Show MINING NOTES FROM LEESBURG special correspondence leesburg leesa birg idaho may lo 10 pritz fritz gil braith the beaver creek miner transacted business in leesburg a few days ago HA and his brother earl Gilb gilbraith ralth are the owners of ten very promising mining claims which are located about twelve miles west of leesburg on beaver creek they have a splendid showing on their copper king group in the development of which they have done feet or work the face of the tunnel showing a vertical depth of feet the principal values are in copper which ls is mostly in the nature of a gray carbonate and copper glance which assays essays from 8 to as high as 50 per cent in this metal to the ton the ledge also carries good values in silver gold and some lead the crosscut cross cut near the face of the tunnel shows ten feet of this character of ore the country adjacent to the group is well timbered and within a short distance there is an abundance of water sufficient in volume for the operation of large reduction works their properties are reached from leesburg by a wagon road via the hadle hadie mine the gilbraith brothers owing to limited means have not been able to develop their mines as extensively as they would like to dof but we predict that some time in the near future their ground will take rank as one of the big copper producers of this section of idaho manager harker of the gold dust company is gradually increasing his working forc ein the driving of the free gold tunnel he reports making five feet for each twenty four hours during the past week manager J H luedke of the bitter root mines near this place returned from the ahe east last saturday he expects to startup startup the stamp mill soon and a good seasons run is anticipated J A woods and associates have leased eased the hydraulic placer mines of the Pac pacific ifie dredging company the placers are eight miles north of leesburg mr woods has ha seven men employed at present manager carey wright of the hadie mines was a leesburg visitor recently lid he reports that the hadie crosscut cross cut tunnel is now in feet 0 E kirkpatrick |