Show IDAHO elk city miner peter owner of the coeur d alene group of mining claims on santa ann creek reports he has made the richest strike ever made in newsome district friday of last week he reported the new strike showed twenty inches of ore that assayed close to the tunnel in which the strike was made is feet elk city miner george young one of the men employed on the development work in the snowstorm reported wednesday that the ledge has widened from three feet to five feet in the last twenty feet driven and that the hanging wall pans much free t gold old coverly pittock the owners have decided to push the tunnel fifty feet farther ahead before starting work on the shaft feet in from the portal of the main tunnel wallace times the stewart mining company now has in sight tons of ore averaging 10 per cent in lead and seven and a half ounces in silver to the ton according to a statement issued by representatives of the company it is stated also that over has already been expended in development work feet of tunnel having been driven the claim is made that the company can earn even at the present low prices of lead and silver from to a month silver city nugget A trade dollar miner who is one of the stockholders in the banner visited the danner banner mine this week the first time he had been in it for over a year he saw the prospect in the nelson shoot and at the north end of no 3 and 4 drifts and came out of the mine with his head in the air the young man has only the money he earns as a miner and expressed a regret that he had not put more of it in banner stock there is nothing new to be said regarding either the mine or the mill this week further than to state that work is progressing satisfactorily on both propositions bilk ellk city miner development work on the major mining claims which join the buster mine on the east cast was resumed thursday after suspension of operations lasting several months work is being done in a new shaft that was started last fall but which was sunk only fifteen feet the major is owned by mike bagley and G L L baskett of elk city and george V herrington ring ton of spokane it Is a good prospect the ledge has been exposed on the surface for a distance of feet two shafts have been sunk one thirty five feet and the other sixty five feet the ledge is eight feet wide and assays essays clear across salmon recorder emerson hill came down from the queen and crescent monday night on business mr hill states that they are doing a large amount of development work but will not be able to move their ten stamp mill down to the new location for some time when they do make the change five stamps will be added from the copper queen mine it is suggested that there may be thirty stamps added altogether and that the mill will be built large enough so that twenty additional stamps can be added which will make fifty stamps in all if reports of the strikes made on this property are realized on the veins as they follow them up the queen and crescent will develop into one of the greatest gold producers in idaho |