Show MINING INDUSTRY I IN IDAHO ACTIVE Complaint Is Made of Smelters rs Being Unable to o Handle Output Output COEUR DALENE DALEr E f STATISTICS Show Sio Dh Ia Pays lays s 's Total Wages e o of a I Year iI Mining on 01 In Iii II Its Is review rc lew of the mining Industry industry Indus indus- try tIT In iii Idaho for fOl the last month the lie ll rr 1 1101 t t J on i At Al I h ing o Jlii ng of the forestry st service ri LJ belt at Boise Bols in the carl early part of or Sop Sep ember the lie subject of oC mining on forest forest for for- forest est reserves received considerable at nt- nt tenton Th The Tho exact status of or mining on land laud which h has s beon been declared b bj 13 the he government go to be a n forest rese reserve has hns ms not been and Is Js not well wel defined We iVe e understand however that It I Is the he attitude o of the thc government gO to encourage encourage en en- cour courage e rather than titan discourage in mining min min- lu lung lug ing ng of or the time reserves The rhe re restrictions In n regard to forest reserves have reference ref re- ref ref- crenco to fo the time removal removal of oC timber for Cor tivo purposes Considerable such uch land Jand however Is not covered I with wih a growth of or timber and If It a ledge of mineral work worl discovered within with with- wih- wih in the limits of or a reserve resele where there was no timber It I could probably be med flied on as os mineral land In such a case cSt nearby timber limber claims could coul not be le flied Hied fed upon b by other s prospectors for or orthe the HIP of f Mn flit tw fl t no n I to purchase timber for the thc development develop elop ment of his claim At the same meeting meet meet- h ing ins og in Boise lIaise it was urged tinged that if Jr the matter mater of securing rights of or wa way for forthe forthe t the hC construction of itches ditches diches across anc and t through h forest reserves reS es were in the hands of the tores forestry service the permission per per- m mission to lo construct such works s st should hould be grunted granted without going t through the long and tedious telious process n now ow necessary Treating Thunder Mountain Ores The metallurgy of Thunder mountaIn mountain moun moun- tain ala ores is to undergo somewhat of or ofa ora a change chango if Jt th the arrangements made madey b by y the Sunnyside e mine are arc successful T The he company compan owning this property h has ha as had in iii mind th the erection of a ac c cyanide plant but hut late last month h had ad not settled on the exact process w which would bo be employed It I is now a announced however that the Garvin c system will wi be Installed and t hat that an entirely new mill mi with wih a capa- capa c cl Ity of between and tons tons will willo wille wI b bo o e erected next year or The intention intentions i Is s to crush In lii c cyanide solution run- run n Ing time the pulp over plates to catch the time f ree gold From various Ious parts of the state stale cc c Is made that the smelting smelling c companies In Utah where considerable consider consider- a able ble of the time Idaho ore Ole Is treated are u unable to handle the output and amid thata that a great con congestion eston of ore Ole exists at nt all allf o or f the plants These Those conditions work worl m ore more or less of oC a hardship on producers pro- pro d vho who usually receive returns on s shipments within I ten days but who d during the past month have had set- set t delayed for over thirty ly da days das I In n some somo instances as many as twenty c carloads of or ore have been shipped f from rom one property without a settlement settle settle- m ment nent bein being made on any of oC them The rhe general generl activity act Iy existing ts t throughout the thc state last month Is well veil wel s hown shown l h by statistics recently compiled i In n the thc Coeur dAlene district district These show how s that 10 companies operating t here there are arc employing 1424 men These Thee men are arc working eight loul hours 5 per pel day or COl f or an average wage of or 3 o. o a total or of per month or 01 about per year ear Snot SIO Storm The JOI long expected dividend lv by hy tho the Snow Storm Mining company compan was vas disbursed dis dis- bur horsed late Inte in iii September It H amounted amount amount- ed et to G 6 cent cento per share or 01 anti and aId con constituted an Important addition to the months month's record The Hecla I Bunker Bunker- Hill II Sullivan Sulvan and amid other companies made malc their usual disbursements disburse disburse- I ments a a record of which will vilh wi be b found re In II this I Issue uc Conditions In the tIme Orogrande d dis were quieter last Jast month than for some time past paL The Thc outlook of oC the carol camp for fot fO future operations is nevertheless never never- thell considered mo most mott t excellent excellent- The opinion of one of or tho the larger larsel operators opera opera- I tots tors Is that lint next net year rear will wi see sec a greater great great- er CI activity In this rc region lon than ever el e before be he- he- he fore not only In quartz mining hut bul ah also in placer operations Several of the larger companies aC are arc preparing to lo do more extensive development woi work k and hl install modern plants of or machinery The hc statistics arc are hell gathered on the water vater power available available avail avail- aval- aval able ble In the region and It I Is not Improbable Improbable Im inn- probable that hydro plants will wi be established for fO the operation 1 of or the nf numbs nUnes I and ull nulls mills |