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TIDBITS OF INFO- IDAH0September 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 1929THE 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 1929THE 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 1929THE MINING JOURNAL JUNE 30 1929
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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 1929THE 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 1929THE 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 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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NEW IDAHO ROTARY DREDGE WORD POST TMJ 3 15 1940
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GOLD HILL MINE QUARTZBURG, ID PIC EMJ 9 23 1922
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IDAHO MINING NEWS MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1931for AUGUST 13, 1931 The Mining Journal
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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 1930MINING 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 1930IDAHO
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 | |
