Show I MACKINAW DISTRICT An Old Idaho District Again UnderMost Under-Most Energetic Development George Forrester the wellknown mining enjrlncer who has been applying apply-ing himself to an examination of a S rious propeitles and interests nt Lees burg Ida and where the Mackinaw district has been productive ot 20000 OUO in placer gold says Through the courtesy of W S Bu1 ton engineer for the Gold Dust Min S IlS company which IH I largely owned by Salt Lake parties J I was shown all through the property which has a line water supply and wood for any and all purposes From the old original origi-nal 1 Hhafthouse an Incllnq was driven down seventy feet cross drlfts were driven forty and twenty feel rospect > Ively that work being done by former owners ant all in good freemilling gold ore clear from the Cass roots down Since the present company acquired ac-quired the property a tunnel has been driven to tap the vein US feet below the collar of the original Incline at a 11 stiiiice of 3C5 feet the tunnnl struck the vein continuing on twenty feet farther far-ther an upraise of Glghtflve feet was runto the bottom ofvtho old workings and all in nolid ore showing values in gold of from 58 all the way up to 314 per ton The tunnel Jias been 4rlven In sixtylive feet beyond upraiae and r as yet no Indication of a wall showing the ledge to be at least eightfive foot thick by n known depth of ISO foot I Enough ore has been blocked out ready i for sloping to keep J n tenstump mill i running for years to come The mill i is of the most modern design conslst i Ing of complete machinery stnmpi copper gold plates with all II I necessary nec-essary appurtenances which go t make up a llratclaus nmalgnmatlnc plant Provision has been made in them < mill building so that a concentrating or leaching department can be added In the future if found necessary W S Burton the companys engineer can look with justifiable pride to the mill which is a monument of praise to his handicraft I Eleven thousand feet northeast ot the Gold Duyt lies the Fne Gold mlnci owned and operated by the uame company com-pany both of which rp on the great mineral zone which crosses the entire Mackinaw district The Free Gold IK developed by n abaft seventy feet deep with crosscuts ant sloping done where former owners mute considerable money by tho primitive1 method of hall mortar and panning Ore going r lnOO per ton was often encountered a general gen-eral average sample from the bottom of the old shaft going 18 per ton The present company is running a tunnel to tap the ledge of ICO feet below the old workings The tunnel Is now in 100 feet the vein being struck lit fifty feet with sensational assays C far as penetrated Looking from the north cast lo southwest along the great ledge the eye takes in the Moose mine Dolly Varden Haldee Italian and the Gold Flint whose endlines adjoin the Gold Dust By the kindness of Manager Kirk pntrlk I was shown through the Gold Flint workings which consist of two tunnels and a shaft on the apex of the vein The lower tunnel is in 700 feet encountering the vein at fifty foot ninetyfive feet of crossputting and all I I in 0 ore an upraise of 170 feet to I upper tunnel which struck Ihe vein at seventyfive feet 100 feet of crosacul ling in upper tunnel 100 tons of ore nt mouth of lower tunnel 1 assays S10 per Ion time vein averaging thirtyfive feet thick Enough ore is 1 in sight at u conservative estimate to be In the I neighborhood of 250000 lOlls All the minus enumerated arc1 promising properties prop-erties and easily worked The abandoned aban-doned mine two mites west of the great Gold Dust recently located has a tunnel In 150 feel with a twelvefoot vein of S25 ore and many encouraging prospects which 1 did not visit Taken altogether the Mackinaw district Is one of the Greatest and rIchest gold camps that I have seen and before very long Is bound to become a great factor In the pioductlon of gold for the State of Idaho |