Show MR BELL ON NORTHERN MINES Chapter or Rich Mining Developments Develop-ments in Central Idaho Robert Bell Republican nominee for State Mine Inspector for Idaho Is In the city for a few days Speaking of the seasons mineral development the visitor says that the central Idaho region JIMS responded liberally to the efforts of the pioneers of the mining In dustry and that a great many important im-portant discoveries have been recorded among which the uncovering of hlgh grade tellurium In the Boise basin country and at the Chattln mine near Atlanta In Elmore county also at an other point within three miles of Boise City are very Interesting and widely InlercsLni wlcel distributed manifestations of this rare and much coveted variety of gold ore and go to prove how little the real nature of Idahos extensive gold fields Is appreciated A great deal of active development work Is now In progress and some cx ceedingly Haltering disclosures are be ing made at a number of points Among the most promising proposi tons that art now receiving the atten tion of capitalists said Mr Bell ten the Valley Creek mine near Stanley basin In Custer county This property I3 owned by lon Lyttleton Price of Halley Ida and Wyne Darlington former generalmanager o the White Knob Copper company at Mackay The Valley Creek mine is opened on I twentyfivefoot vein fcfoOL of quartz In granite walls thai Is I grnite wals accompanied at a short distance by two large dykes of porphyry and diorite Selected pay streaks In this grea tel t-el N 2veral I feet wide carry average erale values oC 25 to 330 per ton and the full width of the vein contains the handsome average of tl0 per ton Machinery for a twentystamp mill mi Is all on the ground at this mine nnd Is rapidly being put In place by Mr J B Hastings an eminent mining engineer engi-neer of British Columbia who has charge of the property The mine already has 2000 feet of development de-velopment and sufficient ore blocked out to last a mill of the above capacity for two years At Stanley Creek the Wormaks placers have been taken over by the Sweetser Burroughs Dredge company of Mlnldoka Ida who arc equipping the property now with 1 dredge of the chainbucket type with a dally capacity of 2000 cubic yards of gravel The hull of the boat Is I already afloat the machinery ma-chinery Is being hauled In and the company expects to get It set up and to be able to make a short run this fall Cal before the ground freezes The Wormaks1 ground covers the upper Stanley creek for nearly two miles and carries a paystreak 200 to 100 feet wide J has been very thoroughly tested and found to contain an average value of 50 cents per cubic yard The work In 1 being done under the personal directions of Mr George T Burroughs Jr who Is a practical dredging engineer engi-neer and understands every phase of the business from A to Zf and under his management the venture Is 1 an as surcrt success One of the most sensational strikes of the season way recently made In the Sherman mine six miles south of Elk City In Idaho county and about 100 miles north of Thunder mountain This mine is being opened on f con tact vein of while quartz in walla of granite and porphyry The vein IK l fit I teen to twenty feet wide and carries an average value of 512 1 to 15 per ton Two tunnels traverse the vein for 300 and 500 feet respectively The lower tunnel IH In GOO feet and has gained a full depth of ISO feet at 120 feet In from the entrance Thin tunnel encountered a pay streak of bonana ore that is well defined and carries an average width of 3 > feet and an average value of 500 per ton In free gold at 500 feet in These values had been continuous from the time the shoot was ntruck and at that point the pay was four feet wide and the breast of the tunnel gave an average ave-rage value 6C 1000 per ton for the whole four feel This rich ore chute did not crop through to the surface but the sleep plteh 0 the vein the length of the chute and Its wellnmrjc ed i lateral boundaries Insure it considerable con-siderable vertical strength The Sherman mine has recently been bonded by Mr Patsy Clark the well known operator of Syohnne Mr Clark has also secured options on hnlf I a rlozen other groups of claims In the same neighborhood on call of which ho now has a force of men at work and on one of them n very recent strike has been made that Is said to in dlcaic even greater richness and ex lent than that on the Sherman Twelve mHqs south of Elk City the Crooked River Mining and Milliner company have Just completed the Installation In-stallation of a twentystamp mill of the mont modern pattern Their mine Is developed by C series 0 big open cuts of quarry proportions In a great dike of quartz porphyry that courses through the regional granite This dike is from 200 to 500 feet wide and hay been very much altered and Impregnated Im-pregnated with secondary quart and Iron oxides It Is estimated by practical prac-tical mining men who have sampled It that this great vertical one o mln erU carries an average value of 5 In gold J and that great bodies within Its course aa much as fifty feet wldo will yield a milling value of 10 per ton This property enjoys the advantage of a magnificent water power and an un limited reserve of fine timber which Insures great economy of operation find Us further development promises to Justify the establishment of a milling mill-ing plant of almoot any desired capacity capac-ity I IH locally known as the Hogan mine and Is principally owned by some wellknown aaauyers and capitalists of Butte Mont Considerable excitement prevails In this section of central Idaho nnd It in I 9CCtOn develop Into a boom in the labll near future that will be the real thing Discussing the Bellovue Ton Zcra Snow the eminent Portland Port-land attorney came down from his Oregon office yesterday and during the afternoon occupied the attention of Messrs J JD Bamberger and David Keith dwncra of the Dellevue mines and mill in Granlle county that Sale Just what the Interview contemplilod none of the participants would admit although al-though not a few are ready to believe distant proposition that the owners of the lw ion have been ntlorded an opportunity of realizing on It Mr Snow has a large circle of friends In thin neck of the woods who will In tire meantime undertake to make his sojourn a pleasant pleas-ant one Gold Eagle to Sink Judge John W Burton manager of the Gold Eagle mine out of Boise Ida leavcy for that goldbearini proposlllcn again the last of tin week when Instructions In-structions will be given to continue the Incline lo the WO foot level or eighty foot below the present sump at lhe bottom of which ho reports ore of I as line quality as any raised from the I prospective bonanza nnd of whlrh another plc tl other lot will reach the furnaces 0 the Blnghnm Con smeller today The orfts fold on this market have thus far averaged aver-aged better limn 100 gold per ton while the work on the 200foot level baa been l with the most gratifying resiihs and in fulfillment of every representation representa-tion held out by Judge Burton when Messrs Darn and Alrls of the Con Murcur were Induced to Join him Sampson Copper Ores Over at tlc Sampson in BIngham where highgrade copper oren have been added to tire I lead and silver SupL Levy reports the upraise continuing above the SCOfoot level while some ore Is being broken down The first lot from the new chute la now at the sampler sam-pler nnd according to mine asnuys should afford as much as 13 per cent copper Iwenlyflvo ounces silver and S2no gold per ion thc management reportIng flid porting as much as four feet oC this class now exposed Meanwhile the lead ores continue to afford some stoplng Down from Alta John C Slillwell postmanler at Alta uvas among yesterdays arrivals from the camp and Is relying on greater ac llvlly the present winter than at any period In many yours Among thos > 1 which have stocked up for a season of continuous development Is the Albion the Grizzly and Lavlnla the City and half Rocks Columbus ICcnnehec 3111 a dozen youngsters that have been harnessed har-nessed up the present season and that ford many nsinininces of production during the next one The mal pouches handled by Postmaster Stllwcll Indicate Indi-cate hotter than anything else perhaps tire steady Improvement in the condi lon of the camp while everything denotes de-notes a steady Increase In the population popula-tion Mining Notes John Bettls was among the visitors from Alia yesterday Two carloads of Horn Silver of Frisco wen delivered al the Americans furnace t yesterday Another consignment of hlfrhgrndc copper cop-per ore In 1 being prepared at the Columbia of Blncham E J Raddats superintendent of Iho Honerlne heft for Stockton again yesterday yester-day morning Tho Mountain Gem of Blnpcham reporter < I at the smelter with another lot of oro n during the day P J Donnhuo has gone Into the dIg Kings again to cohduct an examination t for local Investors The anscasmcnt of a cent a share on I Mountain Lake of Brighten becomes dc Ilnqucnt next week Manager Duncan McVlchlo of the Galena Gale-na King made an Inspection of that Stockton Stock-ton proposition yesterday Wlllard Snyder returned from Stockton I last night tier an Inspection of his com ponys widespread Interests Ten carloads of concentrates from tho Ophlr 1111 o Ohplr Canyon were delivered deliv-ered nl the Murray nmeltcr yesterday The niiinagomcnt time Eureka Hill oC TintJc reappeared on tho market yesterday yester-day with three more carloads of high rndQ org zraco Specifications for the new hoisting plant with which the New York Bonanza at Park City la i to be provided are In hand I with the contract lo bo awarded at one Superintendent Hall of the Copper Belt railway which operates among the bonanzas bonan-zas of Blngbam was In town ycsterdaj and reports the usual tonnage being moved at tins time Manager Charles M Whltlcy of the American Smelting and Relining companj left for Montana last night to view the companys plant at Helena I where Frank M Smith has everything now well In I hand The das receIpts at the Taylor Brim ton sampler consisted l of three carloads ot I oro from Tlnllc two from Frisco one from BIngham and one from Stockton with ten curs of concentrates from Ophlr Canyon The Galena King o Stockton appeared on thu market yesterday with tho llrst consignment of ore from the new strikes extraction to be suspended until the rc tlmborlng of the Incline shall have been L complcled I Oil Flakes President McCurrlck of tire Utah VYQ ming Is expected back from Idaho In a day or two The Peyser asscssmcnl rig In 1 due at Grcon River thc last of the present week I will be put to work on the cast sldo of the river rho report comes down from Spring Valley tbut Slj per acre has been refused re-fused for land on the section on which L the Jagcr well Is situated I I The McAVhorler Hastings people are I Just at present engaged wrestling with avery a-very hard rock In which the drill Is only making n little bettor than five feet per day The woll Is now down about 10 i fool John H Edwards and associates of Hal lopell Mont have purchased an oildrill ing rig and arc Vboiil to begin Held operations oper-ations near that point John Deader who recently left Salt Lake for Butte has been engaged to do the work of drilling After some two weeks of quiet the Foa till Held Wyoming Is to be the scene of renewed activity From a letter received from Fosll yesterday It hi learned I thai thn IdnhoParafilne people have at last completed their repairs and that t operations opera-tions would be resumed yesterday The Virtue puonlu have nt last received Uio shoe fur their cnaliiK but are at work putting It back In the well As there ban been ooiiBldorublo rccaslng completed before be-fore the cavelu which stopped operations opera-tions the work of replacing the pipe and closing ofT the water will not ho an grunt as it otherwise would be lust bow much time will elapse before actual drilling will of be conjecture resumed however Is purely a matter |