Show 0 IDAHO hailey times harry J allen alien is sending cooking utensils tools and supplies up to the independence group of mines in two or three days he will be ready to put about ten miners to work and will increase the force rapidly from then on the first thing to do will be the enlargement of the boarding house which can hardly accommodate as many as ten men the next work to begin will be the construction of the concentrator cen that he intends to have in commission before snow flies boise statesman ed and JC engel will leave today for the black warrior district to make an examination of the red bird property which mr has secured for the blue cap company mr engel has been directing some work on the companas comp anys property at thunder mountain and now goes to pass upon the other group boise statesman the braddock gold mining milling company owning a group of claims at roosevelt has let a contract for feet of work to be done during the summer two directors of the company will be out late in the summer or in the early fall to examine the property and arrange for future f development wallace mines and metals P F smith of this city came in from amador and the amador mine on cedar creek with about twenty five pounds of copper ore from the foot level the is ore a high grade copper iron sulphide some of it of a tenor of from 28 to 30 per cent copper he says that the vein on that level is from three feet to thirty feet wide filled throughout with good commercial product the samples he brought were taken from the vein by himself the company is busy erecting a smelter at the town company of amador on the missoula coeur dalene branch of T northern pacific railroad the and the miss river at the mouth of cedar creek asoula emmett index colonel c A pa parker 1 was in town monday from tha bend camp and reports a boom at that place oe another shift of men has been put to w work r in the kentuck mine and work is kept night and day the miners are in 11 a large larf body of rich ore and it is being abeln taken out cm in sufficient quantities to keep the mm mill run ning full blast the osborne has started sinking feet and a good grade of ore is being taken out the nellie is also working an increased force and it too is yield ing up good values the mint of which mr parker is superintendent is still doing development work A crosscut is bein being grun run to intercept the main vein the colonel is 13 cautious about talking for publication concerning his mine but it is known some mighty good ore has been taken out which has shown good values in the assays essays made he is however wasting no time in opening up good ledges already encountered but is bending his energies in pushing for the main vein boise statesman stephen M smith hhas has returned from the east lie he states he has not had a late report from the greyhound mine of which he is manager as the snow has been in such condition that the men cannot get out he has had a force working there all winter while east he received some samples taken from the face of the long level which is being driven on the ore shoot one was an average taken across five feet it gave a return of a ton the report from the foreman at that time was that the mine was looking better than ever before the ore being apparently richer the level is now feet long all in ore asked about the prospects for starting the smelter mr smith said it all depended upon the road which they are endeavoring to have built the state has offered to beir half the cost the mine owners to meet the other half if those interested come forward the road will be opened and it will then be possible to operate the smelting smelling sm elting plant until this has been decided the plans of the greyhound company cannot be definitely formed boise news A colorado company has started work on the extension of the iron dyke mine and will employ all the men they can get boats are now waiting at ballar ballards s landing to take the engineers down the river they are loading the boats with provisions and a survey is to be made froba fro homestead to this place A grade can be established not to exceed three and a half h per cent it now looks as though ore v will to the be shipped from this camp direct of e smelters shelters sm elters before christmas A corps ginders are now at homestead one oae is 3 working up the river and one working the river and one to work from the to this place A large concentrating plant is to be built at once at the iron dyke mine and a large smelter will be built at nagle work to commence at once so that the smelter will be ready when the railroad is completed to this place A public concentrator is going to be built at landore T U G jones has men at work on the wagon road from here to bear creek freight teams can work all summer hauling ore to council for the sumpter smelter challis messenger parker mountain has a brighter outlook today than ever before recently a big ore body was encountered in the ed williams group of mining claims that are being worked by an ohio company two feet of high grade ore have been uncovered the average values going all the way from 1000 to 2000 in gold and silver per ton the values on the surface droppings crop pings 0 giving between those amounts an additional force of men has been put to work and no time will be lost in developing this new find goss brothers are interested in the parker property in the same vicinity and associated with them in this group are 0 E allen alien and A P mayberry both of salt lake work has been progressing on the parker group all winter and with the most encouraging results their pack train moves two tons of ore each five days and they are sending out about one ton of shipping and four tons of milling ore at the same intervals fully 1000 tons of ore are blocked out in the property that will average at least 30 to the ton and some ore is sacked that will run as high as to the ton there is a season of great prosperity ahead for parker and ed williams properties the indications and results never hav having been more favorable |