Show IDAHO salmon herald the kittle burton mill at ulysses started up monday with five e stamps which will soon he be reinforced by ten others the work at that mine is amov ing ahead in an encouraging manner salmon herald word comes from shoup that the miners working on the george sandland ground have discovered a two foot vein of blue ore which carries from to per ton in gold it is on the claim just west of the grunter mine it is a marvelous discovery and adds one other clincher for the richness and permanency of the shoup district it also holds forth another argument why we ought to all pull together and build the shoup road this year silver city avalanche word has been received from W V F that he has purchased the iii material aderial for the erection of a shaft house and other buildings necessary for the work attending the opening up and operating the potosi and home mines machinery has also been ordered and mr with his usual energy will get the material on the ground as soon as possible all the necessary financial arrangements have been made so that when work commences there will be no interruption mackay miner charles barrett will larter and carl malm the leasers leaders of the mackay claim belonging to the horseshoe company who have been at work on the property since the first of last december encountered a very good body of ore last wednesday cutting in about two feet the extent of the strike has not yet been ascertained but the samples brought to town carry good copper values the boys have been driving a tunnel on the property and have it down to a depth of about two hundred feet boise statesman F B kinyon is showing in his office in the sonna building some very rich samples of ore which were brought down from the flanagan mine a few miles east of boise the flanagan is the property recently purchased by the celtic mining company in which mr kinyon is interested the samples of ore he has are fairly sprinkled with gold which is plainly discernible to the naked eye this with wath the fact that there seems to be great quantity of the rich dirt presents a pleasing outlook for the future of the property the ore ore is free milling anil and this fall a big stamp mill will be in stalled boise statesman J B whitlock returned from roosevelt a few days ago he reports a small force of men has been en on the HY H Y climax group during the winter in the spring it is probable work will restarted be started down the ridge toward cornish creek mr whitlock states there is no doubt the standard vein crosses the H Y property but they will probably have to go farther down to reach it shortly before leaving the camp mr whitlock visited the sunnyside Sunny side mine and went all through it he found immense bodies of ore in all the new workings and he has no doubt the property will prove a great success when equipped with such a plant as is now planned hailey times N H dark clark who was for years the attorney of the white knob copper company and who wound up the com banys affairs as receiver says that the parties operating the ravenel macbeth leasa leas 3 upon the property are assured of a profit of at least 1000 a day for the next two years this from the ore in sight and with copper at 18 cents a pound any new developments in the mines and some are confidently expected would increase the profit as would an increase in the price of copper on the other hand a drop in the price of copper would curtail the profit but as the lessees lessels could make money even were copper to sell for 11 or 12 cents a pound and the demand for copper is keeping ahead of the visible supply the profit is more likely to increase than aan to diminish |