Show IDAHO wallace press george R trask the well known mining engineer and surveyor left on tuesday for kingston to survey for patent the property of the Hypo company the Hypo has been attracting much attention of late its stock has recently doubled in price on re reports P orts of an encouraging cou raging discovery of ore wallace press the oom paul company has purchased a five drill compressor plant at salt lake and a powerful electric motor at portland and both are now on the way to the mine they will be installed as quickly as possible work underground having been discontinued in the meantime while the site for the plant is being graded the sinking of the shaft will be resumed as soon as the work can be prosecuted with machine drills salmon recorder eli minert returned the firstos first of the week from his mining prospects down in the shoup country where he has been doing assessment work for the past month he has reached a good body of ore which looks very good to ta old prospectors pec tors and gives evidence of being a bonanza he says there is a large body of ore and if he is not mistaken and it all comes up to the test of samples brought in mr minert has a better proposition than an any free milling ore gold mine in the country wallace times the ore in the cross cut of the vein of the reindeer mining company is improving with every shot the vein has been crosscut a alsta distance ce of thirty feet with no hanging wall yet in sight the face of the crosscut is thoroughly bated with and this rich ore was broken into late thursday night it has now been practically demon that the ore shoot is thirty feet wide its further width being problematical ress on the property is being watched with much interest halley hailey times work was resumed on oil the keystone in croesus gulch a few days ago the company having reorganized with the intention of working vigorously M H williams is the superintendent only four men are working there now but there will be at least fifteen men employed by the middle of october or as soon as a boarding and bunk house can be built there are to tons of shipping ore on the dump and this will be shipped to the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company at salt lake during the next thirty days jn in opening this property no waste is handled all the workings being in ore the ore vein is five feet solid A kellogg dispatch says galena assaying as high as 53 per cent lead 16 ounces of silver and 2 ounces of zinc has been found in the sidney a hitherto little known property situated two and a half miles south from the bunker hill and near the stewart L W gay E S gay and H M ross ros s are the owners the tunnel is in feet and has attained a vertical depth of feet the management expects to drive the tunnel in 1000 feet which will bring them beneath the apex of the mountain at a depth of feet the tunnel is being driven on the ledge which is about eighteen feet wide said L W gay and the pay streak is over a foot wide two men are at work mackay miner an important transaction in mining circles was enacted here on wednesday when senator ravenel macbeth representing new york capitalists took a three years lease and bond on what is known as the phi kapp properties in the alto district some forty odd miles above mackay the lease and bond cover the four well known properties i e the phi kappl clifton douglas and solan and a number of placer claims all of which have undergone considerable development work there is feet of tunnel work on the clifton crosscutting cross cutting a body of ore an eighty foot incline shaft in the phi kappl follows a five foot vein of good ore with a thirty foot drift and a sixty foot crosscutting cross cutting wallace times an offer of for ten claims on copper mountain was refused yes yesterday by four mullan men J A chisholm returned to mullan yesterday from copper mountain bringing with him some samples high grade copper ore from the group owned by himself william ned hea adling larry dooling and william dystrup Py mr chisholm who has had a wide experience in copper mining declared it was the best showing he has ever seen experts representing pittsburg capital who had examined the claims during the week made an off offer er to take a bond on the group of which was refused the eastern I 1 experts declare the district has a wonderful 1 future and will develop into the greatest 1 copper camp in the northwest with mullan r as the center of business james osburne and F kube of spokane who located nine claims in the district this spring have also brought down some fine specimens of copper ore boise statesman I 1 H friar manager of the columbia mining company operating in the big creek district has received information that the mill for the gold slide property at ramey ridge was shipped yesterday it is the intention to get it in and install it this fall mr friar had intended to leave for the camp today but he has determined ter mined to remain until the mill arrives and personally superintend intend its transportation to the mine the company has a force of men at work on the property the cabins have all been erected and the site for the mill graded it is the intention to sort the great slide and work the very high grade float found in it in large quantities mr friar has shipped a carload of supplies for the pueblo mine of which he is also manager it is the intention to employ a force of men running a long tunnel to open up the ledge at depths this tunnel will be from to feet in length and it is hoped to get in during the winter in the upper works this property shows quantities of ore running from 10 to 12 and some that is very high grade rich ore is in bunches however and the ground there is more or less broken it is believed that when depth shall have been gained the shoot from which the very rich ore came will be found in place |