Show THE RABBIT FOOT recorder salmon idaho perhaps the most substantial mine development of the year in all the state has been that of the rabbit foot company at the ramey in this county work was commenced on the the first of last august and now a well developed mine with a good ten stamp mill a fine collection of buildings and all other necessary appurtenances of a big mine are calculated A crosscut cross cut tunnel of feet long iong has been run feet of which is in payable ore the ramey had long been known to the local mining world as a great dike of low grade rhyolite but its values were mysterious or illusive the geological features were mysterious to the average mineralogist era logist and experts from every state ex the property during its hist history ory of thirty five years newton hibbs of this place visited the rame mine for the first time last may he solved the geological puzzle and presented the 1111 unusual usual features of the ore occurrence in ill such a favorable light that a strong company was at once formed to develop cevelo P the line with the result that lemhi leahi county now hu has one of the greatest bonanzas in the state the only positively identified tellurium ores res in the state have been found in the ramey mine the large rhyolite ore body has fissures crossing it which are filled with high grade gold ore this deposit seems to have been the result of intrusion from depth at a period of val canic activity and the enriched enrich ed intrusive matter penetrated every bedding plane of the great dike the thin incrustations that penetrated the mass far away from the fissures was preci precipitated pita ted in free gold the fissures rich gold ore which is are filled with very somewhat refractory at depth samples recently secured from the mine have been assayed within the past week there are which ran as high as eighteen inches of this ore it is reported in the lower tunnel N while this extremely rich ore is not amenable to amalgamation of free ore in the im there are large zones mediate vicinity of this intrusive vein the free milling ore ranges range s in value from that of the refractory deposit depo sit to a good workable grado grade in the more solid formation this peculiar ore oxidizes into a new form of tellurium ore that is amenable to the amalgamation samples of this new ore after being concentrated in a pan by an ail expert in salmon last week yielded per ton to a fire test while people have been going wild over tonopah and other great camps a bigger bonanza than an any y of th the e distant mines lias grown up here at home |