Show IDAHO i hailey times john williams man of the wood river zinc manager company comp an a frank C mandell and an assistant at the war dance mines today making making were a preliminary survey for a new tunnel that th at is proposed to be driven from the jolly sailor side of the mine hailey times C C left today for his dollarhide group of mines to begin been the regular shipment of first class ore to the smelters shelters sm elters and of second class and third class to the wood ore river zinc companas comp anys mill he went to ketchum today and will vill go on to his mines tomorrow silver city nugget the addie people who have been making an upraise from the tunnel to connect with a shaft on the calaveras talaveras Cala veras claim many years ago are now up feet with about feet more to go to reach the bottom of the old shaft when up feet they started a drift south from the upraise wiach has run into a good chute of ore which shows average assays essays of upwards of 0 50 they are pushing the shaft upward as rapidly as they can in order to get ventilation silver city nugget the of salt lake who have secured a contracting interest in the trade dollar extension property are preparing to put miners at work a once at the upper workings in the mine they have had surveys of the tunnels made which convince them that the parties working there got off the true course of the ore deposits which they will try to rectify they will also at once begin work on oil the lower tunnel near the foot of the mountain near their electric transformer with the intention of pushing that work until the ore bodies are reached boise statesman M H jacobs who returned a few days ago from the xing king mint mine which he and george B holleran went wela over to inspect for spears exchange by which the property is being developed reports rep orts the developments are very satisfactory the drift on the ledge has been driven feet fee and shows a body of ore five feet wide that aba 9 ton the ore shoot averages nearly a lot for which the drift is being driven is DO expected to be reached until the level hall gnau and have been advanced another feet did to find anything mr jacobs not expect ch and he is in nau U before reaching that shoot the pleased with the outlook he expresses a good g will become opinion the property mine salmon herald george geo rge W lewis man ift aker ager of the yellow jacket mine M dine arrived salmon yesterday on a business trip says there is considerable life in that camp all with prospects of a stir this summer sur niner ame ton tonopah To opah many of the new arrivals there are coming Y via ia mackay and morgan creek A good deal of preliminary work is started on a number of properties the yellow ja jacket ceet mill will be started up for the summer and the black eagle people expect to install a mill on their property the people of salmon will rejoice to see the old time vigor return to the promising camp to the westward the pioneers all say that when yellow jacket was good the country was good boise statesman information brought to the city by B J erwin and W J turner is to the effect that a great strike of molybdenum has been made in the vicinity of trinity lake in the atlantic section the man making the discovery sent a lot of the ore to his br brother other in pennsylvania with some description of the property and a statement of the amount of the ore the brother gentit sent it to charles D walcott director of the geological surveys survey and the latter informed him it was molybdenum and that if the ore existed in any such quantity as represented the property was of very great value the metal is worth more than gold and it is the understanding it is found in great quantity in this ore the discovery has created a sensation in atlantic and many men have gone in search for extensions of the vein molybdenum is scarce and is in great demand having come into use on an extensive scale for tempering steel and for other purposes |