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Show Lin cum IB KIBE Idaho Property Produces Cobalt Concentrate Valuable Valu-able for Steel Alloy. Intense activity prevails in the Lemhi county mining district, according to O. E. Kirkpa trick of Leesburg, Idaho, who arrived in the city yesterday to attend a board of directors meeting of the Leesburg Lees-burg Gold Dust Mining company. For nearly three years .Mr. Kirkpatrick has directed the work of a force of miners upon this property in the development of quartz gold ore bodies. By considerable drifting, crosscutting and raising, a large tonnage of this ore has been blocked out and prepared for sloping, it is said. Of the future of the mines of the district, dis-trict, Mr. Kirkpatrick, who is stopping at the Hotel Utah, gave a glowing account ac-count yesterday. The lead -silver mines of Gil more and Leadore are attracting a great deal of attention. In the southern south-ern part of the county shipment of ores and concentrates is increasing. Near Salmon, the county seat, several groups of copper mines have made valuable shipments ship-ments of high-grade ores to the smelter. The most notable of these are the Harmony Har-mony Mining company, the Popt-Shenon mines and the Tormey mines, owned and operated by Thompson and Mathews, according ac-cording to Mr. Kirkpatrick. Around the old placer camp of Leesburg, Lees-burg, a good deal of development is being be-ing done on quartz mining properties. Several old placer mines are being operated oper-ated successfully. At one property, owned by the Montana Mining company, according to Mr, Kitrkpatnek, a sawmill and other machinery .are preparing lumber lum-ber and other material with which to construct a bedrock flume next season. I To the west of Leesburg an eastern ! syndicate, under the management of : James V. Caples. has operated for sev-, sev-, erai years a mine and a stamp mill, from I which is secured a high-grade cobalt concentrate. This concentrate is shipped direct to the factory, where it is used as an alloy in the manufacture of a high-grade high-grade steel used in the making of dental, surgical and scientific instruments. This company has insta.led this season a hydroelectric hy-droelectric plant of sufficient capacity to operate all mine and mill machinery. In regard to the future of the mining industry in Lemhi county, Mr. Kirkpatrick Kirkpat-rick expects the year l&Jo to be a period of most pronounced and prosperous activity. ac-tivity. Mr. Kirkpatrick leaves for the east today to-day on a business trip iu the interests of the company, en his way e:ist to Chicago Chi-cago and other cities, he I lans to visit the Black Hill mining district of .South Dakota, where he will study methods of mihing low-grade quartz gold ores. |