Show IDAHO silver city avalanche mike rock and jack slattery have hake tapped a fine ledge of 0 ore in the liberty mine on war eagle the vein is a north extension of the great poorman ledge and it was necessary f for or the county surveyor to run the lines before it could be determined whose ground the ledge was on it was found that rock slattery had about eighteen feet the best of it weiser signal C W jones came down from council on mondays train on a short business trip mr jones is shipping ore from the peacock mine to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters and states he expects to ship about cars the ladd metals company is busily engaged in enlarging its landore smelter and there is great activity throughout the camp boise statesman captain E E rodgers of the black pearl company has returned from a visit to the property he is enthusiastic over the developments in the mine the ledge he states is perfect and in all their workings the vein filling is all pay ore the grade ranging from 9 to 20 in some places the ore body is eight feet thick and ranges from that width to five and one half feet the captain states the tanks for the companas comp anys cyanide plant are on the road and will be arriving in a short time lumber for the mill building is being delivered rapidly the mill he states will be the largest in the state covering an acre of ground and being equipped with every facility for economy of operation nampa leader superintendent of the sunnyside Sunny side mine has written mr purdum of a valuable new ore discovery in the big no 9 tunnel A large body has been opened up which as high as 41 the first news of the find came last week and this morning another letter from mr states that there is every indication that there is a quantity of this ore he feels very jubilant over his find and the result of his other investigations investigation ns and advises the installation of a small cyanide plant at once which can be enlarged later mr purdum leaves for the camp thursday to consult with the superintendent and if on his return the cyanide test which is being made at salt lake is successful which there is no room to doubt a plant will be sent in at once boise capital news george leighton the well known mining men returned yesterday from a visit to big creek he says that is the coming mining section of this country he said he never saw in any country such vast ore bodies while there mr leighton saw the big strike made on the yellow jacket ground at the head of big creek in profile gulch he said a ledge of high grade ore four feet in thickness was encountered that assayed better than to the ton he believes a great future is in store for that section weiser signal T J thompson is back from a tour of investigation of the heath mining district like every other mining man who visits the camp he is enthusiastic over its prospects he says that if such showings were anywhere else mining men would be falling over each other in their attempts to get hold of and work the properties he has sent some samples to pendleton and expects to succeed in organizing a company to develop one or more of the properties we have extolled the vir mines of this camp so long jong that it seems a waste of time to repeat them we have the making of one of the best camps in the united states but when boise statesman george Z edwards manager of the lincoln mine at pearl is in from the camp he reports that good progress is being made in erecting the cyanide plant for the property the floors of all the tanks have been put together and the staves will be in place in a short time there are fifteen of these tanks in all and they cover a large space the materials are all on the ground but a few pieces of machinery are yet on the road only a little work is being done on the mine this being confined to the east end of the property where considerable ore has been opened this work is in a tunnel it is now opening entirely new ground and seems to be coming into a new ore shoot hailey times C C came down from ketchum yesterday to let a contract to haul ore from his dollarhide group of mines he has shipped a carload every other day during the past few weeks but wants to ship a carload every day from now on this is not because he wants to force shipments as much as to get the ore out of the way at the mine as he has no facilities for storing a large quantity and he is pushing work on his concentrating mill as rapidly as possible but unless he moves his ore to the railroad it will have to be re handled at extra cost the dollarhide mine is showing up finely there being six feet of solid ore in the face of the main working drift very little ore is being stopped what is shipped coming mainly from the development drifts raises and cross cuts there are now over tons of ore in sight in the property weiser signal councilman E W wing of lewiston is in receipt of a letter from his daughter mrs C 0 dark clark in which the writer states that a strike recently made on the holy terror claim owned by mr dark clark and bert stewart has resulted in much excitement in the big creek district the importance of the strike was not realized until the assays essays of the ore taken from a twenty five foot ledge were received says one report this assay showed the ore to carry values of in silver and 5 in gold to the ton the ore is so rich that the silver is visible to the naked eye when blistered A large number of claims have been taken in the vicinity of the strike and by many the discovery is looked upon as one of the most important ever made in idaho county the big creek section has recently been attracting a great deal of attention and the new strike will give the camp additional dit ional prominence |