Show SMELTER AT special correspondence lewiston idaho april E C cumings a chicago capitalist and dr former manager for the ladd metals mcany have completed the arrangements ir r the erection of a ton oil fuel matte arnace at on the snake river his smelter will be used in the reduction all ores from the heath mining district id will work a great saving in length of jul for the operators in this territory A new placer field near the confluence of lk creek and the american river is being sy ye eloped loped by B E A henshilwood of elk city his field is near the famous grubstake lacer which for years proved a steady ro ducer first in the hands of the white lan ian and later in the hands of the chinese when the former left it to go into quartz mining the development work on the buster mine is being pushed by the owners in order that the showing made within the period for while the mine is bonded to F W bradley and other san francisco parties may be as good as possible the crosscuts cross cuts at the foot level prove the ledge to be twenty feet in wi width ath with the ore of good quality the east drift has now reached a point seventy five feet from the shaft while the west drift has been driven for a distance of sity five feet A G wisner manager and G L bixby foreman of the jumbo mine in the buffalo hump district who have been in this city for the last few days left last night for the property mr bixby whose services were recently secured is a mining man of twenty five years yean experience having been connected with the owyhee owahee mines and several properties in the coeur calenes dA lenes before coming to the jumbo they confidently expect the jumbo to become a wonderful producer |