Show 0 IDAHO wallace press the bracking ebbley investment company has taken an option for ninety days on the lucky boy group of claims which is situated a mile and a halt north from sunset peak at the head of idaho gulch from dan finlayson and thomas thomas bagget the price to be paid for the property is ore from this prop erty won the large loving cup at the interstate ter state fair at spokane this year pierce e city miner the old crescent mine a few miles east of pierce city is to be worked again and active development work will be begun before the end of this thia month R E willoughby has purchased the mine from the bond mining company to which corporation the property has belonged for some years the price paid is not known but is assumed to have been about the property is extensively developed by tunnels shafts and pits and is equipped with a five stamp mill a sawmill hoists and other necessary machinery salmon herald D U langel superintendent in of the big lead gold mining company operating on pine creek was in the city the first of the week he says the hopes of that property were never better and that the ground is proving up fully as high in value as the owners could expect the preparation for the winter at that camp were not completed in time to meet the cold weather and the force has been laid off till early spring but it will not be long till the wheels will again be set in motion and it is expected that before fall they will have everything built for operating on a perennial basis wallace press charles mckinnis of the firm of kratzer mckinnis have reported that a strike of copper glance has been made at the bottom of the shaft on the national property we struck this glance about eighteen feet below the surface said mr mckinnis we have sunk upon it about ten feet and it is getting better with depth we have had an assay made of the glance that was first struck which showed sixty five ounces in silver 33 per cent lead 33 per cent copper copp er and in gold no assay has been made of the ore we are working in now but I 1 am certain that it will go ounces in silver the streak of copper glance is six inches to a p foot wide mountain home maverick the property formerly known as the gold belt consolidated soli dated mining claims near junction bar has been acquired by a number of men who h have ave formed the gold belt mining co ltd capitalized at with officer at Woun mountain tain home and minneapolis minn A large force of men will be put to work in the spring the officers of the company are as follows W J mooney president J H garrett first vice president J E p jerome second vice president H A oswald secretary george J sherer treasurer J J heinrich general manager it is the intention to thoroughly develop this property and a large force of men will be put to work in the spring silver city nugget the filter presses and other new appliances have all been installed in the delamar mill and are doing very satisfactory work the property now running on a paying basis the only drawback now confronting the management is a fear that the fuel supply may not hold out until warmer weather will admit of the mill being run by water power B but ut with the satisfaction existing over the success of the new appliances a brief delay for want of power will not trouble them much the satisfaction of feeling that the old mines have an indefinitely prolonged lease of prosperity is putting new life in the camp manager orford has been absent for the past fortnight visiting his family in ontario where his children are attending school but is looked for back any day now |