September 28, 1922 Engineering and Mining Journal-Press 587
Ore Deposits of Gold Hill Mine, at Quartzburg, Idaho Geological Problems Many and Varied—Gold Hill Vein Considered Source of All Orebodies on Property—Present Workings Along Intersection of Fissures With Rhyolite-Porphyry Dike
By A. J. McDERM1D
IN THE REGION known as the Boise Basin is in an inter-mountain valley about twenty-five miles long and fifteen miles wide and lies thirty miles northeast of Boise, Idaho.
The history of the district, full of interesting, adventurous, and often tragic incidents, begins with the death, at the hands of Indians, of the leader of the party of prospectors who discovered gold placers in the valley in 1862. In a few months thereafter the district was thickly populated with miners, gamblers, and desperadoes.
The first were attracted by the richness of the placers, while the others, no less hopeful of easy wealth, hoped to gain it by less honest and easier methods than mining. The camps were prosperous. Gold was easily won from the ground, and before the end of the century the district had produced approximately $60,000,000, all but about $4,000,000 of which came from the placers.
The smaller amount was produced by lode mines. At present the placers are of minor importance compared with the underground mines. Considerable dredging has been done around Idaho City (Fig. 1), and there is a favorable area near Centerville that is as yet undredged.
The chief activity, however, centers in the underground mines. Of these, the Gold Hill mine, at Quartzburg, is the most important. Since 1864 it has been continuously operated and is today the largest producer of gold in Idaho. Its total production to date is about $8,000,000, principally gold, with a very small proportion of silver.
Gold is the principal metal mined in the district except around Banner (Fig. 1), where the ore is chiefly silver. In the vicinity of the Golden Age mine the gold is associated with lead and copper. I am not sufficiently familiar with all the mines of the Boise Basin to write a comprehensive article on the district, but I hope that the following remarks about the Gold Hill mine will be of some benefit to others engaged in mining in the district as well as to those in other localities who are interested in gold mining.
The most important geological feature of this mine is the Gold Hill vein, which is generally considered to be the source of all the orebodies in the mine. This vein is from 2 to 6 ft. wide. It strikes north 65 deg. east and dips slightly to the south. It is a member of the system of fissures which has been explored for several miles southwest and northeast of Quartzburg.
For the first eleven years of the mine’s operation surface workings of the Gold Hill vein and of the Last Chance (a vein parallel to the Gold Hill and 50 ft. north of it) yielded ore said to average $20 a ton. In that early day the ore was first broken fine enough for stamp milling by means of double-jacks. After it had been crushed in the stamp mills 60 or 70 per cent of the gold was recovered by means of amalgamating plates and the rest was allowed to go down the creek. The ore therefore, had to be of good grade to yield a profit.
Fig. 1. Map of Boise Basin
View of Gold Hill Mine framing sited, stores, shops, and shafthouse
The principal rock of the locality is an altered and fractured granite into which have been intruded dikes and chimneys of rhyolite porphyry and diorite porphyry. The general direction of these dikes is east and west and their most common width 40 ft. They dip about 80 deg. north as a rule. Sometimes at a junction of two dikes their combined width is from 100 to 200 ft.
There is one rhyolite porphyry outcrop which is 300 ft. wide. Some of the dikes are lenticular in shape, and others have been found to extend with fairly uniform width for over 2,000 ft. One rhyolite-porphyry dike is cut by the Gold Hill vein (as in Fig. 2), so that in places there is from 10 to 20 ft. of rhyolite north of the vein. Aside from this instance there is no evidence of there being any rhyolite porphyry north of the Gold Hill vein for at least 2,000 ft.
ALBITE FORMERLY MISTAKEN FOR LABRADORITE
Paralleling the Gold Hill vein and 800 ft. south of it, lies a dike whose most noticeable characteristic is the presence in it of large white crystals of albite.
These crystals are commonly half an inch long and often take the form of Carlsbad twins. This dike is called locally the “Lab” dike because at one time the large white crystals were thought to be labradorite. It is about 40 ft. wide, dips slightly to the north and strikes a little north of east so that it cuts several rhyolite porphyry dikes at an acute angle. The rock in this dike was probably granite originally, but has been so strongly metamorphosed hydrothermally that the black minerals have disappeared, leaving the albite and quartz crystals in a fine-grained ground-mass. The albite crystals, although retaining their crystal form, are almost completely altered to sericite.
Along the Gold Hill vein in the vicinity of Quartz-burg numerous smaller fissures branch to the south with an average strike of north 45 deg. east and a dip of 80 deg. east. Where these fissures intersect the rhyolite-porphyry dikes they have caused fracture zones, in some of which gold was deposited. Orebodies of this type were first discovered and worked in the Gold Hill dike. They varied in width up to 30 ft. and in length up to 150 ft. Some of them have been mined to a depth of 560 ft., which is as far as exploration has gone.
The orebodies being mined at present are those that occur along the intersections of fissures with the rhyolite-porphyry dike, called the Pioneer dike. This dike shows the effects of much hydrothermal alteration and is leached in many places to a creamy white color.
The rock is principally a fine ground-mass in which are scattered crystals of quartz and feldspar. The feldspar crystals are so completely altered to sericite that their exact original composition cannot be determined. In some places cubes of secondary pyrite have been formed as a result of the hydrothermal alteration.
This dike shows the ‘effect of hydrothermal alteration much more than does the Gold Hill dike. The former is softer, more leached, and ‘contains more fissures than the latter. This alteration seems to have made the Pioneer dike more permeable for the ore-bearing solutions, as its orebodies are wider as a rule than those in the Gold Hill dike.
Stopes in the more altered dike must be filled as soon as they are mined, whereas some stopes in the Gold Hill dike were not only left open but the timbers were removed after the ore had been extracted.
GOLD IN PIONEER DIKE OREBODIES FOUND IN SMALL FISSURES
In the orebodies of the Pioneer dike the gold occurs in small fissures varying in width from a knife blade up to two inches. The porphyry is generally more leached and altered in the ore zones than elsewhere, and in these zones the seams are easy to follow. Where they pass into granite or into darker, less-altered porphyry they become so small and indefinite that they are soon lost.
Generally, in each orebody there is one fissure which is larger and longer than the rest. It can be followed not only in the porphyry dikes but in the granite as well, in some cases for hundreds of feet (for example, the Big Zinc fissure of Fig. 2).
The larger fissure rarely contains much of value. Evidently the ore-bearing solutions came up through the large fissure and penetrated out into the smaller fissures before they cooled sufficiently to deposit the gold. There are numerous small faults with displacements of a few inches at right angles to the ore fissures, but the faults contain no values.
The vein filling in the small fissures is chiefly quartz sprinkled with stibnite and pyrite. The larger fissures usually contain no stibnite, but pyrite is abundant and sometimes gouge is found in them. The gold is rarely visible, but is scattered through the stibnite in a finely divided state.
It is not unusual to have a half-inch fissure, in which no gold can be seen, yield a sample which will assay over $5,000 per ton. In some of the seams there has been no movement along the strike since the ore was deposited, as the vein matter is not broken up. In others, there has ‘been enough movement to powder the ore, but rarely enough to appreciably increase the width of the fissure.
SAMPLES ACROSS FACE OF’ DRIFT UNRELIABLE
It has not been found possible to take reliable samples across the face of a drift or the width of a stope, because the values are all concentrated in a few small seams, the adjacent country rock being valueless. The ore is followed by panning samples from the seams aM by noting the character of the rock.
Sphalerite is often present in the fissures near the end of an orebody, and is an indication of a decline in value of the vein in which it is found. Numerous pannings are necessary, and small prospect drifts must frequently be driven from the sides of the stopes to determine the limits of the ore. The color of the porphyry is often no entenon, because there are sometimes found blocks of creamy white porphyry, which ought to contain ore, but in which, unfortunately, no ore fissures exist.
It sometimes happens that the values in one seam will continue past the main ore zone, and when this occurs a narrow cut-and-fill stope is used. The ore in these cases is better than average because in the narrow stope it is possible to mine less waste than in the wide stopes.
FILLED SQUARE-Set METHOD USED
The rock is easy to break, and were it not for the lack of definite walls could probably be mined by a caving system. The method used is the filled square set. Under this system, barren ground can be left in place and much of the waste can be sorted out in the stopes and used for filling.
Since the Gold Hill vein was worked out, little ore has been found that did not lie in the rhyolite porphyry. In a few cases fissures in the granite, dionite porphyry, or the “Lab” dike have yielded ore, but as a rule the deposits were not of large extent, although some of them were very high grade.
The foregoing is true, in general, of all the orebodies in the Pioneer dike, but that does not mean that all the orebodies are exactly similar. Each one has characteristics peculiar to itself. In the orebody indicated by 454 stope in Fig. 2, three definite fissures have been mined from the 500 level to surface, and each fissure maintained its identity all the way up. In 453 stope the ore seams are indefinite.
They die out in places or intersect other fissures or faults so that they cannot be traced far. The main fissure in this orebody is called the Big Zinc fissure. It is from a few inches to 3 ft. wide and contains masses of sphalenite often several feet in length.
The vein matter of this fissure contains little of value, most of the gold being in the small seams of the fracture zones which lie adjacent to the big fissure in the rhyolite porphyry. In Section 0 (Fig. 3) is shown a section of a stope (No. 261) which lies wholly in granite. In 457 stope (Fig. 2) the large fissure contained better values than the small seams.
Section BR (Fig. 4) is a longitudinal section of the two orebodies indicated in Fig. 2 by stopes 459 and 454.
The ore seams strike northeast and dip east, while the rhyolite porphyry dikes have an east-west strike and a north dip. As a result the orebodles trend to the northeast with depth. In order to show the limits of the two orebodies mentioned, throughout their depth in a vertical section, the stoping on either side of the plane of the section has been projected to the section.
EFFECT or “LAB” DIKE NOT UNDERSTOOD
The part played by the “Lab” dike in the making of the ore is not as yet well understood. Solutions which emanated from this dike when it cut through the Pioneer dike are evidently responsible for the hydrothermal alteration of the rhyolite, because the leaching of the latter is always more prouounced near the “Lab” dike.
The latter dike is probably not the source of the ore, as there is no general ore zone throughout the distance over which the two dikes are adjacent, but from the manner of its intersection with the Pioneer, it is inferred that the “Lab” dike was at least a fracturing agent and also acted as a dam, because some orebodies lie up against it (for example, 408 stope, Fig. 2). Exploration of the intersection of the “Lab” dike with the Gold Hill dike is contemplated, and this work will doubtless yield valuable information.
Development of the 600 level, to which the shaft was recently sunk, is being delayed on account of the destruction by fire of the hydro-electric plant at Grimes Pass. The mine partly filled with water, but as power is now available again the Water is being rapidly pumped out, and the mine should be ready to resume work soon.
The geological problems presented in the Gold Hill mine are numerous and varied. Old Mother Earth often hides her riches with exasperating subtlety, but who can say that mining is unromantic and uninteresting when the solution of these problems may mean the discovery of a bonanza, or at least a little self-satisfaction to the one who solves them?
Milling of the ore is simple.
Seventy to eighty per cent of the gold is recovered by amalgamation in an 8-ft. x 18-in. Hardinge conical mill, which is revolved at the rate of eighteen revolutions per minute. The mill is lined with cast-iron plates and manganese-steel lifter bars. The grinding is done with jasper pebbles, as steel balls tend to flour the quicksilver.
The latter is fed into the scoop of the mill in small quantities at regular intervals. After leaving the Hardinge mill, the ore is passed over amalgamating plates and is then concentrated on four Overstrom Universal tables. The concentrates are ground to pass 100-mesh in cyanide solution in an 18-ft. x 4-ft. tube mill. The ground concentrates are agitated by air in Pachuca tanks. The pulp is then allowed to settle, the pregnant solution is decanted off, and, after being deprived of its gold in the zinc boxes, the effluent solution is run into barren-solution storage tanks.
From 10 to 20 per cent of the gold is recovered in the cyanide plant, and the total extraction is from 90 to 95 per cent. The mill has a capacity of 175 tons or ore and the cyanide plant a capacity of ten tons of concentrates per twenty-four hours.
The Gold Hill company maintains a modern store in Quartzburg as well as a radiophone station. Hydroelectric power is abundant, and many of the buildings of the town are heated by electricity. Mining timber is plentiful and cheap.
The Boise Basin in general was well known as a gold-producing area before the war, and is again becoming a center of mining activity as a result of the decreasing cost of labor and supplies.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL
IDAHO
The Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mining Company, Jerome J. Day, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has opened seven feet of ore west of the fault on the 600-foot level. The ore is said to be of much the same character as a two and one-half foot width opened on the 400-foot level above and which assayed approximately 80 per cent lead. As soon as the crosscut has passed through the vein at the lower level drifts will be run on the ore. Production at the present time comes from the Morning Vein and it is said that the showing made on the 400-foot level is the first worthwhile discovery that has been made west of the fault.
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A 10-foot body of ore, averaging $40 per ton, is reported to have been opened in the property of the Silver Tip Mining Company in the Beauty Bay district, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The ore has been opened up about 150 feet and arrangements are being made to start shipping as soon as the condition of the road will permit.
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The Ruby Creek Mining Company is installing a mill of 50 tons daily capacity at its property in Latah County, Idaho, and expects to have the plant ready for milling by June 1, according to P. A. Hughes of Boville, Idaho, president and general manager of the company. Arrangements have been made so that the capacity of the mill can be doubled by adding another ball crusher. Since development of the property was started in 1925 about $20,000 have been spent and the mill will represent a similar sum. The ore uncovered averages $25 per ton in lead, zinc and silver. The officers are James Gilroy, vice-president; Joe Evans, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Goldie Coy, William Simmons of Weippe and Mr. Hughes.
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Gray copper and lead are appearing in the face of the south crosscut from the No. 8 tunnel in the property of the American Commander Mining and Milling Company, Ltd., Mullen, Idaho. The objective of driving this crosscut is the downward extension of a body of galena in the upper tunnel, but the crosscut is yet some distance west of a vertical depth of the galena ore. The tunnel is to be equipped with airlines, new track and other equipment for continuing development to the east. The officers are: J. A. Glowe, president; W. H. Hanson, vice-president; Herman Marquardt, secretary-treasurer, and J. L. McCormick, assistant secretary-treasurer1 all of Wallace, Idaho, with the exception of Mr. Glowe, who is at Mullan.
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The Sidney Leasing Company, Kellogg, Idaho, C. W- Brown, manager, intends to install a new compressor and other equipment at the mine and to increase the daily tonnage from 200 to 300 tons daily. The mine is on Pine Creek and its physical condition is said to be the best in its history. The No. ‘7, or deepest workings, shows eight feet of commercial ore of excellent grade. The longest oreshoot has been found on the No. 1 level and has been followed about 400 feet, being as wide as 12 feet in several places.
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The Whitedelf Mining and Development Company, Compton I. White, manager, Clark Fork, Idaho, expects to place its new mill in operation by the middle of next month. It is of modern machinery, with flotation units to insure a close saving of all values in the ore, which is free from zinc, and has a rated capacity of 100 tons daily. Shipments of ore made by the company during the winter were from high grading while blocking out mill feed and it is said that there is sufficient ore of milling grade to insure continuous operations at the rated capacity for a long period.
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The Mineral Mining Company, A. C. Gallupe, president, Placerville, Idaho, is working with a force of 85 men employed and plans to install an air compressor and drills and to change the machinery in the milling plant to straight flotation. This mill has a capacity of 150 tons daily and employs the concentration-flotation process. Gold, silver and lead are the principal minerals. Exta Lightfoot is mine superintendent and T. C. Ulmer is mill superintendent.
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During the coming summer the Smith Creek Hydraulic Mining Company, Inc., J. K. Burns, president and manager, Boise, Idaho, intends to put in a hydroelectric plant of 500 k. v. a. capacity and a caterpillar dragline of 1 1/4 cubic yards capacity. A. C. Bunge of Boise is president of this organization and W. W. Hooton is general superintendent. Fifteen men are
engaged in operations.
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The Golden Dawn Leasing Company has outlined some development for its property on East Eagle Creek, near Prichard, Idaho, including 200 feet of drift on a high-grade gold ledge and 1,800 feet of crosscut tunnel, according to A. E. Hoover, trustee and general manager. This company is developing under lease from the Progress Gold Mining Company.
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The Moose Creek Placer. Company, Max H. Crosby, secretary and manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has planned the reconstruction of 1,800 feet of partially ruined flumes and the cleaning out of about eight miles of old ditches at its property, near Clearwater. The program of construction will include building about five miles of new ditch and it is planned to accomplish the greater part of the work during this season. P. Williams of Kellogg is president of the company and W. O. Huseman is mine superintendent. Ten men are working at the present time.
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The Marsh Mine Consolidated intends to resume the development of its property at Burke, Idaho, according to President Edward Pohlman, 605 Empire State Building, Spokane, Washington. No work has been done at the property since 1926. The underground workings comprise about 8,000 feet of shafts and tunnels and 200 horsepower of electricity is available for work. The mill is one unit of 150 tons daily capacity.
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The Iron Dyke Mine. Company, S. T. Schreiber, president and manager, 402 Empire Building, Boise, Idaho, plans to build a dam on Grimes Creek this season to complete the power plant. A sawmill is to be installed also and hydraulic mining will be started on the placer ground, consisting of about 120 acres. The entire property covers 420 acres, partially patented. Ditches for mining and domestic uses have been constructed and are in use and the ground is equipped with cabins. Paul Nelson is superintendent. Five men are engaged besides Mr. Schreiber.
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The shaft is being sunk on a 45-degree incline in the property of the Evolution Mining Company at Osburn, Idaho, according to 5. P. Hall of Wallace, general manager for the company. Sinking will be continued to a vertical depth of 800 feet and drifts run to the vein every 100 feet. This property is being operated under bond and lease from the Coeur d’Alene Crescent Mining Company and is valuable for its lead, silver, zinc, gold and copper metals. There is no mill on the ground. Twenty men are working.
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A crosscut is to be driven to the vein in the property of the Teddy Mining and Milling Company at Kellogg, Idaho, according to Mine Superintendent L. D. Hudson. Four men are employed and it is believed that the crosscut will gain a depth of approximately 700 feet. In about three months, the management expects to be ready for the installation of heavier machinery. Dr. T. R. Mason of Kellogg is president of the company.
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The Winchester Copper Mining and Smelting Company, D. C. Nicholson, president, Winchester, Idaho, is making arrangements to install a power plant on Deer Creek, where the falls can provide enough power for operations throughout the year. Another important project planned is the construction of a concentrating plant, to cost about $90,000. A 500-foot tunnel is being driven on a nine-foot lead and the ore gives all indications of permanency.
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Since the new management took charge, the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, L. E. Neale, superintendent, Kellogg, Idaho, shipped a carload of 50 tons of concentrates that is expected to average between 85 and 40 per cent lead. No further shipments will be made until the roads improve. Shortage of water has interfered with milling, but this condition is improving and the second shift will probably be put on in a few days. The mill feed available also justifies a second shift in milling.
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An assessment of 5 mills per share has been levied on the stock of the Nine Mile Mining Company, which holds title to 22 mining claims near Wallace, Idaho. Important development is planned. During the past three years the company has done only enough work to represent the annual assessment work on i43 claims, which are un-patented. Several stringers of zinc-lead ore have been located which it is believed will unite to form a larger body. The remaining ground has been patented. Samuel Linn of Kingston, Idaho, is president of the company and Otto A. Olsson is secretary and treasurer.
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Complete equipment is to be purchased at an early date for the property of the Silver Crescent Mining Company, according to James Mohr, Box 647, Wallace Idaho, president and general manager of the company. The company has been engaged in development for some time. J. H. Eby of Spokane is consulting engineer and chief geologist.
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The Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, intends to install a 1,250-cubic foot Nordberg compressor at the Cossack tunnel during this summer. Officials of the company are: President, Chase A. Clark; General Manager, W. E. Narkus; Mine Superintendent, J. Ray Webber, and Mill Superintendent, S. L. Bills, all of whom may be reached at Mackay. The management reports 126 men in regular employment at the present time.
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It is reported that the Linfor Copper Company will resume operations at its property, near Enaville, Idaho, within a short time. When work was discontinued the mine was supplied with power from the Washington Water Power Company from Cataldo, six miles distant, and a mill rated at 150-ton daily capacity. Some of the equipment has been removed since. Commercial ore exposed on the different levels varies in thickness from a few inches to between four and five feet, with values from 5 to 15 per cent copper. The best showing is on the lower level and is five feet wide. W. A. Beaudry of Wallace, Idaho, is president of the Linfor Copper.
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The Callahan Zinc-Lead Company has made a strike of importance by crosscutting 287 feet south from the east drift on the 600 level of the Galena mine, west of Wallace, Idaho, according to C. W. Newton, general manager. Some development has been done on the showing, which has proven to be eight feet wide and to assay an average of 9.5 percent lead and 8 ounces silver to the ton. Attention will now be centered on drifting both east and west to determine the extent of the ore body. The ore was located by diamond drills before the drift was started.
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The ldawa Gold Mining Company, S. M. Ballard, manager, Quartzburg, Idaho, is producing gold bullion at the rate of $360,000 annually. The ore is coming from the Belshazzar mine and is treated in a 30-ton mill. It is primarily sulphide of iron with the associated sulphides of lead, zinc and bismuth. Modern machinery is used in both the mine and mill and living accommodations have been provided for the employment of 50 men.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL APRIL 15 1929
IDAHO
Mines in the state of Idaho disbursed $521,250 during March. The largest disbursement was the monthly dividend of $245,250 paid by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company.
The Muscovite Mines Company, owning 125 acres near Avon, Latah County, Idaho, expects to start production within 60 days. The crosscut tunnel has been driven 327 feet to reach the mica deposits and lacks about 125 feet of its objective.
During the year 1928 the Federal Mining and Smelting Company earned $2,058,290.67, before depletion and depreciation, as against $2,251,705.84 in the preceding year. This includes the report of all mines worked by the company.
The report of General Manager Frederick Burbridge of Wallace, Idaho, on the Morning, Page and Blackhawk properties in Idaho is as follows:
In the Morning mine 891,669 tons of ore were mined, which is 6,854 tons less than in 1927, and tbe average grade was 9.17 per cent lead, 4.85 ounces silver and 5.80 per cent zinc. Mill concentrates at this property were raised to .71 per cent, which is 5 per cent higher than in 1927. The Morning shaft is 8,450 feet deep and good values are opened on the 8,250 and 8,450 levels. The estimated reserve at the close of the year was 1,867,600 tons, an increase of 147,500 tons over that of a year before.
At the Page mine 84,028 tons of ore were mined, which tonnage is 18,854 tons more than in 1927. This property has been opened the full length of the west ore-shoot on the 900 level and the ore was found wider and of higher grade than on the 600 level.
In the Blackhawk mine 14,064 tons of ore were mined, which is 8.770 tons decrease from 1927. Approximately $47,407.69 of the company’s income is from royalties paid by leasers in various mines.
The Bunker Hill and ‘Sullivan Mining and ‘Concentrating Company at Kellogg, Idaho, has opened a new body of ore on the lowest level, according to General Manager S. A. Easton. The discovery was made in the westerly workings, about 2,000 feet below the Kellogg adit tunnel and is believed to not be the Towers-March-July oreshoot, from which a large tonnage was mined. It is believed that the new ore will have an important bearing on the future of the mine.
The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, president and manager, Wallace, Idaho, has un-watered the Tiger-Poonnan mine to the 600-foot level and is examining the workings to the west to determine whether or not commercial lead-zinc ores exist. The main shaft in the Hecla property is 2,800 feet deep and is equipped with heavy hoisting machinery. Ore reserves of the company at the end of last year totaled 2,489,497 tons and during 1928 dividend payments aggregated $700,000.
The drift in the O. K. Group of mines on Shield Gulch, near Wallace, Idaho, is following a vein of ore averaging eight to ten feet between wall and heavily impregnated with spathic iron and quartz, containing some values in lead and silver. This property is being operated by the Idaho American Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Papesh, president, 219 South Division Street, Kellogg, Idaho.
The Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling Company, Henry M. Lancaster, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has completed the raise between the No. 8 and No. 2 levels, thereby providing better ventilation for the extensive underground work contemplated. Some consideration is being given running a tunnel from the south boundary of the property to cut the vein system at a distance of between 1,800 and 2,000 feet.
A contract has been let by the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company to continue the main tunnel easterly 1,500 feet, according to General Manager M. I. Savage of Kellogg, Idaho. The objective is to tap the Silver King ore at a depth of 480 feet below the showing made in the tunnel driven from the Montana side of the property. Fifty men are on the payroll and average production is 120 tons of ore daily. The lead concentrates are shipped to the Bunker Hill smelter and the zinc is being stored for future shipment. The mine can supply a much larger tonnage and it is planned to build a larger mill this spring.
The Mackay Metals Company. J. L. Bills, superintendent, Mackay, Idaho, has engaged its third shift in underground operations, requiring an additional 80 men and bringing the payroll to about 125 men. The new compressor is to be installed within three weeks and 20 more machine drills will be used throughout the property. In addition to the regular crew, between 15 and 20 miners are working leases in the mine.
An assessment of 1 cent a share has been levied by the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company to meet obligations until the company can resume shipments. At present a heavy snowfall has closed the road from the mine to the railway and makes the movement of concentrates impossible. The mine is in good condition and the mill is operating two shifts. Within two weeks when chutes and other underground facilities are completed, the mill will treat 100 tons a day. About 8,000 tons of ore are broken on the intermediate level of the mine and new ore has already been entered on the shaft level. W. A. Becker of Wallace, Idaho, is mine manager.
Improvements planned at the property of the Montana Mining and Livestock Company, Inc., in the Leesburg Basin, in Idaho, include a water power plant, electric lights, additional pipe line for power, giants, steam boiler and probably a dredge. The company has three distinct operations in view— dredge, hydraulic and lode, and has a 150-foot head of water at Napias Falls and right to use water from the Reclamation Department of Idaho. C. A. Devlan, 1037 South flower Street, Los Angeles, California, is president and general manager of the company and Gust Petrich is in charge of the property.
The American Mining Development Company, L. S. Honstead, president and manager, Boise, Idaho, will block out ore by drifting on vein and upraising 200 feet to the upper tunnel. The property will be paid for by August 1, 1929, and at that time it is planned to install a 50-ton flotation mill. Erick Brunell is mine superintendent and Robert N. Bell in consulting engineer. L. E. Munk of Georgetown, Idaho, is president of the company.
The Bannock Manganese Mining Company, Ltd., is developing two claims at Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, under bond and lease from M. Price. Development has been going on for about six months and a vein has been opened that carries 30 per cent manganese. William Sharp of Pocatello, Idaho, who is one of the directors in the organization and who has charge of the property, states that a prominent mining company has had its expert going over the ground and negotiations are pending for taking over the property.
Production from the property of the Federated Mine Company, near Placerville, Idaho, began on March 1, The present equipment can handle 50 tons of ore daily, but extensive improvements are planned at both the Mountain Chief and the Canyon Creek properties.
The former holdings will probably be equipped with new mine buildings, an eight-drill compressor and tramway, while the improvements planned for the latter property are extensive tunnel development, mine buildings, new electrical installation, compressor and other machinery. The average payroll is 40 men. William W. Day of New York City is president of the organization; Frank P. Day, general manager and purchasing agent; George S. Love, mill superintendent; Edward H. Martz, mine superintendent, and Lake City, consulting engineer.
The Golden Seal Mining and Milling Company, H. V. Maynard, mine superintendent, Boise, Idaho, intends to continue the mill level tunnel to the vein, where drifting will be done and raises put up in the ore. Five men are engaged in development at the present time. Harry S. Kessler, First National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho, is president.
The Hercules Mining Company, Harry L. Day, president and general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is adding flotation machinery to its milling plant. The crushing department is already equipped to handle more than 700 tons of ore daily, which is the present capacity of the entire plant, and the new machinery can be installed without further enlarging of the mill building. No work has been done in the Hercules mine since 1925 and all the ore milled comes from custom sources, mostly from other properties controlled by the Day interests.
The Ambergris Mines Company paid a dividend of $15,000, which was a balance on hand following the company s consolidation with other properties in a new organization known as the Ambergris Consolidated Mining Company. Payment was 1.8 mills per share. The properties forming the consolidation are near the old Hercules mine at Burke, Idaho.
The last payment on the Codd mortgage against the Nabob Silver-Lead Company has been made, according to Manager Herman J. Rossi of Wallace, Idaho. The original amount was $40,000, of which part was settled by compromise. The amount paid was $14,000. This wipes off practically all debts and a more extensive program of development will be started, according to Mr. Rossi.
William Beaudry of Wallace, Idaho, manager of the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., operating east of Wallace, Idaho, anticipates that profits will be about $15,000 higher in March than any previous month. His statement is supported by the higher price of lead and the increasing metallic content in the concentrates. The drift on the new 1,400-foot level has been run 150 feet east and west and both faces are in a good body of ore.
The Burnt Cabin Mining Company, operating at Hayden Lake, Idaho, put on a new shift on April 1, to work an 18-inch vein of copper ore that will assay $20 per ton. This is in addition to the silver-lead vein and indications are that the vein will widen as development goes on. A pump has been installed to handle 60 gallons of water per minute. Company offices are maintained at 119 Sherman Street, Couer d’Alene, Idaho.
John B. Steffes of Kellogg, Idaho, owner of the Corby Lode mining claims, intends to install a compressor this summer. To date, development has been through tunnels using hand power and assays run as high as $46.40 in gold.
With the exception of a block of ground, 50 x 50 feet, all of the upper workings of the Silver Cliff Gold and Copper Mining Company, Ltd., have been leased to D. M. Needham and Ray Lucier, of Mullan, Idaho. The lease extends from the surface to the No. 2 level, a depth of 240 feet. The block reserved by the company lies above the No. 2 level and carries a streak of copper ore, varying in thickness from eight to 14 inches and averaging better than 30 per cent copper with some values in silver and gold.
Mr. Needham believes that the ore will cover the expense of future development and is at present getting a shipment ready for consignment to the Anaconda Copper Company in Montana. Sidney L. Shonts of Wallace is president of the Silver Cliff Company and E. C. Young is general manager.
The directors of the Caribou Mining Company at a recent meeting held at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, outlined plans for overhauling the gravity mill built at the mine several years ago. Overhauling is to start this month and modern machinery including a flotation unit will be installed. The Caribou ores are reported to be a mixture of zinc, lead and silver. G. R. Scott of Coeur d’Alene is president of the company.
The No. 6 crosscut of the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, L. E. Neale, superintendent, Kellogg, Idaho, has reached the vein and the opening rounds have exposed from five to six feet of ore. This ore is of a better grade than that exposed on the levels above.
Development of the Wolverine property east of Kellogg, Idaho, has been slowed up to permit the installation of an electric hoist. The new hoist with skip will replace the old one with its steel bucket used in sinking. Archie McPhail of Mullan has charge of mine operations, and with James Quinlan, Charles Heidenrich ahd Wilbur Greenough, all of Spokane, are operating the Wolverine mine under lease.
Julius P. Hall, mining engineer, and Harry P. Pearson, both of Wallace, Idaho, have secured an option to purchase the property of the Moe Mining Company, comprising 16 claims near the famous Morning mine. The option was accompanied by a cash payment of $5,000 and states that $50,000 shall be paid for the property in the event the deal is consummated. The option was immediately turned over to Stratton and Stratton of Wallace, whose $10 option plan of financing is well known. At a meeting held on March 11, W. K. Moe, president of the company and the remaining stockholders, agreed to the terms of the option in general and will consider details later. Eventually, it is planned to incorporate an organization to be known as the Inspiration Lead Company, the name for which is suggested by the famous Arizona copper development.
The Profile Tamarack Mines Company intends to install a light compressor, trackage and cars at its property, near Yellow Pine Idaho, according to General Manager H. T. Abstein. Development is being done by hand and water power. The Profile group carries good values in lead, silver and zinc and the Tamarack group is valuable for its copper, silver and gold ore. George H. Weber, 600 Henry Building, Portland, Oregon, is president of the organization, and Emil P. Slovarp, at the same address, is secretary and purchasing agent.
Instead of starting to ship ore from the Boyer mine, rear Sandpoint, Idaho, as was planned, attention has been tuned to continuing the tunnel, which has been driven about 150 feet. During the last 60 feet this tunnel has been in a mineralized formation and a few days ago cut a three and one-half-foot vein that assays $42 a ton, mainly in silver. Another discovery is expected within 30 days. Immediate work is to be started on ore bunkers and on graveling the road from the mine to the Clark Fork highway. A compressor and some other mine equipment will be purchased shortly. L. L. Foyer is mine manager and S. A. Judd, for many years prominent in mining circles, will have charge of financing the work.
The Utah Power and Light Company has closed a deal for a 10-year lease on the Arco transmission line from Mud Lake to Howe, Idaho, a distance of 19 miles. This movement is preliminary to the construction of 17 miles of power line from Howe to the property of the Wilbert Mining Company, Ltd., which has entered into a 10-year contract with the power company to supply electric energy to operate its pumps and mine machinery.
The mining company has been using Diesel power but a large flow of water was released in connection with a recent strike of high-grade ore and the cost of hauling fuel from the railroad makes the further use of these engines almost prohibitive. J. E. Smith of Arco, Idaho, is resident manager for the Wilbert Company and W. B. Foard is superintendent of mining and milling.
S. A. Offerson has completed his contract for 400 feet of crosscutting from a point near the portal of the lower tunnel in the property of the North Star Mining and Development Company, according to J. H. Eby of Spokane, consulting engineer for the company. The objective of the crosscut is a parallel vein to the north, and as work advanced, the formation proved to be more vertical, thus pushing the vein further north and requiring between 100 and 125 feet additional work to reach its downward extension. The formation is filled with cubes of iron and the ledge will be reached at a depth of about 500 feet below its surface exposure.
The stockholders of the Plymouth Lead Mines Company held their meeting at Mullan, Idaho, on April 1, for the purpose of electing a board of directors and outlining new developments on the company’s property in the Coeur d’Alene district.
The General Mines Corporation, William L. Gibson, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has nearly completed the installation of air pipe in the lower tunnel and will install a compressor immediately upon its arrival, which is expected in a few days. A part of the development planned will be sinking a shaft to a depth of 300 feet on a good showing made about 2,000 feet from the portal of the lower tunnel. C. Roholt of Worley, Idaho, is president of the corporation, and from four to eight men are engaged in regular work.
The board of directors of the Hilarity Lead-Silver Mining Company held a special meeting at Mullan, Idaho, on March 2, at which assessment No. 14 was cancelled because of legal errors, and assessment No. 15, levied at the rate of 5 mills a share on the outstanding stock. Owing to his continued absence from the district, H. W. Ingalls tendered his resignation and the office of secretary-treasurer has been filled by C. W. Ingram. Since March, 1928, the company has spent about $5,000 in development and a considerable tonnage has been opened on the tunnel level and on two levels of the shaft sunk 200 feet below the tunnel.
Among other improvements, the Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation has constructed a 70 x 30-foot building near the lower tunnel in its property at Osburn, Idaho, and has divided it into three sections to house the compressor, dryer and blacksmith equipment. The high- tension line has been extended to this building and as soon as it is connected with the machinery the development outlined by the management will be carried out under the direction of S. H. Richardson. The No. 5 tunnel will be the scene of principal explorations.
Some good showings of silver-lead and bismuth-gold have been opened by the Gray Wolf Mining Company on Beauty Creek, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The property comprises eight claims and one showing is said to carry as high as 500 ounces silver with associated values in tin. Paul Schroeder is president of the organization and E. T. Knudson is secretary.
Suits involving aggregated damages of $125,500 have been filed against the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, the Highland Surprise Consolidated Mining Company, and the Amy Matchless Mining Company, by farmers along the Coeur d’Alene River, The complaint alleges that the mining companies make use of the river for dumping refuse and mill tailings from their properties and the overflows from the river carry a slime and sediment that is deposited on their land, causing loss of crops, contamination of wells and other losses.
The Gold Hunter Mines, Inc., Charles K. Cartwright, general manager, Mullan, Idaho, plans to rebuild the compressor building and to install new compressors and generators to replace those destroyed by fire in the early part of this year. Since January 15 the works have been closed, but the company normally employs 168 men. The milling plant has a capacity of 500 tons daily and it employs coarse crushing, fine grinding and flotation. Gust Almquist is mill superintendent and Sack Leonard is superintendent of mines.
Up-to-date machinery is being installed at the ldaho-Minerva property, near Granite Creek, Idaho. This property is being operated under bond and lease by E. H. Lindsay, 2222 West Mission Street, Spokane, Washington. Roads have been built to the mine and all improvements made for the economic production of ore. Ore is opened on four levels for about 800 feet and it is planned to ship considerable before doing any further development work.
The Idaho Premier Mine. Corporation, A. C. Beal, president and general manager, Leadore, Idaho, is making metallurgical tests and will probably install a 250-ton flotation plant this summer. Diesel engines will furnish power for the new plant. At present there is a pilot mill of about 40 tons’ capacity on the ground. Work was started about 60 days ago and as soon as the cold weather is past it is planned to add to the crew of four men now in regular employment.
The St. Joe Consolidated Mines Corporation, which holds control of eight claims six miles from Wallace, Idaho, and the Haywood group of 18 claims in the Silver City mining district in Nevada, has outlined a development program for its properties. Financial support is to be given by New York and Florida capitalists-Charles Oster of New York City is president of the corporation and E. S. McCurdy, 576 Mills Building, San Francisco, is secretary.
The Idaho property is opened by four tunnels. The No. 1 tunnel has several ore-shoots that average $35.84 per ton in lead, silver and gold and the No. 4 tunnel will gain a depth of 900 feet on this vein.
The Nevada property has been opened by a 485-foot incline shaft and $1,950,000 is said to have been taken from the workings. It is said that there is sufficient ore to justify the construction of a milling plant, which the management is prepared to build and in addition, search for ore will be continued to depth.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30 1929
IDAHO
It is understood that the Lead Belt Mines Syndicate is driving a series of diamond drill holes on the headwaters of Antelope Creek, 85 miles from Mackay, Idaho.
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The mill of the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company William Becker, manager, Wallace, Idaho, is handling 85 tons of ore daily, working one shift a day. Mill feed is being drawn from the Schwab Stope, and from the shaft level, and five carloads of concentrates netted the company an average of better than $2,800 to the car. Nineteen men are engaged in mining and milling.
A quorum was not present at the annual meeting of the stockholders called recently and the officers and directors will continue in office during the ensuing year.
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The shaft of the Idaho Lakeview Mines Company, B. Knowles, general superintendent, Lakeview, Idaho, has been sunk to a depth of 1,200 feet and will be continued 200 feet farther. It has passed through the oxidized zone nearer the surface, into sulphide formation, and the lateral work, which will be done from the lower horizon, will determine whether or not extensive development will be done.
The Idaho Lakeview Company was formed April 10, 1926, to develop the Hewer ground, comprising 4 patented and 11 un-patented claims, 8 of which are held under lease and option. The unwatering of the shaft and its repair started last October. D. M. Drumheller, Jr., 502 Columbia Building, Spokane, is president; F. A. Fortier of Kimberly, B. C., is general manager, and John Benson is mine foreman at Lakeview. Between 30 and 35 men are working.
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The Hamburg-American Copper Mining and Milling Company, William Schaeffer, president and general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, is drifting on a discovery about 920 feet from the portal of the lower tunnel opened last May. Its fact is from 8 to 9 feet wide and of a good milling grade. Galena appears in strata and bunches of varying thickness, across the full width of its face. The Hamburg-American group is seven claims, located during the summer of 1885.
Plans are being made to equip the mine with a compressor and machinery to extend operations.
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The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company has notified the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, M. L. Savage, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, that the bins are ready to take zinc concentrates from the latter company. The Jack Waite has 2,000 tons, valued at about $50,000, on hand, and will start shipping immediately. The lead concentrates are being shipped to the Bunker Hill smelter and during the month of May amounted to approximately 15 carloads.
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The Nine Mile Mining Company, Samuel Linn, president and manager, Kingston, Idaho, intends building a new compressor room, blacksmith shop and other buildings, and upon the completion of these improvements, will resume underground work. Engineers believe that the downward extension of the ore that has been mined on the upper levels will be reached by driving a short crosscut to the south from the lower tunnel.
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Stockholders of the Marsh Mines Consolidated will hold their annual meeting at Spokane, Washington, July 9, principally to discuss the resumption of operations, discontinued in 1927 when available funds were exhausted. The Marsh property is in the Coeur d’Alenes, near Burke, Idaho, and several thousand feet of exploration have been done. Edward Pohlman, 605 Empire State Building, Spokane, is president of the company.
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The Belmont Mining Company, operating in Two Mile Gulch in the Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho, has let a contract to Charles Benson, experienced in tunneling, to extend the lower adit an additional 200 feet. The main tunnel has been driven about 900 feet and has exposed low values in lead, silver and gold. The objective of the proposed new development is understood to be the contact of quartz and granite, approximately 400 feet distant, and at considerable depth from a capping of quartz and lead.
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A bedded deposit of lead ore that has good promise has been opened in the Sunset Mine in Worm Creek Canyon, southwest of Paris, Bear Lake County, Idaho. More than 560 feet of tunnel has been run in the mine and the last carload of ore shipped assayed 76.4 per cent lead, 2 ounces silver, 1 per cent iron and 10.5 per cent sulphur. At the present -time the ground is owned and operated by William and J. H. Clark and E. J. Welling of St. Charles, Idaho, and
H. H. and W. H. Groo of Montpelier.
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The Winder-Stillman Copper Company, J. W. Jones, superintendent, Salmon, Idaho, is marketing 50 tons of copper concentrates weekly, from ore averaging 6 per cent. A recent carload gave 81.3 per cent copper, with values in gold and silver. The daily capacity is 100 tons, but is to be increased by the installation of another ball mill unit, a flotation cell, thickener tank and classifier.
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The Western Machinery Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, recently purchased the operating equipment and buildings of the Vipont Silver Mining Company, Oakley, Idaho, and 15 men under the supervision of F. M. Lee are dismantling the buildings and plants. The machinery includes a 280-ton flotation mill and an 1,800-cubic foot air compressor. A part of the equipment and buildings have been purchased by the Skoro Mining Company, operating seven mining claims, adjoining. H. D. Jefferson of Boise, Idaho, is in Oakley looking after the business for the Skoro company.
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The Amalgamated Red Metal. Mining Company, P. A. Summerland, president, has ordered equipment for its property at Yellow Pine, Valley County, Idaho, sometimes known as the Ellison group of mines. The order includes the first unit of a milling plant, which has been purchased at Oakland, California, and 1,500 feet of steel riveted pipe for a water power plant, purchased at Boise, Idaho. Production by the fall is anticipated by the organization.
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C. L. Wickstrom of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, has purchased the Radcliffe No. I and No. 2 claims in Bonner County, Idaho, for a reported sum of $35,000. Terms of the agreement provide for at least 20 shifts of work per month and the shipping of all ore taken out in development, providing it can be shipped at a profit. Mr. Wickstrom is to pay 15 per cent royalty on net smelter returns, to be applied on the purchase price- Final payment must be made within five years from the date of signing this agreement.
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Contractors are driving an inclined rock raise for the Sherman Lead Company at Burke, Idaho, to facilitate handling ore from the upper levels. Several weeks ago, the Sherman Lead Company was forced to curtail production because of difficulty in bringing the heavy, wet ore down through wood chutes next to the main hoisting compartment. Stoping has stopped altogether until the raise is completed.
The underground force has been cut in half, or to 50 men, but this will not have any material effect on development. After the ore is brought to the surface it is transported over the Northern Pacific railway to the Hercules custom mill at Wallace for concentration. Jerome J. Day of Wallace, Idaho, is president.
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President George Cunningham, E. 827 Boone Avenue, Spokane, Washington, has arrived at the property of the Metal Mines Company on the west side of Nine Mile Canyon, north of Wallace, Idaho, to outline development for this summer. Some ore was located as a result of last year’s work. There are three strong and well-defined fissure veins crossing the surface.
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The Dayrock Mining Company, operating near Wallace, Idaho, has announced that its second dividend of three cents a share will be disbursed on June 29. The initial payment was made on March 80, at the same rate, thus placing the property on a 12 cent annual dividend rate- Payments for each quarter are $50,769. A. E. Lawson of Yakima, Washington, is general manager of the Dayrock company.
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The Gold King group of five unpatented mining claims, and the Delhi group of five patented mining claims, near Boise, Idaho, have been acquired by a number of business men of that city and will be developed under the name of the newly formed Gold King-Delhi Mine Corporation.
Its capitalization is $800,000, divided into non-assessable shares of $1 par. Its capitalization is $800,000, divided into non-assessable shares of $1 par. J. I. Richards and S. T. Schreiber of Boise are president and secretary, respectively. The mines have produced some high-grade ore, but work became prohibitive about 25 years ago on account of the high costs of mining and transportation. A good road is now open to rail transportation and is kept up by Ada County and the state. Development is centered on the Gold King, where one shift is continuing a tunnel to reach the main deposit about 3oo feet below the apex of the hill. It is believed that by extending the tunnel 1,200 feet that five northwest ledges will be cut.
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Mike Frank, owner of the Morning Glory mine, in the Coeur d’Alene district in Idaho, has resumed work. Work was discontinued during the winter.
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B. W. Anderson of Spokane has purchased a half interest in the Superior group of mining claims, north of Clark Fork, Idaho. Messrs. Schacht and Anderson, the new owners, have a compressor and machinery ready for transportation to the property. Good outcroppings of copper and silver-lead are seen on the property.
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Spokane mining men, who have acquired the Amy Matchless, Olympic and other mines in the Pine Creek District in Idaho, have incorporated the Pine Creek Consolidated Mining Company, under which name the above holdings will be developed. The incorporators are C. E. Brynildson, T. E. Coleman, and Fred Deshfell, experienced mining men.
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The Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling Company, Henry M. Lancaster, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has opened four feet of ore in a 30-foot west drift from the shaft 10 feet below the main tunnel. The ore is said to average 12 to 15 per cent lead.
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The Whitedelf Mining and Development Company, Clark Fork, Idaho, Compton I. White, manager, placed its new mill in operation and the first run showed that all but 1 per cent of the lead and .2 ounce of the silver were saved.
Mr. W. L. Zeigler, superintendent of the Hecla mills, who designed and superintended the construction of the plant, is highly pleased with the result. The mill was calculated to reduce 75 tons per day, but he found that it runs to 100 tons per day. The Whitedelf Mining and Development Company shipped 167 carloads of crude high-grade ore up to this time and now will begin shipping concentrates. S. P. Delaney, 50 Broad Street, New York City, is president of the organization.
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The Regal Mining Corporation at Clark Fork, Idaho, under the same management as the Whitedelf Mining and Development Company, referred to above, has just connected up its water power and is putting on extra crews to take out ore for shipment.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929
IDAHO
It is understood that the directors of the Moose Creek Placers Company, Max R. Crosby, manager, Clearwater, Idaho, have levied an assessment of 5 mills a share to finance new equipment, and the opening of new ground for sluicing. Shortage of water has hindered the company’s work during the summer, and during this fall and winter, everything will be made ready to make use of all available water in the spring.
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Financial arrangements are being made by the Seelridge Gold Mining Company, Philo Seelye, manager, to increase operations at its property on the Salmon River, near White Bird, Idaho. Manager Seelye has apparently found a method of saving the gold values, which has been a difficult problem to solve.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, is planning to make a further increase in the capacity of its mill, which has recently been enlarged to a capacity of 200 tons daily. The new equipment will permit the company to treat 850 tons of ore daily. In the mine, the incline shaft is being raised from the 500 level to the Price tunnel level to permit handling ore from below the 500 level in one lift.
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Due to satisfactory ore developments in the Little Pittsburgh Mine, near Wallace, Idaho, plans have been drawn for a mill. The No. 5 crosscut tunnel has been in ore for 85 feet and will be continued through the ore deposit and drifting done to determine its extent. This work will decide whether or not further work will be done in erecting a milling plant. M. L. Savage of Kellogg is one of the owners of the mine.
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The Douglas Mining Company, M. J. Muldoon, mine superintendent, Wallace, Idaho, has opened what appears to be the main Douglas oreshoot, on the 300-foot level of its property in Pine Creek. The ore is two feet wide and is increasing in width as the drift is being advanced. Zinc is the predominating mineral and is accompanied with lead values.
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The Triangle Construction Company, 1220 Ide Street, Spokane, Washington, has control of the property of the Salmon River Development Company near Whitebird, Idaho, following a suit instituted by the latter concern to recover damages on breach of contract. The construction company asked $17,772 for the installation of equipment and, according to the ruling of the court, will get all receipts until this amount is paid and 75 per cent after that.
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The long crosscut of the Jim Blame Silver Syndicate, Ltd., has been driven 1,200 feet in the company’s property in the Pine Creek District, according to Jim Murphy, contractor in charge. The Bristol Ledge is the objective, and will probably be reached in another 300 feet. In the upper workings it carried considerable carbonate ore with lead-silver values across a width of six feet.
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It is understood that the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, will build a power plant on the Deadwood River to furnish power for larger production from the company’s property in the Deadwood Basin, under the management of J. W. Gwinn, Bernard, Idaho. The operation of the concentrating mill at that place, is sending high-grade concentrates to the smelter at Kellogg, but it is handicapped by lack of power. This mine has a vein of leadsilver-zinc from five to 35 feet wide, 1,200 feet long and reaching to a depth of 1,400 feet. It was first discovered 45 years ago.
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The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, S. A. Easton, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has purchased an ultra-violet ray solarium, and will have it installed in the “dry” room at its plant within a few days. The machine can furnish artificial sunlight to 150 persons an hour and is the first of its kind to be installed in an industrial plant. Its cost is $10,000.
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The Independence Lead Mines Company has taken over the property of the Independence Lead Mines, Ltd., and the American Commander Mining Company in the Mullan District in Idaho, and is negotiating for the property of the West Hunter Company, which will give a total of 24 adjoining mining claims. The new organization has a capital stock of $4,000,000. H. B. Kingsbury is president and general manager of the company.
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The Bobby Anderson Mining Company, F. N. Johnson, president, Spokane, Washington, has shipped its second carload of ore from the Bobby Anderson Mine on Pine Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho. This shipment included 70 tons, averaging 17 per cent zinc, 15 per cent lead and 3.3 ounces silver per ton. The property is being prepared for increased production.
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Ore, averaging 145 ounces silver to the ton, is being opened on the 500-foot level of the Yankee Boy Vein, west of the shaft, by the Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho. The main drift on this level is the Polaris vein, which is 1,300 feet long, running from 12 to 36 inches in width for 275 feet. The Yankee Boy vein is about 25 feet south of the Polaris.
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The Red Monarch Tunnel of the Delaware Mines Corporation, Frank S. Bailey, manager, Wallace, Idaho, is expected to enter its objective in another 110 feet. The tunnel is being driven at the rate of four to five feet daily and the Rex vein is about 6,400 feet from the portal of the Red Monarch tunnel.
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W. L. Coe, L. W. Defenbnch, and Hugh Mabin, all of Wallace, Idaho, have incorporated the Wallace-Idaho Lead Mine., Inc., which has taken over eight mining claims, known as the Eastern Star group. Principal development at the present time is two tunnels, 500 and 1,200 feet in length.
Mr. Mabin was attracted to the ground by a two-inch seam of ore, which widened to 20 inches upon being developed and through this width a two-inch streak assayed $20 in lead and silver. The lower tunnel is to be driven to a point, vertically below a surface showing, and about 200 feet from the present face of the tunnel.
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The Seattle Mining and Development Company has taken over, under lease and bond, the Strobel Mine at the head of Killarney Lake, 20 miles west of Kellogg, Idaho. The new operators will install a compressor, hoist and pump. Five feet of mill ore have been found in an old winze and through it is a foot of high-grade ore carrying from 5 to 20 ounces silver. S. J. Nerdrum and R. R. Forbes, both of Seattle; S. J. Polmeter of Colfax, Washington; and F. N. Kilborn and Oscar W. Nelson, both of Coeur d’Alene, organized the new company.
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The Cleveland Mining Corporation has resumed work on its property, near Grace, Idaho, with four men working under the direction of S. J. Ames. During the last two weeks a carload of ore has been made ready for shipment.
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The McPhillips Syndicate, Charles C. Hayes of Seattle, manager, is operating the Blue Wing and Zanetti properties in the Nine Mile District, near Wallace, Idaho, under bond and lease, and has let a contract to the Zanetti brothers for 2,000 feet of crosscutting and drifting. The contractors’ first job will be crosscutting to a vein, believed to be the extension of the Dayrock vein, which it is estimated will require 500 feet of work, and the remaining contract will be used in drifting.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929
IDAHO
During the month of September, 1929, the following dividend disbursements were recorded: the Hecla Mining Company, $250,000, paid at the rate of 25 cents a share for the quarter;
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, $245,250, paid at a combined monthly and extra rate of 75 cents a share;
the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, $126,000, paid from the Idaho, and Oklahoma, properties at the rate of $1.75 a quarter,
and the Sunshine Mining Company, $75,000 paid at the rate of 5 cents quarterly.
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In the three-month period ended July 31, 1929, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, Frederick Burbidge, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, shipped 41,664 tons of concentrates to the smelter as compared with 35,332 tons in the corresponding three months last year. Net earnings, before depreciation, depletion and taxes, during the former period were $765,443 as compared with $691,135 during the latter. These earnings do not include deductions for construction and equipment during the July 31, 1929, period of $30,370, nor deductions of $49,791 during the corresponding period in 1928.
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The old Nicholia property in Lemhi County, Idaho, has been taken over by the Lead Mountain Mining Company, financed by W. F. Snyder and Sons, 218 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Elwood Jones, coal operator of West Virginia. The Nicholia property comprises the Dunn group of 18 claims and the Smelter group of five unpatented claims, separated by a distance of one and a half miles. Under Superintendent William Dunn, camps have been established at both of these properties, and shaft sinking is in progress at the Dunn group.
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The Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mines Company, Jerome J. Day, president and manager, Wallace, Idaho, is moving its entire surface plant, from the portal of the tunnel on Nine Mile Creek, to the No. 7 tunnel on Canyon Creek. The change is expected to effect more economical operation. Development plans include sinking a winze on the 1,200 level west, the first lift to be of 200 feet, and putting up a raise from the 1,200 level to the upper workings. The following persons will be in charge after the machinery is moved: H. L. Day, assistant mine manager; William H. Simons, superintendent; Daniel Leary, foreman, and E. F. Thatcher, master mechanic.
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Work will be resumed shortly on the property of the New Hope Mining Company, according to Secretary Otto A. Olsson, Gyde-Taylor Building, Wallace, Idaho. Fourteen claims are included in company domain and the upper workings give good promise. The work will be done under contract.
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Harry W. Woodward and associates of Lynn, Massachusetts, are said to be making preparations to drive a 2,500-foot tunnel in Polaris Development and Mining Company ground. A site has been secured on Big Creek, near the Sunshine mine, and the tunnel is designed to reach q depth of 1,500 feet.
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According to Secretary E. E. Jordan, West 426 Sprague Avenue, Spokane, the new deep tunnel of the Commercial Traveler Mining Company, near Kellogg, Idaho, has been in ore for 10 feet without reaching the hanging wall. The ore fills the tunnel on all sides and samples contained $5.85 gold, 12 per cent antimony and a small amount of silver to the ton. This tunnel is 1,355 feet and will be continued until the full width of the deposit is determined.
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After about 240 feet of crosscutting. the Syringa Mining Company, Herschel Weaver, vice-president, Sandpoint, Idaho, cut the downward extension of the surface workings and has followed the ore 25 feet. The vein is eight feet wide with three feet of gold quartz showing increased values as the vein is being followed.
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The 100-ton mill of the Whitedelf Mining Company, C. I. White, general manager, Clarksfork, Idaho, which was placed on a three-shift basis in August, is turning out an average of five carloads of concentrates monthly. Mill feed is being supplied from the 100 and 200 levels of a shaft sunk from the 420-foot point in the tunnel. All machinery is driven by electricity.
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W. J. Doust, 1034 Indiana Street, Spokane, has been elected president of the North Idaho Mining and Development Company, and is making preparations for the active development of the company’s property, near Sandpoint, Idaho, during the winter. This was formerly known as the Interstate-Sullivan property.
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A resurvey of the property of the North Star Mining and Development Company, near Wallace, Idaho, made by J. H. Eby of Spokane, shows that the crosscut tunnel driven under contract toward the Western Union Zone, will have to be driven an additional 120 feet to reach its objective. In order to complete this work, the directors of the company have levied an assessment of 2 mills a share. G. W. Dougherty, 427 Cedar Street, Wallace, is general manager.
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The Delaware Mines Corporation, Frank S. Bailey, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has opened the Rex Vein, at a distance of 1,000 feet from the portal, of the Red Monarch Tunnel, and about 1,400 feet below the surface. The tunnel is going through the ore diagonally. The vein at the intersection has been opened five feet and is estimated to carry from 6 to 8 per cent lead with some zinc, and when the hanging wall is reached, probably in another four feet, high-grade values are expected.
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The Delaware Corporation has granted a lease of all ground above the No. 2 tunnel, to the Rex Leasing and Development Company. Francis Stout, Harry Hebble and Elmer E. Johnson of Kellogg own the lease. They started working on the Okanogan vein, at a point where it had been cut by former owners. From a narrow seam the ore has gradually increased to a three-foot width of high-grade leadsilver ore, with only a trace of zinc. Five men are working for the leasing company and they have connections with electric power.
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The Progress Gold Mining Company, is negotiating to purchase the lease held on its property, by the Golden Dawn Leasing Company, A. E. Hoover, trustee and general manager, Murray, Idaho. The property is in the Coeur d’Alene District.
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New machinery, including a 20-ton concentrator, compressor, jackhammer, 1,000 foot of air pipe, track steel and cars, has been taken to the Continental group of claims, in the Yellow Jacket District in Idaho. E. F. Steen is in charge of the property, which is owned by his mother, Mrs. Harriet Steen of Stockton, California. Forty tons of high-grade ore has been sacked for shipment to the smelter at Salt Lake City. More than 2,000 feet of work has been done underground, and another 1,000 is planned. The veins are usually about 10 feet wide with good values in copper, gold, silver and lead. Mackay, Idaho, 110 miles distant, is the nearest shipping point.
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The new 450-horsepower Diesel engine installed by the Harmony Mines Company, E. F. Nieman, superintendent, Salmon, is furnishing power for the mine, ore train, 250-ton concentrator, and camp. Forty men are on the payroll. It is planned to ship about two carloads of copper concentrates weekly.
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The Winchester Copper Mining and Smelting Company, D. C. Nicholson, president, Winchester, Idaho, is giving some consideration to changing from steam, to fuel oil, to furnish motive power, or else, utilizing water from Deer Creek. The property comprises 10 claims located in 1926 and a rather extensive program of development is said to have been outlined. Copper and silver are the principal minerals.
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The Great Western Copper Company, Jackson C. Hill, superintendent, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has opened a four-foot ledge of copper ore near the surface of its property. Mine buildings will be erected and machinery installed and a tunnel is to be driven about 300 feet into the hill to reach the ore body.
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A contract has been let to Gus Pearson for 50 feet of work in the main tunnel of the Nine Mile Mining Company, Samuel Linn, president and manager, Kingston, Idaho. Two veins have already been cut in the property and the objective of the new work has been exposed at the surface. The tunnel is in 600 feet.
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Cash on hand, amounting to $1,300, will be disbursed among the shareholders of the Guelph Mining and Milling Company, Kellogg, Idaho. Rate of payment will be about 1 mill per share. The Guelph Corporation is to be dissolved and its property has been absorbed by the Ambergris Consolidated Mining Company, organized by Frank M. Rothrock, Exchange National Bank Building, Spokane, Washington.
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Qperations of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company, C. W. Newton, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, for the second quarter of the current year showed a deficit of $7,286.61 after deducting all operating costs, maintenance of the old Interstate Property, etc., as compared with a deficit of $25,571.94 during the preceding quarter. About 388 tons of concentrates were shipped during the second quarter and about 175 tons of concentrates during the first quarter.
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Negotiations are under way to secure a power line along Two Mile Creek, which will serve the property of the Wallace-Idaho Lead Mines, Inc., and the Belmont Mine, adjoining. Upon its completion compressors will be installed at both properties, according to L. W. Defenbach, president of the Wallace-Idaho Company. Drifting is being done in the lower tunnel in the Wallace-Idaho property, under the supervision of Charles H. Benson.
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At a recent meeting the directors of the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., William Beaudry, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, plans were outlined for new mine development, and the installation of machinery effecting increased capacity. According to these plans, Golconda will be in a position to double its output of 200 tons daily within six months. Some heavier equipment is necessary for deeper development.
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J. Edwin Snow, receiver for the Idaho Copper Company, has asked that the receivership be terminated, and that he be discharged. Hearing on the petition was to be held at Weiser, Idaho, on September 16, and, if final accounting is approved, important announcements may be made. The Idaho Copper Company has been in court ever since the George Graham Rice and the Cooley Butler groups first disagreed over stock sales.
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The Idamont Lead-Zinc Mines Company, M. E. Carson, general superintendent, Leonia, Idaho, has discontinued placer operations, and is developing its quartz claims. As of August 15, the shaft had been completed to a depth of 113 feet below the No. 3 tunnel level, and drifts were being run in both directions, and parallel, with the vein, according to Superintendent Carson.
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Fire destroyed the headquarters’ building, garage, bunkhouse, cookhouse, blacksmith shop and compressor at the Terrible Edith Mine at Murray, Idaho. The loss is in the neighborhood of $30,000. This mine is being worked by the Pontiac Mining Company of Wallace, Idaho, with H. C. Stapleton as managing director.
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Of eight companies working in the Beauty Bay District in Idaho, the Caribou, Grey Wolf, Silver Top, Royal and Coeur d’Alene Mountain, have signed contracts to mill their ores in the proposed mill of the Beauty Bay Mining and Milling Company. This plant is to be of about 200-ton daily capacity and will employ the flotation process of reduction.
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The Enterprise Mining Company intends to work its property near Kellogg, Idaho, during this fall and winter, according to Fred Donaldson, president and manager. To provide funds for the proposed development, an assessment of 3 mills a share has been levied.
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Tentative plans have been made for the consolidation of the Little Pittsburgh Mine, and the property of the Nabob Silver-Lead Mining Company in the Pine Creek District, near Wallace, Idaho, according to Herman J. Rossi of Wallace. The decision will be affected by the result of a recent strike made in the Little Pittsburgh mine. Nabob stockholders considered the proposal at a meeting on October 8.
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The second quarterly dividend of the Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, was disbursed on September 20. The disbursement amounted to $75,000. The Sunshine is one of the richest silver mines in the Coeur d’Alene district of Idaho.
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The following officers and directors were elected at a recent meeting of the Silver Dale and Big Hill Mining Company, held at Kellogg, Idaho; Jack Olson of Kellogg, president; E. G. Johnson, vice-president; H. H. Rhodes, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Paul Peterson and Carl Arenander.
The Silver Dale group is 13 claims, and the Big Hill group, comprises 12 claims.
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High-grade lead-silver ore has been opened by Howard Moore of Wallace and Bob Breckbuhl, operating a lease on the Jumbo Cave Level of the Tiger Mine, near Burke, Idaho. Within five feet, the ore increased from 14 inches in width, to three feet of high-grade carbonates, mixed with sulphite. Plans are to resume shipments.
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Satisfactory results have been reported from the operation of the additional flotation unit of the concentrating mill of the Hercules Mining Company, near Wallace, Idaho, Harry L. Day, president and manager. The additional 300 tons raises the possible capacity of the mill to 1,000 tons. This capacity is sufficient to dress all of the ore from the Day properties at the current rates of production as well as some custom ore.
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A powerhouse and compressor, have been completed at the Blue Wing, and Zanetti mines, in the Nine Mile District, near Wallace, Idaho, and a compressor has been installed. Six men are driving the extension of the tunnel, which is being done under contract for the McPhillips Syndicate of Seattle, Charles C. Hayes, manager.
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The Aztec Mining and Milling Company, T. W. Galligher, manager, 915 North Twenty-first Street, Boise, Idaho, expects to start milling ore, near Pocatello, within 30 days. Recent constructive improvements include the building of a bunkhouse and a blacksmith shop, the covering of the shaft and gallows frame, and putting corrugated roofing on four new buildings. The 650-foot incline shaft has been repaired to the bottom, and all equipment is set to continue sinking to greater depth. Considerable drifting is in progress below the 350-foot level of the shaft.
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H. W. Woodward of Lynn, Massachusetts, who visited in Idaho recently, has leased the upper workings of the Polaris Mine, near Kellogg, to Jack Seibel and associates of Kellogg. Tentative plans have been made to work the lower workings, but for the present, development will be confined to that of lessees. Seibel has purchased machinery for a 50-ton mill and will spend the next two months building the plant. After that he intends to open mine ore from a 135-foot stope off the main tunnel at a depth of between 200 and 300 feet below the surface. The lessees have secured the old mill dump, and intend to run it through the mill.
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The Pandora Mining Company, Charles Mayo, Yakima, Washington, is building a camp and road to its property on Blizzard Mountain, near Arco, Idaho. The lower tunnel has been advanced 600 feet, to cut deposits of gold, silver, lead and copper, and the first objective is believed to be a short distance ahead of the face of the tunnel. Some ore from surface trenches and shallow shafts is being shipped to the Midvale smelter.
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Tentative plans have been made by the Bear Top Lead Mines and the Aetna Mining and Milling Company, Ltd., to consolidate their properties in the Evolution District, near Osburn, Idaho, and organize a new corporation under the laws of Arizona. The new company would have a capital stock of 3,000,000 shares of $1 par value, distributed proportionately between Bear Top and Aetna shareholders. Morris Pearson, 338 Peyton Building, Spokane, is president of the Bear Top, and Peter Reid, Empire State Building, Spokane, is president of the Aetna.
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It is understood that the Mackay Metals Company, W. E. Narkaus, general manager, Mackay, Idaho, will reopen and continue the Cossack Tunnel, started in the early days of the camp, to reach a point under the Darlington Shaft on the top of the mountain. About a carload of ore is being mined daily from the deposit on the 1,000—foot level, which has widened to 30 feet.
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Dan Laverty, who has been prospecting the Copper King group of seven claims in Idaho County, near Pardee, Idaho, is trying to raise funds to go ahead with the development of that ground. Open cuts made during the last three months show good values in copper, gold and silver. Plans are to run a tunnel to cut the ledge at depth.
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A six-inch streak of high-grade ore has been opened in the K. C. group of 13 mining claims in the Boise Basin, two miles from Grimes Pass post office. The ore was located while drifting on a two-foot vein of ore, averaging $100 per ton, which they intend milling in the Mountain Chief mill. The high grade is being sacked for shipment to a Salt Lake smelter. The drift has followed the vein to a vertical depth of 350 feet. K. C. Glancy of Nampa, Idaho, and J. C. Blackburn own the K. C. property.
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The Amalgamated Red Metals Company, Summerland, president, Yellow Pine, Idaho, has about finished installing a compressor and a 20-ton concentrator. It is estimated that 10,000 tons of ore, averaging $25 a ton, is on the dumps and the mine run averages twice that value. Principal minerals are gold and silver, with lesser values in lead, copper and zinc.
During the past three months, a sawmill has been set up to furnish lumber for camp, mill and other construction, and 1,700 feet of steel pipe have been laid to supply water under a 400-foot head to an 80-horsepower plant. Camp accommodations are supplied for 12 men.
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The International Molybdenum Company intends to build a concentrating plant, according to General Manager W. H. Rideout of Porthill, Idaho. During the last few months, most of the work has been opening an open cut 75 feet and a tunnel is to be driven to tap the lead in the open cut.
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The Crooked River Mining Company, M. T. Rowland, general manager, Box 158, Nampa, Idaho, expects to complete 500 feet of work on the Garfield lead mines in Blame County. During the last six months the company has been dredging on the Crooked River in Boise County.
H. C. Welch of Idaho City is dredge superintendent, and about 20 men are working.
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Plans of the Talache Mines, Inc., A. H. Burroughs, Jr., manager, Quartzburg, Idaho, are to sink from the 700 to the 850 level. The management has completed and placed its 125-ton amalgamating mill in operation. Other improvements made during the summer include the installation of a 250-horsepower hoist with full magnetic control, and the building of a bunkhouse to replace the one destroyed by fire last month.
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A mine office and residence for the superintendent will be erected soon at the property of the Whitedelf Mining Company, C. I. White, general manager, Clarksfork, Idaho. A steam heating plant has been installed. The shaft is 200 feet below the outcrop of the ore and is to be sunk another 200 feet within a short time. The 100-ton mill is operating successfully.
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The Crater Mines Company, Inc., Harry S. Thayer, president and general manager, Rugby, Idaho, has completed financial arrangements to build a road to the mine, and to set up new camp, and mine buildings. An electric power plant is to be set up and drill machinery installed to start driving a working tunnel. The objective of mine development is to block out known bodies of ore, and a mill and tramway are to be erected to place the mine on a producing basis.
The Crater property adjoins that of the Livingston Mines Corporation, which is now being acquired by the Crater company through the purchase of stock. The Livingston is estimated to have 1,000,000 tons of ore blocked out and a 250-ton flotation mill, with tramway and power plant, all of which have been in operation for several years. Crater Mines, Inc., is considering moving its office to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Foundations are being laid for a 100-ton mill at the Princess Blue Ribbon Mine, 22 miles northeast of Fairfield, Idaho. Ray Jones, one of the former owners of the mine, has charge of the work.
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The Willow Creek Mining Company, Andrew Hedin, president and general manager, 393 Hyde Building, Spokane, Washington, entered suit against the Atlas Mining Company, W. Earl Greenough, manager, Mullan, Idaho, on August 26. The former company claims that it owns six lode claims in the Hunter District, and that the latter filed on a portion of this ground and endeavored to take possession. The plaintiff asks title to the disputed ground, $500 for expenditures incurred in entering suit and $500 attorney’s fees and suit costs.
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The Pontiac Mining C0., H. C. Stapleton, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, will install equipment to replace that destroyed by fire. The first piece of machinery will probably be a compressor, and when power is furnished, underground work can be resumed, while the surface buildings are being reconstructed. The management has not abandoned the idea of building a milling plant and, during the winter, exploration will be continued on the vein at different levels.
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The properties of the War Eagle Consolidated Mining Company of Philadelphia, including the Sinker Tunnel and the Stormy Hill group, all at Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, have been taken over under option by a New York syndicate, represented by Kirby Thomas. These properties have produced upwards of $24,000,000 in high-grade gold ore. Most of them have been closed since 1875, at which time they were involved in the historic failure of the Bank of California.
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A six-foot width of ore has been opened on the lowest level in the Hewer Mine at Lakeview, Idaho, operated by the Idaho Lakeview Mines Company, John Benson, superintendent. Samples contained 17 to 60 ounces silver and a 20-inch streak carried 340 ounces to the ton, but the average content of silver will be between 40 and 50 ounces per ton.
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Andrew Prader, E. 1201 Baldwin Street, Spokane, Washington, and associates, have purchased the Goldstone group of mines, near Salmon, Idaho. A small flotation plant has been built at the mine recently and a hydroelectric plant is being built on Pratt Creek, four miles from the mine. The ore carries gold, lead and silver. Improvements are being made on the roads to permit the shipment of concentrates.
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The Dayrock Mining Company, operating near Wallace, Idaho, has announced its third quarterly dividend payment at the rate of 3 cents a share. The disbursement will be the usual amount, $50,679. A. E. Lawson of Yakima, Washington, is general manager of the company.
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Further mine development, announced by the Ajax Mining Company, includes 3,000 feet of drifting on the Bixby tunnel level, going east. A. G. Anderson, Box 1086, Burke, Idaho, is general manager of the company.
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Additional equipment is to be installed at the Florence Mine on Elk Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, according to General Manager L. H. Franks, 1014 Paulsen Building, Spokane, Washington. Power machinery has been installed and several feet of tunnel work have been finished. Robert H. Pence, also of Spokane, is president of the company.
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E. II. Lindsey, 2222 West Mission Avenue, Spokane, owner of the Silver Hill Mine, near Talache, Idaho, intends to ship about 100,000 tons of low-grade ore from the dump soon. This ore runs about $15 per ton and the cost of shipping to the Hercules mill at Wallace, Idaho, will be around $6.25 per ton. No work has been done at the Silver Hill in several years.
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The constructive program of the Minerva Silver, Inc., includes the installation of a Diesel engine of about 300-horsepower, at Granite Creek Landing, in Bonner County, Idaho, a new compressor, one and one-half miles of power line, and later, a flotation mill of about 100 tons’ daily capacity, and a pipe line from the mill to the landing for concentrates, with filter at the landing. The vein crosscut by the No. 4 tunnel will be developed both north and south and the tunnel extended another 100 feet to where the second vein is believed to exist. Constructive improvements made are a new loading dock, ore chutes, ore bins and some camp buildings. E. R. Lindsey, 2222 West Mission Avenue, Spokane, is general manager of the Minerva company.
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The Constitution Mining and Milling Company intends to sink its shaft from the 600-foot level, to the 800-foot point, according to William P. White of Masonia, Idaho, general manager. A station has been cut on the 600 level, a 300-ton skip pocket and 40,000-gallon water sump excavated and similar work will be done when the shaft reaches the 800-foot point. Drifting will be continued on the 400-foot level and started on both the 600 and 800 levels. The collar of the main shaft is 11,000 feet from the portal of the adit, and 600 feet vertically from the surface.
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The Big Three Mining Company, recently incorporated, has succeeded the Big Three Leasing Company, comprising the two Murphy claims, near Mace, and two claims leased for four years, from Clarence Paulsen. The new company has purchased the Omaha compressor, now on the East Standard ground. Howard Moore, William Tyler, and Therrett Towles have
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Ben Thomas is making plans for the development of the Thomas Mines, near the Dayrock, and the Option Mining Companies’ properties, near Wallace, Idaho. The ground consists of two claims in Nine Mile Canyon, sidelining the Option, and opened by 115 feet of tunnel. A
compressor and blacksmith equipment are housed under one roof. Mr. Thomas has issued 2,500 blocks of stock, and 300 of these are being sold to finance further development.
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Ed. Solomon and Frank Nickerson of Challis, Idaho, received $50 a pound for a shipment of ore from the Monte Carlo mining claim in Custer County. The ore was mined from a narrow streak through a two-foot ledge that carries values of about $40 a ton.
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The Mutual Mines Development Company, Harley Little, president, 312 Old National Bank Building, Spokane, intends to build ore bunkers and build a side track by the railroad for the purpose of shipping ore to a custom mill. The lower tunnel has opened a 12-foot width of ore, carrying some high grade, but mostly of milling value, at a depth of 805 feet from the surface, and a shaft is being sunk to develop the ore at greater depth.
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THE MINING JOURNAL
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The Whitedelf Mining Company, C. I. White, general manager, Clarksfork, Idaho, has opened a 12-foot width of ore north of the shaft, on the 100-foot level below the main tunnel. The ore body is about 240 feet from the shaft and has been followed about 100 feet. Until this time, the ore mined, came from deposits south of the shaft. The 100-ton flotation plant is treating ore three shifts daily and the concentrates turned out average five carloads monthly.
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The Bonneville Mining Company, Inc., Arthur Lee, superintendent, is making arrangements to install a mill at its property, 79 miles southeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Assays on samples of ore from the mine show $30 to $196 per ton in gold and silver.
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On account of the recent decline in the price of lead, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, Frederick Burbridge, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is said to have let off between 50 and 60 men, thereby reducing its production by about 15 per cent. To date, no similar report has emanated from other lead producers.
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The General Mines Corporation, Kellogg, Idaho, William L. Gibson, general manager, was forced to suspend work in the face of the drift, in the No. 5 tunnel, on account of a heavy flow of water. The drift was following a quartz vein and was nearing its junction with the Page Vein.
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Other plans have been decided on by the Pontiac Mining Company, H. C. Stapleton, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, and the surface plant will be built near the foot of the mountain to replace the one at the portal of the No. 4 tunnel, which was destroyed by fire, a few weeks ago. Surveys are being made and it is estimated that the Terrible Edith Vein will be opened at a depth of about 1,000 feet below the No, 4 tunnel, although the length necessary to reach that objective has not been determined yet. The new location is near the highway, and will reduce the haul to the railroad by three miles.
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It is understood that the proposed consolidation of the Little Pittsburgh and the Nahob properties has fallen through. The Little Pittsburgh, sponsored by H. J. Rossi, of Wallace, and M. L. Savage, of Kellogg, is preparing for further development, and is sawing timber for the construction of a mill of about 250-ton daily capacity, to determine the width of the vein on the No. 8 level, where it is streaked with high-grade lead-zinc values. W. L. Hogg of Chicago, mining engineer, recently examined the mine, and estimates 26,200 tons of ore available. He took 11 samples that averaged $27.21 a ton in lead and zinc.
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A strike has been made at a depth of 60 feet, in the property of the Metals Mining Company in the Katka District, east of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. The vein is three feet wide, and carries commercial copper, with silver, lead and gold in smaller quantities. All of the stockholders are Bonners Ferry people. A. Storm is president, Carl Walden is secretary-treasurer, and Robert Nelson and Will Jensen have charge of development.
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The Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has made an offer to the Owyhee Gold Mining Company for its property, near De Lamar, Idaho. This ground has been idle for two years on account of lack of finances. During the time it was being worked, about $40,000 was spent in development, and in part, construction of a 50-ton amalgamation mill.
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The Constitution Mining and Milling Company, Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, manager, intends to operate its mill on a regular basis of 200 tons daily, as soon as chutes have been built to facilitate the handling of ore. The mill is now handling about 60 tons of ore daily, all of which is the product of development. It is estimated that $4,000,000 worth of ore is blocked out in the mine for milling.
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Assessment No. 21 has been levied on the stock of the Utana Mining Corporation, payable at the rate of 1 cent a share. Date of delinquency was November 20, 1929.
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The Gold Star Mining Company has purchased a five-stamp mill for its property, seven miles from Elk City, Idaho. This property was acquired last June for the sum of $125,000, payable over a period of 10 years. Incorporation papers are being prepared.
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The Sherman Lead Company, Jerome J. Day, president, Wallace, Idaho, is shipping an average of eight carloads of ore daily to the Hercules Mill. Most of this comes from between the 1,000 and the 1,200 levels. The Sherman ground joins that of the Tamarack and Custer Mining Company, and, while the main ore vein is not so wide as in the Tamarack, it is continuous more than 1,200 feet.
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Two test shipments of ore sent by the Bobby Anderson Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, to the Bunker Hill smelter, and the Hercules custom plant, have returned slightly more than $400 to the car. Principal work is extending a tunnel, which is expected to pick up the extension of an oreshoot, from which high grade has been shipped, and no attempt is being made towards production. Since March, 1928, the Bobby Anderson Company has spent more than $60,000 in development.
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The New Hope Mining Company, Otto A. Olsson, Gyde-Taylor Building, Wallace, Idaho, has let a contract to Henry Stokes, of Kellogg, for 50 feet of work in the lower tunnel. The New Hope property has been idle, and the new work will be directed towards a vein of ore.
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The face of the tunnel on the 500-foot level of the property of the Wolverine Mining Company, Kellogg, Idaho, James Quinlan, manager, is well mineralized across a width of five feet, three feet of which is galena and gray copper. The heading is 700 feet from the shaft and at a depth of 700 feet from the surface. The disclosure is also located 500 feet below the western end of a showing in an upper tunnel.
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The Dickens Consolidated Mining Coinpany, L. E. Neale, superintendent, Kellogg, Idaho, has increased its mill operation to a 24-hour basis. The mine is in good condition. It has been completely unwatered, and ore is being drawn from four uppet levels. Forty men are employed.
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The Rex Leasing and Development Company, owned by Francis Stout, Harry Hebble and Elmer E. Johnson, of Kellogg, Idaho, is constructing bins to permit producing three carloads of ore each week, and anticipates increasing the number to one carload daily. The lease was granted by the Delaware Mines Corporation on ground above the No. 2 tunnel.
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The property of the Commonwealth Metals Company in the Hayden Lake District in Kootenai County, Idaho, has been reopened, following several years idleness, on account of lack of transportation. The Spokane International Railway has built a line to Ohio Junction. Underground exploration includes about 2,000 feet of work, and it is planned to build five miles of power line and to install a concentrator, according to L. K. Armstrong, 720 Peyton Building, Spokane, who has recently returned from a visit to the mine.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, Frederick Burbidge, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is going to sink the main shaft in its Morning Mine another 200 feet. This will give a depth of 5,100 feet below the apex of the vein. The 3,450-foot level is the lowest working level at present and the ore body there is wider than above.
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The Progress Gold Mining Company has purchased the lease of the Golden Dawn Leasing Company, comprising 17 mining claims in the Murray district in Idaho. Manager D. M. Stairs, of the Progress Company, intends to continue the tunnel, to cut ledges of ore that sample as high as $900 in gold to the ton.
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Dan Laverty has organized the Copper Queen Mining Company at Burke, Idaho, to develop the Copper King Prospect, in the Lob Mining District, near Pardee, Idaho. Assays from surface cuts gave values of $104 in copper, with associated n values in gold and silver, and it is believed that the tunnel is within 100 feet of the main ledge.
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The Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, M. L. Savage, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has entered the ore-bearing body in the adit being driven from the Montana side of the property. The faces of the Idaho and Montana adits are 600 feet apart horizontally, but the latter is 400 feet higher.
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The Harmony Mines Company, B. F. Nieman, superintendent, Salmon, Idaho, has hauled its first carload of ore to the railroad, for shipment to the Garfield smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. The management expects to make shipments at regular intervals from now on.
The Scott Mine on Birch Creek, northwest of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has been purchased by Utah capital, which has organized the Beaverhead Mining Company. Some development has been planned for this fall.
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The Sinker Tunnel-War Eagle Mines, Inc., which recently acquired the Oro Fino Golden Chariot-Mahogany Mines, has also acquired the Stormy Hill group of five claims, from Matthew A. Carton of Utica, and the Cumberland group of three claims, from Haney S. Greene of Cohoes, New York. Both of these groups adjoin the Oro Fino-Golden Chariot-Mahogany properties, and will be developed from the Sinker Tunnel. Kirby Thomas, 2 West 67th Street, New York City, is president of the company.
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The Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, Tonopah, Nevada, has taken an option on the Mountain Chief Property in Idaho, adjoining the Golden Chariot-Mahogany claims of the Sinker Tunnel-War Eagle Mines, Inc.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, is taking over a group of four mining claims, 35 miles from Weiser, Idaho. This is a new producing mine in an old district, and ore now being sent out is averaging $50 a ton in gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. Additional equipment is to be installed later.
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A deal is pending for the acquisition of the Northern Light property on Pine Creek, near Wallace, Idaho, by the New Jersey Consolidated Mining Company, W. J. Stratton, general manager. The Northern Light property adjoins the Amy Matchless, and the Olympic claims, of the New Jersey company, and a small crew has been working at the former group since the consolidation last spring.
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RICH IDAHO GOLD STRIKES WORD POST 12-15-1930
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MACKAY METALS COMPANY, IDAHO WORD POST TMJ 8 15 1930
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1931
for AUGUST 13, 1931 The Mining Journal
IDAHO
The discovery of a blanket formation of quartz and arseno-pyrite, 16 feet thick, has been reported from the Kittie Burton gold mine on Indian Creek of the Salmon River, near Ulysses, Idaho. Some assays have been run and have varied from $5.60 to $27 a ton in gold. The property is equipped with a 15-stamp mill, tramways, water power, electric light plant and substantial mine buildings. It is being reopened by E. D. Hanson and H. W. Ingalls of Mullan, Idaho, and J. A. Ilerndon and Thomas Boyle of Salmon.
The Feather River Gold Placer Company, Rupert Winters, manager, Fairfield, Idaho, is installing machinery and is building a long flume to carry water from the Feather River. Twenty men are engaged in the work. Actual placering should be in progress this month, and it is estimated that it will take eight years to work the deposits.
The Clear Grit Mining Company is crosscutting northerly from a drift at the lower tunnel level, hoping to locate a parallel vein. While the actual crosscutting is under contract to Victor Carlson, the program of development is outlined and under the general supervision of E. G. Gnaedinger of Wallace, Idaho, mining engineer. The vein at the lower level has been followed 800 feet.
Plans are being made for the early development of the property of the Ace Mining Company in the Hoodoo district in Latah county, Idaho, comprising four patented and two unpatented mining claims, Work was suspended many years ago, after an incline shaft had been sunk 90 feet on a vein eight feet wide at the surface and a lower tunnel had proven the vein of similar dimensions. The ore is estimated to average $28 a ton in free gold. Charles C. Taylor, B. F, D. No. 5, Spokane, Washington, is president and general manager of the enterprise, and has just returned from the property.
The Idaho Motherlode Gold Mines Company, J. T. Wenstrom, president and general manager, 1217 Twelfth Avenue, Lewiston, Idaho, is installing a 50-ton test mill and intends to place it in operation this fall. During the last year, approximately 1,900 feet of development work has been done and while no high-grade ore has been opened, a large tonnage of millable ore has been proven. A tunnel is being driven to cut a continuation of a vein of high grade that is eight feet wide in the adjoining Lone Pine mine and a 400-foot tunnel is being driven on the Franklin group.
A shortage of water has handicapped milling operations of the Mutual Mines Development Company at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Therefore, all work is row being directed to developing an adequate supply. Some water is being obtained from a well nearby and other sources of supply are being developed. A carload of high-grade concentrate has been delivered to the Bunker Hill smelter and since a better grade of ore is being mined, an increase in output is looked for. Russell F. Collins, Wallace, Idaho, is vice-president.
The Sidney Mining Company, Leslie M. Gay, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has engaged a crew mining ore, and early in August will be shipping to the Sullivan electrolytic zinc plant. The Sidney trains its ore over the mountain to one of the plants of the Bunker Hill company for milling, and from there it goes to the electrolytic zinc plant, which is turning out 30 tons of refined metal daily and is especially interested in Sidney ore. The Sidney ore will be handled in addition to the zinc, which is being treated from the Bunker Hill and Hecla properties.
The Mammoth Mining and Development Company, J. R Flais, president and manager, is installing a reduction plant at his property not far from Dixie, Idaho, and hopes to have it in operation before the end of this month. From 1925 until late in 1928, this property was worked by the Mammoth Mines Corporation, of which R. S. Erb and H. C. Bailey of Lewiston, Idaho, were president and secretary-treasurer, respectively. It was then optioned to Mr. Flais and he is now working under a bond and lease agreement. Several hundred feet of tunnel have been opened and encouraging amounts of gold have been found.
After they had heard the reports on the property at the recent annual meeting, the directors of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company authorized further exploration and some development in the Galena property, west of Wallace, Idaho. Considerable ore has been opened in the new south vein on the 800, 1,000 and 1,200 levels and work has been started on the 1,600 level. The ore is of excellent grade and several ore-shoots of commercial importance bear indications of merging at depth. The annual meeting was held in New York and President D. A. Callahan and Secretary-General Manager C. W. Newton, both of Wallace, were present.
The face of the exploration tunnel of the Liberal King Mining Company on Pine Creek, in the Yreka district in Idaho, has reached a point 1,500 feet from its portal, according to A. M. Nash, contractor doing the work. The tunnel is expected to open ore that has already been opened 500 feet in the No. 1 tunnel and for a length of 800 feet in the No. 2 tunnel. Another 500 feet will probably be required to reach the ore at the low point.
The Pasco Mining Company, Charles F. Diemond, president, Pasco, Washington, is crosscutting north from the 800-foot point in a 1,000-foot tunnel driven under former management. The face is entering a mineralized zone and the objective is believed to lie within 100 feet. William Ryan holds a contract fir the operation. This property comprises one patented and three unpatented claims a mile east of Kellogg, Idaho, operated under lease from the Eldorado Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd.
H. A. Prescott and John Conwell of Mullan, Idaho, are considering re-working the old dump at the Golden Chest mine, near that town. The property was at one time an important producer in the district. Average samples from the old dump showed a metallic content of as high as $3.55 a ton in gold.
Operations of the Sunshine Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, manager, were reduced to a five-day week basis, beginning July 13, on account of the present unfavorable metals market. Likewise, the other important producers in the Coeur d’Alenes are still operating on a basis of from 20 to 50 per cent of normal production.
The new 100-ton concentrator. of the Hope Mining Company in the Clark Fork district in Idaho has made its first run. Officers and many of the stockholders were there to see the froth flow over the Fahrenwald cells, to be filtered, and placed in bins, ready for shipment to the smelter. A. 0. Holte of Coeur d’Alene is president.
During the month of June, the Jack Waite Mining Company at Murray, Idaho, John H. Turner, general manager, made a record probably not excelled. In 30 days, with a crew of 30 men, it shipped 30 tons of concentrates and high-grade lead-zinc-silver ore. The Montana shaft is down more than 140 feet and the ore is still going strong in the bottom. Neither has the limit of the vein been reached in the raise above the tunnel. Only a small tonnage of ore had to be stoped and added to the ore removed in raising and sinking to keep the mill going one shift a day, which has provided the shipments mentioned above.
The Big Buffalo mine on Buffalo Hump, southwest of Elk City, Idaho, is reported optioned to Nate B. Pettibone, representing the F. W. Bradley interests, with headquarters in the Crocker Building in San Francisco. He has also optioned the Jumbo group in the same district. A 14-horse pack train is taking in supplies, and Oscar Hershey of San Francisco and E. W. Kevern of Kellogg, Idaho, are making a survey and examination of the property.
The $100,000 gold dredge of the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation on Grimes Creek, near Pioneerville, Idaho, has been completely demolished by fire. Although the origin of the blaze has not been definitely determined, it is believed to have been caused by a short circuit in the electrical system. The dredge had been in operation on the creek for six years and was so thoroughly dried out that the flames were immediately beyond control and nothing could be saved. Adding to the loss of the machinery, operations are cut off in the middle of the season. Last year more than $60,000 worth of gold was washed and 15 men were working this year when the disaster came. The loss is partially covered by insurance, and President S. K. Atkinson, Box 2120, Boise, Idaho, and his directors are busy on plans for a new set-up.
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CONTINENTAL MINES ENTER JUNCTION MINING DIST TMJ 1 15 1930
MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930
CONTINENTAL MINES ENTERS JUNCTION MINING DISTRICT
Headed by C. M. Sonoda, an American-born Japanese of Seattle, Washington, the Continental Standard Mining Company has entered the Junction Mining District, near Leadore, Lemhi County, Idaho, and has taken over a group of 35 claims, located on the Continental Divide. Ore shipments were made from five of these claims in the early eighties, when silver sold for over $1 an ounce.
George Brown (nicknamed Grizzly Brown) discovered this district, and it is reported that from the 100-foot level of his shaft, he took ore that went 5,500 ounces of silver to the ton. This ore was hand-sorted and conveyed by wagons to Red Rock, Montana, from which point it was shipped to the smelters.
When the news of this find reached Butte, and the other near-by camps, a number of miners came to the district, and located claims, which they worked, and from which they shipped ore. These old producing claims have been correlated under one head, and are now controlled by the Continental Standard Mining Company, of which Mr. Sonoda is president, and Dr. H. H. Scarborough of Idaho Falls, Idaho, secretary.
The formation of the Continental Standard Claims is similar to that of the old Viola Mine, located a few miles south and east on the same range, and has a production record of about 12 million dollars in the eighties, when lead sold for 2 cents to 8 cents per pound. This property accounted for one-fifth of the lead produced in the United States during its period of activity.
During the last year considerable development work has been done on the Continental Standard property, and a shaft sunk to the 200-foot level. By drifting, ore has been encountered, that runs 62 ounces of silver per ton, and 40 per cent lead; also a four-inch seam of talc that carries 18 per cent lead, and 2 ounces of silver. This shaft is located on the Road Agent Claim, from which three carloads of ore were shipped in the early eighties, that had been hand sorted and carried values up to 600 ounces of silver, and 64 per cent lead.
The camp comprises a number of buildings, such as residence for the mine superintendent, bunk houses for the men, a modern assay house, fully equipped; a compressor and hoist, and a machine shop, on the Road Agent Claim. Ten men are employed at present, but this number will be augmented gradually until three shifts are employed in sinking and driving crosscuts, at three different camps on the property.
At the west end of the property is a sheared zone, caused by heavy glacial action, which has broken up the surface to a considerable depth, and a number of tunnels have been driven in the side of the hill to ascertain the amount of milling ore that is in sight. It is estimated that sufficient milling ore is in sight to warrant the installation of a flotation mill to handle 150 tons of ore per day. The average assay runs approximately 10 percent lead, and 6 ounces silver, and makes an exceedingly clean concentrate.
Mr. Sonoda has surrounded himself with a corps of prominent Japanese who are building a treasury of $250,000 for the financing of this undertaking. Stock is being placed at the present time, only with Japanese in the seven western states—California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
Assisted by engineers, Mr. Sonoda spent about 14 months investigating the possibilities of this property before giving it his support. The work he and his associates have undertaken has aroused considerable interest, and noticeable progress has been made on the property since he was made president.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930
IDAHO
Mines in the State of Idaho, disbursed $792,179 in dividends, during December. The largest contributor to this total was the Hecla Mining Company, which disbursed $250,000 at the rate of 25 cents a share for the quarter.
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The Delaware Mines Corporation, Frank S. Bailey, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has made a strike in the Rex Mine, on the Red Monarch Tunnel level, 1,000 feet below the Rex Tunnel No. 2, and about 900 feet west of the Rex Shaft. The face of the drift has two streaks of highgrade lead-silver ore, one 14, and the other, 6 inches wide, and the remainder of the face is milling grade. There is only slight evidence of zinc, the stringer opened farther back in the drift, having disappeared. On the east side of the shaft, above the No. 2 Tunnel Level, the vein proved to be 700 feet long, and produced nearly all of the ore produced by the old Rex Company, estimated at more than $2,000,000. The management plans to continue the drift to a point beneath the shaft, and raise to connection with it. This will drain the upper workings, permit examination, restoration of the shaft to service, and speed up production.
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The Mackay Light and Power Company has installed a 120-horsepower steam engine, in the boiler room of the Mackay Metals Company, Mackay, Idaho, W. E. Narkaus, general manager. This engine is to be hooked up with a 50-kilowatt generator, and connected to synchronize with the generator, at the hydroelectric plant in Cedar Creek Canyon. This will more than double the capacity of the hydroelectric plant under the present flow of water.
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The Triumph Development Company has nearly completed its aerial tram, between the mine and the loading station, on the railway near Ketchum, Idaho. The tram is being constructed by Broderick and Bascom of St. Louis, and when the contract was signed, was believed to represent an expenditure of approximately $80,000. The company has laid off about 25 men, on account of the bad condition of the road, and because trucking contracts have expired, but this number will be employed again, when the tramway is in operation. J. C. Jensen, 220 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is general manager of the company.
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Net earnings of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, for the quarter ended October 31, 1929, were $785,780 before depreciation, depletion, taxes, and charges, for construction and equipment, as compared with $765,444 in the preceding quarter, and $599,240 in the October quarter, 1928. Deductions for construction and equipment during the quarter were $52,289, as compared with $80,870 in the preceding quarter, and $80,520 in the October quarter, 1928. During the October quarter, 1929, the company shipped 40,412 tons of ore and concentrates to the smelter, as compared with 41,664 tons in the preceding quarter, and 36,843 tons in the October quarter, 1928.
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The Syringa Mining Company, Herschel Weaver, Sandpoint, Idaho, has completed ore bunkers having a combined capacity of 160 tons, and a sorting shed, where the high and low-grade ores will be separated. Efforts are concentrated on blocking out ore for milling. An 18-inch width of the veins assay between $30 and $40 in gold, and about two feet is of milling grade, assaying an average of $10 per ton.
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According to President Herman J. Rossi and Secretary H. C. Russell, the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, Wallace, Idaho, had 1,286,000 tons of developed and possible ore, on October 6, 1929. This ore was estimated to be worth $4,408,229, and increases in the reserves have been made from that time until the end of the year. I)uring 1929, 88 carloads of lead, and 12 carloads of zinc ore, were shipped.
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According to President E. S. Crane, 1004 East Mission Avenue, Spokane, financial arrangements have been made for the development of the Nellie Mine, of the Yakima-Shoshone Mining Company, in Rosebud Gulch, near Osburn, Idaho. An examination by Engineer S. L. Shonts of Wallace, recommends driving a tunnel 200 feet lower than the lowest drift in the mine, which is 400 feet below the surface, and 1,600 feet above the lowest working level of the Sunshine Mine. At this depth in the Sunshine, the vein is rich, and is increasing in width. The new tunnel in the Nellie Mine, including 800 feet of drift, and a raise to the bottom of the present shaft, is estimated to cost $40,000. Samples taken from the lowest drift in the Nellie, assayed 1.2 to 13.2 per cent copper, and 14.5 to 801.1 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Pontiac Mining Company, H. O. Stapleton, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, has leased the workings above the No. 1 Intermediate Tunnel, on the North Fork in the Coeur d’Alenes, to Isaac Finkle. It is understood that mining and shipping will be started immediately.
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The Dayrock Mining Company, A. E. Lawson, general manager, Yakima, Washington, has proven a large body of ore, on the 400-foot level of its property, in the Coeur d’Alenes, and the ore continues both in quantity, and quality, above that level. About 20 carloads of ore are being marketed daily, and this tonnage can be increased at any time that the management chooses. Later, a larger hoist is to be installed in preparation of deeper mining. A dividend of 3 cents a share, amounting to $50,829, was disbursed December 31, to stock of record December 20. This was the fourth disbursement of this amount made last year. The Dayrock is the only Day-controlled mine on a dividend paying basis.
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From two to four carloads of ore daily, have been shipped by the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mines Company, Jerome J. Day, president and manager, Wallace, Idaho, since its surface plant had been moved to Canyon Creek. Sinking is in progress at the 1,200 Level, to prove the continuation of the so-called new ore body below that level.
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The Hull Leasing Company, H. J. Hull, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is preparing to develop a group of six claims between the Mutual, and the Dayrock properties, near Gem, Idaho. A tunnel has been run on the vein about 400 feet, and shows some silver and lead ore. Deeper development is planned. An official statement made during the summer, was to the effect that the Hull Lease was operating a 100-ton selective flotation mill.
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Milling was resumed on a one-shift basis in the 100-ton flotation plant of the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, William Becker, manager, Wallace, Idaho, following a fire on August 16, in which the foreman, and two others, lost their lives. Robert Hunt, now foreman, has charge of 24 men, and attention Is centered on the extraction of ore. As soon as ore can be drawn from the intermediate stope, which will be a matter of only a few days, the mill will be operated during 24 hours daily.
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The Bunker Hill, and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, S. A. Easton, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has built a highway to its property, near Yellow Pine, cleared ground for an airport, and has made a survey for an electric power plant. The limestone zone in this property, is impregnated with cinnabar, and from 5 to 80 pounds of quicksilver to the ton can be taken across the vein, sometimes as wide as 80 feet.
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At the Hall Interstate Mine, in the Deadwood Basin, a 250-horsepower hydroelectric power plant has been completed to supplement a similar plant, in providing power for the mill. This mill is equipped to grind 300 tons of ore daily and the building is large enough to house machinery that can mill 500 tons of ore daily.
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The Ft. Wayne Mining Company, E. W. Conrad, president and manager, West 213 Shannon Street, Spokane, Washington, has started work on a new program of development in its property, one mile west of Osburn, Idaho, as outlined by Engineer S. L. Shonts of Wallace. The ground comprises 19 claims, where water and timber are sufficient for the needs of the company, and supplies are in to carry on work all winter.
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A nine-inch vein of high-grade gold-silver ore, has been uncovered in the property of the Regal Mining Corporation, Compton I. White, manager, Clark Fork, Idaho. The discovery is said to have been made within 140 feet of the objective of development.
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The B!ue Ribbon Mining Company has temporarily suspended underground exploration, according to Coleman Frazier, manager, Burke, Idaho. During the suspension, additional accommodations will be built for the employees, surface improvements made, and plans made for further underground work. A 2-mill assessment has been levied on all of the outstanding stock, to meet a small indebtedness. The officers of the organization are: Irwin Enos, president; N. C. Armstrong, vice-president, and Al. Harris, secretary.
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W. A. Anderson, president of the Gold Star Mining Company, having property seven miles from Elk City, Idaho, has purchased $60,000 worth of property at the Black Diamond Mine, 25 miles from the Gold Star. The equipment includes rail, compressor, four ore cars, engine, boiler, 10-stamp mill, redwood cyanide tanks, hoist, buckets, gasoline pump, sawmill, planing mill, blacksmith shop, and about 200,000 feet of lumber. Transportation between the Gold Star, and the Black Diamond Mines, will be accomplished by use of a large tractor.
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Four carloads of concentrates were shipped during November, by the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, L. B. Neale, superintendent, Kellogg, Idaho, and it was planned that six would be shipped during December. A considerable reduction has been noticed in operating costs, since placing the work on a three-shift basis, and the sorting system, recently put into effect, is almost doubling the mineral content in the ore.
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The Blue Wing and Zanetti Property, in the Nine Mile District, near Wallace, Idaho, for a time operated under lease by the McPhillips Syndicate of Seattle, Washington, has been reorganized by a group of Seattle men, headed by Charles D. Davis, mining engineer, Lippy Building. All debts of the McPhillips Syndicate have been settled, and the new operators have organized as the Zanetti Mining Company. This property adjoins the Dayrock.
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As a result of the decline in the price of lead, the Hecla Mining Company, and the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, both operating in the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho, have adopted a six-day operating policy. Several weeks ago the latter company, laid off between 50 and 60 men, in an effort to curtail production, while the Hecla Company had been shutting down every other Sunday.
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The Bunker Hill, and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, has completed ore bins, and laid track to its Crescent Property on Big Creek. The driving of the Hooper tunnel has been resumed, and this adit, which is about a mile long, will be used for the removal of ore from the property.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
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Edward B. Clark, of Clark Fork, Idaho, is running a 40-foot crosscut from the tunnel of the Lucky Opal Mine, to what is presumed to be the hanging wall of a vein. Two veins in the property, are capped with from six to eight inches of hematite, some of which may be shipped to help defray expenses in developing the ground.
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The Constitution Mining and Milling Company, W. P. White, Masonia, Idaho, is operating its mill during three shifts daily, and turning out concentrates that average 62 percent lead, and zinc. A monthly production of between 900 and 1,000 tons of concentrates, is anticipated. Mr. White reports underground conditions excellent. The north drift on the 600 Level, was in commercial ore for 268 feet, with the exception of the first 15 feet; the raise from the 600 Level to the 400, is in commercial values, and a tunnel is being driven on the vein at the same level as the main operating tunnel, but from the opposite side of the hill. Recent improvements include new ore bins, a conveyor for loading concentrates into trucks at the mill, an N-88 stoper, pipe, and self-dumping skip.
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The Hypotheek Mining and Milling Company, Otto A. Olsson, manager, Wallace, Idaho, intends to resume work at its property, south of Kingston, this month. Instead of trying to locate commercial ore in the Hypotheek veins proper, new ground will be explored, to find the possible extensions of three or four producing veins in the Pine Creek District.
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The Exploration Company of California, organized late in 1929, is operating mining property, covering the west half of the South Mountain District, about 25 miles south of Silver City, Idaho. The acquisition followed the report of Oscar H. Hershey of San Francisco, geologist for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company, and other prominent geologists, who estimate 54,000 tons of known ore in the Laxey Tunnel, which is only partially developed.
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New camp buildings were erected, and some machinery installed, to permit the driving of two tunnels, under contract to Messrs. Weaver and Hendricks, of Mountain Home, Idaho. The work will be continued until spring, when it is probable that further developments will be started. According to Mr. Hershey, it is estimated that $250,000 will bring the ground to the point of development where a mill is necessary. The officers of the Exploration company are: Charles Butters, president; Thomas J. Barbour, vice-president, and A. L. Dahl, secretary. M. O. Sacrider will supervise work at the mine. Butters and Barbour are San Francisco, California men, and have established headquarters for the organization in the Balfour Building.
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During 1929, the Sidney Mining Company paid $30,000 in dividends from royalties received from the Sidney Leasing Company. This figure brought the grand total paid by the parent company to $86,
250. The leasing company paid $15,430 in dividends during the year, bringing its grand total to date to $64,939. C. W. Brown of Kellogg, Idaho, is general manager of the leasing company.
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The mine and mill of the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, near Kellogg, Idaho, have been shut down temporarily, on account of the low price of lead, and because the Bunker Hill smelter has a large surplus of zinc ores on hand, and has refused to accept any more. Dickens ore has a high zinc content, and returns from the lead alone would be insufficient to pay operating expenses at the property. Another handicap is the fact that the Dickens Company is not prepared to store zinc ores other than on its dump. During Noyember, four carloads of concentrates were produced, and December production was more profitable. Of the crew of 40 men, only a few have been retained in development, and no ore will be mined.
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A good showing of lead-silver ore has been opened in the old Viola Mine, in the Nicholia Mining District, according to William E. Clarke of Reno, Idaho, one of the Clarke Brothers, operating the ground. It is planned to begin shipping the ore as soon as the road is in condition to permit hauling to Gilmore.
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The Gold King-Delhi Mines Corporation. S. P. Schrieber, secretary, 327 Noble Building, Boise, Idaho, has let a contract to drive a second tunnel 125 feet above, and 25 feet farther back, than the portal of the present adit. Connection between these tunnels will be made to serve as an ore chute, and a more economical means of ventilation. Two shifts are tunneling. Cabins and a blacksmith shop have been erected and a third shift is building ore bins.
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The Amalgamated Red Metals Company, P. A. Summerland, president, Yellow Pine, Idaho, has cut three feet of high-grade ore in driving the No. 4, or main tunnel, to the Red Metals Vein, and undercutting the high-grade and milling ore exposed in the Nos. 1, 2 and 8 Ellison Workings. Charles Heim, vice-president and mine foreman, said 18 inches had been cut in the new vein. This property was equipped during the past summer with a suitable camp, and both mining and milling machinery.
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Additional power and pumping capacity have been installed at the King of Pine Creek Shaft in the Pine Creek District, Idaho, where the flow of water is being handled satisfactorily, although there is no apparent decrease. Owing to conditions that would have made it unprofitable to sink the shaft at the contract price, it is now being sunk by the company on a ‘day’s pay’ basis. The Strattons, of Wallace, Idaho, control this mine, and Harry P. Pearson is superintendent of their enterprises.
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Official announcement has been made that the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company will discontinue the payment of one of its two extra dividends of 25 cents a share on February 5. This action is on account of the present depressed prices for metals, particularly zinc and silver, which is making the surplus insufficient to warrant the paying of its regular and two extra monthly dividends, in addition to paying for all new development and construction work under way. Dividends have been paid monthly at the annual rate of $3 regular, and $6 extra.
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The Consolidated Metals Company, operating under lease, in the Lincoln Mine, near Wallace, Idaho, is making preparations to sink a shaft, 400 feet. George C. Evans and Robert Madzgalla have charge of the work. In view of the belief that the Sunshine Vein, where some remarkable ore
has been opened, extends east through Lincoln Ground. Development has been discontinued, and attention turned to continuing the main crosscut south, to intersect the extension of the Sunshine Vein. Work was stopped in this crosscut, probably on account of financial troubles, and the length required to reach the objective has not been determined, as the vein will probably not be reached closer to the surface than 1,500 feet. Several years ago a good showing of silver, lead and zinc was opened in an upper tunnel and shipments of high grade made.
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A strike has been made by the Sidney Leasing Company, C. W. Brown, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, in crosscutting a short distance into the footwall west of the shaft on the 700 Level. According to Mr. Brown, the ore is 42 inches wide, and is practically solid high-grade zinc-lead, of considerable higher value than the main oreshoot on that level. Ore is being stoped from the surface, to the No. 7 Level, a vertical depth of 800 feet. The No. 6 is the deepest tunnel, and the No. 7 is the first shaft level. The shaft has been sunk 140 feet below the No. 7 Level, and has shown some ore. The mill is treating 150 tons of ore, averaging 20 to 25 percent combined lead and zinc, daily, and the resulting concentrates are a substantial percentage of the “Bunker Hill” brand zinc. The concentrates are transported over an aerial tramway, between the mill, and Silver King, on the O. W. R. & N. railway, a distance of three miles.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has made an incline raise from the 500 Level, to the Price Tunnel, and is continuing the raise 130 feet above that level, to provide room for the new hoist, which is being built by the Coeur d’Alene Hardware and Foundry Company at Wallace. The incline shaft now extends between the 500, and 1,800, levels and the hoist is designed to operate to a depth of 3,800 feet, with a capacity to lift a skip load of four tons, at a speed of 700 feet per minute.
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H. C. Stapleton of Wallace, Idaho, is sponsoring the development of the Messenger Group of seven claims owned by Clay Cues, through the $10 option system, which has been successful in the operation of the Dayrock, and Option, mines in the Coeur d’Alenes. Nine additional claims have been located, making a compact group of 16 claims, covering the extension of two veins. Two samples were taken from one of these veins, opened at a depth of about 200 feet, by a 180-foot drift, and returned 12.7 ounces silver, and 5.8 percent lead; and 8.5 ounces silver, and 7 percent lead. The Messenger group is about a mile from the railroad at Eagle.
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Two carloads of ore have been shipped by the Rex Leasing and Development Company, from the Okanogan Vein, and are of much higher grade than the preceding shipment made a short time ago from the Rex Vein, west of the shaft. Francis Stout, Harry Hebble and Elmer E. Johnson of Kellogg, Idaho, own the leaseand made the last two shipments from a two-foot width of solid ore.
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In addition to its regular shipments of lead concentrate, the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, Herman J. Rossi, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, shipped a carload of crude lead ore, recovered from the sorting belt. The ore carries very little silver. A previous shipment of crude lead ore, made on December 11, 1929, returned 77.85 per cent lead, comparing favorably with pure galena, or lead sulphide, which contains 86.6 per cent lead to the ton.
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Isaac Hinkle is taking out a carload shipment of ore from his lease on the Terrible Edith Mine, Murray, Idaho. The ore is being mined from a 12-inch ore-shoot that has been opened 10 feet, and carries high lead content. It is 350 feet above the No. 4 tunnel.
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The Pandora Mining Company, operating on Blizzard Mountain, about 25 miles west of Arco, Idaho, shipped a carload of surface ore, just before snowfall halted outside operations. The main working tunnel, being driven to intersect the ore body at depth, is now in 850 feet, and will be extended 500 feet, this winter. Part of this development is expected to be in ore, as the ledge should be cut, in 300 feet or less. Frederic Keffer, E. M., of Spokane, Washington, was on the property late last fall, and reiterated his prediction of success for the company, which he had made in an earlier report. He mapped the workings and surveyed the surface. Further development and shipments are planned for next year. Charles A. Mayo, 214 North Twenty-fourth Avenue, Yakima, Washington, is president and general manager of the company.
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The Tucker Mining and Milling Company, Peter Bahn, president and manager, Box 551, Wallace, Idaho, has let contracts for 100 feet of tunnel work, in the main crosscut, to O. Wolff, of Spokane. Materials are being assembled to go ahead with the work. This crosscut has been extended 1,200 feet, and, according to surveys, the next 100 feet will reach the vein at a depth of over 500 feet.
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A group of Woodruff, Utah, men have taken over the property of the Silver Hill Mining Company in the Black Pine District, Cassia County, Idaho, operated about 30 years ago through a shaft sunk about 80 feet, at the intersection of a north-south, and an east-west vein. Some ore, sampling as high as $200 per ton, was shipped from the property at that time, and it is estimated that 10,000 tons of milling ore, averaging $15 a ton, are still in the ground. The Woodruff men are driving a tunnel along the east-west vein, and have already reached a length of 240 feet. Timber is available for mining purposes, and water is piped from a spring that has a flow of three gallons per minute, into a 10,000-gallon tank. The boarding house is modern and a compressor is on the road to the mine.
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The Big Three Mining Company, William Tyler, president, Burke, Idaho, has opened a six-inch width of steel galena in a crosscut, to the left from the old Matt Tunnel. This was formerly the East Standard Property, and comprises six claims covering both sides of the canyon, between the Hecla, and the Mammoth, mines. Bob Ivy and George Miller are driving the tunnel under contract.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has paid $830,000 in dividends during 1929. The last payment was made on December 20, at the rate of 8 cents a share, instead of 5 cents a share, during the two previous quarters, and 2 cents a share in the 12 previous bi-monthly payments. Improvements are being made to facilitate operations, and underground, the incline shaft between the 500, and 1,800 levels is being extended, so that the vertical shaft from the 500 level, can be discontinued. Plans are being made to open the ore bodies on the 1,300 level.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation is getting ready to extend its main tunnel, to cut a vein exposed at the surface, across a width of from 12 to 20 feet. According to surveys, the tunnel will reach the objective in another 500 feet, and at a depth of 700 feet. Metropolitan Mines held its first meeting recently, and chose the following officers: R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, president; Matt Baumgartner, vice-president; John F. Ferguson of Wallace, secretary-treasurer, and Ray Williams of Wallace and John Stanford of Spokane, additional directors. Stock is now being exchanged on a share-for-share basis for the stock of the Sterling Silver Mountain Mining Company, original operator of the ground.
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Fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shop, the dry room, and the parts room, of the Whitedelf Mining Company, Clarksfork, Idaho, C. I. White, general manager. The mill and the compressor room were saved by pumping water from the 200-foot level.
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TENTATIVE PLANS TO SUPPLY GAS TO THREE IDAHO TOWNS
According to L. Fitzpatrick, general manager for the Utah Gas and Coke Company, approximately $3,500,000 may be spent in laying a pipeline for distribution of natural gas to Pocatello, Preston, and Franklin, Idaho. Actual construction of the line awaits the sanction of the public utilities commission.
A two-day hearing was recently held at Pocatello by the Commission, at which time protests were made by the Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation of Pocatello, manufacturers of gas; the Grand Teton Oil Company of Idaho Falls, drilling at Driggs; and the Norton Oil and Gas Company of Pocatello, drilling at Arimo.
After the transcript has been prepared, the applicants have 10 days in which to file a brief, and the protestants have another 20 days to file their brief. The applicants have another 10 days in which to file their reply, after which oral arguments will be heard, and the commission will render its decision.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
IDAHO
The only dividend reported from mines in the State of Idaho, during May, is a monthly, and extra disbursement of $163,500 paid by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company.
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The Ft. Wayne Mining Company has been reorganized as the Idaho-Montana Mining and Oil Company, and its articles of incorporation amended, to permit the company to also engage in the oil and gas business. The capital stock has been increased from $500,000, divided into 1,500,000 shares of 83 cents par, to $1,000,000, divided into 2,000,000 shares of 50 cents par. The proposal to reduce the board of directors, to five, was defeated, and the board elected includes: President E. W. Conrad of Wallace; Secretary-Treasurer J. M. Henneck, H. O. Henneck, E. G. Gooding, and D. E. C. Grove, all of Spokane; J. B. Collins of Osburn, F. C. Boltz of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and T. B. Swearington and G. C. Funk, both of Pendleton, Oregon. The property in question, is 19 claims, on McFarren Creek, about five and one-half miles west of Wallace, Idaho, and most of the development has been done through a tunnel, advanced 2,300 feet on the east side of the creek. The surface buildings include a compressor house, equipped with a gasoline-driven compressor, a bunkhouse, and a boarding house. The property had been kept open last winter, although no development had been done worth mentioning (Probably too cold to work, but not too cold to party.)
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A controlling interest in the Belmont Mining Company, Ltd., owning mining property in Two-Mile Gulch, four miles northeast of Osborn, Idaho, has been acquired by the Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Company, a new concern. The group comprises 15 claims, showing three parallel contact veins, in Burke and Revett quartzite. Lead, silver, manganese, a little zinc, and traces of gold, and copper, have been revealed in assays made on the ore. The officers are: L. O. Tollefson. 388 Peyton Building, Spokane, president; and H. C. Myers, vice-president, and George H. Noble, Sr., secretary-treasurer, both of Spokane. These with C. F. Chafin of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Miss A. M. Hoffstater, managing director of the Seattle American Eagle Mine, form the Board of Directors.
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The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company has taken a lease and option on the War Eagle Gold Mine, on Crooked Creek, near Dixie, Idaho. It is understood that a 25-ton oil flotation plant is to be installed early this fall. E. B. Ellis, Alaska Building, Seattle, Washington, is president of the organization.
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The Neva Copper Company is opening up the old Brady, or Comstock, group, near Boville, Idaho, under the management of Spencer Owen of Goldendale, Washington. The vein appears to be parallel to the Ruby Creek, a nearby property. The greater part of the capital for the Neva Copper, is furnished by the Jacroux Brothers, also of Goldendale.
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In its Crescent Mine, on Big Creek, in the Coeur d’Alenes, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Camp Company is putting up another raise from the Hooper Tunnel, to the upper levels. The Hooper Tunnel is about 5,000 feet long, and the raises are near its portal. This one will also be about 500 feet high (wow, that’s a tall back!) and is about one-third finished. Ore is being taken out through the other raise, while the second one is being completed. The 150-ton mill is being worked one shift daily, and is handling about 50 tons daily, from the first raise. S. A. Easton of Kellogg, Idaho, is general manager of the concern.
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The three-compartment main shaft of the Constitution Mining and Milling Company at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, manager, is being lowered below the No. 6 Level, and in another 50 feet, a station will be established from which the No. 8 Level will be run. An additional 12 men were employed for this work, with five men in the shaft, and one hoistman each on two shifts. On the No. 6 Level, the south drift has been advanced about 100 feet a month, since the ore was cut last fall, and has been in practically continuous ore. The 150-ton mill was placed in operation December 9, and has been operated almost continuously since then. The concentrates are shipped from the mill to Heim, seven miles distant, and from there, to the electrolytic plant at Great Falls, Montana.
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The Pontiac Mining Company has leased the Terrible Edith Mine, one and one-half miles northeast of Murray, Idaho, to Howard and John Conn, Rush White and Leo Hoban, who will operate as the Conn Leasing Company. The leasing company intends to start mining ore at once, and will use the compressor, driven by electric power, and all other equipment of the Pontiac organization. The first ore to be mined will probably be a deposit of lead-silver, exposed in a drift, from the top of a 350-foot raise, from the main tunnel. The Pontiac Company, represented by H. C. Stapleton, of Wallace, Idaho, plans to eventually drive a deep tunnel, but for the present will operate its ground under lease.
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To state briefly the plan of the Pandora Mining Company, near Martin, Idaho, President and General Manager Charles A. Mayo says that this year will be devoted to development, hoping to have enough ore in sight by next year, to justify the installation of a mill. The mine is at an elevation of 9,000 feet. The proposed mill will be built at 6,000 feet, and the ore carried by aerial tram from the mine, to the mill. It is believed that year-round operation will be possible. Mr. Mayo is a Yakima, Washington, man, and may be reached at 214 North Twenty-fourth Avenue.
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Granada Lead Mines, Inc., has started driving a tunnel in its property in. the Hunter District, Shoshone County, Idaho, northeast of Golconda ground. Three shifts are working, and at the 450-foot point, the tunnel is expected to reach the Granada Vein, at a depth of about 250 feet. The ultimate objective of the tunnel is the intersection of three rich veins: the Mayflower, the Klondike, and the Golconda, which will be reached about 500 feet beyond the Granada Vein. The Granada property is nine patented claims, on which payment was completed last October, and all financial arrangements have been made, to carry on development. The officers of the company are President A. H. Featherstone of Wallace, General Manager Ross L. Roundy, Secretary-Treasurer, O. W. Lewis, F. Cushing Moore, of Spokane, and Maunsell Mitchell, of Tacoma, president of the American Mortgage Company.
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The Ajax Mining Company, A. G. Anderson, general manager, Box 1086, Burke, Idaho, has reached the Long Sought Vein in the eastern part of its workings. The vein is between eight and nine feet wide, and if the parallel veins, or stringers, form a part of the vein, it may be as wide as 85 feet. Drifting is being done to determine the width. The ore carries a sprinkling of lead, with pyrite, and siderite, and is 1,000 feet east of the caved-in ore-shoot, at a depth of 2,000 feet on the dip, and under a hogback. F. Moriarty, 714 Fourteenth Avenue, Spokane, Washington, is president.
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A crew has started stoping on the third level of the property of the Burnt Cabin Mining Company, east of Hayden Lake, under the supervision of O. Y. Young. The work will be continued until the upraise reaches the tunnel. The Burnt Cabin has been working the past three summers, and last year, installed new machinery, provided better facilities for caring for the working crews, and cut timbers for use in the mine. William James of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is president of the company.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company has drifted 12 feet, on the No. 2 Vein, in its property in the Mineral District, 84 miles from Weiser, Idaho, and has proven ore across a width of three feet. The ore was sampled every 18 inches and assayed 80 ounces silver, 8.5 percent copper, 86 ounces silver, and 6 percent copper, to the ton. Another important development is an incline raise on the White Sam Vein, which samples 15 ounces silver, and 5 percent copper, to the ton. Only the best ore is saved for shipment and the remaining tonnage is piled on the dumps, for milling at a later date. A. I. D’Arcy of Goldfield, Nevada, is president and manager of the company.
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The Sunnyside, and the Dewey Gold Mines, in the Thunder Mountain Mining District, in Valley County, Idaho, have been acquired by the American Gold Corporation, Ltd., according to J. S. Tremayne. According to engineers’ reports, between 400,000 and 500,000 tons of commercial ore are blocked out in the Sunnyside workings, and ready for extraction and treatment. Churn drill prospecting has revealed the existence of a large tonnage, averaging $7 per ton.
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The Washington Water Power Company of Spokane, intends to build a line to the property of the United States Silver Lead Mines Company, in the Eagle District, near Prichard, Idaho. This mine adjoins the Jack Waite on the north, which is one of the most remote mines in the district served by the power company. United States Silver has a camp and modern machinery for mining. Last year about 700 feet of tunnel were driven under contract, and financed from assesments. George Moison, general manager, intends to start work in a crosscut tunnel shortly.
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A body of sulphide ore has been followed 85 feet, on the 1,000-foot Level of the MacKay Metals Company’s property at Mackay, Idaho, and the Cossack Tunnel is to be driven 600 feet below, or on the 1,600 Level. The production during the month of April was 12 carloads of copper concentrate, assaying 21 percent copper, and 10 carloads of crude copper ore, assaying 10 percent copper. The mill is treating approximately 220 tons of ore daily. During 1929, 66,578 dry tons of ore mined by lessees and on company account, which were reduced to 20,060 dry tons of concentrate. This production brought $497,974.24 in copper, gold and silver, of which $420,009.42 were received for the copper content. W. B. Narkaus is general manager.
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A 100-ton Mace smelter is to be installed at the Yellow Jacket Mine, near Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho, to further concentrate the product from the ball mill. This will effect considerable reduction in the cost of hauling the ore to market. The old stamp mill on the ground will not be used. John Lingelbach of Denver, and his son, are at Salmon, in connection with the proposed installations, and are active in the operation of this property. It is owned by J. M. Burkhart, Jr., of Salmon.
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The Horseshoe Copper Company, Ltd., has granted a lease on its property in the Alder Creek District, near Mackay, Idaho, to Thomas Thee, who already has a crew prospecting the ground. This group is 17 unpatented mining claims, and during the last 25 years, they have been worked intermittently in lease, and on company account. The ground is developed by three tunnels, and a vertical 350-foot shaft, which with the crosscuts, drifts and raises, total more than 2,000 feet. A complete camp is on the ground, and a two-drill electrically operated compressor and hoist are ready for work.
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The Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, William Becker, secretary and manager, Wallace, Idaho, has employed four men to lay a pipeline from the company’s dam, to its property, comprising five patented and 28 unpatented claims in the Summit District, near Murray. The line will be about 4,000 feet in length and will replace one destroyed by a forest fire last August. Pumping water and keeping the machines in good condition has been the only work done since January, and the date of the resumption of operations is indefinite.
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The directors of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company have announced that the regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on the preferred stock will be disbursed on June 19, to stock of record May 26, 1930.
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The Spokane and Idaho Copper Company is regrading the road between the mine and Harvard, Idaho, a distance of 17 miles, for the transportation of equipment, and has surveyed a permanent road that will be built on an easy grade. A boarding house and bunkhouse are to be built and spring water piped to both of these buildings. Jay P. Graves, 1108 Paulsen Building, Spokane, is president of the company. Deposits of copper-bearing ore were partly developed last year.
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It is understood that the Idamont Lead. Zinc Mines Company at Leonia, Idaho, has granted an option on its outstanding stock to New York interests. The option is for 60 days, from April 18, 1930. J. S. Hutchinson, 207 City Hall, Portland, Oregon, is president of the company.
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The ‘Mason Butte Mining Company, Guy A. Clark, president, Plummer, Idaho, has opened a four-foot width of ore across Lake Coeur d’Alerte from Harrison, Idaho. He has a five-year bond and lease on the ground from Utah capital. The ore carries commercial values in gold, silver, lead and copper. At the Iron Mine, between Worley and Plummer, the working force has been increased, a mine car purchased, and the tunnel will be opened the last of this month.
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Ore has been opened in a crosscut from the 150-foot level of the shaft workings of the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mines Company, Jerome J. Day, president and general manager, Wallace, Idaho, and at a depth of 2,550 feet below the surface. The new ore is in Chesapeake ground, about 90 feet from the shaft, which has been sunk from the Canyon Creek Tunnel, or No. 7 Level of the mine.
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Diamond drilling at the Hoyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho, has been meeting with some success, according to A. J. Koebel of Spokane, who has the contract to do the work. The first hole was put down 153 feet, at an angle of 45 degrees, and cut two feet of ore containing some zinc, 17 inches of fair ore, four and one-half feet of $28 silver-lead ore and several streaks of ore. The second drill revealed 101 feet of ore, running from $8-$70 per ton. This is being drilled to determine the east boundary of the ore.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930
IDAHO MINING NEWS 6 30 1930
Nine mining companies, operating in the Boise Basin in Idaho, have protested the abandonment of 13.819 miles of track between Stierman, and Centerville, stating that their properties are adjacent to the railroad, and are dependent upon the road to carry freight and supplies to their camps, and to haul concentrates from the mines. These mines employ in the neighborhood of 200 men, and maintain a monthly payroll of close to $30,000. The United States Forestry Service, and the stockmen in the district, have opposed the abandonment of the road.
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The Trade Dollar Consolidated Mining Company intends to construct a power plant at Swan Falls, on the Snake River, to furnish power for its mines and mills at Silver City, Idaho. The point at which the power will be developed, will be about 26 miles from the mine, and the project will cost close to $250,000. A. J. Wiley of Silver City, is chief engineer, and Willard White will be superintendent in charge.
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Recent development of the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, has been focused on the lower levels, where drilling has proven new ore bodies, apparently as extensive as those mined above. Future work will hinge for the most part, upon lowering costs in both the mining and milling departments. The mine has been in regular production since it came under its present management about two years ago, and last year, the payroll alone consumed almost $200,000. The project is being financed by A. J. Anderson of Vancouver, capitalist and mining man; W. E. Narkaus, general manager; Chase A. Clark of Mackay, attorney; and W. E. Hayes of Los Angeles, the recently elected president. J. Ray Weber is superintendent.
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Considerable excitement was shown over a new vein opened by the Blue Eagle Mining Company on Pine Creek. The ore is believed to be the main fissure, which is a five-foot width, with carbonate ore scattered through it, where stripped on the surface. Ed. McCarty, 105 First State Bank Building, Kellogg, Idaho, is president and general manager.
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The Copper Queen Mining Company, Daniel Laverty, president and general manager, Burke, Idaho, plans to install power drills to block ore, which in turn will be followed by the installation of mine equipment. The No. 1 Tunnel has been driven 105 feet on the Copper King Vein, and has cut 50 feet of oxidized ore. The objective of this piece of development is a quartz outcropping about 30 feet farther ahead. The Ellen Claim is responding to development satisfactorily, and in a 50-foot crosscut, 18 feet of ore has been opened on the footwall of the vein, and one foot of ore on the hanging wall.
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The Ima Mines Corporation, W. P. Barton, manager, May, Idaho, is working two shifts on an eight-foot vein of ore, and intends operating its 100-ton concentrator shortly. The tungsten is mainly in the form of hubnerite, which occurs in white quartz, along with molybdenite, and gray copper, with some gold associated. The concentrator is a Blake crusher, Dorr classifier, Marcy ball mill, eight-cell flotation plant, and Wilfley table. A six-foot Pelton Wheel, with 120-foot head automatically supplies all the power necessary to run the mill, a sawmill, a 12x12-foot compressor, and a 25-kilowatt generator, the latter lighting the mine, mill, and camp. The cost of handling the ore is low. It drops by gravity from stopes, to tramway, and to the mill.
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Work is being resumed by the Great Western Mines Company, which owns nine claims and millsites in the French District, Owyhee County, Idaho. Men are clearing out the tunnels, and electric connections have been established. T. W. Galigher, 915 North Twenty-first Street, Boise, Idaho, is vice-president and general manager of the organization.
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The Goldstone Mines Corporation, Andrew Prader, superintendent, Baker, Idaho, has placed its hydroelectric plant in commission, and enough power is being generated, to run a compressor, a 10-stamp mill, and other machinery, and to light the camp. This is a very economical feature In the operation of the property.
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During the first three months in the current year, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company earned a net profit of $916,969, before deductions for depletion and depreciation. Dividends paid during that period amounted to $735,750 on the common, and $84,559 on the preferred stock.
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The Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., Wallace, Idaho, William Beaudry, managing director, has cut the main ledge on the new 1,600-foot Level. The vein is 10 feet wide, and is of milling value. The organization has a feeling of general satisfaction, as the strike completed another step in the program outlined nearly a year ago, which included sinking a three-compartment shaft, 600 feet below the 1,000-foot Level, enlarging the tunnel at the 1,000-foot Horizon, for the passage of larger mine cars, laying heavier steel, and a six-inch air line, and the installation of an additional compressor of 1,250-cubic feet, per minute, capacity.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, intends to have its new hoist in regular operation by the middle of this month. Mining and milling were not interrupted during the installation of the hoist. Most of the ore was being mined from the 500-foot Level, and considerable importance is attached to a new oreshoot that has been opened there. The regular quarterly dividend of 5 cents a share, or $75,000, will be paid this month, which is most encouraging in view of the low price of silver. New economies are expected to reduce the cost of producing silver, from 20, to 18 cents, an ounce.
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Development has been resumed on Big Creek, by the Metropolitan Mines Corporation, B. L. Brainard, president, Kellogg, Idaho. The group comprises 20 claims, traversed 6,000 feet, by two veins parallel to the Sunshine Vein. The greater part of the development has been a 750-foot tunnel, which has cut the South Vein. Drifts on this vein, give indications that commercial values will be found with additional depth.
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The Independence Lead Mines Company, H. B. Kingsbury, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has sunk a one-compartment, and manway shaft, 25 feet on a rich showing of ore, located on the No. 4 Tunnel Level. Nine feet of ore were in evidence all the way down the shaft, and both faces are in ore. A 45-foot raise was established above the tunnel, to accommodate the gallows frame, and there is sufficient power to permit sinking to the 200-foot point.
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A 33-foot core drilled from the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho, assayed 1.5 ounces gold, and the last nine feet of core carried from 8 to 8.5 ounces gold, to the ton, according to A. J. Koebel, Pedicord Hotel, Spokane, who has the diamond drill contract. The hole was put down at an angle of 20 degrees, and is 65 feet deep. Silver values of about 10 ounces to the ton were located, and the mineral zone is over 400 feet wide, with some good ore lenses throughout. Arrangements are being concluded to finance the Boyer Property, by responsible parties, which will place the mine on the shipping list.
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The Yellow Jacket Mine, near Salmon, Idaho, recently purchased by Robert G. Ainsworth, and C. H. Mace, of Denver, has been organized as the United Mace Smelters, Inc. Mr. Ainsworth is president of William Ainsworth and Sons, and Mr. Mace is a metallurgist and inventor of the Mace smelting furnace and sintering hearth. W. F. Hayden, mining engineer, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, has examined the Yellow Jacket Mine, and estimates that 4,000,000 tons of ore are available at the surface and from 4,000 feet of tunnels and shafts. This ore is estimated to run between $7 and $8 to the ton, and much of it can be mined by the “pit” system.
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This season’s work at the property of the Yellow Pine Mining Company, near Elk City, Idaho, will consist chiefly of enlarging the surface plants and equipment, installing a hydroelectric plant, and probably building a concentrator. The mines were acquired from the United Mercury Mines Company, and last year, a highway was completed to the ground, thereby eliminating the necessity of packing supplies 14 miles. The Yellow Pine is the largest operator in the district.
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The Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, S. H. Richardson, superintendent, Box 1068, Wallace, Idaho, has opened 12 feet of milling ore, in the upper levels of the Mineral Point Mine. The ore runs high in silver, characteristic of the Dry Belt east of the Sunshine. The lower tunnel is expected to cut the oreshoot in about 400 feet.
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The Cosmopolitan Mining Company, Fred Barlow, president, has leased its property to George Urquiaga for a period of two years. Financial arrangements have been completed, and work is to start at once. This property is five mining claims in the French District, in Owyhee County, near Silver City, Idaho, and was formerly known as the Hammond Group. The ore is silver and gold, gold predominating, and with a showing of antimony. Over 750 feet of tunnel have been driven.
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A report from the Atlanta District in Idaho, is that the 1,800-foot tunnel of the St. Joseph Lead Company has reached the Monarch Shaft. Between 25 and 80 men have been driving the tunnel for several months. Plans are to crosscut the ledge every 100 feet, and if enough ore is opened, a mill will be built.
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The Reindeer-Queen Mining Company is making repairs underground, in its property in the Hunter District, near Mullan, Idaho, with a view to the early resumption of development. This ground is three patented and 12 unpatented mining claims, opened by five tunnels, the two longest of which are 8,100, and 7,700 feet long. A water driven compressor, and complete mining equipment, are at the mine. John F. Gearon, Box 1085, Wallace, Idaho, is president and manager.
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W. L. Schneider and Captain J. L. Carder, 225 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, California, have returned from an inspection of the Lindy Mine, in the Lost River section of Idaho. The Lindy is adjacent to the Wilbert Property, which has produced over $6,000,000 in high-grade lead ore, and a camp is being established for the accommodation of 10 men. Trucks are being purchased, and a 210-foot air compressor is being installed. The ore is said to assay more than 85 percent lead to the ton, with some gold, silver, and copper present, and will be shipped to the United States Smelter at Midvale, Utah. This is a privately owned enterprise, and Mr. Carder is its consulting engineer.
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The Idaho Manganese Mining Company has shipped its third carload of high-grade manganese ore from Cleveland, Idaho, to the United States Steel Products Company at Ironton, Utah, since work was resumed about a month ago. The ore runs about 48 percent. During the past three years, the company has shipped approximately 5,000 tons of ore from its holdings, the average manganese content being 47 percent.
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IDAHO SCHOOL OF MINES TMJ 6 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
Training at the Idaho School of Mines
By W. W. STALEY, Assistant Professor of Mining, Idaho School of Mines, Moscow, Idaho.
Besides giving a thorough understanding of the basic principles of engineering the school makes every effort to develop initiative and independent study.
The Idaho School of Mines is an integral part of the University of Idaho, located at Moscow. This is fortunate because of the cultural benefits that accrue from such a contact. The students in the School of Mines have the opportunity, and are urged, to elect courses of study in the various other departments of the University.
Moscow is within easy reach of one of the largest lead-zinc mineral producing areas in the North American continent. Situated in the Coeur d’Alene region, are some of the finest equipped mines and metallurgical plants that can be found. A short distance north of the Canadian boundary, at Trail, B. C., is located the enormous plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company.
Field trips in mine surveying, and geological work are taken as the occasion demands. An annual senior inspection trip embracing the Coeur d’Alene region, and lasting about two weeks, is one of the features offered in the School of Mines curricula. Frequently this inspection tour is extended to the Trail, B. C., and the Butte, Montana, districts. As a requirement for graduation, students work at least one summer at some phase of the mining industry. The operators of the nearby properties are exceedingly generous in providing this opportunity.
Recent changes in the course of study, ranks the Idaho School of Mines curricula with those of leading institutions. Thorough training is given in the underlying principles of engineering in the first two years. The geological option starts in the sophomore year, whereas the mining and metallurgical option begins in the senior year. With the specialized courses offered in the junior and senior years, is presented the manner in which the particular subject is being pursued in practice. Self-reliance and dependence on themselves, are impressed upon the budding engineers. Reports and library research are emphasized, and assignments and lectures are given, to encourage the student to dig out information.
The School of Mines, and the state at large, is especially fortunate in having as Dean, A. W. Fahrenwald. Mr. Fahrenwald needs no introduction. His work in ore dressing and flotation is known wherever mining properties are in operation. Under his direction, experimental work and research are being carried on continuously, with many contributions to our knowledge in the ore dressing field of metallurgy. All members of the School of Mines faculty are required to carry on research work in their respective fields.
The School of Mines offers one graduate fellowship in geology, and the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology offers three fellowships, one in geology, and two in metallurgy. In recent years, attention has been devoted to metallurgical investigations. Senior students, as a requirement for graduation, are assigned research problems in their respective fields. These assignments usually run through two semesters. The seniors attempt to work out the underlying principles of a problem in such a way that this foundation can later be used in research of an advanced character. Much of this undergraduate research has led to very interesting and valuable conclusions.
At present the following major research is being carried on: In the field of ball milling, the experiments on the relation of reduction in size to ball load, feed load, ball size, mill size (diameter and length), and power measurements, have brought to light some exceptionally interesting information. The results of this work are proving of real value to the milling industry. The second major problem was to determine the effect of fine grinding, and pulp dilution, on recovery, in the flotation process. Data on the effect of slimes and pulp dilution, indicate a possible explanation of some present mill problems.
Other flotation problems such as the flotation of oxidized lead-silver ores, manganese ores, nickel ores, copper ores, and gold ores have been studied. In the undergraduate field, students are investigating surface production, elutriation, and surface tension. With the problem of new surfaces produced in grinding, two methods are being pursued: The dissolution with hydrofluoric acid methods is being investigated, and the procedure of counting grains is receiving attention. The latter shows some very interesting results.
For elutriation tests, a very ingenious price of apparatus has been devised. With this elutriator, a large number of products can be obtained in a very short time. These products are obtained in a manner that permits quick and accurate weighing. The usual drawbacks of elutriation have been reduced to a minimum.
Through a co-operative arrangement between the university, the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology and the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a Bureau of Mines field office is located at Moscow. That their joint efforts are closely harmonized is shown by the results produced.
The metallurgical laboratories are exceptionally well equipped for research in ore dressing and flotation. New apparatus is being continually designed and installed, among which various sizes and types for sizing, classifying, screening, crushing, and concentrating are available. Variable speed laboratory ball mills of several types are at hand. One of these is completely mounted on ball bearings, and gives very accurate measurements on power consumption. A small rake classifier operates in closed circuit with one of the mills.
At the Idaho School of Mines, effort constantly is made to develop initiative and independent study. This makes for maximum interest and output in all school activities.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 7 15 1930
44 THE MINING JOURNAL
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The Mutual Mines Development Company has decided to install a 100-ton selective plant, equipped with a 300-ton crusher, at Gem, Idaho, according to Secretary Ben L. Collins, 312 Old National Bank Building, Spokane, Washington. Additional flotation units can be added as the development of the mine warrants. The ore body has been opened 140 feet, and contains 30 inches of clean shipping ore, with the remainder of good mill grade.
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A material increase in the ore reserves of the Sunshine Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, has been effected through the opening of ore on the 900 Level. Here, the vein is two feet of high-grade gray copper, believed to be the same oreshoot opened first on the 500-foot Level, later, on the 700-foot Level, and explored through a raise, to the 200-foot Level. On the lowest level, the showing is equally important with that on the other levels, and it gets promising on going deeper. C. C. Samuels is general manager.
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The Silver Tip Mining Company, A. J. Rasor, manager, 802 Mullan Avenue, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has let a contract for the construction of ore bins. The standard two-compartment shaft is going down on a seven-foot width of high-grade and milling ore.
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The Palisade Mining and Milling Company, T. W. Schmidt, president and general manager, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has taken supplies to its group of 16 mining claims, on the south slope of Mt. Baldy, at the head of the West Fork of Pine Creek, to do annual work. The Palisade is pioneering development in promising ground, but which is difficult to access, and consequently few prospectors have carried on systematic development. The claim owners are trying to get a road built to the foot of the mountain, so that they can take in supplies.
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The Square Deal Mining Company, Ltd., has granted an option on half of its capital stock, to the Golconda Lead Mines, inc. The Square Deal owns 10 claims adjoining the Golconda Mine on the East, and covering the extension of the Golconda Vein. No ore has been developed yet, but because of its relation to the Golconda, it is regarded as a valuable property.
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According to James S. Douglas of New York City, president of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, some repairs are being made in the machinery at the Golden Anchor Mine, at Warren, Idaho. Systematic development will follow the completion of these improvements. Jay A. Czizek is in charge of the mine.
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The long crosscut tunnel started last summer, by the Silver Summit Mining Company, W. J. Stratton, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has reached a length of 4,250 feet, and is about 150 feet from the Sunshine Vein. The work is being done under contract by William Stokes, who has two shifts working, and makes about 10 feet of new tunnel each day. This long bore was started on Rosebud Gulch, and driven 800 feet through the Nellie Mine, of the YakimaShoshone Mining Company, before it again cut into the Silver Summit property. The St. Germain Vein was not entered at the 8,200-foot point as was expected, but the Dyke Vein was cut at 8,710 feet, and was heavily mineralized. The tunnel is six by eight feet in the clear.
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The No. 3 Tunnel, of the Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling Company, C. A. Fay, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has reached the Golden Gate Vein to the north, and a drift is being run west on the ore. The vein carries a good showing of lead and zinc, and is 700 feet below an upper tunnel on the same vein. From the Golden Gate Drift, the Copper Queen Vein, still farther north, is to be diamond drilled. The Lookout Mountain Property comprises 40 unpatented claims, in the Yreka District, near Kellogg, a number of which are held under lease and option.
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A deposit of beryl has been opened by the Muscovite Mica Company, at Deary, Latah County, Idaho, according to R. L. Spiker of Lewiston. Some of the ore has been assayed, and runs as high as 10 percent beryllium. The crystals, which are six-sided in shape, range from very small, to nearly 10 inches, through the cross section. Plans are to engage a crew to start shipping to Los Angeles. Special rates have been obtained on mica to California, where it will be consumed in lighting fixtures, tires, roofing, and other commodities. The development is financed in Lewiston, and Kooskia, Idaho, and in Spokane, Washington. The officials are: Homer Lipps, president; W. A. Moss of Pullman, vice-president; William E. Parry, Box 116, Lewiston, secretary and manager, and Mr. Spiker, treasurer.
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The Triumph Development Company, near Hailey, Idaho, has suspended shipments, and has laid off 60 men. Thirty men are retained, and will block out the ore bodies in the lower levels, until such time as the price of silver improves.
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A concern, to be known as the Paris Mining and Milling Company, is being incorporated to operate mining property in Paris Canyon, near Paris, Idaho. Its capitalization is $500,000, divided into 50-cent shares. In one of the claims, a four-foot thickness of ore has been located, and dips at an angle of less than 45 degrees. New equipment will be purchased and installed, to facilitate development. The officers of the company are: F. P. Shepherd, president; C. L. Richard of Pocatello, vice-president; and F. Leslie Shepherd, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Richards is a geologist of considerable experience.
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The Indian Head Calcite Co. at Indian Head Mountain, 10 miles west of Weiser, Idaho, has opened a vein of calcite, from 4 to 20 feet thick, and is mining it as pure as 100 percent. For several months, a crew of six men have been driving tunnels, laying track, and are now ready for the installation of a compressor, crushers, grinders, and screens. Dr. Weiss, of Ontario, is president of the organization and W. P. Tonning, of Weiser, is vice-president. Headquarters are maintained in Weiser.
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During the three months ended April 30, 1930, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company realized a net income of $400, 145, before depreciation, depletion, and taxes, as compared with $288,781 in the preceding quarter, and $801,298 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The higher earnings during 1929 were attributed to the high prices of lead, and zinc, in the first three quarters of the year. The production for the period ended April 30, 1930, was 31,268 tons as compared with 27,019 tons in the preceding quarter, and 39,190 tons in the three months ended April 30, 1929. H. G. Washburn of Wallace, Idaho, is general manager of company activity in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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In behalf of the Dayrock Mining Company, Frank M. Rothrock, Exchange National Hank Building, Spokane, Washington, is said to have purchased the Black Cloud Property, including the old mill and water rights; the Sunshine Property, the Iowa Lode Claims, and the California Lode Claims, Nos. 8 to 16. All of these interests are located on Nine Mile Creek, in the Coeur d’Alenes, and the sum of $40,000 is reported to have figured in the deal.
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The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, president and general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is getting some good results from the exploration of its Pilot Property, near Mullan, taken over in the early part of the current year. A crosscut has been run to the vein, where bunches of galena ore were opened. The vein has been followed in a drift about 400 feet, and has shown improvement as development continued.
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The American Gold Corporation, Ltd., has been granted a permit by the California Corporation Commission to sell 200,000 shares of its capital stock. This organization came into being a few months ago, through the efforts of J. S. Tremayne, 720 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California, who acquired the Sunnyside, and Dewey, gold mines, in the Thunder Mountain District, in Valley County, Idaho. P. H. Butler of Joplin, Missouri, is vice-president and manager of operations.
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The Continental Standard Mining Company at Leadore, Idaho, has listed its stocks on the Salt Lake City Stock Exchange. The company is capitalized for 8,100,000 shares of $1 each, and has 400 stockholders, 2,888,361 shares of treasury stock, and $52,082 in the treasury. According to the report accompanying the listing, seven men are working, and it is estimated that 80,000 tons of silver-lead ore are blocked out. C. M. Sonoda, 519 Main Street, Seattle, Washington, is president of the organization, and Gordon McMillan is chief engineer at the mine.
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The Interstate Finance Corporation, H. H. Underhill, president, is said to have taken over the McCarty Mine, about 11 miles from Boise, Idaho, and the holdings of the Continental Mining Company, seven miles from Horseshoe Bend. The Interstate concern is as present, drilling for oil at Fayette, but will begin work on the mines at the earliest possible date, with a view to placing them on a production basis. Four known veins of gold-silver-lead ore cross the McCarty Mine.
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Development of the War Eagle Mine at Dixie, Idaho, of the Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, superintendent, has revealed almost two feet of a 14-foot vein, as being especially rich. The rich streak assays as high as 55 percent lead, and $10 in gold, to the ton. The War Eagle Group is made up of seven claims.
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John George’s concentrator, at the old Reed Level, of the Bunker Hill Property, at Wardner, Idaho, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of between $80,000, and $100,000. It had a capacity of 150 tons, and was completely rebuilt about a year ago. Mill feed had been supplied from various lessees in the upper workings.
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Development of the property of the Maybird Mining Company, J. L. Hunt, president, Kellogg, Idaho, has been resumed after a year’s idleness. A good showing of lead-silver-zinc ore has been opened in the No. 1 Tunnel, which is in 750 feet, and a drift from the No. 2 Tunnel, has followed the ore, 480 feet. The best showing, however, is a foot of ore of good grade, opened in the 100-foot incline shaft, sunk below the No. 2 Level. No pumping had been done during the last year, and the mine is full of water.
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The Dickens Consolidated Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, has opened two feet of commercial ore, in virgin ground, 50 feet south from the No. 6 Shaft Level. A crosscut has been run to the ore, and two drill holes have proven the vein to be 500 feet long, but it has not been determined whether or not the ore is a continuation of the vein at the No. 5 Level. No mining nor milling will be carried on, and an assessment of 1 cent a share, which will provide about $25,000, has been levied to pay indebtedness, keep a watchman, buy power for the pumps to keep the mine from flooding, and pay taxes. Although no assays have been made on the ore, it is said to carry higher copper values than have been found in other parts of the mine, and has some value in lead, and silver. Frank J. Wallace is in charge of the mine.
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The new ore opened on the 500 Level, by the Sunshine Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, general manager, and which is believed to be a part of the Yankee Boy Vein, has been explored more than 800 feet. The best showing has been opened lately, and carries 200 ounces silver in places two feet wide. It is probable that a similar condition will be found in the unexplored area of the Polaris Vein. In spite of the low price for silver, the company is operating at profit. The cost of producing silver during 1929, was a fraction over 20 cents an ounce, and will be reduced by improved and enlarged milling facilities, the new hoist, elimination of the vertical shaft, and consequent transfer of loads hoisted from below the 500 Level.
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The following officers and directors were elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, held recently at Wallace Idaho: Charles Bollinger, of Wallace, president; F. A. Butenschoer, of Portland, vice-president; L. W. Devenbach, of Wallace, secretary-treasurer; Peter Johnson, of Aberdeen, and J. V. Butenschorer, of Portland.
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The vein on the 800-foot Level, of the King of Pine Creek Mine, of the New Jersey Consolidated Mines Company, is improving in ore content, as development continues. A drift has been run between 60 and 70 feet on the footwall, and a crosscut run from there, to the hanging wall. The crosscut revealed stringers of ore, making a low-grade milling ore. Then the drift was continued another 50 feet, and again a crosscut run to the hanging wall. This crosscut also showed eight feet of ore, but of much improved grade of lead-silver, which is classed as good milling ore. Harry
P. Pearson of Wallace, Idaho, is superintendent of the mine.
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The Sonora Mining and Milling Company, George L. Richardson, secretary and manager, Box 412, Wallace, Idaho, has let a contract to crosscut 50 feet from the East Drift. Apparently the vein was lost in the drift, and it is believed that it will be reached by the crosscut, and at a depth of about 450 feet below the surface. The Sonora organization owns 12 claims in the Leland District, east of Burke. The western part of the property is said to be the richest ground, but funds are insufficient for its development at the present time.
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William Knoell, who, with members of his family, own the Leroy Group of 10 mining claims, in Daly Gulch, near Wallace, Idaho, has let a contract for 50 feet of development. About 500 feet of development has been done in the ground, and the new prospecting is on a showing, about 200 feet below the crosscut. Four veins cross the property.
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On behalf of the Inspiration Lead Company, W. J. Stratton of Wallace, Idaho, has made a payment of $5,000 to the Moe Mining Company, according to the terms of the bond under which the ground was purchased. The bond is for $50,000, of which $15,000 has been paid, and the balance is due in March, 1931. Considerable money has been spent in constructing buildings, equipment, and in sinking a 150-foot shaft. Two men are doing preliminary work, and keeping the property in good condition.
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The Silver Hills Mining Company, W. j. Burridge, president, 707 Utah Savings and Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has established a surface plant at its mines in Cassia County, Idaho, near Burley. The camp includes boarding and sleeping quarters, a 10,000-gallon tank, 1,700 feet of
pipeline, a blacksmith shop, compressor house, stables, a cellar, powder house, and other outbuildings. Development consists of about 400 feet of tunnel, driven to cut the main east-west fissure zone, at a depth of about 607 feet. On the surface, this fissure is 100 feet wide, and in a 170-foot shaft, 20 feet of milling ore have been developed.
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The production during May, of the Constitution Mining and Milling Company, at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, general manager, was 900 tons of concentrates, as compared with an output of 810 tons of concentrates, during April. During May 3,500 tons of ore were mined.
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MACKAY METALS MINE, IDAHO TMJ 8 15 1930
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Mackay Metals Responds to Development
By GAIL MARTIN, Salt Lake City, Utah. Nearly a million dollars has been spent in the last
two years on this property, placing it once more in the producing class.
Senator W. A. Clark is credited with saying that, a mine that could not stand mismanagement, was no mine at all. In this category certainly falls the Empire Copper Mine, now owned and operated by the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Custer County, Idaho, for during its 30 or more years of activity, the mine has suffered rather more mismanagement than most mines, yet it has produced around $12,000,000 in ore, and is generally credited with having paid a million, or a million and a half, in dividends. Under the development of the Mackay Metals Company, this mine, first known as the White Knob, then as the Empire Copper, and later as the Idaho Metals, has responded in a most gratifying manner, and a large tonnage of ore proved, reaching to a depth below the 1,000-foot level.
Two years ago, when the Mackay Metals Company acquired the Empire Copper Mine, the property was in bad shape. The ore had been gouged by lessees, and workings allowed to get in bad shape. Drilling on the lower levels struck ore, and systematic development soon put the mine on a steady production basis again. Direct shipping ore was sent to Salt Lake City for smelting, and milling ore was treated in the company’s flotation plant.
The copper deposits of the Mackay Metals Company are of the contact metamorphic type, and occur on a granite limestone contact, well within the main igneous mass. Engulfed blocks of limestone in the granite, seem to have controlled the center of mineralization. Most of the shoots occur 100 to 800 feet in the granite porphyry. No deposition of any importance occurs in the limestone. Garnet rock accompanies the important ore bodies. In the case of most of the ore bodies, garnet accompanies the ore, and is a dominant constituent. Ore bodies are invariably bordered and in many places completely surrounded by garnet rock.
No great amount of searching or luck were necessary to discover the White Knob Mine, so called because of the granite plug, like a giant doorknob, rises out of an evergreen forest. Its vein system forms a long, irregular tan splotch visible for miles, against a background of green and gray. Early mining started near the top of the mountain just below the granite knob, where high-grade oxidized copper ore was mined from glory holes. Tunnels run in the hillside invariably struck ore. So pronounced was this activity, that the surface was pitted with surface workings over an extent of several acres. In this area alone, the company estimates it has 2,000,000 tons of oxidized ores carrying 2 percent copper.
Tunnels, run in at intervals down the hillside to cut the mineral zone, proved the mineralization as intense, below the surface, as along the outcrop. One ore body was over 550 feet high, and had a floor space containing in its largest swells, from 1,500 to 8,000 square feet. Most of the stopes were circular or elliptical in plan. Some of these deposits produced hundreds of tons, and others thousands. During 1916, according to Weed’s Copper Handbook, the Empire Copper, or White Knob, produced 69,475 tons of ore, assaying 3.5 percent copper, $1 in gold, and 2 ounces in silver, to the ton. Values for 1915 averaged 4.35 percent copper, $1.15 in gold to the ton, and 2.25 ounces silver. During 1913, values of the ore ran 5 percent copper, $1.10 in gold and 2.5 ounces of silver to the ton.
Two years ago, the mine passed into the hands of A. J. Anderson, Vancouver millionaire; W. E. Narkaus, British Columbia mining man, and Chase Clark, Mackay attorney. Nearly a million dollars were expended in acquiring the property and putting it in shape. Development was started on the 1,000-foot level, where eight large shoots have been opened up. Of these, the 1,056, 1,057 and 1,008 are the largest. The 1,056 on the 1,000, has dimensions of 80 by
65 feet, on the stope floor. Above the level, 20,000 tons of 3.25 percent copper with appreciable values in gold and silver have been produced.
A crosscut east exposed a body of 5 percent copper ore, 20 by 40 feet. A winze sunk on this shoot indicates that the ore is going strong to depth. Eighty feet northeast of the 1,006, the 1,057 has been opened for 80 feet, on its strike, and 50 feet wide. North of 1,056 is another large body of 4 percent copper. Of the total vein length but a fraction has been developed, foreshadowing a production of many years for the mine.
Main operations of the company, aside from shipments of lessees, are centered on advancing the Cossack Tunnel, to a point where a raise will be put up, and a shaft sunk, to make a connection between this lowest adit, cutting the formation at a vertical depth of 1,600 feet, and the upper ore bodies. Already, some mineralization is beginning to appear in the formation, and within a few weeks, raising and sinking should be begun. Officials of the company have great hopes of this development. Operating costs cannot only be reduced at least one dollar a ton, but opening up on this 1,600 level, of the ore bodies exposed on the 1,000, will double the life of the mine, as well as indicate wonderful possibilities in virgin ground along the strike of the contact.
The company has a large compressor plant at the mouth of the Cossack Tunnel. A three-mile aerial tramway connects the upper levels of the mine and mill on the railroad siding. The flotation plant, which turns out a 22 percent copper product, with a pIus 90 percent recovery, has a capacity of 225 tons. During 1929, according to the company’s annual report, the Mackay Metals Company produced a total of 66,578 tons of dry ore. Concentrate and crude ore totaled 20,060 tons, from which were derived 2,959,808 pounds of copper with a value of $420,009.42. Gold values amounted to $46,181.88, and silver 61,990 ounces, or $81,882.98. Total receipts amounted to $497, 974.24.
Recently the board of directors of the Mackay Metals Company was reorganized, and W. A. Hayes of Los Angeles, a large stockholder, was made president of the company. Mr. Hayes is owner of the Sylvania Mine (Lida/Palmetto/Tule Canyon area), near Goldfield, Nevada, and is a mining man of many years’ experience in British Columbia, Idaho, Nevada, and California. A. J. Anderson continues as vice-president, and W. E. Narkaus becomes secretary-treasurer.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1930
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The only July dividend reported by mining companies operating in the State of Idaho, was paid by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg. The company paid the regular monthly, and extra dividend, of 50 cents a share, amounting to $163,500, and paid $1.50 a share, or $16,485, on its preferred stock. The payment on the preferred stock is a quarterly disbursement.
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During August, the Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, expects to have the hoist ready to start sinking the main shaft, 600 feet below the 1,300 Level. No station will be cut, until the 1,700-foot level is reached. Six shaft men and two engineers will carry on the work, and it is estimated that it will cost $43 a foot. The formation at the 1,800-foot level is Wallace, with some Revett, and St. Regis, coming through from below.
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The Cossack Tunnel of the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, J. Ray Weber, general superintendent, has reached the 6,000-foot point, and is nearing a point where a raise will be started, to meet a winze to be sunk from the level 600 feet above. This tunnel, when completed, will result in considerable economy. Last year, this mine yielded 20,000 tons of crude and concentrated copper ore, from a granite limestone contact, that were valued at $497,000 at the smelter.
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After four months’ suspension of milling, Golconda Lead Mines, lnc., William Beaudry, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, started milling during one shift a day, to clean up the ore that has accumulated from extensive underground work. Unless the market improves, no concentrates will he shipped until the storage capacity for 300 tons of lead concentrates, and for 200 tons of zinc concentrates, is completely utilized. Plans have been made to double the capacity of the mill to 400 tons daily. Believing that such an increase would be necessary, the management installed coarse crushing machinery able to handle 600 tons of ore daily, and can now double the capacity, by the installation of another ball mill for fine grinding, and duplicating the present battery of flotation cells. Such an enlargement can be made without interfering with regular operations.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. C. Washburn, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has nearly completed the installation of a 500-ton crusher at its Page Mill. The capacity of the flotation machinery in this mill, is 800 tons daily, and, while official confirmation is lacking, it is probable that the Federal organization intends to make additions which will bring the capacity of the plant up to 500 tons daily. Last year, the Page Mine, formerly known as the Corrigan, made a net profit of $272,883, and has large reserves of ore.
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A Worthington centrifugal electric pump, with a rated capacity of 300 gallons daily, has been installed on the 800 Level of the King of Pine Creek Mine, of the New Jersey Consolidated Mines Company. Development has been suspended at this mine, and only two men are working. They are pumping water and keeping the surface plant in good condition so that everything will be ready for work on short notice. A good showing of lead-silver-zinc has been developed in the West Drift on the 800 Level, and plans are being made to start work there as soon as possible. Harry P. Pearson of Wallace, Idaho, is superintendent.
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According to John R. Turner, the new manager for the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, some changes will be made in the mill because with the present arrangement, it is impossible to make any profit. The plant is idle now, but when in operation, the concentrates are hauled under contract by truck four and one-half miles, at a cost of $1.50 per ton; carried over a logging railroad, 13 miles to Prichard, there connecting with the Union Pacific Railroad, at another $1.50 per ton expense; plus $20 a day for the engine used, and another charge for the upkeep of the tracks. The plant was originally built as a leaser’s mill, with jigs and tables, and has been added to from time to time, until at present, it can treat 125 tons of ore daily, and is equipped with flotation machinery. Estimates are being prepared for remodeling the camp, and providing a better method of mining, and handling the ore.
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The Eagle Coal Company of Red Lodge, Montana, is understood to be getting ready to wash gravel along the Salmon River, near Shoup, Idaho, under the direction of L. W. Bick. The company has rights on the bars on both sides of the river, for more than a mile, and has installed new machinery to carry out the old method of placer recovery, which has given satisfactory results from tests. Grlzzlies, vibrating screens, and riffles, will be used, and no quicksilver will be necessary in the recovery.
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The Federal Mining and, Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has lowered its shaft in the Morning Mine, below the 3,850 Level, and is getting ready to crosscut the ore, which has already been located by diamond drilling, on this level. This shaft is really 3,050 feet deep, as it is sunk from the No. 6 Level, 800 feet below the surface. The 8,850 Level is 5,300 feet below the apex of the vein. Full stoping is being carried on, on the lower levels of the mine, principally on the 2,850, 3,050 and 3,250 levels, while less ore is being stoped on the 3,450 level.
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John George, principal owner of a mill recently burned at the Reed Level, of the Bunker Hill Property at Wardner, Idaho, intends to rebuild. He is consulting Cy Garber, mill superintendent at the Hall Interstate Property, in the Deadwood Basin, regarding the building of a 150-ton concentrator, to be built in two units. The first unit will be a modern flotation mill to treat the sulphide ores, while the second unit will be specially equipped with tables and other accessories, to mill the carbonate ores.
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It is understood that the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., Judge A. H. Featherstone, president, Wallace, Idaho, has started work in its recently acquired Square Deal Property, adjoining the Golconda on the east, although it has until January 1 of next year to begin work. Believing that best results can be accomplished by drifting from the 1,400-foot Level of the Golconda, it has undertaken the task, and hopes to locate the ore that was cut off by a fault, after being followed 800 feet. W. A. Beaudry of Wallace is vice-president and general manager.
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The Whitedelf Mining Company at Clark Fork, Idaho, Compton I. White, is operating on a three shift basis, and producing a carload of concentrate a week. The product contains 69 percent lead, and 55 ounces silver to the ton. Ore is being mined from the Meredith Stope, 650 feet deep, and is showing a decided increase in lead values.
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The Granada Lead Mines, Inc., Ross L. Roundy, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has driven its new tunnel in the Hunter District about 200 feet, and the entire face is in a mineralized formation. Specks of galena ore are being encountered, indicating its proximity to an ore vein.
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Harold Hovey and Bill Swigart, a mail contractor, are developing a gold-silver prospect, located near Parker Mountain, Custer County, between Challis, and the old gold producing camps of Custer and Bonanza. The discovery was made last fall, when Hovey and Swigart were hunting, and is in a rugged region from which all of the ore and supplies will have to be packed, or hauled on wagons. They have taken out 1,100 pounds from grass roots that netted them $851 after payment of all costs, and have some ore that is said to assay 100 ounces gold, and 250 ounces silver.
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As a result of its failure to comply with terms, the option held by the Western Mines Company, to purchase the Belle of the West Property, on the West fork of Nine Mile Creek, has been forfeited. The announcement was made by George B. Trask, Postoffice Building, Wallace, Idaho, owner of the Belle of the West ground. A new concern, the Silver Cloud Mines, Inc., has taken an option on the ground and has eight men at work on development. A part of the stock in the new company has been set aside so that the Western Mines Company can exchange its stock, and a part of it will be sold to finance development. The ground is opened to a depth of 250 feet, including a vertical three-compartment shaft, sunk 90 feet below the main tunnel. Plans are to continue this shaft to the 200-foot point and crosscut to the vein. Accommodations at camp are far ahead of present requirements, and can take care of 60 men. Steam heat, hot and cold water, and shower baths are provided; the compressor is driven by electricity. F. A. Woods and Henry F. Conover, both of Waitsburg, Washington, are president and secretary, respectively. An operating office will be maintained at Wallace.
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Following two years’ idleness, the Hilarity Lead-Silver Mining Company, J. A. Glowe, president, Mullan, Idaho, has cleaned up all indebtedness, and outlined plans for further development. An assessment of 5 cents a share has been levied to provide funds to carry on the work. A large deposit of low-grade lead-silver-zinc ore has been opened in the main tunnel, and in a crosscut at the 200-foot point of a shaft, sunk from the tunnel level. Electric power is available for development. The directors of the company are: S. G. Garrett of Wallace, and John E. Sherrard, Albert Peterson, and C. W. Ingram of Mullan, Idaho.
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For several weeks, Ed. Booth and Wilham Sites have been rehabilitating the property of the Sunrise Mining Company, Ltd., comprising 11 mining claims, adjoining the Sunset Mine, in the Beaver District of Shoshone County, three miles north of Burke, Idaho. Upon completion of this work, C. Fred Merriam of Wallace is to examine the ground. Financial arrangements have been made to carry on considerable development, pending a favorable report. C. Fred Kratzer, 215 Waverly Place, Spokane, Washington, is general manager of the company.
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BUNKER HILL DUMPS TAILING IN RIVER, WINS LAWSUIT 8 30 1930
for AUGUST 30, 1930
S. F. COURT AWARDS DECISION IN FAVOR OF MINING COMPANIES
On June 16, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, dismissed the case of Christ Lauma, against the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, and the Hecla Mining Company, for alleged damages to his land, in the valley along the Coeur d’Alene River. Lauma claimed $13,500 damages.
The mining companies won a decision over Lauma, last November, in the United States District Court at Coeur d’Alene, on the ground that they bought the land from a party, named Brown, who had granted them an easement relieving them from any claim for damages. As a result of tailings deposited in the river. C. W. Beale of Wallace, Idaho, attorney for the Coeur d’Alene Mine Owners’ Association, handled the defense for the mining companies.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
IDAHO
The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, Superintendent, is installing a 50-ton concentrating plant, and a 300-ton generating plant, on the War Eagle Property, near Dixie, Idaho. A 1,200-foot 4x4 flume has been built, and a lOxlOxl6 penstock, and 8x8x16 pressure tank, have been set up for a Samson Turbine, which will generate 300 horsepower. The electric equipment will also include seven motors of from 25 to 100 horsepower. A 20-horsepower motor is now being used to operate a No. 4 Buckeye Sawmill. As soon as the 10-mile wagon road to Dixie, which is now under construction, is completed, machinery will be hauled in.
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Hope Mining Company is planning to build a flotation plant on its territory, near Clark Fork, Idaho. Work will be in charge of A. K. Wintereck. High-grade ore has been shipped from this property for the past two years, and it is said that more than 150,000 tons of mill ore have been developed.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General manager, Wallace, Idaho, has sunk its shaft in the Morning Mine, 150 feet below the 3,650 Level, and is getting ready to cut the station, skip pockets, etc., on the 3,650 Level. The shaft is 2,900 feet deep below the 800 Level, or No. 6 Tunnel Level, from which it starts. The No. 6 Tunnel Level is 2,370 feet below the apex of the vein. Stoping is being done on the lower levels of the mine, principally the 2,850, 3,050, and 3,250 levels, and development work has been started on the 3,450 level. The Page Mine is in regular operation.
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Idaho-Montana Mining and Oil Company, E. W. Conrad, Wallace, Idaho, President, has resumed operations, which were suspended during a survey of the property. Work is now being concentrated on the west side of the creek, in the West drift, where copper carbonates, siderite, and some talc are showing. A crosscut is being driven to determine the width of the vein.
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Operations are said to have been resumed on a three-shift basis, by the Jack Waite Mining Company, John H. Turner, manager, Wallace, Idaho, and two carloads of ore are being shipped every three or four days. New stopes are being opened to replace old ones nearly depleted, and 60 men are employed. On August 18, operating and reorganizing plans were presented to the stockholders at a special meeting in Wallace. This property is now controlled by the Duthie interests of Seattle, Washington; Mike Savage and H. J. Rossi, formerly in control, having resigned.
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Explosion of a gasoline stove caused complete destruction of a three-room building, used as an office and as living quarters by H. L. Kauffman and his niece, the former of whom, is manager of the Homestake Mines Corporation, operating near Hailey, Idaho. Personal damage was estimated at $2,000, while loss to the company was said to be $1,500. Construction of another building is now under way. It is said that good ore has been encountered in the tunnel of the Homestake property.
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The Mackay Leasing Company has let the third 100-foot sectional contract to Mike Hemovitch, for driving the Cossack Tunnel into the ore zone on the 1,600-foot Level. The tunnel is being advanced at the rate of 100 feet per month, and the present face shows lenses of oxide copper ore. The Mackay Company has a two-year lease on the Cossack Level.
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The Goldstone Mines Corporation, Andrew Prader, General manager, Baker, Idaho, has remodeled its mill, formerly equipped with 10 stamps, plates, and two Wilfley tables, and has installed a 100-ton ball mill. The plates are to be retained, but the tables will be discarded. The company’s new hydroelectric plant is driven by a 42-inch Pelton water motor, using Pratt Creek water, brought through a 3,800-foot pipe line, on a 600-foot head, belted to a 250-k.w. generator. After the current is stepped up from 440 to 11,000 volts it is wired to the mine, where it is transformed to the voltage required in running compressor, quartz mill, and all other machinery, as well as lighting camp, and mine. A. J. Theis of Spokane, Washington, is president of the company. James Johnson is mine superintendent, and William R. McCulloch, and Frank Perry, are in charge of the power plant.
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On June 30, 1930, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company reported a quarterly profit of $689,780. Profit totaled $1,362,517 for six months ended June 30.
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The Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Company, L. O. Tollefson, 343 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington, President, has acquired the Sanwood group of 23 claims, adjoining its present property, about five miles north of Wallace, Idaho. The Sanwood is a combination of the Glenwood, and San Juan groups. Miss A. M. Hoffstater, a Director of the company, is assisting in financing this property.
According to E. G. Gnaedinger, mining engineer of Wallace, previous development consists of several small tunnels, three of which have been driven near a fault plane, and a long major crosscut tunnel, which starts at the best location for permanent development, camp site, and surface plant. He recommends that the latter tunnel be continued for at least one-half mile, to intersect the entire mineral zone. A depth of 1,100 feet, has already been attained, and this work is expected to go 600 feet deeper. A sufficient supply of timber and water is available.
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President Walter H. Hanson has notified stockholders that the Coeur d’Alene Lead Company will be dis-incorporated, and its assets distributed pro rata, among its stockholders, as soon as litigation between the controlling interests and W. Earl Greenough, Manager of the Atlas Mine, is settled. The assets consist of shares of Atlas Mines, Ltd.
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George W. Roddewig, mining engineer, 602 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, formerly with the Clark interests of Montana, has advised the Independence Lead Mines Company to drift eastward on its ore body, near Mullan, Idaho. The ore showing in the winze below No. 5 Tunnel, is said to be increasing in size and values. H. B. Kingsbury, of Wallace, is General manager of the Independence Lead Mine.
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The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, S. A. Easton, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has practically completed the 500-foot raise, from the Hooper Tunnel, to the upper levels of the Crescent Mine, on Big Creek. One shift is now operating the 150-ton Crescent Mill six days each week. It is expected that the new vein, cut late in 1929 in the old mine above Wardner, will soon be entered on the lower levels. The August dividend of 50 cents per share brings the grand total to $47,221,563.
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The Decker Development Company, which has held a lease on the property of the Stewart Silver-Lead Company at Kellogg, Idaho, recently acquired ownership of the property at a sheriff’s sale. No explanation has been given for the Stewart Company permitting its title to lapse on this mine, which formerly paid $2,000,000 in dividends. George Decker, and Elmer Brown, of Kellogg, control the Decker Company. It is expected that the property will now be developed more intensively.
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Ending two years of litigation, the State Supreme Court has placed the Lead Cliff Mining Company, in possession of the Two Tails Mine, east of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, which was claimed by C. L. Wickstrom. The Lead Consolidated Mining Company, successor to the Lead Cliff, will now proceed with operations. The property is held under a long-term lease from the Idaho Silver-Lead Company, the owner. H. L. Poston is in charge of the Two Tails property.
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L. L. Boyer of Sandpoint, Idaho, representing Boyer Mines, Inc., recently examined the Lucky Seven Group, adjoining the Syringa Prospect, northwest of that town. If this property is accepted, it may be financed by Explorers Prospecting Company, which is preparing to resume diamond drilling of the Boyer property.
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The Caribou Mining Company at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has purchased pipe and machinery, and is getting ready to enter the list of producers. With the exception of the president, no change was effected in the official roster of the company at the recent meeting of the organization. The officers are: Frank Reed, who succeeds C. H. Scott, as President; Dr. B. A. Loveless, Vice-president; Charles O. Sowder, Secretary, and John Boothe, Treasurer.
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The Great Western Copper Company, Jackson C. Hill, superintendent Hayden Lake, Idaho, intends to install a compressor, and pumping machinery, to combat a flow of water in the shaft, and which is fast increasing in volume. Some high-grade silver-lead ore has been struck in the shaft, which has been sunk 42 feet below the tunnel. Its collar is about 165 feet below the surface, as the 200-foot tunnel gained considerable depth in its progress.
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The 425-ton flotation mill, of the Sunshine Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, is in continuous operation on a three-shift basis, and the ore in the mine is maintaining its persistence. The new hoist is in operation, and is working direct, through the incline shaft from the lowest, to the main haulage tunnel, thereby eliminating the necessity of transferring on the 500 Level, from the incline, to the vertical shaft. This feature, it is estimated, will cut the cost of producing silver, from 20 to 18 cents an ounce. C. C. Samuels is General manager.
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CANADIANS BUY PHOSPHATE MINE IN IDAHO TMJ 10 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
CANADIAN COMPANY TAKES OVER PHOSPHATE MINES IN IDAHO
Idaho’s phosphate mining industry will receive an impetus of considerable force, from the operation being started in Bloomington Canyon, south of Paris, by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, of Trail, British Columbia.
According to B. B. Shelledy, and J. E. Miller, representatives of the smelting company, who are now on the ground, they will develop phosphate claims, lying a mile south of the Mcllwee Mine, in Paris Canyon.
The company expects to make shipments next spring, of 100 tons a day. The phosphate rock will be shipped as mined, without crushing or drying, to the new ten million dollar plant now being erected by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. There it will be made into treble super-phosphate fertilizer.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
IDAHO
The suit filed by the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, against the Boise Fayette Lumber Company, on June 25, 1929, recently came before the District Court of Judge Dana Brinck. The mining company is operating a gold dredge on Grimes Creek, above Centerviile, Idaho, and claims that oil from chutes and skids of the lumber company, settled into the water of the creek, and mixed with the placer ground, prohibiting the recovery of the gold. The Morning Star and Dessie D placer claims were those injured by the grease, and the complaint further states that the loss to the mining company is $398,369.45. The plaintiff also asks for $45,387.80 for depreciation, which brings the entire damages to more than $400,000. S. K. Atkinson, 615 First National Bank Building, Boise, is president of the mining company.
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It is understood that A. J. Koebel,of Spokane, will resume diamond drilling at the Boyer Mine, in the vicinity of Sandpoint, Idaho, as soon as he can move his equipment from its present location in Stevens County, Washington.
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T. M. Thompson, of Spokane, and associates, have taken an option on the property of the Wolverine Mining Company, Ltd., on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, and intend to start exploration by November 15. Ore has been found at intervals along 700 feet on the 500-foot Level, and J. M. Porter, and C. A. Fay, mining engineers, who have examined the ground, expect an improvement within 200 feet on this level. Thompson plans to do further work on this level, and, encouraged by a strike of five feet of gray copper in the Crescent Mine, about a year ago, will sink 300 feet lower. A compressor and hoist, both driven by electricity, are at the mine.
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H. C. Stapleton, of Wallace, Idaho, will resume development of the Terrible Edith Mine, owned by the Pontiac Mining Company, about the first of November. He is particularly interested in continuing a crosscut from a drift, from the 850-foot Level of the raise above the Main, or No. 4, Tunnel. This crosscut was started to prove whether the vein on the No. 3 Level is the same vein as yielded a large tonnage of ore at the No. 4 Level, and should reach its objective in another 40 feet. The raise from the No. 4 Level is up more than 400 feet, and will be continued farther.
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Fred Cunningham and associates, have started a drift in the Shamrock Group of mines, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, that will gain a depth of nearly 1,000 feet, on a 22-foot surface cropping of lead and silver. Work is to be continued through the winter.
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A meeting of the stockholders of the Delaware Mines Corporation was held at the old boarding house at the Rex Mine, on October 20, to consider refinancing the development of the ground. Close to $140,000 has been spent in the development, and a comparatively small amount of money is required to bring the mine to production. Matt Baumgartner, 823 Lindelle Block, Spokane, Washington, is President of the company, and F. C. Bailey, Box 292, Wallace, Idaho, is General Manager of the mine.
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Eighteen inches of lead-silver ore have been opened in a 100-foot raise, above the main tunnel level of the Teddy Mining and Milling Company, east of Kellogg, Idaho. The ore is similar to that on the upper level, and is getting wider as the drift continues. L. D. Hudson, E419 Sprague Avenue, Spokane, Washington, is General Manager of the organization.
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According to Frank B. Johnesse, 628 First National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho; President of the Consolidated Mines Syndicate, a 50-ton reduction plant will be built at the Princess property, northeast of Fairfield, in the near future. Both the Princess, and the Revenue property, in the Volcano District, are under development.
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The Commodore Gold Mining Company, William C. McNutt, President and General Manager, Lewiston, Idaho, is nearing the point where it will erect a testing plant of between 30 and 60 tons’ daily capacity, in the vicinity of Elk City. For several months they have been testing the ground with steam shovels.
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The K. C. Mining Company, owned and operated by K. C. Glancy, and J. E. Blackburn, of Nampa, Idaho, is raising on a vein of high-grade gold ore, and has made two shipments to the United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company, at Midvale, Utah. The low grade is being binned. Next spring, a 700-foot crosscut will be run for the purpose of cutting three promising surface showings at depth. The camp includes a timber shed, 30x80 feet; a blacksmith shop, three bunkhouses, and an ore bin. Among the constructive improvements planned for next spring, is a mill, which can handle the lower grade ores.
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Following some litigation, control of the Perseverance Mine, in the Little Smoky District, Camas County, Idaho, passed from George R. Colvin, of Boise, Idaho, to a new board of directors, including: Oscar B. Anderson, of Boise, President and General Manager; J. H. MacCoy, of Spokane, Vice-president; Isobel H. Wood, of Spokane, Secretary-Treasurer; A. C. Gaffney, of Missoula, Montana; E. Claude McCoy, of Rosalia, Washington; A. P. Larson, and Walter E. Parker, both of Spokane. This action was brought on the part of the stockholders, alleging that Colvin, who owned 51 per cent of the stock, was receiving a salary of $250 a month, plus expenses, and his wife, as vice-president, was also on salary.
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The long tunnel of Stratton Silver Summit, Inc., has reached a length of 4,716 feet, according to Manager W. J. Stratton of Wallace, Idaho. The bore is 6x8 feet in the clear. A drift is being advanced toward the west, and is out 850 feet. Harry P. Pearson is Superintendent of the work.
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It is understood that the Silver Cliff Gold and Copper Mining Company, Ltd., has received applications for the lease of a part of its property, and has taken the matter under advisement. The following officers and directors have been elected:
Roy Ream, of Dayton, Washington, President;
Henry Volkman, Sr., of Wallace, Vice-president and Treasurer;
Ed C. Young, of Wallace, Secretary and Manager;
Floyd L. Redmond, of Springston,
and Albert Harting, of Dayton.
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The Mutual Mines Development Company has doubled its crew at Gem, Idaho, in order to have the mill ready for operation by November 1. The building is 28x90 feet, and will house the flotation cells, dryers, cleaners, filter, and storage bins for the concentrates. Initial capacitywill be 100 tons daily, but with the addition of flotation cells, can be doubled. Russel F., and Ben Collins, and Harley Little, of Spokane, control the organization, and have spent about $186,000 in developing the mine, to the point where it justified a milling plant. Vice-president Russell F. Collins, is located temporarily at 811 Powell Building, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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B. S. Dailey, of Seattle, and associates, are said to have purchased a group of mining claims in the vicinity of Golden, Idaho, from F. O. Miller, of Clarkston, Washington, and his son. Dailey and his associates plan to spend about $25,000 in development.
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In line with its program outlined early in the summer, Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., William Beaudry, Managing Director, Wallace, Idaho, is installing a compressor three times larger than the one they have been using. The old one will be used when necessary also. The 200-ton mill has worked intermittently since it resumed work five or six weeks ago, with four carloads of lead concentrate, and three of zinc concentrate, recovered from its operation. The three-compartment shaft is being sunk from the 1,600-foot Level, and early in November, they expect to be to the 1,800-foot point, and doing lateral development there.
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According to General Manager W. Earl Greenough, the first shipment of ore, made to the Gold Hunter Mill, at Mullan, Idaho, by the Atlas Mining Company, netted more than $80 a ton. It included 44.2 dry tons of ore that assayed 16.4 ounces silver and 44.7 percent lead to the ton. About 140 feet of the East Drift, from the discovery crosscut, are in ore and the West Drift, which is out 150 feet, is opening up some ore that may develop to be a commercial deposit.
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Weiser, Idaho, men have organized the Long Tom Mining Company to operate the West Goodenough, and the Hyatt Group of gold mining claims, in the Marshall Lake District, in Idaho County, Idaho. Already, they are building bunkhouses, and other buildings, and are driving a tunnel in each of the mines. Supplies for the winter are being hauled from Weiser, in two trucks.
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The Caribou Mining Company, Frank Reed, President, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has opened some ore that is estimated to run from $35 to $50 a ton. The vein has been proven 12 feet, and may be wider between walls.
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Contractor H. A. Hansen has driven the Long Tunnel, about 1,000 feet, in the Rainbow Mining and Milling Company’s property, eight miles southeast of Medimont, Idaho. In another 1,500 feet, they expect to reach the ore located by diamond drilling. Three holes were driven; one passing through 38 feet of ore, and another through from 8 to 10 feet of mill grade. During the past few months the management has spent nearly $9,000 in securing patents, $10,000 in diamond drilling, built three miles of road, a small camp, and added some machinery, rails, and ventilation pipe for the 2,500-foot tunnel. George Austin, 301 Mohawk Building, Spokane, is President.
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A resumption of activity of the Gem State Mining Company is planned, according to President and General Manager James M. Porter, mining engineer, 720 Peyton Building, Spokane. This property is 8 patented, and 12 unpatented mining claims, in the Hunter District, near Wallace, opened by six tunnels, the longest of which is the No. 4, at 1,878 feet. Lead, silver, and zinc, are the principal metals.
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A. H. Dahle of Sheridan, Montana, mining engineer, and associates in Utah and in California, have taken over the Lamoreaux Group of auriferous quartz claims, on Hughes Creek, near Gibbonsville, Idaho. They have engaged a small crew in developing a promising vein. One other gold-bearing property in the Gibbonsville District, is preparing to reopen, and plans are afoot to erect a flotation mill in that camp. Gibbonsville has a production record exceeding $2,000,000 in gold bullion; but below the oxidized zone, the ore bodies became too refractory for the treatment methods employed. The camp has been idle during the past quarter.
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Development has been speeded up materially since Granada Lead Mines, Inc., hooked up its compressor with the power lines of the Washington Water Power Company. The connection required only 1,000 feet of line. The crosscut tunnel was started about 2,000 feet from the railroad and highway, and is in 315 feet. In another 170 feet, it is expected to enter the Granada Vein, which is a mass of oxidized iron at the surface. Another shift may be added. Ross L. Roundy, of Wallace, Idaho, is General Manager.
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The Washington Water Power Company has delivered three transformers, each weighing 5,000 pounds, to the property of the Jack Waite Mining Company, near Wallace, Idaho. They will be used to supply additional electric power, and men are replacing the light, with heavy, copper wire. The old 130-ton mill is working, and construction of the new mill, and of the railroad between the mine and the junction of Eagle and Tributary Creeks, are being rushed. J. R. Turner, of Wallace, is Manager of the property.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 15 1930
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IDAHO
The only dividend reported as paid by mining companies within the State of Idaho, during October, was that of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company. The sum of $11,485 was paid on its preferred stock, and $163,500, representing its regular monthly and extra dividend, was paid on the common stock.
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The incline shaft of the Sunshine Mining Company, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, Manager, is down approximately 150 feet below the 1,300-foot Level. As soon as it reaches the 1,700-foot Level, crosscuts will be run from both the 1,500 and the 1,700. Revett formation is expected to be permanently established at the 1,700 Level.
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Twenty-two inches of high-grade lead-silver ore have been opened in the View Point Mine, on Spring Creek, near Clarksfork, Idaho, owned by E. Becker, H. Vogel, and Chris Leyendecker. The strike was made at a depth of about 70 feet. At the surface, ore has been traced across a width of 45 feet.
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The Solar Development Company, Ltd., subsidiary of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, of Trail, British Columbia, has started the development of the Star Group of phosphate claims, in Bloomington Canyon, near Paris, Idaho. R. B. Shelledy, of Spokane, has arrived at Paris to take charge of the work, and was accompanied by J. A. Miller, of Vancouver, who will act as foreman. The raw product will be shipped to Trail, and distributed after treatment there. Shelledy expects to use 25 men on this project.
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An application has been made to dissolve the Wilbur Mining Company, Ltd., by A. T. Jenkins, H. H. Miller, H. S. Steuart, W. A. Devan, and Harry W. Marsh, Directors. The Wilbur property consisted of 19 mining claims in the Evolution District, and it is understood that it has been merged with the Western Union Mining Company’s property, adjoining. Harry L. Day of Wallace, Idaho, is President and General Manager of the Western.
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The ore body opened recently in the Sullivan section, of the property of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, near Kellogg, Idaho, has been opened on the Kellogg, or No. 9 Level.
On the No. 6 Level, 700 feet above, the ore was a 15-foot width of silver-lead milling ore of good grade, and the same is true of the ore at the lower level. Effort is being made to reach this vein on the No. 17 Level, 1,600 feet below the Kellogg Tunnel.
Bunker Hill and Sullivan has purchased the first new ball-bearing grinding machine that has been developed by the United States Bureau of Mines at the Idaho Station, and is using it in sampling its Hall-Interstate Mine in southern Idaho.
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The Idaho Dredging Company has taken over 240 acres of gold-bearing property in the Pierce District, about 20 miles east of Orofino, Idaho, from J. B. Crawford, on a royalty basis. Tests have been made to determine the amount of water necessary to operate, the size of screen necessary, and the rate of feeding. It is estimated that there are 2,500,000 cubic yards of gravel, averaging $1.17 a cubic yard, available.
Plans are to install about $25,000 worth of machinery, including a steam shovel, and a gold-saving machine, each able to handle 700 cubic yards of material in eight hours. After the machinery is installed, only four men will be required to carry on capacity operations during each shift.
The officers are: W. S. Delaney, President; R. A. O’Connell, Secretary; and C. A. Ballinger, Engineer, all of Marshall, Minnesota. Their offices are at Orofino.
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The Cal-Idaho Mining Company, Thomas Berry, Superintendent, has completed seven and one-half miles of ditch and flume, from Kirks Fork, to Gold Hill, near Elk City, Idaho. An open cut through which to run tailings to the Red River, and give the operations a fall of water necessary to operate, remains to be constructed. Capacity will be between 7,000 and 10,000 cubic yards daily. Already approximately $60,000 has been spent in getting ready to work the placers. The Cal-Idaho company is made up of Huntington Beach, California, men.
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Several tons of beryl, from the deposit of the Muscovite Mica Company, eight miles north of Deary, Idaho, have been sacked for shipment. The ore assays 10 percent beryllium oxide. A. H. Bentz, 2718 College Avenue, Spokane, is General Manager.
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Damages to the extent of $100,000 were awarded the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, in its suit against the Boise-Fayette Lumber Company. This is only about a fourth of the damages asked. The alleged damages to the mining company resulted from the oil and grease from the sawmill, getting into the water, and mixing with the placer ground, thus prohibiting the recovery of the gold. An appeal is almost certain.
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According to General Manager Coleman Frazier, of Burke, Idaho, rather extensive construction and development, is scheduled by the Blue Ribbon Mining Company. New and larger mine buildings will be erected, an electric light plant to supply both the camp and mine, water power, a five-mile telephone line to connect with the lines at Burke, and a mile of road for the transportation of machinery and general hauling. About 800 feet of crosscut tunnel, 4x6 ½ feet in the clear, have been completed, and it is proposed to drive a 8,000-foot tunnel, to tap the vein at greater depth. This would add 400 feet of stoping ground. Irwin Enos, 2208 West Second Street, Spokane, Washington, is President.
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The Ima Mines Corporation, W. P. Barton, Manager, May, Idaho, will erect additional housing facilities for its men, and build a new shop. Drifting at the 700-foot Level has been making good progress, and will require a length of nearly 1,500 feet.
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Ore bins will be set up at the Lone Butte Mine, operated under the management of S. R. Reynolds, of Kootenai, Idaho, and the road from the mine to the main highway graveled. A compressor house has been built, and a compressor installed. The lower tunnel is being continued to the main ore body.
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The Paris Mining and Milling Company, a comparatively new concern, has worked steadily [during] the past three months sinking a prospect shaft, three miles up Paris Canyon. Samples of the ore indicate good values in copper. Newer and more modern machinery is to be installed to speed up operations. F. T. Shepherd is President of the concern.
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The Sunrise Mining Company has built a blacksmith shop, and finished grading for a compressor and powder house, at the No. 5 Level of its property, in the Beaver District, three miles north of Burke Idaho. The power line right-of-way has been cleared, and power connection is to be established as soon as possible. Sufficient timber has been assembled for the winter’s work. The No. 8 Tunnel is being driven ahead to reach the downward extension of the ore in the No. 2 Tunnel. C. Fred Kratzer, 215 Waverly Place, Spokane, Washington, is General Manager of the organization.
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The Burnt Cabin Mining Company, J. H. Pointner, Superintendent, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has completed a double-compartment raise, from the No. 8, to the No. 2 Level. Work will be resumed as soon as the weather will permit in the spring. About 50,000 tons of milling ore have been blocked out, and the program outlined for next year includes about 100 feet of drifting on the No. 8 Level, to block out additional ore, and the construction of a 50-ton flotation mill. E. L. Overjorde is President.
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The improved crushing plant, at the Page Mine, of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, was placed in operation September 1. The improvements effected were a Symons Cone crusher, vibrating screen, rolls, and new sampling plant.
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Principal development outlined by the Harmony Mines ‘Company, E. F. Nieman, Superintendent, Box 47, Salmon, Idaho, is sinking from the 900, to the 1,200 Level, and lateral work on the 900 Level. The principal construction during the next few months will be the installation of a 950-cubic-foot direct-connected air compressor at the station on the 800 Level.
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Extensive development and constructive improvements have been effected by the Spokane and Idaho Copper Company at its property, 17 miles from Harvard, Idaho. The No. 5 Tunnel has been repaired, and both the No. 5, and No. 6 Tunnels, retimbered. The Easton Tunnel will be continued, to further develop an ore body opened in the No. 6 Adit. A new rooming house to accommodate 35 men, and a new boarding house and cook house to accommodate 50 men, have been established during the summer. Frederic Keffer, 1108 Paulsen Building, Spokane, is Manager of the company.
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A. H. Dahle, of Sheridan, Montana, Mining Engineer, and associates, have taken a lease and bond on the Ranger Mine, in the main Rocky Range, east of Salmon, Idaho, and have started cleaning the old workings. The ground belonged to the estate of George L. Shoup, and has been idle nearly 25 years. This is the second property that the Dahle party has acquired in Lemhi County; only a few weeks ago they acquired the Lamoreaux Group, on Hughes Creek, near Gibbonsville.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation, H. L. Brainard, President, Kellogg, Idaho, has let a contract to the Washington Water Power Company of Spokane, for the construction of a line up Big Creek, from the Sunshine Mine. Among the recent installations are a 12x12 Gardner compressor, and a 75-horsepower motor. The objective of development is to open a number of veins in its property, that are parallel to the Sunshine Vein, and it is believed that the extension of the present crosscut will open one of the veins.
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An eight-inch width of high-grade silver-lead ore is said to have been opened in the upper tunnel of the North Idaho Mining and Development Company, on Lightning Creek, near Clarks Fork, Idaho. A five-drill Ingersoll-Rand compressor has recently been installed, and will be used in continuing the lower tunnel to reach the downward extension of the vein. The lower adit is in 880 feet, and it is estimated that in another 300 feet it will reach its objective. Two shifts of seven men each will drive the lower tunnel. A. F. Alcorn of Clarks Fork, is General Manager.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 15 1930
HAIGHT HAS EQUIPPED EL ORO MINE FOR WINTER OPERATION
The El Oro Mine, near Hailey, Idaho, has settled down to regular operation for the winter, with a force of 15 men under the management of Ingersoll E. Haight. The No. 1 and No. 2 Tunnels have been re-timbered, and development will be confined largely to driving the No. 3 Tunnel, 165 feet lower than the No. 2 Adit.
A few days ago, the mill was placed in operation, but it is yet too early to obtain much data on its recovery. The steam power plant, new camp buildings, and sawmill, are adequate for the demands upon them.
C. Wesley Smith, the owner of the property, maintains headquarters at Room 711, 60 State Street, Boston.
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Some Rich Gold Sirikes in Idaho
By ROBERT N. BELL, Consulting Engineer, Boise, Idaho.
Recent discoveries of high-grade gold at depth are reviving interest in Boise Basin, a famous placer field.
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Progress development continues to disclose rich segregations of native gold values, along the Quartzburg porphyry belt, of Boise Basin, 30 to 40 miles northeast of the capitol of Idaho. Boise Basin is a historic placer gold field. and is credited with a total yield in placer gold of $65,000,000.
The oldest lode gold mine of the district, in fact, of the State of Idaho, is known as the Gold Hill and Iowa Mine, now owned and operated by the Talache Mines Company. This old property is credited with a production of $7,000,000 in gold values, above its 700-foot Level. The present owners have continued the development to the 850-foot Level, which is now being explored with marked success.
The most recent development, is the extension of the main stockwork porphyry stope of stringer ore, of $7 or $8 mill feed values, into the adjacent granite formation, where the vein has been opened for a stope length of 100 feet, and several floors high, giving daily stope face samples, of from one to four ounces gold, per ton, including occasional segregations of picture rock. This has markedly increased the mill returns recently.
In addition to the more extensive development of this horizon, the company is planning to extend the main shaft, to the thousand foot level, in the near future. A. H. Burrough, Jr., Quartzburg, Idaho, is President and General Manager.
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Two miles west of the Gold Hill, the Helshazzar Mine, of the Idawa Gold Mining Company, E. A. Nordquist, Manager, is opening a new level at a depth of 460 feet, and has recently encountered its rich ore channel, with segregations of native gold, up to several ounces in weight, which gives encouragement of finding segregations of native gold similar to those encountered between the No. 3 and No. 4 Levels, where one pocket contained $10,000, and single lumps of native metal up to 105 ounces in weight, far exceeding any of the historic placer nuggets of the district.
This mine is equipped with a 25-ton mill, has produced approximately $425,000, within the past four years, and has paid its stockholders $80,000 in dividends.
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Another rich gold strike recently made along the porphyry belt, 10 miles northeast of Quartzburg, at the Comeback Mine, is of keenest interest. This is a local development enterprise on a big shear zone, 50 to 100 feet wide, cutting a complex of porphyry dikes. It has been developed by a crosscut tunnel at a depth of 150 feet, and has a drift a thousand feet long, on the zone.
A hanging wall drift carries thin pay shoots of very high-grade silver ore, and a foot wall vein with fair milling values, four or five feet in width, carries segregations of rich gold ore. Both these better pay bands, are richly mineralized with complex sulphides, including pyrite, a little chalcopyrite, zinc, lead, grey copper, and ruby silver.
The development has been wholly financed by small shipments of crude hand-picked ore, varying from five tons to 30 tons. The larger lot gave returns of 10 ounces gold, and 125 ounces silver, per ton.
Recently the miners threw aside, on the dump, some lumps of hard quartz which they thought contained white iron pyrite. After the rains had washed the talc off, this was discovered to be light colored native gold. Lumps up to six inches square, were found to contain assay values of 500 ounces in gold, and 500 ounces in silver.
This particular pay streak of bonanza values is now being sought for, by removing the lagging in the drift, from where it is believed to have come. It is expected it will be uncovered shortly, and some interesting shipping results obtained. This deposit has recently been tapped by a new crosscut tunnel, at an additional depth of 200 feet, where some good panning rock is being encountered.
At Grimes Pass near the Comeback Mine, the Independence, and Coon Dog groups, with considerable development on a series of fissure veins exhibiting rich segregations of gold ore, as well as a base metal including lead, copper, and zinc, have recently been examined by some responsible Los Angeles engineers, with a view to further extensive development through a crosscut tunnel, from the Payette Canyon Slope nearby.
These recent discoveries, and development at considerable depth, of high gold values, is attracting much attention to this extensive porphyry belt, in the main granite batholith area, of Idaho.
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General Metals Merger, 1247 Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, is making provisions to increase its personnel from 6, to 31 individuals. E. A. Gabryel is President; W. J. Galbraith, Forbes Richard, A. H. Dougall, Jr., and Melville G. Henry, Vice-Presidents; and Paul C. Dubuar, Secretary and Treasurer. After the examination of many properties, five were selected and are either conditionally controlled or owned by the merger. They are: the Silver Cord Mine, Point Ashley, Alaska; the Lawrence property in Yavapai County, Arizona; the Alto property in Custer County, Idaho; the Boston American, and the Silver Creek Mines in Snohomish County, Washington; and the Bethania Mines in Mineral County, Nevada.
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The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, President and General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, is driving a connection between the lead-silver ore body on the 2,800-foot Level, and the main shaft. Below the 2,000-foot Level, all production is handled through a winze, and the direct connection will reduce the cost of mining.
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The Progress Gold Mining Company has sent samples from its recent strike on Eagle Creek in the Coeur d’Alenes, to Chicago, to confirm the analysis run by George Jemison, 1605 Denver Avenue, Portland, Oregon, according to A. E. Hoover, East 828 Garland Street, Spokane, who is General Manager, and Consulting Engineer for the company. Jemison’s analysis showed that the ore carried 41 percent phenacite, the orthosilicate of beryllium. The samples are being taken from a deposit known for a width of 30 feet, and the vein has been traced through croppings over three-quarters of a mile. Hoover has spent several thousands of dollars in purchasing complete mining equipment, which will be taken to the mine soon. This machinery includes a compressor, engine, water liner, jackhammer, steel, and camp equipment.
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The Delaware Mines Corporation, which last summer suspended development of the Rex Property, near Wallace, Idaho, has been reorganized as the Associated Mines Corporation, Ltd. Matt Baumgartner, 323 Lindelle Block, Spokane; F. C. Bailey, formerly at Wallace, but now in Spokane; and Roy H. Kingsbury of Wallace, have organized the new company. Baumgartner and Bailey were President and General Manager, respectively, in the Delaware. Further development is anticipated.
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Granada Lead Mines, Inc., Ross L. Roundy, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has entered the Granada Vein, at the 500-foot point in the tunnel, and has penetrated the ore for seven feet. In appearance, the ore is similar to that opened on the higher levels of the vein.
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The Papurel and Graham Mountain Mining Company, Antone Papurel, President, Box 517, Kellogg, Idaho, plans to install a compressor to be driven by water power. Next spring, the lower tunnel will be continued about 200 feet, to reach the vein at depth.
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Sven A. Anderson, of Sinclair, Idaho, has contracted with the Moyie Gold-Copper Mining and Milling Company, Ltd., at Banners Ferry, Idaho, to drive 125 feet of tunnel on the No. 1 Vein. The work has started, and supplies are on the ground for the winter.
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Metallurgical tests are being made by the Constitution Mining and Milling Company, at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, Manager, which shut down on account of low metal prices. It is probable that next spring, changes will be made in its 150-ton smelter, to insure a higher recovery.
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Frank Glennon is operating a five-stamp mill at Gibbonsville, Idaho, on ore from his claims, at Cyanide Gulch. and is saving 86 percent of the value of the ore, which averages $30 a ton. The ore is a sulphide, containing gold and silver, and a small amount of lead. The group comprises six claims and twelve veins, from a foot to four feet wide, across the property.
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Ben Castle has hauled a test shipment of ore from the Dewey Mines, to Grangeville, Idaho. The ore was shipped to the Tacoma Smelter. F. M. Watson is General Manager.
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The power line from the Sunshine Mine, to the Metropolitan Mines Corporation’s ground, in Big Creek, has been completed, and connections made at the mine and machine shops. As a part of its enlarged program, the deep crosscut has been started to the vein 500 feet ahead, at a depth of between 600 and 700 feet. The officials of the company are: R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, President; John Sandford, Vice-President; and Roy Kingsbury, Secretary-Treasurer. Robert Maddrell has been elected to a recent vacancy on the board.
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A. J. Rasor of Goeur d’Alene, Idaho, has discovered a vein of lead-silver ore in the Beauty Bay District and is developing the showing. It is five feet wide, and samples of the ore carry from 25 to 35 percent lead, and good silver values. Machinery and equipment will be installed next spring, if the prospect gives promise of becoming a producer.
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METAL MINING IN IDAHO REPORTED IN GRAPH FORM
“A graphic history of metal mining in Idaho,” recently issued by the Department of the Interior, as Geological Survey Bulletin 821-A, gives, in the form of graphs, condensed data on the course of placer and lode mining in the state, since its beginning in 1860, with an interpretation of the graphs. The early, rather short-lived boom in placer mining was followed by lode mining, which has passed through various boom periods in different areas. The Coeur d’Alene District now dominates mining in the state. Although ores of several metals exist in Idaho, the production of lead-silver ore is the only branch of the industry that is of importance now, or likely to become so, in the near future.
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TOWN MINE TAKES ON ACTIVITY AFTER THIRTY-YEAR REST
The Town Gold Mine, on the outskirts of Jacksonville, Oregon, has passed to John M. Price, of Nampa, Idaho, and C. C. Clark of Medford, Oregon. New equipment, including a Gardner-Denver compressor, drills, new steel for trackage, shop tools, and complete and extensive laboratory equipment, is being installed. The new owners announce that they will erect a 100-ton reduction plant at Jacksonville, and do custom business, along with the concentration of their own ores.
The Town Mine has been closed for the past 30 years, since a general decline in the gold industry of the region. Its former production approximates $250,000, which was milled at the Opp Mine, adjoining. Its history dates back to 1852, when .a pioneer placer miner of Jacksonville located and operated the diggings.
In the late 50s, when gold was discovered in the quartz veins of the region, and on the exhaustion of placer gold, the owners of the property looked to the quartz veins for the source of gold, which had fed the gulch. Soon after, a prospector named Johnson recovered a pocket, on the veins near the surface, which yielded $30,000. Later, another prospector named Bowden, struck another pocket, higher on the ridge which yielded $60,000.
There are about 3,000 tons of ore on the dumps, and 25,000 tons are blocked out in the mine, while considerable ground awaits development. The ore in former millings averaged $20 a ton.
The new owners have acquired the ground from George Schrump, local miner, and are incorporating as the Midas Gold Mines, Inc., with a capitalization of $1,000,000, under the laws of Oregon. Those financing the project are the Andrews Implement Company at Portland; H. G. Myers of Boise, Idaho; Charles Moore of Yuba City, California; W. R. Price of Nevada City, California; and Messrs. Clark and Price. Price is Engineer in Charge, and H. E. Ellsworth, formerly of Alaska Mines, but recently with the Sylvanite Mine at Gold Hill, will be Chief Metallurgist.
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The Pandora Mining Company has agreed to a new lease and bond on the property, near Martin, Idaho, which allows more favorable terms, according to Charles A. Mayo, 241 North Twenty-fourth Avenue, Yakima, Washington, President of the company. They plan to do
about 1,500 feet of diamond drilling in the early spring, and to continue development and ore shipments during the year.
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The Solar Development Company, Ltd., R. B. Shelledy, Superintendent, Paris, Idaho, has built a loading platform at the railway station in Paris, and has started hauling out its phosphate ore, from Bloomington. The railroad cars are routed to the new $10,000,000 phosphate smelter, at Trail, British Columbia.
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Coeur d’Alene miners are rejoicing in the announcements of S. A. Easton, and J. J. Sawbridge, that they do not intend to cut wages, reduce the number of employees, nor their days of employment. These men need no identification. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company has a payroll of about 1,600, is producing about 17 tons of pure zinc daily, and is gradually getting into the production of cadmium. The Sunshine Mining Company does not intend to adopt the five-day work week.
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The Silver Spoon Mining Company has ordered a compressor and hoist, for the further development of a discovery in Meadow Creek, 15 miles north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, by R. L. Holsington. Assays of the ore recently developed show 33 ounces silver, and 19 percent lead.
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The Day Development Company, a corporation, has taken over the Center Star Prospect, on the South Fork of the Clearwater River, seven miles west of Elk City, Idaho. Eight men have been employed, a compressor has been installed, and supplies delivered for the winter.
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The Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, Manager, Wallace, Idaho, is making preparations to sink an incline shaft, from the main tunnel, into a body of high-grade galena, running 80 percent lead. This ore body was opened a year ago, and is 10 to 12 feet wide, and 40 feet long. Water was turned into the new settling dam on the tributary of the North Fork River on November 24. The new 500-ton mill is expected to go into operation in February. The building has been completed, and the machinery is being installed. Approximately 100 men are on the payroll.
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The Explorers Prospecting Company, John L. Dirks, President, Rookery Building, Spokane, is getting $9 gold ore from the diamond drill cores in the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho. The drilling is being done by A. J. Koebel, formerly of Daisy, Washington. Tunnel and shaft development will probably begin within two weeks. Two shifts are expected to work.
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Flotation machinery is being installed in the 200-ton John George Mill, at Wardner, Idaho, and the plant is expected to be in operation within 30 days. It will replace the old plant, destroyed by fire several months ago.
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Three of the largest producers in the Coeur d’Alenes curtailed production, December 1. The Dayrock Mining Company, headed by Frank M. Rothrock, Exchange National Bank Building, Spokane, is maintaining a six-day week, but on a one-shift basis.
The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, President and General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has adopted a five-day week, but has not reduced the number of shifts. The movement affects approximately 450 men underground and at the surface, all of whom will be retained. The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has curtailed similar to Hecla. Federal has been operating its Page Mine on a one-shift basis, for five or six months.
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The Little Lightning Mining Company is starting a tunnel, to open at a depth of 150 feet, a vein that has been traced 1,200 feet at the surface, and contains some galena. The objective will require about 180 feet of tunnel. The company is sponsored by W. D. Farmin, of Sandpoint, as President; R. M. Taylor, 324 South Fourth Avenue, Sandpoint, Vice-president; and W. M. Hallenbach, Secretary and Treasurer.
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The Bobby Anderson Mining Company, Leo J. Bender, Manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has opened more than three feet of carbonate ore, carrying commercial values in lead and silver, in its property on Pine Creek. The discovery was made in an open cut, which was being driven under a prominent outcrop, and resembles the ore in the upper workings of the Sidney Mine, a well-known producer. The ore is making in a 10-foot ledge, with well-defined quartzite walls. Further development will be carried out immediately.
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The Yellow Pine Company will make the largest expenditure among the gold mining companies in Idaho during this year, according to Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector. This is the largest gold operation in the state and is carried on by F. W. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco. Some silver and antimony are being mined along with the gold. George W. Worthington, at Stibnite, Idaho, is Superintendent.
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The Golconda Lead Mines Inc., William Beaudry, Managing Director, Wallace, Idaho, is doing surface exploration on the Mayflower Claim, about 2,000 feet east of the Golconda Shaft. The vein is from 20 to 30 feet wide, and boulders of solid galena, from one to two feet wide, are said to have been .found.
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The vein at the 900-foot point in the Metropolitan Mines Corporation’s tunnel is 15 feet wide, with the mineralization of the footwall about twice that of the hanging wall. The tunnel is being continued to the original objective, a vein between 125 and 150 feet ahead. R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, Idaho, is President.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has completed preparations for developing the vein at the 3,650 Level of its Morning Mine. At this depth, the ore averages 9.3 percent lead, 4.7 ounces silver, and 6.4 percent zinc, and diamond drills sunk 200 feet deeper, reveal similar values across a similar width. The bottom of the shaft is 150 feet below the 3,650 Level, and further sinking is not planned for the near future.
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The Sherman Howe Mining Company, A. W. Walker, President and General Manager, Burgdorf, Idaho, is operating one of the most modern mining and milling plants in the state. The mine is operated continuously, and the mill, about 75 percent of the time. The mill can handle 150 tons of ore dail, and is equipped with a gyratory crusher, regrinding equipment, ball mills, amalgamators, and flotation. Power is supplied by a Diesel engine.
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The Silver Spoon Mining Company, at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, has sunk the discovery shaft 20 feet by hand, and is installing a compressor and hoist to sink a shaft to a depth of 200 feet. During the late summer, five buildings were erected to house the employees, and one for machinery. The vein in the shaft is a quartz-filled fissure 30 inches wide, between diorite walls. The metallic content is lead-silver sulphide, with a small proportion of the sulphides of iron, zinc, and copper. High-grade ore, assaying from 19 to 26 percent lead, and from 7 to 32 ounces silver to the ton, occurs in somewhat irregular streaks on both walls, and in the middle of the vein. The officers of the Silver Spoon are: R. L. Hoisington, President; G. E. Dodson, Vice-President; Emma Hoisington, Secretary; and Alma Dodson, Treasurer.
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The Little Sunshine Mining Company has suspended operations on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho. About 125 feet of development had been done on a showing in the main tunnel, and a 500-foot shaft sunk below that depth, when operations were suspended. The move affects 14 men. William Stokes has been in charge of the shaft sinking. J. R. Moore, 902 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington, is President of the company.
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Bids have been asked on about 500 feet of crosscut tunnel on the River Tunnel level, by the Bobby Anderson Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho. The objective of the work is to reach a vein, which has been prospected rather extensively at the surface. Leo J. Bender is General Manager.
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On January 1, the Keystone Phosphate Company shipped 25,000 tons of mine run rock, from its mines in the Montpelier District, two miles from Paris, Idaho, to Japan and New Zealand, according to General Manager W. H. Honefenger. A mill is to be built in Idaho this year, but in the meantime, the grinding will be done at Los Angeles, California. This company ships some of its rock to L. J. Whitney, in Spokane.
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The Weigle Mining and Milling Company has engaged three men to clean up its property, near Kellogg, Idaho, and will drive a crosscut at an angle, from the main tunnel in the Eldorado Claims. This crosscut will start from the 700-foot point in the 1,000-foot tunnel, and will reach its objective in about 60 feet. When the ledge is reached, the crosscut will be run into Weigle ground, about 1,200 feet farther on, and any ore opened as the crosscut advances will be developed. The new work planned will gain a depth of about 1,000 feet below the upper workings. The Weigle Company owns the adjoining Liberty Bell Claim and in the near future, will have it surveyed for a patent. C. F. Diemond, of Pasco, Washington, is President.
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The Standard Stations, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with provisions in its charter to do mining, oil development, manufacturing, etc., has filed a copy of its articles of incorporation with county auditor in Bonner County, Idaho. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, divided into shares of $25 par value. There are 42,000 preferred and 3,000,000 common shares. The Corporation Trust Company, 10 West Tenth Street, Wilmington, Delaware, is the authorized agent for the corporation.
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During the quarter ended October 31, 1930, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, reports net earnings of $266,672, before depreciation, depletion and taxes, as compared with $273,650 in the preceding quarter, and $785,780 in the quarter ended October 31, 1929. During the third quarter of the current year, 82,688 tons of concentrates were shipped, as compared with 31,671 tons in the preceding quarter, and 40,412 tons in the third quarter of last year. The shaft in the Morning Mine has reached a depth of 3,650 feet. Skip pockets are being cut, and laterals will be driven to cut the ore above. On the 3,450 Level, the vein has been opened nearly 1,500 feet, and is rich in metals, principally lead.
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The Hope Mining Company, at Clark Fork, Idaho, is electrifying its surface plant and workings, and hopes to have its 85-ton flotation plant ready for operation within 90 days. A substantial tonnage is in sight, and continued development is scheduled. The officers are: O. A. Holte of Coeur d’Alene, President; Samuel W. Purdy, of Clark Fork, Vice-President; and Carl Jensen, also of Clark Fork, Secretary and Treasurer. A. K. Wintereeck is Metallurgical Engineer.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, Manager, is highly encouraged over development, west of the shaft, on the 1,300 Level. The blind vein, containing lead, which was opened a year ago, between the Polaris and Yankee Boy Veins, is believed to be uniting with the other two. The shaft is within 100 feet of its objective, the 1,700-foot depth, and a lateral will be pushed as rapidly as possible to learn what relation the lower showing bears to those above. About 500 tons ore are going through the mill each day.
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Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector, has reviewed the various development projects of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, and in part, his report states that the main oreshoot has been opened 400 feet on the No. 9, or Kellogg Level, and the limits of the ore have not yet been determined. Development of this vein still continues at the No. 6 Level, where it has been followed 500 feet. Above that level, a 100-foot raise has been driven, so that counting the dip of the vein, its known length is nearly 1,300 feet. At the No. 17 Level, the Meiers Drift is being driven to the vein, and the face of the drift is believed to be near the downward extension of the ore. A large fan has been installed at the No.19 Level, to insure better ventilation at that depth, and on the No. 20 Level. S. A. Easton is General Manager.
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Talache Mines, Inc., is displaying a 50-pound gold ingot, marking the fifteenth month of its operation of the old Gold Hill Mine, at Quartzburg, Idaho. Smelted into its present form, it is about two inches deep, three inches wide and eight inches long. A. H. Burroughs, Jr., is President and General Manager of the company. He took over the mine after it had been abandoned many years, unwatered the shaft, and sunk it to 700 feet, where he struck gold. Since that time, 54 ingots, similar to the one now being displayed in the local bank, have been taken out, and the shaft now stands at 850 feet.
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Herb. Johnson and Joe Snell have resumed work at their lease from the Never Sweat Mining Company, in the French District, near Silver City, Idaho. Returns from their last shipment of concentrates were reported as profitable. Windsor J. Lloyd of Nampa, Idaho, is President of the company. The property comprises 12 patented mining claims, equipped with concentrating tables, oil flotation cells, and other machinery.
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COSTS AND MINING PRACTICES AT THE PAGE MINE IN IDAHO
The Page Mine, which may be classed as one of the new active producers of the Coeur d’Alenes, is the most westerly of the producing lead-silver-zinc mines of the district, being situated five miles west of the city of Kellogg. It is operated by the Federal Mining and Smelting Company.
The development of the flotation process is largely responsible for the activity of the Page Mine, which is producing a daily tonnage of 300 tons. Mine run of ore averages 8.5 percent lead, 2.8 percent zinc, and 2.6 ounces of silver, per ton. The property is equipped with a 300-ton daily capacity flotation mill, which was constructed and put in operation in December, 1926.
Many interesting facts regarding the history of the mine, its development, ore deposits, and the mining methods used, are contained in a paper by J. E. Berg, General Manager of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, which has been published by the United States Bureau of Mines as Information Circular 6372. A number of drawings are used to illustrate the special methods and equipment employed.
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GOLCONDA LEAD MINES REACHES TWO IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES
The Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., one of the progressive operators of the Coeur d’Alenes, is working its flotation mill in the Hunter District, near Wallace, Idaho, during one shift, and is recovering about five carloads each of zinc, and of lead, concentrates. On account of market conditions for these metals, storage capacity has been provided for the concentrates to a capacity of 300 tons of lead, and 200 tons of zinc.
Underground, one of the important developments was the drift from the 1,800-foot Level of the three-compartment shaft. It has reached the vein at a length of 460 feet, and disclosed a six-foot width of ore, which is being drifted on. Another showing of importance, has been made in the Mayflower Ground, about 2,600 feet east of the present workings. It is six feet of carbonate ore, and carries about 20 inches of high grade.
Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., has struck ore on the 1,800-foot level of its property, near Wallace, Idaho. Early reports are that the vein is of good grade ore and five feet wide.
Golconda Lead Mines was organized January 18, 1927, to operate the Hector and Mayflower Mines. William Beaudry, of Wallace, is Managing Director.
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The Gene Lee Mining Company at Clarks Fork, Idaho, is driving a 100-foot tunnel along a faulted zone, three feet wide, to gain a depth of 75 feet on the lead which it crosses, 100 feet north of the original discovery. The tunnel has been driven 54 feet. Its face has released some water, and is in re-deposited carbonates and crushed quartz, and ledge matter. The heavy timbering necessary, is slowing up the work, but the ledge will be reached about April 1, according to C. L. Heffron, President and Manager of the company. Two men are driving the tunnel.
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James M. Wilson is driving a 300-foot tunnel in the Hyatt Mine, near Weiser, Idaho, for the Long Tom Mining Company. The tunnel has followed the vein about one-third of that distance, and he expects to complete the bore by July 1. Machinery to mill the ore is to be installed as soon as the weather permits bringing it in.
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The City of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has made application to the Power Commission, for a preliminary permit to construct power plants on the North Fork of the Snake River, in Fremont, Madison, Jefferson, and Bonneville Counties, Idaho. The project includes dams and powerhouses above the upper Mesa Falls, and at the lower Mesa Falls, to generate 19,000 horsepower of energy, for use in the city, and to supply nearby municipalities. The cost of the construction is estimated at two million dollars.
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The new concentrating plant of the Jack Waite Mining Company, on upper Eagle Creek, near Murray, Idaho, is scheduled to begin operation February 15. It was designed by W. L. Zeigler, Superintendent of Mills, for the Hecla Mining Company, and constructed under the direction of J. R. Turner, Manager at the mines. Between 450 and 500 tons of ore can be milled daily, as soon as the plant is regulated. A hoist has been purchased from the Union Iron Works, and will be used in sinking a 500-foot shaft from the Idaho Tunnel, from which drifts will be run to the downward extensions of the ore in the upper levels, as announced by the Duthrie interests, last August.
As another addition to its permanent equipment, the Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, Manager, Murray, Idaho, has purchased one of the new light diamond drills manufactured by the Mitchell Diamond Drill Manufacturing Company, at Spokane, Washington. Before it was bought, a test was made on the Main Tunnel Level. Operated by one man, 149 feet were drilled in 30 1/2 hours actual drilling time, at a cost of only 62 1/2 cents a foot.
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The Gold and Copper Mining Company is said to have opened 10 inches of carbonate ore on its prospect, near Prichard, Idaho. Walter Buell, and W. Wechard are operating the property.
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Rupert Winters intends to operate his placer property on the Feather River, near Fairfield, Idaho, as soon as weather conditions will permit. During last season, a crew dug a ditch which will convey the water several miles, to the hydraulic machinery, and everything is ready for actual hydraulicking.
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The Ida Bell Mines, Inc., has opened a vein of free milling gold ore, in the Carson District, in Owyhee County, Idaho, that assays between $30 and $40 a ton. It is five feet thick, and has been followed about 700 feet. A small mill is to be placed in operation within a few days, and as soon as the roads are in condition to haul in machinery, a plant of about 50 tons’ daily capacity will be established.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation, R. L. Brainard, President, Kellogg, Idaho, unexpectedly cut a vein at the 135-foot point in its North Crosscut. It has a northeasterly course, and although the vein was in the face of the crosscut, for between 10 and 12 feet, its actual width varies between eight and 18 inches. According to Foreman Eric Ecklund, the vein has similar characteristics to the Sunshine Vein, where he had worked formerly, but not enough development has been done to determine whether it is an offshoot or a separate vein. Development of the crosscut is being continued, and its face is out beyond 160 feet.
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Just eight inches from the point where development was stopped in the lowest tunnel, Minerva Silver, Inc., E. R. Lindsay, President and General Manager, 314 Standard Stock Exchange Building, Spokane, Washington, has opened ore. The ore was eight inches wide where encountered, and in 12 feet of drifting, increased to 16 inches in width. Although one of the samples of the ore contained 600 ounces of silver, with some gold, and copper, the general average of the ore is about $85 per ton.
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Explorers, Inc., John L. Dirks, President, Rookery Building, Spokane, Washington, has two shifts working in the Buffalo Gold Mine, at Granite, Oregon, and the mill is working. Several carloads of concentrates have been shipped, and the ore blocked out for milling, is estimated to be worth $50,000. At Sandpoint, Idaho, the tunnel is being pushed and has cut five feet of commercial gold ore, at a depth less than 100 feet. Arrangements are being made to open an office in Buffalo, New York, and
in this capacity, L. L. Boyer, of Sandpoint, has left for the East.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 15 1931
IDAHO MINING NEWS 2 15 1931
The Gold Standard Mining Corporation, recently organized, controls the Sunnyside Mine in the Carson Mining District, 18 miles west of Murphy, Owyhee County, Idaho; the Allan Mine, in the Radersburg Mining District, and the Diamond Hill Mine, in the Hassel Mining District, both in Broadwater County, Montana.
W. C. Dewey of Nampa, Idaho, is the president of the newly created concern; Fred W. Callaway of Spokane, Washington, is vice-president and general manager; and Victor Shawe of Boise, Idaho, is secretary and treasurer.
Gold is the predominating ore in the three properties. The limited development that has been conducted on the Sunnyside shows the principal vein to be two and one-half, to five feet wide, and a 100-foot shaft is being sunk from a drift on the ore, which will give a depth of about 265 feet. A new bunkhouse and hoist house have been built and a partly equipped mill on the ground will be completed to handle about 25 tons of ore a day.
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The Clearwater Gold and Copper Mining Company has re-elected the following officers: Samuel Sidenfeld of San Francisco, president; John H. Wourms, of WalIace, Idaho, secretary and treasurer; and Herman A. Bursch of Harrington, Washington, director. The property is situated on the headwaters of the north fork of the Clearwater River, in Shoshone County, Idaho.
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James J. Flynn, superintendent of the Golden Anchor Mines, in the Marshall Lake district, near Warren, Idaho, has returned to the mine and intends to resume development with a small crew. Extensive operations are planned if development through the winter shows up as is anticipated. The mine had been closed down since the fall on account of trouble within the organization.
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The crosscut tunnel which Stratton Silver Summit, inc., started on Rosebud Gulch, near Wallace, Idaho, has cut the Nellie and four other veins, typical of the Coeur d’Alene district in their quartz and siderite vein fillings. Nearly all of them show gray coper, running as high as 33 ounces silver. The crosscut has reached 7 a length of 4,100 feet and is getting close to the extension of the Sunshine vein, which is its main objective. Harry P. Pearson is in charge of the mining inter-eats of W. S. Stratton of Wallace.
J. S. Sawbridge of Yakima, Washington, president of the Sunshine Mining Company on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, has denied all rumors that the mine will close down. Expenses are being trimmed to the limit. They have cut their cost of producing silver to nearly 20 cents an ounce, and expect to lower it to that figure soon. The shaft has reached the 1,700-foot point and a crosscut is being driven 400 feet below the lowest workings on the Yankee Boy and Polaris veins. For two reasons this development is being watched eagerly, since some authorities are of the opinion that the Yankee Boy and Polaris veins unite at depth to form one large vein, and since the Sunshine management opened lead-silver ore on the 1,800 level between its two large veins that may prove to be another vein on the lower level.
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The Yellow Pine Company in Valley County, Idaho, an F. W. Bradley enterprise, is driving a 10,000-foot tunnel easterly to develop gold-mercury deposits in its Cinnabar group, and an 8,000-foot tunnel southerly, to develop the gold zone in its Meadow Creek group. The former adit has reached a length of 1,000 feet and is being advanced at the rate of 10 feet a day, while the latter is 1,500 feet long and is following the strike of the ore at the rate of 12 or 18 feet a day. In the Meadow Creek Mine, a shaft will be sunk 410 feet to join the haulage tunnel. During the winter the payroll has averaged 40 men, a reduction of 56 from the payroll of last summer. Power is furnished by plants at Sugar Creek, and at South Meadow, and a third power unit, using water, with a 525-k.v.a. generator, was built on Sugar Creek last summer. George W. Worthington at Stibnite, Idaho, is superintendent of the company.
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The Golden Chariot-War Eagle Mines Company, Inc., has been organized to operate gold property in Owyhee County, Idaho, according to Kirby Thomas, 2 West Sixty-Seventh Street, New York City, president of the organization. Its capitalization is 1,000,000 shares of $1 par. The main office will be maintained at Silver City, Idaho.
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Judge A. H. Featherstone of the district court at Wallace, Idaho, has rendered judgment in favor of the Idaho and Eastern Mining Company in the suit to determine the ownership of the Stroble lode mining claim, in the Lelanda mining district, near Burke. The case had been in court 26 years, and his decision removes from court the oldest case on docket. The Stroble claim lies between the Stanley and the Hercules ground, and was located in 1901. In due time it was acquired by the Idaho and Eastern company, and the following year the St. Louis and Idaho Mining and Milling Company located the St. Louis claim, which it appears covered practically the same ground.
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The Hope Mining Company, O. A. Holte, president, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has shipped two carloads of lead-silver concentrates, produced by hand jigging. The proceeds are being used in building and equipping an 85-ton flotation mill.
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H. C. Stapleton of Wallace, Idaho, managing director for the Pontiac Mining Company, is giving some attention to the development of the Dew Drop group of six claims adjoining the Terrible Edith Mine. Gold ore has been located in an old 100-foot tunnel, which has reached the junction of an iron vein and a quartz gold-bearing vein, and while the price of lead is low, this seems to be an opportune time to develop the gold claims. The power lines are within a few feet of the portal of the Dew Drop Tunnel, making power for pumping easily accessible, and a shaft will be stated on the vein.
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As soon as the weather warms up, the Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, manager, Murray, Idaho, will lay the track for the extension of its railroad up Tributary Creek, which was graded before the cold weather set in last fall. The new road will shorten the haul from the mill to the loading station from four to one and one-half miles. The mill is scheduled to go into operation early in February.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931
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The ldawa Gold Mining Company, operating property at Quartzburg, Idaho, is said to be negotiating for six gold mining claims located in a new district, 15 miles north of Baker, California, by Boden and Watkins. The report further states that they have offered $50,000 for the group, with a cash payment of $5,000. The Idaho property is equipped with a 25-ton mill, and has produced approximately $425,000 during the past four years, and has paid its stockholders $80,000 in dividends. E. A. Nordquist is Superintendent.
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Robert Burns, W. J. Burns, Dr. David Andrew, and H. O. Hall, all of Salt Lake City, Utah, have organized as the California Gold Corporation, for the development of eight claims in San Bernardino County, California, located early in the year by Robert Burns. The location is about 15 miles north of Baker, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and is reached over the Zion National Park Highway (now I-15). Burns took 14 samples at various points near the surface, and their assays ran between $6 and $65. Trenches, six to eight feet deep, are to be dug, and, if a promising showing is opened, an air compressor will be installed, and the ground thrown open to lease. It is estimated that the entire cost of mining, trucking, and shipping the ore to the Utah smelters, will not exceed $11 a ton.
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Deeds transferring the fee title to the Cumberland, Louisiana, and Montreal patented lode mining claims, together with the mill and equipment, to the Golden Chariot-War Eagle Mines Company, recently incorporated in Idaho, have been filed with the Register in Owyhee County, Idaho. These properties are located in the War Eagle Mountain District, about two miles from Silver City, and adjoin the Golden Chariot and Oro Fino claims, also acquired by the same company. Ten years ago, title to the Cumberland property passed from the Gault Estate, of Montreal, Canada, to Harvey S. Greene, of Cohoes, New York. Its shaft is 410 feet deep, and is said to have produced approximately $600,000 in gold and silver, most of it high-grade ore, but work was discontinued when the cost of pumping prohibited a profitable operation. Old records show that the Cumberland Vein was cut from the Golden Chariot Shaft, at a depth of 800 feet, and carried ore worth from $25 to $88 a ton, across a width of four feet. The new organization of which Kirby Thomas, mining engineer of New York City, is President, intends to move the mill and buildings to the Sinker Tunnel site, and work the Cumberland Vein from the Golden Chariot Shaft, through the Sinker Tunnel.
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The Idaho Gold and Platinum Merger Mines Company, Phil Thorn, Manager, Box 150, Bruneau, Idaho, has moved a tractor to its property to supply additional power to unwater the shaft. The water is said to come in through fractures in the concrete walls of the shaft, caused by blasting, and has been a great handicap in development. Ore is said to lie within a few feet of the water barrier.
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Dave Steiner of Clarkston, Idaho, has opened some rich gold ore in the Sentinel group of mines, in Idaho County, Idaho, near Golden. It is understood that E. J. Dailey of Seattle, field representative of a prospecting syndicate, is negotiating for control of the property.
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The property of the Pine Creek Consolidated Mining Company was bid on by former employees of the company, at a sheriff’s sale. The former company had taken over the Amy Matchless, Olympic, and other mines in the Pine Creek District in Idaho, in the early part of the summer of 1929, but the ambitious program of financing and development that was started, was interrupted by the crash in the stock market.
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The Perseverance Mines Company, Inc., Oscar E. Anderson, President and General Manager, Boise, Idaho, is making preparations to resume development on the quartz lode in the Little Smoky District, north of Fairfield. The No. 4 Crosscut Tunnel will be continued to a vein, rich in gold, silver, and lead, at a depth of 1,000 feet. The ore on the dump assays as high as $107.
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E. R. South of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Manager of the United Asbestos Products Company, at Ashton, has returned from New York and other eastern cities, and has placed a crew of 10 men at work at the mine. It is understood that more extensive operations will be carried on with the return of more favorable weather conditions, requiring a crew of probably 35 men.
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A ledge of gold-bearing ore has been located on Willow Creek, about 15 miles southeast of Burley, Idaho, on ground formerly worked as a marble deposit by M. J. Vea, head of the Stoughton Wagon Company, at Stoughton, Wisconsin. Vea is understood to have patented the ground, and is still owner of it. Plans are to equip the ground for prospecting and development, as soon as the snow is off the ground, and in connection with the work, Vea will probably spend some time at Burley.
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Ore has widened to 4 feet, at a depth of 30 feet, in the incline shaft of the Silver Spoon Mining Company, C. F. Tinsley, Superintendent, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and is quartz filling between diorite walls. This is an excellent showing, as at 20 feet the vein was only two and a half feet wide. Hand sinking has been superseded by a gallows frame, an Anaconda type hoist with cable and skip suitable for a 45-degree incline shaft, and a gasoline-driven air compressor that can operate two drills. An air-driven duplex pump, suitable for piping water from the river, has also been installed. Production will probably not be started before the shaft reaches a depth of 200 feet.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company is employing 85 men and producing about 260 tons a day from its phosphate beds in southwestern Idaho, near Conda, according to General Manager F. M. Norris. The rock is treated with sulphuric acid at Anaconda Copper’s plant at Anaconda, Montana, to which point the raw rock is shipped from the mine. The phosphate occurs in beds seven feet wide, which outcrop at the surface, and have an average dip of 50 degrees to the horizontal. The beds are mined from an 8,000-foot tunnel, which gives a mining depth of about 600 feet along the vein. Two tunnels, 5,000 feet long, have been driven in the property for the development of future ore reserves.
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The Bobby Anderson Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, Leo J. Bender, General Manager, has resumed development on Pine Creek, with a force of six men, working in day and night shifts. A new tunnel is being driven towards the downward extension of a vein, which has been prospected rather extensively at the surface, and the portal of the tunnel is located convenient for the installation of a mill at its portal.
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According to Managing Director W. A. Beaudry, of the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., at Wallace, Idaho, the development of the 1,600 and 1800-foot levels has added so much to the ore reserves, that enlarged milling facilities will be required in the near future. The plant can treat 200 tons of ore a day, and will probably be enlarged to double that capacity, as soon as metal prices improve. In addition to these reserves, considerable ore has been opened at the surface of the Mayflower Vein, and the Square Deal is showing up nicely.
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CLEARING HOUSE ESTABLISHED AT BOISE
A mines clearing house has been opened in Boise, Idaho, by F. E. Johnesse, a former U. S. Mineral Examiner, and W. G. Huseman, a mining engineer from the Couer d’Alenes. The purpose of the clearing house is to act as exchanging agent for those having properties to sell, and those wishing to buy properties.
The name of the concern is the Western Mines Agency, and they will do general mining engineering, in connection with the clearing business. No charge is made for properties accepted for listing. In the event of a sale on that property, a commission is deducted from the purchase price. Each week or ten days, a mimeographed sheet of the listed properties is sent to prospective buyers.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 3 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL
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Approximately 200 feet of tunnel and crosscut has been driven on two small lodes on the southwest slope of Goat Mountain, five miles north of Clark Fork, Idaho, by the Goat Mountain Leasing Company. A compressor has been installed, and an average of four men are working. At the surface, these lodes are four inches wide and six feet apart, dipping at about 26 percent into the hill. Ore appeared near the 75-foot point in the tunnel, and continues as far as exploration has proceeded, with assays running 56 percent lead and 20 ounces silver. Ten tons of this class of ore have been mined and a carload shipment will be made in the near future. The tunnel is being continued to a third fissure which appears 300 feet farther up the hill, and which should be reached by the tunnel in another 50 feet. The third fissure is 20 inches wide. The officers of the organization are: A. D. Gabbert, president; C. J. Kimball, vice-president, and Floyd Cebell, secretary-treasurer.
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The General Mines Corporation has opened ore in its workings on Fine Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, that is richer in gold than previous discoveries, according to H. G. Loop, 402 Empire State Building, Spokane, who is president of the organization. The gold is accompanied by about $2 in silver, and a trace of lead. Nearly 300,000 tons have been blocked out, and are expected to average $50 a ton. Joe Hollingsworth is mine foreman.
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The report for 1930 of the Sunshine Mining Company, operating on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, shows that its cost of mining ore has been cut to an average of $2.45 a ton, and its milling cost to 53 cents a ton. The total cost, including all overhead expenses, taxes, development, and improvement, was $4.53 a ton. Mining costs are considerably lower now, and the mill is not running. During last year, the Sunshine milled 147,948 tons, from which 80 cars of concentrates were shipped, with a content of 2,310,000 ounces of silver, 1,546,000 pounds of lead, and 433,000 pounds of copper. The tonnage milled was considerably higher than the tonnage milled in 1929, which amounted to 62,392 tons. J, J. Sawbridge of Yakima, Washington, and C. C. Samuels of Kellogg, Idaho, are resident and general manager, respectively.
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Acting upon the recommendation of Oscar Hershey of San Francisco, and upon the wishes of its stockholders, the Atlas Mining Company, W. Earl Greenough, vice-president and general manager, Mullan, Idaho, is exploring a promising showing west of the Atlas crosscut. The work is limited to one shift a day. East of the crosscut the Carbonate Hill vein has been followed 500 feet and over 140 feet of that distance the vein averaged eight feet. A shaft will be sunk on the ore later. Last year the company built two large ore bins, one of 500-ton capacity at the Atlas dump, and one of 800-ton capacity at the Hunter mill, connected with the dump by a 2,000-foot aerial tramway.
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The raise that was being driven from the No. 4 to the No. 3 level of the Terrible Edith mine of the Pontiac Mining Company, to prove that the ore on the lower level is a continuation of a rich deposit stoped on the No. 8 level, has given rise to the opinion that there are two veins. Accordingly, a crosscut is being driven from the No. 2 intermediate level, which is one of two levels driven from the raise. Two men are drifting on an iron vein, which intersects a gold producing vein in the Dew Drop claims, adjoining. The work requires the installation of electric equipment, which will probably be delayed until the metal market improves. H. C. Stapleton, Box 46, Wallace, Idaho, is managing director.
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The Sherman Lead Company, Henry L. Day, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has opened a good grade of silver-lead ore for a distance of 550 feet on the 1,700-foot level of the Leary vein. The ore has been cut off in the western face by the Mart fault and all efforts to locate it again have failed so far. The mill had been handling between 200 and 800 tons a day, but is still idle, pending a better price for its metals.
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The Mutual Mines Development Company was scheduled to make its initial mill run at Gem, Idaho, March 1. The plant has a capacity of 100 tons a day, with provisions to double that tonnage when necessary, and was designed by R. S. Handy, mill superintendent for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company. More than 6,250 feet of development have been accomplished to a depth of 955 feet. A careful sampling of the various faces of ore showed average values of 10 percent lead and 5 ounces silver. Russell F. and Ben Collins and Harley Little, 312 Old National Hank Building, Spokane, Washington, control the company.
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Under the management of E. O. Wagner of Lewiston, Idaho, the Muscovite Mica Company plans to install machinery at its property at Deary, in Latah County, Idaho, and to resume operations. There has been considerable production from the Muscovite Mica property during the past 20 years.
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The Callahan Zinc-Lead Company, C. W. Newton, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is diamond drilling from the 800 level of the South Vein to the Galena, a parallel ledge. Following this work, similar prospecting will be conducted at the 1,000 level. The 600 is the lowest level that has been opened on the Galena vein, and, if the cores from the drills come up to expectations, development will be undertaken on the two lower levels. One deposit of commercial ore on the 600 level was 120 feet long, and it is below this vein that the drilling is being done.
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The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, superintendent, has opened up a new ore body, that averaged $165 in gold and 12 ounces in silver from samples, in the War Eagle property on Crooked Creek, 14 miles south of Dixie, Idaho. Discovery was made from the No. 4 tunnel, and is 126 feet north and 40 feet west, of the old workings. In the near future, the company intends to drive a lower tunnel from Crooked Creek to tap several veins at a depth of 1,200 feet. The 50-ton mill unit, which has been constructed under the supervision of Gus King of the Union Iron Works in Spokane, Washington, is scheduled to begin operations July 1. It is equipped with eight flotation cells and will be operated by hydroelectric power, which has been provided to 800 horsepower. At the present time, the sawmill is being operated by a 20-horsepower gasoline engine. E. B. Ellis Alaska Building, Seattle, is president of the company, and an office is maintained in that city. An operating office is maintained at the mine and is served by the Dixie post office.
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IDAHO SCHOOL OF MINES OFFERS THREE FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1931
Announcements of three research fellowships, offered for next year by the University of Idaho School of Mines, have been sent to mining and technical schools throughout the country, by Dean John Wellington Finch. The net income of each fellowship is $75 a month. Men appointed register as advanced students in the School of Mines and become candidates for the degree of Master of Science in Mining, Metallurgy or Geology.
The fellowships are offered by the School of Mines in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines and the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology. Successful candidates are given original research problems dealing with some particular phase of mining or milling practice in Idaho, such as flotation theory, gravity concentration, fine grinding, mineral deposits and structural geology.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS EMJ 10 28 1922
IDAHO E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922
Labor Situation Improves in the Coeur d’Alenes
Wallace—The advance in wages at all the mines of the Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho, which went into effect on Oct. 1, has had the effect of greatly relieving the labor shortage, particularly of miners. Men are coming in every day, and from present indications, the supply will be equal to the demand, by the middle of November.
The approach of cold weather is also a contributing factor toward bringing about this result, for men are naturally more disposed to seek work underground in winter, than in summer. Miners receive $5 per day and shovelers, $4.50.
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Clarks Fork—The Auxer Gold Mining Co. has resumed operations, after damages to the mining machinery, by forest fires a few weeks ago. The mine is on a fork of Lightning Creek, 6 miles from here. Development will be confined to a crosscut tunnel, which will cut the three veins of the property at depth. Engineers’ estimates indicate an average value of $18 per ton, in strong consistent shear zones averaging 10 ft. in width.
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Hope—The Hope Mining & Milling Co. was reorganized as the Morning Star Mines. Under the reorganization plan three shares in the old company are to be substituted for one share in the new. Assessments will be levied to provide funds necessary for further development.
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Boners Ferry—Construction of the 150-ton cyanide mill on the Cyanide Gold Mining Co.’s property is progressing; the mill structure is practically completed. The equipment will be largely fine-grinding machinery, the ore being ground in solution to 200 mesh.
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Coeur d’Alene.—Machine-drills are in operation on the Lookout Mountain Mine, on Pine Creek. Installation of power equipment was completed recently, and active development work started. The drills are in use in the lower cross-cut tunnel, which has been extended 435 ft. toward the vein, on the 300-ft. level. In the upper workings, the Lookout vein disclosed a strong showing of lead-silver ore, in carbonate form, across a 25-ft. width, and to reach this at greater depth, the present tunnel was started.
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The Alhambra concentrator on Elk Creek is to have its capacity increased, to handle 100 tons of ore daily. The entire plant will be remodeled, and the work will be completed about June 1, according to Stanly A. Easton, president. Jigs, rolls, and classifiers will be added to the flotation machines now in use. The tube-mill is being relined. These improvements were necessitated by the recent discovery of lead-silver ore on the Crescent group. About 14 men are employed in development work on the Alhambra, and Crescent properties.
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It is reported that lessees at the Hunter Mine are finding large pockets of high-grade silver ore, in the old workings of the mine. Several carloads have been shipped from these leases, with satisfactory results.
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Hailey.—The Bunker Hill & Sullivan company has acquired the Mayflower-Bullion Mine, consisting of six claims, situated seven miles from here, and will commence operations within a short time. The Mayflower Mine was originally owned by Col. E. A. Wall, of Salt Lake City, and the Bullion property was among the holdings of the Wood River Gold & Silver Mining Co. The two properties were operated in 1881, and since that time, have produced over 12,000 tons of lead-silver ore, with a gross value of $2,000,000.
Material and equipment have been shipped to the property.
At present the Wood River Power Co. is building a powerline from Hailey, to the Mayflower-Bullion, seven miles. The ore from the property will be shipped to Kellogg for treatment at the Bunker Hill smelter.
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Leonia.—The plan of placer-mining at the Gold & Ruby property is unusual, according to Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector for Idaho. A method of separating black and gray sands has been developed, and if the new concentrating plant works as successfully on a large scale as it does in the working model, it will be a new step in placer-mining practice. It is planned to save lead, copper, and other minerals, including garnets, miscalled rubies, as well as gold.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS M&S PRESS MAY 1 1920
May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS
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Boundary County —At the Idaho-Continental Mine, near Porthill, milling operations will be resumed as soon as a force can be assembled, according to A. Klockmann, general manager. Water is flowing in sufficient volume for the generation of power. Approximately 30,000 tons of ore is broken in the mine, and the ore in sight, is sufficient for one and a half, to two years of milling. All of the concentrated ore on hand, was hauled during the winter.
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Coeur d’Alene —H. E. Owen, of Spokane, head of the Wardner Leasing Co., has obtained an option for two years on the property of the Slavonian Mining Co. and the Petronivich claims, having an area of 100 acres at Wardner. Included in the Petronivlch claims is the Butler, from which high-grade ore was shipped.
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The Caledonia Mining Co. has declared its regular dividend of $26,000. This is at the rate of one cent per share, on the issue of 2,605,000 shares. The disbursement, which will be made May 5, will raise the total dividends to $4,063,800.
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The Nabob Consolidated Mining Co. has plans for the installation of equipment for saving the zinc in its ore. The value of the zinc passing through the mill, is estimated at $300 per day. An important saving is anticipated from a new electric-haulage system in the lower tunnel.
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The present board of the Hecla Mining Co. was re-elected at the annual meeting at Spokane, recently. James F. McCarthy is president, treasurer, and manager. The board of directors has authorized the disbursement of an extra dividend of $50,000, at the time of the regular quarterly disbursement of $150,000 in June, making the total payment $200,000 or 20c per share on the issue or 1,000,000 shares. The forthcoming payment will increase the grand total of dividends to $8,205,000.
The company is hoisting 750 tons daily. About 600 tons of this is passed into the mill, the remainder being waste and shipping ore. The quantity of material hoisted, is greater than at this period, a year ago, but less than that of a corresponding period two years ago. Shipments are being made at the rate of 100 tons per day.
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