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Show IN THE COEUR'd'ALENES J. H. Thompson, president and manager man-ager of tlie Acme Consolidated Silver-Lead Silver-Lead Mining company, located on a property adjoining the Snowstorm mine In the Coeur d'Alenes, says In n report fhat In the drift on the vein now in 640 feet, the ledge Is highly mineralized and occasional incrustations incrusta-tions of silver chloride and lead carbonates car-bonates are found In flfiHures alongside .the talc, the latter giving good assays In lead and silver. Seventy-five feet from the fare of the tunnel are hutches hutch-es of iron carbonates, silver chloride and lead carbonates and the talc feam has widened to 18 inches. The quartz-Ite quartz-Ite Is heavily Impregnated and lnerust-cd lnerust-cd with lead carbonate crystals. There Is a strong flow of water from the lead and two feet of blue quartz, speckled with iron sulphide and galena now shows In the face of the drift Seams of Iron-stained talc cross and recross and Join the main seam. John Bevard, owner of the Treasure Vault group on Tiger Gulch In tho Murray district of the Coeur d'Alenes. announces that New York capitalists will take over tho property In a short time. The consideration is Jt'O.ono. There are 11 full claims, upon which tho vein has been traced more tban 4.000 feet It Is 14 feet wide at the grass roots, and assays are as high o $8, principally in gold. In the face of the drift, now In 55 feet, there Is quartz carrying gold that may be seen without with-out a glass. This drift Is now within 33 feet of a point under the shoeing at surface .Tho claims are heavily timbered, and there Is an abundanr? of water for power and development. The property is on the line of th-i Idaho Northern railway. |