow between weiser and payette on a claim belonging to john carroll I 1 roosevelt news joe davis superintend ent of the mysterious slide group of claims adjoining the dewey says that they are showing up fine they have about one thousand feet of work done and are still working a small force of men silver city nugget there is a rumor floating around the camp that the sinker tunnel has tapped the oro fino ledge be this as it may it is a fact that a small vein has been cut and that it is fine ore the leyner drills are working like a charm boise statesman arrangements have been completed for starting up the gold eagle mine at neal and it is expected everything will be running again before the week closes this property shows a high grade ledge from which much gold has been produced A warren correspondent of the welser weiser signal says at the keystone they havo have encountered a chute of ore that shows up splendidly I 1 believe they have a force employed consisting of five or six men the big four owned by paterson brothers show some very high grade ore at the mayflower there is a force of eighteen men employed drifting on a chute of high grade ore and putting in raises to connect the different levels the outlook for the camp is very encouraging for the summer roosevelt news W R polson poison is down from the summit house ten miles south of 0 roosevelt and reports the discovery of several stringers of rich free gold ore in the ink stand claims polson poison and W H obrien are driving a tunnel on this promising property to cut a vein at a depth of feet that is eighteen feet wide on its surface exposure the rich stringers are a feature that was not expected when the work was begun hailey times james W butch has struck it rich in his claim near the head of the east fork of wood river he has from ten to twenty inches of solid galena opened about fifty feet by a drift and shown up as continuous by two crosscuts cross cuts specimens brought in by james wrencher and assayed at the minnie moore laboratory indicate a value of ounces of silver and 48 per cent of lead per ton mr butch has worked upon that claim twenty two years he theofore ther fore deserves the good fortune that has come to him boise statesman emery W fisher manager of the daisy mine at neal brought in a ball of amalgam yesterday from which a souvenir bar of gold is t to be made for frank T day the amalgam has not yet been restored but it is supposed to carry about mr fisher reported the mortars and the plates were showing well after three days run and he was well satisfied with the saving effected though his assay outfit is not yet in shape for operation an interesting feature of the work is the increased saving on the tables the enlargement of the table surface has brought the concentrates up to a higher grade mr fisher brought in a sample of them which on being assayed showed a value of a ton that is considerably higher than was reached by the concentrates turned out by the mill before the improvements were introduced trod boise statesman the developments in the leviathan claim of the whitman mining company at pearl are among the most interesting te and important reported from that camp for some months an ore shoot was opened which has been followed for ninety feet A granite horse was then encountered this has been passed and the ore is now coming in again this ore shoot is large and the ore of very good grade just before it was cut off by the horse it was seven feet in width of this four feet was shipping ore and the remaining three feet a good milling grade C 0 stinson who is now in the city recently visited visite ct the property and speaks of it as one of the best he has seen he was surprised at the showing of ore and he entertains the highest opinion of the property A wallace dispatch says hauling of ore from the black horse mine to the railroad has commenced and as soon as thirty tons have been delivered at bunn the station on the nine mile branch of the northern pacific a shipment will be made to the smelter the strike on the black horse has been one of the most important features of the progress in mining this year in the coeur calenes dA lenes the property is near murray and is owned principally by charles manley former sheriff of shoshone county A drift has been run forty feet along the ore shoot and it was during this development that the ore has been extracted when encountered it was only eighteen inches wide but as the drift has proceeded it has widened until there is about seven feet average assays essays give 80 per cent in lead and five ounces in silver the ore was uncovered at a depth of seventy fet A sunk in the pay streak demonstrated that the rich ore continues in depth wallace tribune james A ward of thiard idaho was in town saturday and says that the wake up jiler jim gold mine on trail gulch will operate extensively this summer beginning as soon as the snow goes off sufficiently to get in machinery A 10 stamp mill and cyanide plant will be put in the property is located on the divide at the head of trail gulch between wallace and murray it has been extensively developed and shows sufficient ore to warrant the construction of a stamp mill and cyanide plant it is claimed that 75 per cent of the values are recoverable by amalgamation and the fhe remainder by two mill tests have been made one of nine tons giving values of 29 per ton the other of three and a half tons returning 61 per ton average of 19 samples showed values of per ton by the use of the mortar mortal alone have been taken out the ore at depth is a mixture of quartz iron pyrites galena and gold which is largely free the property consists of eleven claims and has haa conveniently placed for mining purposes plenty of water and timber the stock is principally held by the ward bros james samuel and blain while 0 S chrysler and the thomas estate are also largely interested the capitalization is represented by the same number of shares at 1 par value |