Show IDAHO elk city mining news the thunder mountain gold company has let a contract ad tok to andrew prader for feet of work OB tunnel no 4 of the champion group which will give that tunnel feet an air compressor is being used salmon recorder thomas pope who is interested in the lopaz mine states that they are going to ship a five hundred poud sample of their ore to the butte smelter to 0 give it a thorough test it is said they we have a fine ledge of ore and goes very high in copper as well as other valuable minerals I 1 wallace press the idora mining company comi will next week jo join I 1 n the ran ranks ks 0 of f th the e shippers according to G P larsen vice president and manager of the company mr larsen says that a good wagon road has just been opened up to the mine and sl shipments to the panhandle smelter will commence at once mackay miner poole muffett Bax baxter lea have a lease on the vaught silver mining property a few miles south southwest to the tt of this city made a shipment lake Laews 0 a knight bomek smelter at salt week they have several men at work 01 the black daisy and expect soo soon toma another shipment from this property ie teen has contract wallace press A COM by the officers of the wilbur mining 20 burke buric e for w of pany to chris anderson ledge that the i feet of work it is expected the will be cut inside the f first I 1 feet feegan and drift d to devoted devote balance of the work will be is tit of the company co ing the property OU dt at mullan bated near the morning mine ud 0 A olin of this city is the secre secretary tarl treasurer mackay miner matt wolford 10 the down from the wild horse mines mide wa week ald a alto district the first of the N lot of supplies back to camp he and charles sharies mcgee are driving a sixty foot tunnel on the property to connect with the ore bodies the tunnel is now in over forty feet some very fine showings appear on these claims and the present work is expected to greatly increase the value known to be present the claim lies in the alto district I 1 silver city nugget development work on no 2 level continues with very satisfactory results the south drift is now in a distance of more than feet and the ore shoot continues in the face of this drift the management intends to start sinking the shaft deeper the first part of next month it will be sunk feet deeper and drifts run on the third and fourth levels the adit tunnel on shaft house level is now reopened to face and it is found to be scoped to within a few feet of the face where the ore body narrows to a few inches in width this tunnel will be driven farther as old surface show a large shoot of ore about fifty feet farther south elk city mining news john massam and L who are in partnership in prospecting have made what is said by many to be one of the richest strikes ever made in the district the lead is three to five feet wide and is high grade ore the new find is north of american river three quarters of a mile from the buster mine the locators have already cut a trail and are making hurried arrangements to begin development work mr whose home is in spokane will arrive this week work on a new camp is now in progress and as soon as the buildings are ready for use a force of miners will be put to work to develop the property A shaft will be sunk on the rich ore weiser signal word has been brought to the city that a rich strike of ore bearing silver and lead has been struck by the belmont mining company in the belmont mine in the heath district we are unable to get the exact details as Secre secretary tiry avery C moore arrived on thursday and left on the P I 1 N friday morning to investigate but there seems to be no question about the reliability of the report the only indefinite part dart of the information is the width of the ledge and assayed value of the ore the belmont mining company has been organized but a few months and the stock is owned principally by weiser and boise bol se people M heigho of the pacific and idaho northern railway is president and avery C moore is treasurer it is to be hoped that the ae rumor w proves true as it will give a wonderful impe impetus to the mining business of washington county |