Show THE FLORIDA MOUNTAIN companas Comp anys Exten extensive siv L works and new mill black jack tribune Trl bunel silver city ida july 7 tills lias bas bron been a remarkably season around silver city and ami it 11 very seriously delayed operations about the mines the winter inter storms were delayed nelll I 1 almost summer so 0 o that an account 0 of r bad roada and weather supplies and building materials could riot not be brought in and wood choppers chopp cre anil and haulers could not so go into the timber lin until I 1 11 within the past week or two this h hag as made ger gerneral teral bu business biness in tile the camp much less active than usual at this ume time of 0 the year while this has made much lucli disappointment and some boino hardship the district lit in the way ot of wines mines never looked better than today FLORIDA MOUNTAIN the most important enterprise at present is that generally referred to as the blonville boonville Bo onville the real name of which Is the florida mountain INTInI mining nr company well vell up near the summit and on tho the north end of florida mountain Is located a 8 large group of claims I 1 of chich un tire Bo onville seventy N 1 nanc I 1 ne an and d florida hill are the prominent ones these have been so developed as to show allow immense bodies of high and low ON grade mining milling ores for ni aich a mill Is being erected on an jordan creek at old Bo onville once a fair sized town back in the days of active placer mining there but which tor for many yeats now has consisted of simply a kind ot of wayside hotel and stable chiefly useful from bring bong at the junction of 0 tile the road leading to 1 delamar with the main silver city arid and nampa road tho the florida mountain li lining company have selected this place for their mill which would have been in operation ere this but from the fact of 0 bad roads and weather preventing tho the getting lit in ot of lumber and machinery and doing tho the active work ot of construction As it Is thebe materials now scattered d for many miles along alone the road front from nampa will soon be on oil tire the ground and tile the mill in opA atlon kation it will probably take till october before leal ical production of bullion will begin the mill building is to cover a space fet independent of the boiler and engine room arid and retort buildings located away front roni tire the main structure the mill will have a horse M power engine 20 0 stamps weighing 1100 pounds pound pach each 13 12 pans 6 settlers cottiers and lc 16 frue fru banners van ners oro ore will be sent front from the mine to io the mill over a foot bucket tram this tram runs from the mouth of the upper tunnel of the black jack group croup arrangements having boon made for operating the hie florida florid mountain group through that tunnel l the company is erecting a I 1 ig iff hotel close to the mill and which covers FL a space about feet three stories high and Is to be provided with very cry complete modern improvements A nice office and large laige barn have already been provided aln company backed by eastern capital organize by cul col wilbam dewey ii understood to be the backers of the balse nampa owahee owyhee railroad lit in which grading is being done from the nampa end this thin makes this mining efterpi ise more tant than it would otherwise be hiir BLACK JACK GROUP Is going ahead steadily in its operations their inlall reduce about thirty tons of ore oie per day it has 8 pans 4 settlers arid and 4 vannera the mine Is opened by two levels tile the upper one is feet to the vein which has been bec n drifted on for feet and the lower one used now exclusive exclusively ly tor for the operating Is 2157 2167 feet long the vein there has been drifted on suo feet this vein Is 8 to 10 feet fed wide and has an air average of 0 IS inches ray pay ore it Is a fissure in porphyry down to the SOO foot level said and tit lu granite below that its ore runs about ss 13 in gold and 1 30 0 to 40 ounces siller the company is a close corporation and does docs riot not give out its lt secrets Ee crets but it la Is well known that good dividends are paid light along alone prospecting below the lower tunnel Is goins coins ahead with good results THE TRADE DOLLAR belongs to another very elope close corporation it moves steadily along and all the time Is developing more and more rich deposits of ore the roll mill reduces from 25 to 27 tons of ore per day its gross output in bullion in 1395 was war ab about t ot of nelch atch abo about t one halt half was profit and went to its stockholders lately richer ore than ever has b been 11 uncovered covered in its lower workings THE DEWEY TUNNEL planned to run clear through florida hill la Is now in about feet it starts from near silver city and runs west arat ward the intention being to run to feet to cut all tile the vl veins ans in tile hill at great depth mike hyde hyda lias has just been put in charge ot of tile the work and he will resume operations at once after an idleness of several months 7 machinery will probably be introduced int soon AT THE POORMAN about it a dozen men are arc prospecting tt Is understood that the company will either put on a holst to sink to great depth and p nd use the tramway to send ore to the mill or else start a tunnel near the will mill and run some or teet feet to crosscut cross cut all the veins of 0 this group |