Show IDAHO wallace times A report from murray yesterday stated that six feet of good milling ore has been encountered on the terrible edith property the property is owned mainly by wash snyder and james woods who are superintending super intending the work bracking ebbley formerly held an option on the terrible edith and just before they gave up their option it was reported that a good body of ore had been exposed though not to the extent of the present strike elk city mining news W F johnson and ralph middleton two of the owners of the hercules on which development work is being done were in camp a couple of days the first of the week and speaking of the property they said the vein is showing wider and better grade of ore they have added thirty five feet more of tunnel and made a crosscut cross cut on the vein to the north of the station mr johnson said no assays essays had been made of the new ore exposed but pan aings bring increased results E J comley is the other partner in the mine silver city nugget mr fentley Feg with only two miners working with him is continuing to take down high grade gold ore from the upraise being made on the village blacksmith to reach the bottom of the old trask shaft without assays essays to test its value it is estimated that the ore taken down will run close to per ton in gold value the amount of new ground thus being opened in this portion of the mine is of considerable extent and it goes to prove that the village blacksmith will develop into a good paying proposition when fully opened wallace press A ledge in the columbia shamrock was struck last week and it Is three feet wide and carries values of copper through the entire lead the ledge was encountered in the face of the tunnel which is in feet and at a depth of 90 feet the property is on the railroad section southeast of wallace and woods keats of this city are the largest owners they have held the prospect for years but this is the first ledge that has been struck two men are working steadily and it is likely that a lower tunnel will be started in the spring wallace times the first car of ore was shipped from the rex mine monday being sent to east helena to the smelter of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company the car contained forty tons of lead concentrates assaying 58 per cent lead and 41 oz in silver another car will be shipped on wednesday said manager B M francis monday and from now on a car will be sent out every other day we are working only one shift now but when we get three shifts to work soon we will ship every day after a few minor changes have been made we will be working every hour in the 24 emmett index despite the hardships and inconvenience which the failure of the capital state bank caused the people at pearl the leading mines are running larger large t forces the building to house the new mill t t of the whitman mining company is near Js P ing completion all the machinery is on I 1 the ground and the expert who will erect it says he will have the mill in operation early 4 in march the process to be employed is a 1 k mechanical and cyanide combination thea the lincoln and black pearl companies are turn Y ing out large quantities of good ore and anda the checkmate company is driving its tuo L j nels with a large force of men J ji wallace times A strike of silver ca car r bonate ore containing exceedingly big I 1 values in silver has been made recently or on 12 tj the anchor mining companas comp anys property at burke mike jike maher one of the main owners declares that the ore will run about a ton toll in values many years ago a strike of ore was made on the claims comprising the anchor group which ran in the neighborhood of 1600 ounces in silver the late body of ore was encountered in a shaft being sunk on the diamond hitch claim the shaft was begun a month ago and is now down thirty five feet there is from one and a half to two feet of the ore the shaft is being sunk from an old crosscut cross cut tunnel salmon recorder notwithstanding ding the depressing influence of the panic the leesburg district promises to be pretty lively during the year 1908 through a mining engineer who has been inspecting most of the properties of that section the recorder learns that the old italian mine upon which newton hibbs the hustling promoter has 1 been engaged in restoration work for the past year has been sold through the process of reorganizing z the old bitter root mining company the terms of the deal insures an ample fund for development and continuous operations under the direction of mr hibbs beginning immediately and continuing through a long I 1 campaign wallace press A party composed of george banister norman ebbley jack barn bam abe wyman R B smith of wallace and frank nichols and james bean of mullan took a trip to the father lode monday and inspected the work that is being done there the men are working on the upraise which is all in ore about four feet in width it has been raised about 30 feet and work will be continued all winter there is some shipping ore and some concentrating ore being taken out and piled on the dump to be shipped later those who made the inspection yesterday are much pleased with the property and the good ore in sight A mining engineer of the city said after inspecting in the prospect that there is now in sight over worth of ore which is rich in lead and silver some of the ore has been placed on exhibition in the offices of the ebbley investment company |