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Show LONG TMM IBS COMPLETION POINT BJp Idaho-Centennial Company Is Adding New Equipment at jj Fast Rate. ! j Special to The Tribune. WALLACE, Ida., Aug. 30. A. Kloclt- : man, president of the Idaho-Continental H?l Mining company, returned during the Hitt week from the property after an Inspoc-tion Inspoc-tion trip lasting: several days, and ho re- Hr ports that the fourtecn-mllc transmission Hf' lino telng conHtructcd by the company H' from its power plant at Boundary creek Hjii to the mine is ncarlng completion and Ih the last of the cables will be in place Hii within the next ten days. Hf . Work at the power site and at the mine H' ' i is progressing satisfactorily and there Is Hr! no question but the company will have P the buildings completed and the equip- H?1 ment ready to operate by Christmas, H!. ; The concentrator and office buildings and Htj the boarding and bunkhouscs already arc Hi'. under construction and will soon be ready Hia for the roofs, and the power plant build- ii' ; ing foundations arc in shape to begin Hi. erection of the supersti-ucture lmmedlate- ?!r ly. The sawmill will have finished pve- HjN" paring the timbers for tho different Hfih; buildings soon and the last of the con- IL , centrator, compressor and electric ma- y chlnery has been delivered on the ground, HK ready to be installed. The company is ilj' -working 150 men and -will increase this if) force if necessary to insure the comple- Hjf A tion of tho work before bad weather sett? jhk- In. The Idaho-Continental was the prop- 1 i erty financed by the International Smelt- Hi; ing company several months ago through rj the untiring efforts of Mr. Klockman. i Big Chunks of Metal. ' j! Chunks of sliver-lead ore, varying in I size from one to 100 pounds, are being K shot out with each round in a crosscut yi" at the 1000-foot level in tho property of j tho Cocur d'Alene Empire Mining' com- pany on the west -branch of Big creek, HBpl) according to reports from people who HW : have visited the property recently. This ' condition along with the situation of the I I property, which joins the Bunker Hill S 51 Sullivan on the east, encourages the man-tj, man-tj, agemcnt in the belief that ore In a body 0) of important dimensions awaits at no re- mote distance ahead. The crosscut has j " proceeded 175 feet across the ledge from the hanging wall. Crosscuttlng began at I the extremity of a 1250-foot tunnel that Ha i I ' was run on the hanging side of the ledge, i and that disclosed several pockets of BV , high-grade ore. Galena is mixed with HBb the quartz In the crosscut and water is BV i running from the face, indications that j are regarded as being very favorable, j Upward of $21,000 has 'been spent by the BVr! company, which Is controlled by Spokane Ef1 capital, Iti the development, which in-f in-f eludes another long tunnel 750 feet above. 1 l, Ore was exposed in the latter dovelop- i ment. The company owns nine claims. ) A. number of improvements are being put in at the Sierra Nevada property :i' near Kellogg. One Is a pump of 1G0 gal- '' ' Ions capacity, to furnish water for tho ' mill. The lack of sufficient water has l been one of the difficulties which has pi ' faced the operators during the last 1 month. The water Is being pumped from HHj the underground workings, being lifted j , about 430 feet. The company is opera t- ing with two shifts, employing thlrty- jL: five men at present, and is looking for- ;P ward to working three shifts us soon as I the Improvements now under way are jji, completed. Other new installations ln- 31, elude new ore bins and new jig and 8- classifier improvements, and two now Bl tables. The company is also putting in HBU ' , an elevator to hoist the concentrates from the mill to the bins, saving con-siderable con-siderable handling of the ore. The mill ) -will handle 150 tons daily and is kept ' ntnnlng at almost capacity. Seven cars : of ore were shipped during July, and i, as many more would have been marketed . had the water supply been adequate. The Guclph Mining company, operating a group of claims near the Hercules group, has uncovered a fine showing of J, carbonates and crystallized lead. The ore t; is found in the No. 2 vein, which was ''- exposed several years ago. but not de- ; veloped. A recent examination of the property by a prominent local engineer " has aided the management in lis ex-ploration ex-ploration work. The geologist was able iH to point out two leads for exploration and f -Informed the officials that other fissure Hj veins would cross the ground at differ- '7 e:it points. ;! Ranching vs. Mining. Concerted action by the mining com- U panies operating in the Pine creek district y to combat the encroachments of home- stcaders is planned as one of tho chief matters to be taken up by the Wardner- ,- Kellogg chapter of the Idaho Mining as- ..i sociation, which was organized last week t1' by -Ravenal Macbeth. A number of . hbmostead entries have been recorded In ('li the lust few months and several of the j . ciiscs arc in court. The mining men i 1 claim that the lumber interests are be- ' hind the homesteaders in an endeavor to Ht ' secure the logs from Pine creek. One j ;' of the recent homesteads covers the en- 1 k tire Hilarity group of claims, while tho 1 ' Constitution claims are included in a ;.; lioinestead filing now before the land of- t flee on a contest. U U The Ilccla company is paying its divl- 'j dend No. 122, calling for a disbursement 1 L of $20,000, or 2 cents a share. This dls-tributlon dls-tributlon brings the total for the year to H S240.000, with a grand total since or- t ganizatiou of S2,8S0.000. l j( Important strikes In both the upper and T k lower tunnels of the Jack Walto mine, at 1 " Union, In which many Spokane and U -Cocur d'Alonc people are interested, have 1; .been made in the last week, and the com- l X pany will immediately begin preparing ' ground at the mouth of Tributary creek, iE- two miles from the property, for the crec- i! tion of a 300-ton concentrator, according I to announcement made by the directors, i An aerial tramway connecting the mine w and mill will be conHtructed also, and Y both will be ready to operate by January r 3, 1914, unless unforeseen delays occur. I' Plans have been outlined for extensive I development of both oro bodies encoun- n tered and a fifty-horacpower steam engine ft and boiler, to be used for operating the t compressor plant when the waterpower in jVj use at present is inadequate, was ordered pt yesterday. Supplies are being sent In jj now and about thirty men will be em- ployed -by the company before tho end 1 of the month. Fritz Marschante, one of r the directors, returned a few days ago i from a trip of Inspection to the prop-erty. |
