Show IDAHO halley hailey times the main elkhorn vein was tapped last saturday and its appearance is very promising the workings of the company that has hold of it now had heretofore been in an auxiliary vein wallace tribune it is stated that the iho rex or old sixteen to one mine will begin shipments soon before the famous litigation between the owners and the bernier interests the mine produced something like worth of ore the property is equipped with a mill and is connected with wallace by a branch railroad line up nine mile finch and campbell of spokane are interested in the property wallace tribune the alameda mining company will start a foot raise from the level within the next few days the raise will be driven on the ore shoot with the object of blo blocking aking out reserves the values as shown by assays essays are silver 2950 and lead making an aggregate of a ton the company is now securing patent to the ground B L james is president the alameda ought to get into line this summer with the shippers halley hailey times the miners working on the level of the croesus have picked up the gold bearing vein found and developed on the upper levels they cut into it a week ago and found it bigger and better than it was above an assay of the full face yesterday gave returns of 21 4 10 ounces of silver and gold the width will be determined by a crosscut cross cut to be started at once 4 since last november when the opera ions at the croesus were suspended only an engineer a and two miners with a machine continued at work they drifted on the level to the vein then drifted on the with the result above stated boise statesman G C K colvin manager of the iowa mine at quartzburg Quartz burg is in the city he states it is the intention to continue work on the iowa but the plans for the season have not been definitely settled it was so late when they took hold last fall that they could not do much during the winter but the property had responded well to development and there was reason to hope that still better results would be secured this summer wallace tribune an excellent quality of clean crude galena was brought up from the bobby anderson property on pine creek the other day the property is owned by mayor herman rossi ross horace herrington and theodore brown it is proposed to open up the property more extensively this summer which ought to place it on the shipping list the property has been superficially developed by shaft and for the amount of work done certainly has a most promising showing boise statesman H L woodburn manager of the war eagle company has returned from a trip to the sinker tunnel he reports the upraise will reach the station about the last of the present week it is being driven in the granite wall a few feet from the vein the latter being opened every feet the upraise will be run about feet above the foot station getting well above the bottom of the chariot shaft A diamond drill will then be used to prospect for the shaft with the view of determining the water conditions existing in the old works A drill for this work has been purchased it is the belief that the old works will be drained long before the work from below reaches them boise statesman A party of men interested in the el paso property at pearl came in from the mine last evening they were E D smith of pittsburg me president of the company L E bradstreet of hollowell me and J F davis of freeport me they were accompanied by C C stinson man ager of the company the visitors spent a week in the district they reached there during the storm and could not make tile the inspection of other properties they wished to see until the storm subsided then they visited the kentuck the lincoln and other mines and the power plant at horseshoe bend the visitors expressed themselves as being much pleased with what has been accomplished at the el paso and with the general outlook for the district they left on the early train this mo morning aning for the east |