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for AUGUST 13, 1931 The Mining Journal

IDAHO
The discovery of a blanket formation of quartz and arseno-pyrite, 16 feet thick, has been reported from the Kittie Burton gold mine on Indian Creek of the Salmon River, near Ulysses, Idaho. Some assays have been run and have varied from $5.60 to $27 a ton in gold. The property is equipped with a 15-stamp mill, tramways, water power, electric light plant and substantial mine buildings. It is being reopened by E. D. Hanson and H. W. Ingalls of Mullan, Idaho, and J. A. Ilerndon and Thomas Boyle of Salmon.

The Feather River Gold Placer Company, Rupert Winters, manager, Fairfield, Idaho, is installing machinery and is building a long flume to carry water from the Feather River. Twenty men are engaged in the work. Actual placering should be in progress this month, and it is estimated that it will take eight years to work the deposits.

The Clear Grit Mining Company is crosscutting northerly from a drift at the lower tunnel level, hoping to locate a parallel vein. While the actual crosscutting is under contract to Victor Carlson, the program of development is outlined and under the general supervision of E. G. Gnaedinger of Wallace, Idaho, mining engineer. The vein at the lower level has been followed 800 feet.

Plans are being made for the early development of the property of the Ace Mining Company in the Hoodoo district in Latah county, Idaho, comprising four patented and two unpatented mining claims, Work was suspended many years ago, after an incline shaft had been sunk 90 feet on a vein eight feet wide at the surface and a lower tunnel had proven the vein of similar dimensions. The ore is estimated to average $28 a ton in free gold. Charles C. Taylor, B. F, D. No. 5, Spokane, Washington, is president and general manager of the enterprise, and has just returned from the property.

The Idaho Motherlode Gold Mines Company, J. T. Wenstrom, president and general manager, 1217 Twelfth Avenue, Lewiston, Idaho, is installing a 50-ton test mill and intends to place it in operation this fall. During the last year, approximately 1,900 feet of development work has been done and while no high-grade ore has been opened, a large tonnage of millable ore has been proven. A tunnel is being driven to cut a continuation of a vein of high grade that is eight feet wide in the adjoining Lone Pine mine and a 400-foot tunnel is being driven on the Franklin group.

A shortage of water has handicapped milling operations of the Mutual Mines Development Company at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Therefore, all work is row being directed to developing an adequate supply. Some water is being obtained from a well nearby and other sources of supply are being developed. A carload of high-grade concentrate has been delivered to the Bunker Hill smelter and since a better grade of ore is being mined, an increase in output is looked for. Russell F. Collins, Wallace, Idaho, is vice-president.

The Sidney Mining Company, Leslie M. Gay, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has engaged a crew mining ore, and early in August will be shipping to the Sullivan electrolytic zinc plant. The Sidney trains its ore over the mountain to one of the plants of the Bunker Hill company for milling, and from there it goes to the electrolytic zinc plant, which is turning out 30 tons of refined metal daily and is especially interested in Sidney ore. The Sidney ore will be handled in addition to the zinc, which is being treated from the Bunker Hill and Hecla properties.

The Mammoth Mining and Development Company, J. R Flais, president and manager, is installing a reduction plant at his property not far from Dixie, Idaho, and hopes to have it in operation before the end of this month. From 1925 until late in 1928, this property was worked by the Mammoth Mines Corporation, of which R. S. Erb and H. C. Bailey of Lewiston, Idaho, were president and secretary-treasurer, respectively. It was then optioned to Mr. Flais and he is now working under a bond and lease agreement. Several hundred feet of tunnel have been opened and encouraging amounts of gold have been found.

After they had heard the reports on the property at the recent annual meeting, the directors of the Callahan Zinc-Lead Company authorized further exploration and some development in the Galena property, west of Wallace, Idaho. Considerable ore has been opened in the new south vein on the 800, 1,000 and 1,200 levels and work has been started on the 1,600 level. The ore is of excellent grade and several ore-shoots of commercial importance bear indications of merging at depth. The annual meeting was held in New York and President D. A. Callahan and Secretary-General Manager C. W. Newton, both of Wallace, were present.

The face of the exploration tunnel of the Liberal King Mining Company on Pine Creek, in the Yreka district in Idaho, has reached a point 1,500 feet from its portal, according to A. M. Nash, contractor doing the work. The tunnel is expected to open ore that has already been opened 500 feet in the No. 1 tunnel and for a length of 800 feet in the No. 2 tunnel. Another 500 feet will probably be required to reach the ore at the low point.

The Pasco Mining Company, Charles F. Diemond, president, Pasco, Washington, is crosscutting north from the 800-foot point in a 1,000-foot tunnel driven under former management. The face is entering a mineralized zone and the objective is believed to lie within 100 feet. William Ryan holds a contract fir the operation. This property comprises one patented and three unpatented claims a mile east of Kellogg, Idaho, operated under lease from the Eldorado Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd.

H. A. Prescott and John Conwell of Mullan, Idaho, are considering re-working the old dump at the Golden Chest mine, near that town. The property was at one time an important producer in the district. Average samples from the old dump showed a metallic content of as high as $3.55 a ton in gold.

Operations of the Sunshine Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, manager, were reduced to a five-day week basis, beginning July 13, on account of the present unfavorable metals market. Likewise, the other important producers in the Coeur d’Alenes are still operating on a basis of from 20 to 50 per cent of normal production.

The new 100-ton concentrator. of the Hope Mining Company in the Clark Fork district in Idaho has made its first run. Officers and many of the stockholders were there to see the froth flow over the Fahrenwald cells, to be filtered, and placed in bins, ready for shipment to the smelter. A. 0. Holte of Coeur d’Alene is president.

During the month of June, the Jack Waite Mining Company at Murray, Idaho, John H. Turner, general manager, made a record probably not excelled. In 30 days, with a crew of 30 men, it shipped 30 tons of concentrates and high-grade lead-zinc-silver ore. The Montana shaft is down more than 140 feet and the ore is still going strong in the bottom. Neither has the limit of the vein been reached in the raise above the tunnel. Only a small tonnage of ore had to be stoped and added to the ore removed in raising and sinking to keep the mill going one shift a day, which has provided the shipments mentioned above.

The Big Buffalo mine on Buffalo Hump, southwest of Elk City, Idaho, is reported optioned to Nate B. Pettibone, representing the F. W. Bradley interests, with headquarters in the Crocker Building in San Francisco. He has also optioned the Jumbo group in the same district. A 14-horse pack train is taking in supplies, and Oscar Hershey of San Francisco and E. W. Kevern of Kellogg, Idaho, are making a survey and examination of the property.

The $100,000 gold dredge of the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation on Grimes Creek, near Pioneerville, Idaho, has been completely demolished by fire. Although the origin of the blaze has not been definitely determined, it is believed to have been caused by a short circuit in the electrical system. The dredge had been in operation on the creek for six years and was so thoroughly dried out that the flames were immediately beyond control and nothing could be saved. Adding to the loss of the machinery, operations are cut off in the middle of the season. Last year more than $60,000 worth of gold was washed and 15 men were working this year when the disaster came. The loss is partially covered by insurance, and President S. K. Atkinson, Box 2120, Boise, Idaho, and his directors are busy on plans for a new set-up.

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MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930

CONTINENTAL MINES ENTERS JUNCTION MINING DISTRICT

Headed by C. M. Sonoda, an American-born Japanese of Seattle, Washington, the Continental Standard Mining Company has entered the Junction Mining District, near Leadore, Lemhi County, Idaho, and has taken over a group of 35 claims, located on the Continental Divide. Ore shipments were made from five of these claims in the early eighties, when silver sold for over $1 an ounce.

George Brown (nicknamed Grizzly Brown) discovered this district, and it is reported that from the 100-foot level of his shaft, he took ore that went 5,500 ounces of silver to the ton. This ore was hand-sorted and conveyed by wagons to Red Rock, Montana, from which point it was shipped to the smelters.

When the news of this find reached Butte, and the other near-by camps, a number of miners came to the district, and located claims, which they worked, and from which they shipped ore. These old producing claims have been correlated under one head, and are now controlled by the Continental Standard Mining Company, of which Mr. Sonoda is president, and Dr. H. H. Scarborough of Idaho Falls, Idaho, secretary.

The formation of the Continental Standard Claims is similar to that of the old Viola Mine, located a few miles south and east on the same range, and has a production record of about 12 million dollars in the eighties, when lead sold for 2 cents to 8 cents per pound. This property accounted for one-fifth of the lead produced in the United States during its period of activity.

During the last year considerable development work has been done on the Continental Standard property, and a shaft sunk to the 200-foot level. By drifting, ore has been encountered, that runs 62 ounces of silver per ton, and 40 per cent lead; also a four-inch seam of talc that carries 18 per cent lead, and 2 ounces of silver. This shaft is located on the Road Agent Claim, from which three carloads of ore were shipped in the early eighties, that had been hand sorted and carried values up to 600 ounces of silver, and 64 per cent lead.

The camp comprises a number of buildings, such as residence for the mine superintendent, bunk houses for the men, a modern assay house, fully equipped; a compressor and hoist, and a machine shop, on the Road Agent Claim. Ten men are employed at present, but this number will be augmented gradually until three shifts are employed in sinking and driving crosscuts, at three different camps on the property.

At the west end of the property is a sheared zone, caused by heavy glacial action, which has broken up the surface to a considerable depth, and a number of tunnels have been driven in the side of the hill to ascertain the amount of milling ore that is in sight. It is estimated that sufficient milling ore is in sight to warrant the installation of a flotation mill to handle 150 tons of ore per day. The average assay runs approximately 10 percent lead, and 6 ounces silver, and makes an exceedingly clean concentrate.

Mr. Sonoda has surrounded himself with a corps of prominent Japanese who are building a treasury of $250,000 for the financing of this undertaking. Stock is being placed at the present time, only with Japanese in the seven western states—California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Arizona.

Assisted by engineers, Mr. Sonoda spent about 14 months investigating the possibilities of this property before giving it his support. The work he and his associates have undertaken has aroused considerable interest, and noticeable progress has been made on the property since he was made president.
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IDAHO

Mines in the State of Idaho, disbursed $792,179 in dividends, during December. The largest contributor to this total was the Hecla Mining Company, which disbursed $250,000 at the rate of 25 cents a share for the quarter.
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The Delaware Mines Corporation, Frank S. Bailey, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has made a strike in the Rex Mine, on the Red Monarch Tunnel level, 1,000 feet below the Rex Tunnel No. 2, and about 900 feet west of the Rex Shaft. The face of the drift has two streaks of highgrade lead-silver ore, one 14, and the other, 6 inches wide, and the remainder of the face is milling grade. There is only slight evidence of zinc, the stringer opened farther back in the drift, having disappeared. On the east side of the shaft, above the No. 2 Tunnel Level, the vein proved to be 700 feet long, and produced nearly all of the ore produced by the old Rex Company, estimated at more than $2,000,000. The management plans to continue the drift to a point beneath the shaft, and raise to connection with it. This will drain the upper workings, permit examination, restoration of the shaft to service, and speed up production.
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The Mackay Light and Power Company has installed a 120-horsepower steam engine, in the boiler room of the Mackay Metals Company, Mackay, Idaho, W. E. Narkaus, general manager. This engine is to be hooked up with a 50-kilowatt generator, and connected to synchronize with the generator, at the hydroelectric plant in Cedar Creek Canyon. This will more than double the capacity of the hydroelectric plant under the present flow of water.
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The Triumph Development Company has nearly completed its aerial tram, between the mine and the loading station, on the railway near Ketchum, Idaho. The tram is being constructed by Broderick and Bascom of St. Louis, and when the contract was signed, was believed to represent an expenditure of approximately $80,000. The company has laid off about 25 men, on account of the bad condition of the road, and because trucking contracts have expired, but this number will be employed again, when the tramway is in operation. J. C. Jensen, 220 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is general manager of the company.
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Net earnings of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, for the quarter ended October 31, 1929, were $785,780 before depreciation, depletion, taxes, and charges, for construction and equipment, as compared with $765,444 in the preceding quarter, and $599,240 in the October quarter, 1928. Deductions for construction and equipment during the quarter were $52,289, as compared with $80,870 in the preceding quarter, and $80,520 in the October quarter, 1928. During the October quarter, 1929, the company shipped 40,412 tons of ore and concentrates to the smelter, as compared with 41,664 tons in the preceding quarter, and 36,843 tons in the October quarter, 1928.
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The Syringa Mining Company, Herschel Weaver, Sandpoint, Idaho, has completed ore bunkers having a combined capacity of 160 tons, and a sorting shed, where the high and low-grade ores will be separated. Efforts are concentrated on blocking out ore for milling. An 18-inch width of the veins assay between $30 and $40 in gold, and about two feet is of milling grade, assaying an average of $10 per ton.
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According to President Herman J. Rossi and Secretary H. C. Russell, the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, Wallace, Idaho, had 1,286,000 tons of developed and possible ore, on October 6, 1929. This ore was estimated to be worth $4,408,229, and increases in the reserves have been made from that time until the end of the year. I)uring 1929, 88 carloads of lead, and 12 carloads of zinc ore, were shipped.
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According to President E. S. Crane, 1004 East Mission Avenue, Spokane, financial arrangements have been made for the development of the Nellie Mine, of the Yakima-Shoshone Mining Company, in Rosebud Gulch, near Osburn, Idaho. An examination by Engineer S. L. Shonts of Wallace, recommends driving a tunnel 200 feet lower than the lowest drift in the mine, which is 400 feet below the surface, and 1,600 feet above the lowest working level of the Sunshine Mine. At this depth in the Sunshine, the vein is rich, and is increasing in width. The new tunnel in the Nellie Mine, including 800 feet of drift, and a raise to the bottom of the present shaft, is estimated to cost $40,000. Samples taken from the lowest drift in the Nellie, assayed 1.2 to 13.2 per cent copper, and 14.5 to 801.1 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Pontiac Mining Company, H. O. Stapleton, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, has leased the workings above the No. 1 Intermediate Tunnel, on the North Fork in the Coeur d’Alenes, to Isaac Finkle. It is understood that mining and shipping will be started immediately.
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The Dayrock Mining Company, A. E. Lawson, general manager, Yakima, Washington, has proven a large body of ore, on the 400-foot level of its property, in the Coeur d’Alenes, and the ore continues both in quantity, and quality, above that level. About 20 carloads of ore are being marketed daily, and this tonnage can be increased at any time that the management chooses. Later, a larger hoist is to be installed in preparation of deeper mining. A dividend of 3 cents a share, amounting to $50,829, was disbursed December 31, to stock of record December 20. This was the fourth disbursement of this amount made last year. The Dayrock is the only Day-controlled mine on a dividend paying basis.
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From two to four carloads of ore daily, have been shipped by the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mines Company, Jerome J. Day, president and manager, Wallace, Idaho, since its surface plant had been moved to Canyon Creek. Sinking is in progress at the 1,200 Level, to prove the continuation of the so-called new ore body below that level.
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The Hull Leasing Company, H. J. Hull, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is preparing to develop a group of six claims between the Mutual, and the Dayrock properties, near Gem, Idaho. A tunnel has been run on the vein about 400 feet, and shows some silver and lead ore. Deeper development is planned. An official statement made during the summer, was to the effect that the Hull Lease was operating a 100-ton selective flotation mill.
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Milling was resumed on a one-shift basis in the 100-ton flotation plant of the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, William Becker, manager, Wallace, Idaho, following a fire on August 16, in which the foreman, and two others, lost their lives. Robert Hunt, now foreman, has charge of 24 men, and attention Is centered on the extraction of ore. As soon as ore can be drawn from the intermediate stope, which will be a matter of only a few days, the mill will be operated during 24 hours daily.
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The Bunker Hill, and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, S. A. Easton, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has built a highway to its property, near Yellow Pine, cleared ground for an airport, and has made a survey for an electric power plant. The limestone zone in this property, is impregnated with cinnabar, and from 5 to 80 pounds of quicksilver to the ton can be taken across the vein, sometimes as wide as 80 feet.
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At the Hall Interstate Mine, in the Deadwood Basin, a 250-horsepower hydroelectric power plant has been completed to supplement a similar plant, in providing power for the mill. This mill is equipped to grind 300 tons of ore daily and the building is large enough to house machinery that can mill 500 tons of ore daily.
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The Ft. Wayne Mining Company, E. W. Conrad, president and manager, West 213 Shannon Street, Spokane, Washington, has started work on a new program of development in its property, one mile west of Osburn, Idaho, as outlined by Engineer S. L. Shonts of Wallace. The ground comprises 19 claims, where water and timber are sufficient for the needs of the company, and supplies are in to carry on work all winter.
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A nine-inch vein of high-grade gold-silver ore, has been uncovered in the property of the Regal Mining Corporation, Compton I. White, manager, Clark Fork, Idaho. The discovery is said to have been made within 140 feet of the objective of development.
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The B!ue Ribbon Mining Company has temporarily suspended underground exploration, according to Coleman Frazier, manager, Burke, Idaho. During the suspension, additional accommodations will be built for the employees, surface improvements made, and plans made for further underground work. A 2-mill assessment has been levied on all of the outstanding stock, to meet a small indebtedness. The officers of the organization are: Irwin Enos, president; N. C. Armstrong, vice-president, and Al. Harris, secretary.
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W. A. Anderson, president of the Gold Star Mining Company, having property seven miles from Elk City, Idaho, has purchased $60,000 worth of property at the Black Diamond Mine, 25 miles from the Gold Star. The equipment includes rail, compressor, four ore cars, engine, boiler, 10-stamp mill, redwood cyanide tanks, hoist, buckets, gasoline pump, sawmill, planing mill, blacksmith shop, and about 200,000 feet of lumber. Transportation between the Gold Star, and the Black Diamond Mines, will be accomplished by use of a large tractor.
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Four carloads of concentrates were shipped during November, by the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, L. B. Neale, superintendent, Kellogg, Idaho, and it was planned that six would be shipped during December. A considerable reduction has been noticed in operating costs, since placing the work on a three-shift basis, and the sorting system, recently put into effect, is almost doubling the mineral content in the ore.
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The Blue Wing and Zanetti Property, in the Nine Mile District, near Wallace, Idaho, for a time operated under lease by the McPhillips Syndicate of Seattle, Washington, has been reorganized by a group of Seattle men, headed by Charles D. Davis, mining engineer, Lippy Building. All debts of the McPhillips Syndicate have been settled, and the new operators have organized as the Zanetti Mining Company. This property adjoins the Dayrock.
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As a result of the decline in the price of lead, the Hecla Mining Company, and the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, both operating in the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho, have adopted a six-day operating policy. Several weeks ago the latter company, laid off between 50 and 60 men, in an effort to curtail production, while the Hecla Company had been shutting down every other Sunday.
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The Bunker Hill, and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, has completed ore bins, and laid track to its Crescent Property on Big Creek. The driving of the Hooper tunnel has been resumed, and this adit, which is about a mile long, will be used for the removal of ore from the property.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

IDAHO

Edward B. Clark, of Clark Fork, Idaho, is running a 40-foot crosscut from the tunnel of the Lucky Opal Mine, to what is presumed to be the hanging wall of a vein. Two veins in the property, are capped with from six to eight inches of hematite, some of which may be shipped to help defray expenses in developing the ground.
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The Constitution Mining and Milling Company, W. P. White, Masonia, Idaho, is operating its mill during three shifts daily, and turning out concentrates that average 62 percent lead, and zinc. A monthly production of between 900 and 1,000 tons of concentrates, is anticipated. Mr. White reports underground conditions excellent. The north drift on the 600 Level, was in commercial ore for 268 feet, with the exception of the first 15 feet; the raise from the 600 Level to the 400, is in commercial values, and a tunnel is being driven on the vein at the same level as the main operating tunnel, but from the opposite side of the hill. Recent improvements include new ore bins, a conveyor for loading concentrates into trucks at the mill, an N-88 stoper, pipe, and self-dumping skip.
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The Hypotheek Mining and Milling Company, Otto A. Olsson, manager, Wallace, Idaho, intends to resume work at its property, south of Kingston, this month. Instead of trying to locate commercial ore in the Hypotheek veins proper, new ground will be explored, to find the possible extensions of three or four producing veins in the Pine Creek District.
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The Exploration Company of California, organized late in 1929, is operating mining property, covering the west half of the South Mountain District, about 25 miles south of Silver City, Idaho. The acquisition followed the report of Oscar H. Hershey of San Francisco, geologist for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company, and other prominent geologists, who estimate 54,000 tons of known ore in the Laxey Tunnel, which is only partially developed.
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New camp buildings were erected, and some machinery installed, to permit the driving of two tunnels, under contract to Messrs. Weaver and Hendricks, of Mountain Home, Idaho. The work will be continued until spring, when it is probable that further developments will be started. According to Mr. Hershey, it is estimated that $250,000 will bring the ground to the point of development where a mill is necessary. The officers of the Exploration company are: Charles Butters, president; Thomas J. Barbour, vice-president, and A. L. Dahl, secretary. M. O. Sacrider will supervise work at the mine. Butters and Barbour are San Francisco, California men, and have established headquarters for the organization in the Balfour Building.
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During 1929, the Sidney Mining Company paid $30,000 in dividends from royalties received from the Sidney Leasing Company. This figure brought the grand total paid by the parent company to $86,
250. The leasing company paid $15,430 in dividends during the year, bringing its grand total to date to $64,939. C. W. Brown of Kellogg, Idaho, is general manager of the leasing company.
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The mine and mill of the Dickens Consolidated Mining Company, near Kellogg, Idaho, have been shut down temporarily, on account of the low price of lead, and because the Bunker Hill smelter has a large surplus of zinc ores on hand, and has refused to accept any more. Dickens ore has a high zinc content, and returns from the lead alone would be insufficient to pay operating expenses at the property. Another handicap is the fact that the Dickens Company is not prepared to store zinc ores other than on its dump. During Noyember, four carloads of concentrates were produced, and December production was more profitable. Of the crew of 40 men, only a few have been retained in development, and no ore will be mined.
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A good showing of lead-silver ore has been opened in the old Viola Mine, in the Nicholia Mining District, according to William E. Clarke of Reno, Idaho, one of the Clarke Brothers, operating the ground. It is planned to begin shipping the ore as soon as the road is in condition to permit hauling to Gilmore.
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The Gold King-Delhi Mines Corporation. S. P. Schrieber, secretary, 327 Noble Building, Boise, Idaho, has let a contract to drive a second tunnel 125 feet above, and 25 feet farther back, than the portal of the present adit. Connection between these tunnels will be made to serve as an ore chute, and a more economical means of ventilation. Two shifts are tunneling. Cabins and a blacksmith shop have been erected and a third shift is building ore bins.
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The Amalgamated Red Metals Company, P. A. Summerland, president, Yellow Pine, Idaho, has cut three feet of high-grade ore in driving the No. 4, or main tunnel, to the Red Metals Vein, and undercutting the high-grade and milling ore exposed in the Nos. 1, 2 and 8 Ellison Workings. Charles Heim, vice-president and mine foreman, said 18 inches had been cut in the new vein. This property was equipped during the past summer with a suitable camp, and both mining and milling machinery.
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Additional power and pumping capacity have been installed at the King of Pine Creek Shaft in the Pine Creek District, Idaho, where the flow of water is being handled satisfactorily, although there is no apparent decrease. Owing to conditions that would have made it unprofitable to sink the shaft at the contract price, it is now being sunk by the company on a ‘day’s pay’ basis. The Strattons, of Wallace, Idaho, control this mine, and Harry P. Pearson is superintendent of their enterprises.
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Official announcement has been made that the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company will discontinue the payment of one of its two extra dividends of 25 cents a share on February 5. This action is on account of the present depressed prices for metals, particularly zinc and silver, which is making the surplus insufficient to warrant the paying of its regular and two extra monthly dividends, in addition to paying for all new development and construction work under way. Dividends have been paid monthly at the annual rate of $3 regular, and $6 extra.
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The Consolidated Metals Company, operating under lease, in the Lincoln Mine, near Wallace, Idaho, is making preparations to sink a shaft, 400 feet. George C. Evans and Robert Madzgalla have charge of the work. In view of the belief that the Sunshine Vein, where some remarkable ore
has been opened, extends east through Lincoln Ground. Development has been discontinued, and attention turned to continuing the main crosscut south, to intersect the extension of the Sunshine Vein. Work was stopped in this crosscut, probably on account of financial troubles, and the length required to reach the objective has not been determined, as the vein will probably not be reached closer to the surface than 1,500 feet. Several years ago a good showing of silver, lead and zinc was opened in an upper tunnel and shipments of high grade made.
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A strike has been made by the Sidney Leasing Company, C. W. Brown, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, in crosscutting a short distance into the footwall west of the shaft on the 700 Level. According to Mr. Brown, the ore is 42 inches wide, and is practically solid high-grade zinc-lead, of considerable higher value than the main oreshoot on that level. Ore is being stoped from the surface, to the No. 7 Level, a vertical depth of 800 feet. The No. 6 is the deepest tunnel, and the No. 7 is the first shaft level. The shaft has been sunk 140 feet below the No. 7 Level, and has shown some ore. The mill is treating 150 tons of ore, averaging 20 to 25 percent combined lead and zinc, daily, and the resulting concentrates are a substantial percentage of the “Bunker Hill” brand zinc. The concentrates are transported over an aerial tramway, between the mill, and Silver King, on the O. W. R. & N. railway, a distance of three miles.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has made an incline raise from the 500 Level, to the Price Tunnel, and is continuing the raise 130 feet above that level, to provide room for the new hoist, which is being built by the Coeur d’Alene Hardware and Foundry Company at Wallace. The incline shaft now extends between the 500, and 1,800, levels and the hoist is designed to operate to a depth of 3,800 feet, with a capacity to lift a skip load of four tons, at a speed of 700 feet per minute.
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H. C. Stapleton of Wallace, Idaho, is sponsoring the development of the Messenger Group of seven claims owned by Clay Cues, through the $10 option system, which has been successful in the operation of the Dayrock, and Option, mines in the Coeur d’Alenes. Nine additional claims have been located, making a compact group of 16 claims, covering the extension of two veins. Two samples were taken from one of these veins, opened at a depth of about 200 feet, by a 180-foot drift, and returned 12.7 ounces silver, and 5.8 percent lead; and 8.5 ounces silver, and 7 percent lead. The Messenger group is about a mile from the railroad at Eagle.
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Two carloads of ore have been shipped by the Rex Leasing and Development Company, from the Okanogan Vein, and are of much higher grade than the preceding shipment made a short time ago from the Rex Vein, west of the shaft. Francis Stout, Harry Hebble and Elmer E. Johnson of Kellogg, Idaho, own the leaseand made the last two shipments from a two-foot width of solid ore.
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In addition to its regular shipments of lead concentrate, the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, Herman J. Rossi, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, shipped a carload of crude lead ore, recovered from the sorting belt. The ore carries very little silver. A previous shipment of crude lead ore, made on December 11, 1929, returned 77.85 per cent lead, comparing favorably with pure galena, or lead sulphide, which contains 86.6 per cent lead to the ton.
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Isaac Hinkle is taking out a carload shipment of ore from his lease on the Terrible Edith Mine, Murray, Idaho. The ore is being mined from a 12-inch ore-shoot that has been opened 10 feet, and carries high lead content. It is 350 feet above the No. 4 tunnel.
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The Pandora Mining Company, operating on Blizzard Mountain, about 25 miles west of Arco, Idaho, shipped a carload of surface ore, just before snowfall halted outside operations. The main working tunnel, being driven to intersect the ore body at depth, is now in 850 feet, and will be extended 500 feet, this winter. Part of this development is expected to be in ore, as the ledge should be cut, in 300 feet or less. Frederic Keffer, E. M., of Spokane, Washington, was on the property late last fall, and reiterated his prediction of success for the company, which he had made in an earlier report. He mapped the workings and surveyed the surface. Further development and shipments are planned for next year. Charles A. Mayo, 214 North Twenty-fourth Avenue, Yakima, Washington, is president and general manager of the company.
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The Tucker Mining and Milling Company, Peter Bahn, president and manager, Box 551, Wallace, Idaho, has let contracts for 100 feet of tunnel work, in the main crosscut, to O. Wolff, of Spokane. Materials are being assembled to go ahead with the work. This crosscut has been extended 1,200 feet, and, according to surveys, the next 100 feet will reach the vein at a depth of over 500 feet.
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A group of Woodruff, Utah, men have taken over the property of the Silver Hill Mining Company in the Black Pine District, Cassia County, Idaho, operated about 30 years ago through a shaft sunk about 80 feet, at the intersection of a north-south, and an east-west vein. Some ore, sampling as high as $200 per ton, was shipped from the property at that time, and it is estimated that 10,000 tons of milling ore, averaging $15 a ton, are still in the ground. The Woodruff men are driving a tunnel along the east-west vein, and have already reached a length of 240 feet. Timber is available for mining purposes, and water is piped from a spring that has a flow of three gallons per minute, into a 10,000-gallon tank. The boarding house is modern and a compressor is on the road to the mine.
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The Big Three Mining Company, William Tyler, president, Burke, Idaho, has opened a six-inch width of steel galena in a crosscut, to the left from the old Matt Tunnel. This was formerly the East Standard Property, and comprises six claims covering both sides of the canyon, between the Hecla, and the Mammoth, mines. Bob Ivy and George Miller are driving the tunnel under contract.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has paid $830,000 in dividends during 1929. The last payment was made on December 20, at the rate of 8 cents a share, instead of 5 cents a share, during the two previous quarters, and 2 cents a share in the 12 previous bi-monthly payments. Improvements are being made to facilitate operations, and underground, the incline shaft between the 500, and 1,800 levels is being extended, so that the vertical shaft from the 500 level, can be discontinued. Plans are being made to open the ore bodies on the 1,300 level.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation is getting ready to extend its main tunnel, to cut a vein exposed at the surface, across a width of from 12 to 20 feet. According to surveys, the tunnel will reach the objective in another 500 feet, and at a depth of 700 feet. Metropolitan Mines held its first meeting recently, and chose the following officers: R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, president; Matt Baumgartner, vice-president; John F. Ferguson of Wallace, secretary-treasurer, and Ray Williams of Wallace and John Stanford of Spokane, additional directors. Stock is now being exchanged on a share-for-share basis for the stock of the Sterling Silver Mountain Mining Company, original operator of the ground.
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Fire destroyed the blacksmith and machine shop, the dry room, and the parts room, of the Whitedelf Mining Company, Clarksfork, Idaho, C. I. White, general manager. The mill and the compressor room were saved by pumping water from the 200-foot level.
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TENTATIVE PLANS TO SUPPLY GAS TO THREE IDAHO TOWNS

According to L. Fitzpatrick, general manager for the Utah Gas and Coke Company, approximately $3,500,000 may be spent in laying a pipeline for distribution of natural gas to Pocatello, Preston, and Franklin, Idaho. Actual construction of the line awaits the sanction of the public utilities commission.

A two-day hearing was recently held at Pocatello by the Commission, at which time protests were made by the Public Utilities Consolidated Corporation of Pocatello, manufacturers of gas; the Grand Teton Oil Company of Idaho Falls, drilling at Driggs; and the Norton Oil and Gas Company of Pocatello, drilling at Arimo.

After the transcript has been prepared, the applicants have 10 days in which to file a brief, and the protestants have another 20 days to file their brief. The applicants have another 10 days in which to file their reply, after which oral arguments will be heard, and the commission will render its decision.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

IDAHO

The only dividend reported from mines in the State of Idaho, during May, is a monthly, and extra disbursement of $163,500 paid by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company.
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The Ft. Wayne Mining Company has been reorganized as the Idaho-Montana Mining and Oil Company, and its articles of incorporation amended, to permit the company to also engage in the oil and gas business. The capital stock has been increased from $500,000, divided into 1,500,000 shares of 83 cents par, to $1,000,000, divided into 2,000,000 shares of 50 cents par. The proposal to reduce the board of directors, to five, was defeated, and the board elected includes: President E. W. Conrad of Wallace; Secretary-Treasurer J. M. Henneck, H. O. Henneck, E. G. Gooding, and D. E. C. Grove, all of Spokane; J. B. Collins of Osburn, F. C. Boltz of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and T. B. Swearington and G. C. Funk, both of Pendleton, Oregon. The property in question, is 19 claims, on McFarren Creek, about five and one-half miles west of Wallace, Idaho, and most of the development has been done through a tunnel, advanced 2,300 feet on the east side of the creek. The surface buildings include a compressor house, equipped with a gasoline-driven compressor, a bunkhouse, and a boarding house. The property had been kept open last winter, although no development had been done worth mentioning (Probably too cold to work, but not too cold to party.)
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A controlling interest in the Belmont Mining Company, Ltd., owning mining property in Two-Mile Gulch, four miles northeast of Osborn, Idaho, has been acquired by the Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Company, a new concern. The group comprises 15 claims, showing three parallel contact veins, in Burke and Revett quartzite. Lead, silver, manganese, a little zinc, and traces of gold, and copper, have been revealed in assays made on the ore. The officers are: L. O. Tollefson. 388 Peyton Building, Spokane, president; and H. C. Myers, vice-president, and George H. Noble, Sr., secretary-treasurer, both of Spokane. These with C. F. Chafin of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Miss A. M. Hoffstater, managing director of the Seattle American Eagle Mine, form the Board of Directors.
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The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company has taken a lease and option on the War Eagle Gold Mine, on Crooked Creek, near Dixie, Idaho. It is understood that a 25-ton oil flotation plant is to be installed early this fall. E. B. Ellis, Alaska Building, Seattle, Washington, is president of the organization.
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The Neva Copper Company is opening up the old Brady, or Comstock, group, near Boville, Idaho, under the management of Spencer Owen of Goldendale, Washington. The vein appears to be parallel to the Ruby Creek, a nearby property. The greater part of the capital for the Neva Copper, is furnished by the Jacroux Brothers, also of Goldendale.
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In its Crescent Mine, on Big Creek, in the Coeur d’Alenes, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Camp Company is putting up another raise from the Hooper Tunnel, to the upper levels. The Hooper Tunnel is about 5,000 feet long, and the raises are near its portal. This one will also be about 500 feet high (wow, that’s a tall back!) and is about one-third finished. Ore is being taken out through the other raise, while the second one is being completed. The 150-ton mill is being worked one shift daily, and is handling about 50 tons daily, from the first raise. S. A. Easton of Kellogg, Idaho, is general manager of the concern.
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The three-compartment main shaft of the Constitution Mining and Milling Company at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, manager, is being lowered below the No. 6 Level, and in another 50 feet, a station will be established from which the No. 8 Level will be run. An additional 12 men were employed for this work, with five men in the shaft, and one hoistman each on two shifts. On the No. 6 Level, the south drift has been advanced about 100 feet a month, since the ore was cut last fall, and has been in practically continuous ore. The 150-ton mill was placed in operation December 9, and has been operated almost continuously since then. The concentrates are shipped from the mill to Heim, seven miles distant, and from there, to the electrolytic plant at Great Falls, Montana.
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The Pontiac Mining Company has leased the Terrible Edith Mine, one and one-half miles northeast of Murray, Idaho, to Howard and John Conn, Rush White and Leo Hoban, who will operate as the Conn Leasing Company. The leasing company intends to start mining ore at once, and will use the compressor, driven by electric power, and all other equipment of the Pontiac organization. The first ore to be mined will probably be a deposit of lead-silver, exposed in a drift, from the top of a 350-foot raise, from the main tunnel. The Pontiac Company, represented by H. C. Stapleton, of Wallace, Idaho, plans to eventually drive a deep tunnel, but for the present will operate its ground under lease.
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To state briefly the plan of the Pandora Mining Company, near Martin, Idaho, President and General Manager Charles A. Mayo says that this year will be devoted to development, hoping to have enough ore in sight by next year, to justify the installation of a mill. The mine is at an elevation of 9,000 feet. The proposed mill will be built at 6,000 feet, and the ore carried by aerial tram from the mine, to the mill. It is believed that year-round operation will be possible. Mr. Mayo is a Yakima, Washington, man, and may be reached at 214 North Twenty-fourth Avenue.
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Granada Lead Mines, Inc., has started driving a tunnel in its property in. the Hunter District, Shoshone County, Idaho, northeast of Golconda ground. Three shifts are working, and at the 450-foot point, the tunnel is expected to reach the Granada Vein, at a depth of about 250 feet. The ultimate objective of the tunnel is the intersection of three rich veins: the Mayflower, the Klondike, and the Golconda, which will be reached about 500 feet beyond the Granada Vein. The Granada property is nine patented claims, on which payment was completed last October, and all financial arrangements have been made, to carry on development. The officers of the company are President A. H. Featherstone of Wallace, General Manager Ross L. Roundy, Secretary-Treasurer, O. W. Lewis, F. Cushing Moore, of Spokane, and Maunsell Mitchell, of Tacoma, president of the American Mortgage Company.
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The Ajax Mining Company, A. G. Anderson, general manager, Box 1086, Burke, Idaho, has reached the Long Sought Vein in the eastern part of its workings. The vein is between eight and nine feet wide, and if the parallel veins, or stringers, form a part of the vein, it may be as wide as 85 feet. Drifting is being done to determine the width. The ore carries a sprinkling of lead, with pyrite, and siderite, and is 1,000 feet east of the caved-in ore-shoot, at a depth of 2,000 feet on the dip, and under a hogback. F. Moriarty, 714 Fourteenth Avenue, Spokane, Washington, is president.
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A crew has started stoping on the third level of the property of the Burnt Cabin Mining Company, east of Hayden Lake, under the supervision of O. Y. Young. The work will be continued until the upraise reaches the tunnel. The Burnt Cabin has been working the past three summers, and last year, installed new machinery, provided better facilities for caring for the working crews, and cut timbers for use in the mine. William James of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is president of the company.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company has drifted 12 feet, on the No. 2 Vein, in its property in the Mineral District, 84 miles from Weiser, Idaho, and has proven ore across a width of three feet. The ore was sampled every 18 inches and assayed 80 ounces silver, 8.5 percent copper, 86 ounces silver, and 6 percent copper, to the ton. Another important development is an incline raise on the White Sam Vein, which samples 15 ounces silver, and 5 percent copper, to the ton. Only the best ore is saved for shipment and the remaining tonnage is piled on the dumps, for milling at a later date. A. I. D’Arcy of Goldfield, Nevada, is president and manager of the company.
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The Sunnyside, and the Dewey Gold Mines, in the Thunder Mountain Mining District, in Valley County, Idaho, have been acquired by the American Gold Corporation, Ltd., according to J. S. Tremayne. According to engineers’ reports, between 400,000 and 500,000 tons of commercial ore are blocked out in the Sunnyside workings, and ready for extraction and treatment. Churn drill prospecting has revealed the existence of a large tonnage, averaging $7 per ton.
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The Washington Water Power Company of Spokane, intends to build a line to the property of the United States Silver Lead Mines Company, in the Eagle District, near Prichard, Idaho. This mine adjoins the Jack Waite on the north, which is one of the most remote mines in the district served by the power company. United States Silver has a camp and modern machinery for mining. Last year about 700 feet of tunnel were driven under contract, and financed from assesments. George Moison, general manager, intends to start work in a crosscut tunnel shortly.
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A body of sulphide ore has been followed 85 feet, on the 1,000-foot Level of the MacKay Metals Company’s property at Mackay, Idaho, and the Cossack Tunnel is to be driven 600 feet below, or on the 1,600 Level. The production during the month of April was 12 carloads of copper concentrate, assaying 21 percent copper, and 10 carloads of crude copper ore, assaying 10 percent copper. The mill is treating approximately 220 tons of ore daily. During 1929, 66,578 dry tons of ore mined by lessees and on company account, which were reduced to 20,060 dry tons of concentrate. This production brought $497,974.24 in copper, gold and silver, of which $420,009.42 were received for the copper content. W. B. Narkaus is general manager.
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A 100-ton Mace smelter is to be installed at the Yellow Jacket Mine, near Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho, to further concentrate the product from the ball mill. This will effect considerable reduction in the cost of hauling the ore to market. The old stamp mill on the ground will not be used. John Lingelbach of Denver, and his son, are at Salmon, in connection with the proposed installations, and are active in the operation of this property. It is owned by J. M. Burkhart, Jr., of Salmon.
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The Horseshoe Copper Company, Ltd., has granted a lease on its property in the Alder Creek District, near Mackay, Idaho, to Thomas Thee, who already has a crew prospecting the ground. This group is 17 unpatented mining claims, and during the last 25 years, they have been worked intermittently in lease, and on company account. The ground is developed by three tunnels, and a vertical 350-foot shaft, which with the crosscuts, drifts and raises, total more than 2,000 feet. A complete camp is on the ground, and a two-drill electrically operated compressor and hoist are ready for work.
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The Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, William Becker, secretary and manager, Wallace, Idaho, has employed four men to lay a pipeline from the company’s dam, to its property, comprising five patented and 28 unpatented claims in the Summit District, near Murray. The line will be about 4,000 feet in length and will replace one destroyed by a forest fire last August. Pumping water and keeping the machines in good condition has been the only work done since January, and the date of the resumption of operations is indefinite.
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The directors of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company have announced that the regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on the preferred stock will be disbursed on June 19, to stock of record May 26, 1930.
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The Spokane and Idaho Copper Company is regrading the road between the mine and Harvard, Idaho, a distance of 17 miles, for the transportation of equipment, and has surveyed a permanent road that will be built on an easy grade. A boarding house and bunkhouse are to be built and spring water piped to both of these buildings. Jay P. Graves, 1108 Paulsen Building, Spokane, is president of the company. Deposits of copper-bearing ore were partly developed last year.
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It is understood that the Idamont Lead. Zinc Mines Company at Leonia, Idaho, has granted an option on its outstanding stock to New York interests. The option is for 60 days, from April 18, 1930. J. S. Hutchinson, 207 City Hall, Portland, Oregon, is president of the company.
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The ‘Mason Butte Mining Company, Guy A. Clark, president, Plummer, Idaho, has opened a four-foot width of ore across Lake Coeur d’Alerte from Harrison, Idaho. He has a five-year bond and lease on the ground from Utah capital. The ore carries commercial values in gold, silver, lead and copper. At the Iron Mine, between Worley and Plummer, the working force has been increased, a mine car purchased, and the tunnel will be opened the last of this month.
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Ore has been opened in a crosscut from the 150-foot level of the shaft workings of the Tamarack and Custer Consolidated Mines Company, Jerome J. Day, president and general manager, Wallace, Idaho, and at a depth of 2,550 feet below the surface. The new ore is in Chesapeake ground, about 90 feet from the shaft, which has been sunk from the Canyon Creek Tunnel, or No. 7 Level of the mine.
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Diamond drilling at the Hoyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho, has been meeting with some success, according to A. J. Koebel of Spokane, who has the contract to do the work. The first hole was put down 153 feet, at an angle of 45 degrees, and cut two feet of ore containing some zinc, 17 inches of fair ore, four and one-half feet of $28 silver-lead ore and several streaks of ore. The second drill revealed 101 feet of ore, running from $8-$70 per ton. This is being drilled to determine the east boundary of the ore.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS 6 30 1930

Nine mining companies, operating in the Boise Basin in Idaho, have protested the abandonment of 13.819 miles of track between Stierman, and Centerville, stating that their properties are adjacent to the railroad, and are dependent upon the road to carry freight and supplies to their camps, and to haul concentrates from the mines. These mines employ in the neighborhood of 200 men, and maintain a monthly payroll of close to $30,000. The United States Forestry Service, and the stockmen in the district, have opposed the abandonment of the road.
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The Trade Dollar Consolidated Mining Company intends to construct a power plant at Swan Falls, on the Snake River, to furnish power for its mines and mills at Silver City, Idaho. The point at which the power will be developed, will be about 26 miles from the mine, and the project will cost close to $250,000. A. J. Wiley of Silver City, is chief engineer, and Willard White will be superintendent in charge.
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Recent development of the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, has been focused on the lower levels, where drilling has proven new ore bodies, apparently as extensive as those mined above. Future work will hinge for the most part, upon lowering costs in both the mining and milling departments. The mine has been in regular production since it came under its present management about two years ago, and last year, the payroll alone consumed almost $200,000. The project is being financed by A. J. Anderson of Vancouver, capitalist and mining man; W. E. Narkaus, general manager; Chase A. Clark of Mackay, attorney; and W. E. Hayes of Los Angeles, the recently elected president. J. Ray Weber is superintendent.
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Considerable excitement was shown over a new vein opened by the Blue Eagle Mining Company on Pine Creek. The ore is believed to be the main fissure, which is a five-foot width, with carbonate ore scattered through it, where stripped on the surface. Ed. McCarty, 105 First State Bank Building, Kellogg, Idaho, is president and general manager.
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The Copper Queen Mining Company, Daniel Laverty, president and general manager, Burke, Idaho, plans to install power drills to block ore, which in turn will be followed by the installation of mine equipment. The No. 1 Tunnel has been driven 105 feet on the Copper King Vein, and has cut 50 feet of oxidized ore. The objective of this piece of development is a quartz outcropping about 30 feet farther ahead. The Ellen Claim is responding to development satisfactorily, and in a 50-foot crosscut, 18 feet of ore has been opened on the footwall of the vein, and one foot of ore on the hanging wall.
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The Ima Mines Corporation, W. P. Barton, manager, May, Idaho, is working two shifts on an eight-foot vein of ore, and intends operating its 100-ton concentrator shortly. The tungsten is mainly in the form of hubnerite, which occurs in white quartz, along with molybdenite, and gray copper, with some gold associated. The concentrator is a Blake crusher, Dorr classifier, Marcy ball mill, eight-cell flotation plant, and Wilfley table. A six-foot Pelton Wheel, with 120-foot head automatically supplies all the power necessary to run the mill, a sawmill, a 12x12-foot compressor, and a 25-kilowatt generator, the latter lighting the mine, mill, and camp. The cost of handling the ore is low. It drops by gravity from stopes, to tramway, and to the mill.
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Work is being resumed by the Great Western Mines Company, which owns nine claims and millsites in the French District, Owyhee County, Idaho. Men are clearing out the tunnels, and electric connections have been established. T. W. Galigher, 915 North Twenty-first Street, Boise, Idaho, is vice-president and general manager of the organization.
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The Goldstone Mines Corporation, Andrew Prader, superintendent, Baker, Idaho, has placed its hydroelectric plant in commission, and enough power is being generated, to run a compressor, a 10-stamp mill, and other machinery, and to light the camp. This is a very economical feature In the operation of the property.
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During the first three months in the current year, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company earned a net profit of $916,969, before deductions for depletion and depreciation. Dividends paid during that period amounted to $735,750 on the common, and $84,559 on the preferred stock.
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The Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., Wallace, Idaho, William Beaudry, managing director, has cut the main ledge on the new 1,600-foot Level. The vein is 10 feet wide, and is of milling value. The organization has a feeling of general satisfaction, as the strike completed another step in the program outlined nearly a year ago, which included sinking a three-compartment shaft, 600 feet below the 1,000-foot Level, enlarging the tunnel at the 1,000-foot Horizon, for the passage of larger mine cars, laying heavier steel, and a six-inch air line, and the installation of an additional compressor of 1,250-cubic feet, per minute, capacity.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, intends to have its new hoist in regular operation by the middle of this month. Mining and milling were not interrupted during the installation of the hoist. Most of the ore was being mined from the 500-foot Level, and considerable importance is attached to a new oreshoot that has been opened there. The regular quarterly dividend of 5 cents a share, or $75,000, will be paid this month, which is most encouraging in view of the low price of silver. New economies are expected to reduce the cost of producing silver, from 20, to 18 cents, an ounce.
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Development has been resumed on Big Creek, by the Metropolitan Mines Corporation, B. L. Brainard, president, Kellogg, Idaho. The group comprises 20 claims, traversed 6,000 feet, by two veins parallel to the Sunshine Vein. The greater part of the development has been a 750-foot tunnel, which has cut the South Vein. Drifts on this vein, give indications that commercial values will be found with additional depth.
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The Independence Lead Mines Company, H. B. Kingsbury, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has sunk a one-compartment, and manway shaft, 25 feet on a rich showing of ore, located on the No. 4 Tunnel Level. Nine feet of ore were in evidence all the way down the shaft, and both faces are in ore. A 45-foot raise was established above the tunnel, to accommodate the gallows frame, and there is sufficient power to permit sinking to the 200-foot point.
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A 33-foot core drilled from the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho, assayed 1.5 ounces gold, and the last nine feet of core carried from 8 to 8.5 ounces gold, to the ton, according to A. J. Koebel, Pedicord Hotel, Spokane, who has the diamond drill contract. The hole was put down at an angle of 20 degrees, and is 65 feet deep. Silver values of about 10 ounces to the ton were located, and the mineral zone is over 400 feet wide, with some good ore lenses throughout. Arrangements are being concluded to finance the Boyer Property, by responsible parties, which will place the mine on the shipping list.
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The Yellow Jacket Mine, near Salmon, Idaho, recently purchased by Robert G. Ainsworth, and C. H. Mace, of Denver, has been organized as the United Mace Smelters, Inc. Mr. Ainsworth is president of William Ainsworth and Sons, and Mr. Mace is a metallurgist and inventor of the Mace smelting furnace and sintering hearth. W. F. Hayden, mining engineer, Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, has examined the Yellow Jacket Mine, and estimates that 4,000,000 tons of ore are available at the surface and from 4,000 feet of tunnels and shafts. This ore is estimated to run between $7 and $8 to the ton, and much of it can be mined by the “pit” system.
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This season’s work at the property of the Yellow Pine Mining Company, near Elk City, Idaho, will consist chiefly of enlarging the surface plants and equipment, installing a hydroelectric plant, and probably building a concentrator. The mines were acquired from the United Mercury Mines Company, and last year, a highway was completed to the ground, thereby eliminating the necessity of packing supplies 14 miles. The Yellow Pine is the largest operator in the district.
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The Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation, S. H. Richardson, superintendent, Box 1068, Wallace, Idaho, has opened 12 feet of milling ore, in the upper levels of the Mineral Point Mine. The ore runs high in silver, characteristic of the Dry Belt east of the Sunshine. The lower tunnel is expected to cut the oreshoot in about 400 feet.
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The Cosmopolitan Mining Company, Fred Barlow, president, has leased its property to George Urquiaga for a period of two years. Financial arrangements have been completed, and work is to start at once. This property is five mining claims in the French District, in Owyhee County, near Silver City, Idaho, and was formerly known as the Hammond Group. The ore is silver and gold, gold predominating, and with a showing of antimony. Over 750 feet of tunnel have been driven.
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A report from the Atlanta District in Idaho, is that the 1,800-foot tunnel of the St. Joseph Lead Company has reached the Monarch Shaft. Between 25 and 80 men have been driving the tunnel for several months. Plans are to crosscut the ledge every 100 feet, and if enough ore is opened, a mill will be built.
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The Reindeer-Queen Mining Company is making repairs underground, in its property in the Hunter District, near Mullan, Idaho, with a view to the early resumption of development. This ground is three patented and 12 unpatented mining claims, opened by five tunnels, the two longest of which are 8,100, and 7,700 feet long. A water driven compressor, and complete mining equipment, are at the mine. John F. Gearon, Box 1085, Wallace, Idaho, is president and manager.
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W. L. Schneider and Captain J. L. Carder, 225 I. W. Hellman Building, Los Angeles, California, have returned from an inspection of the Lindy Mine, in the Lost River section of Idaho. The Lindy is adjacent to the Wilbert Property, which has produced over $6,000,000 in high-grade lead ore, and a camp is being established for the accommodation of 10 men. Trucks are being purchased, and a 210-foot air compressor is being installed. The ore is said to assay more than 85 percent lead to the ton, with some gold, silver, and copper present, and will be shipped to the United States Smelter at Midvale, Utah. This is a privately owned enterprise, and Mr. Carder is its consulting engineer.
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The Idaho Manganese Mining Company has shipped its third carload of high-grade manganese ore from Cleveland, Idaho, to the United States Steel Products Company at Ironton, Utah, since work was resumed about a month ago. The ore runs about 48 percent. During the past three years, the company has shipped approximately 5,000 tons of ore from its holdings, the average manganese content being 47 percent.
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THE MINING JOURNAL

Training at the Idaho School of Mines

By W. W. STALEY, Assistant Professor of Mining, Idaho School of Mines, Moscow, Idaho.

Besides giving a thorough understanding of the basic principles of engineering the school makes every effort to develop initiative and independent study.

The Idaho School of Mines is an integral part of the University of Idaho, located at Moscow. This is fortunate because of the cultural benefits that accrue from such a contact. The students in the School of Mines have the opportunity, and are urged, to elect courses of study in the various other departments of the University.

Moscow is within easy reach of one of the largest lead-zinc mineral producing areas in the North American continent. Situated in the Coeur d’Alene region, are some of the finest equipped mines and metallurgical plants that can be found. A short distance north of the Canadian boundary, at Trail, B. C., is located the enormous plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company.

Field trips in mine surveying, and geological work are taken as the occasion demands. An annual senior inspection trip embracing the Coeur d’Alene region, and lasting about two weeks, is one of the features offered in the School of Mines curricula. Frequently this inspection tour is extended to the Trail, B. C., and the Butte, Montana, districts. As a requirement for graduation, students work at least one summer at some phase of the mining industry. The operators of the nearby properties are exceedingly generous in providing this opportunity.

Recent changes in the course of study, ranks the Idaho School of Mines curricula with those of leading institutions. Thorough training is given in the underlying principles of engineering in the first two years. The geological option starts in the sophomore year, whereas the mining and metallurgical option begins in the senior year. With the specialized courses offered in the junior and senior years, is presented the manner in which the particular subject is being pursued in practice. Self-reliance and dependence on themselves, are impressed upon the budding engineers. Reports and library research are emphasized, and assignments and lectures are given, to encourage the student to dig out information.

The School of Mines, and the state at large, is especially fortunate in having as Dean, A. W. Fahrenwald. Mr. Fahrenwald needs no introduction. His work in ore dressing and flotation is known wherever mining properties are in operation. Under his direction, experimental work and research are being carried on continuously, with many contributions to our knowledge in the ore dressing field of metallurgy. All members of the School of Mines faculty are required to carry on research work in their respective fields.

The School of Mines offers one graduate fellowship in geology, and the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology offers three fellowships, one in geology, and two in metallurgy. In recent years, attention has been devoted to metallurgical investigations. Senior students, as a requirement for graduation, are assigned research problems in their respective fields. These assignments usually run through two semesters. The seniors attempt to work out the underlying principles of a problem in such a way that this foundation can later be used in research of an advanced character. Much of this undergraduate research has led to very interesting and valuable conclusions.

At present the following major research is being carried on: In the field of ball milling, the experiments on the relation of reduction in size to ball load, feed load, ball size, mill size (diameter and length), and power measurements, have brought to light some exceptionally interesting information. The results of this work are proving of real value to the milling industry. The second major problem was to determine the effect of fine grinding, and pulp dilution, on recovery, in the flotation process. Data on the effect of slimes and pulp dilution, indicate a possible explanation of some present mill problems.

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Other flotation problems such as the flotation of oxidized lead-silver ores, manganese ores, nickel ores, copper ores, and gold ores have been studied. In the undergraduate field, students are investigating surface production, elutriation, and surface tension. With the problem of new surfaces produced in grinding, two methods are being pursued: The dissolution with hydrofluoric acid methods is being investigated, and the procedure of counting grains is receiving attention. The latter shows some very interesting results.

For elutriation tests, a very ingenious price of apparatus has been devised. With this elutriator, a large number of products can be obtained in a very short time. These products are obtained in a manner that permits quick and accurate weighing. The usual drawbacks of elutriation have been reduced to a minimum.

Through a co-operative arrangement between the university, the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology and the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a Bureau of Mines field office is located at Moscow. That their joint efforts are closely harmonized is shown by the results produced.

The metallurgical laboratories are exceptionally well equipped for research in ore dressing and flotation. New apparatus is being continually designed and installed, among which various sizes and types for sizing, classifying, screening, crushing, and concentrating are available. Variable speed laboratory ball mills of several types are at hand. One of these is completely mounted on ball bearings, and gives very accurate measurements on power consumption. A small rake classifier operates in closed circuit with one of the mills.

At the Idaho School of Mines, effort constantly is made to develop initiative and independent study. This makes for maximum interest and output in all school activities.

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44 THE MINING JOURNAL

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The Mutual Mines Development Company has decided to install a 100-ton selective plant, equipped with a 300-ton crusher, at Gem, Idaho, according to Secretary Ben L. Collins, 312 Old National Bank Building, Spokane, Washington. Additional flotation units can be added as the development of the mine warrants. The ore body has been opened 140 feet, and contains 30 inches of clean shipping ore, with the remainder of good mill grade.
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A material increase in the ore reserves of the Sunshine Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, has been effected through the opening of ore on the 900 Level. Here, the vein is two feet of high-grade gray copper, believed to be the same oreshoot opened first on the 500-foot Level, later, on the 700-foot Level, and explored through a raise, to the 200-foot Level. On the lowest level, the showing is equally important with that on the other levels, and it gets promising on going deeper. C. C. Samuels is general manager.
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The Silver Tip Mining Company, A. J. Rasor, manager, 802 Mullan Avenue, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has let a contract for the construction of ore bins. The standard two-compartment shaft is going down on a seven-foot width of high-grade and milling ore.
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The Palisade Mining and Milling Company, T. W. Schmidt, president and general manager, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has taken supplies to its group of 16 mining claims, on the south slope of Mt. Baldy, at the head of the West Fork of Pine Creek, to do annual work. The Palisade is pioneering development in promising ground, but which is difficult to access, and consequently few prospectors have carried on systematic development. The claim owners are trying to get a road built to the foot of the mountain, so that they can take in supplies.
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The Square Deal Mining Company, Ltd., has granted an option on half of its capital stock, to the Golconda Lead Mines, inc. The Square Deal owns 10 claims adjoining the Golconda Mine on the East, and covering the extension of the Golconda Vein. No ore has been developed yet, but because of its relation to the Golconda, it is regarded as a valuable property.
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According to James S. Douglas of New York City, president of the United Verde Extension Mining Company, some repairs are being made in the machinery at the Golden Anchor Mine, at Warren, Idaho. Systematic development will follow the completion of these improvements. Jay A. Czizek is in charge of the mine.
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The long crosscut tunnel started last summer, by the Silver Summit Mining Company, W. J. Stratton, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has reached a length of 4,250 feet, and is about 150 feet from the Sunshine Vein. The work is being done under contract by William Stokes, who has two shifts working, and makes about 10 feet of new tunnel each day. This long bore was started on Rosebud Gulch, and driven 800 feet through the Nellie Mine, of the YakimaShoshone Mining Company, before it again cut into the Silver Summit property. The St. Germain Vein was not entered at the 8,200-foot point as was expected, but the Dyke Vein was cut at 8,710 feet, and was heavily mineralized. The tunnel is six by eight feet in the clear.
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The No. 3 Tunnel, of the Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling Company, C. A. Fay, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has reached the Golden Gate Vein to the north, and a drift is being run west on the ore. The vein carries a good showing of lead and zinc, and is 700 feet below an upper tunnel on the same vein. From the Golden Gate Drift, the Copper Queen Vein, still farther north, is to be diamond drilled. The Lookout Mountain Property comprises 40 unpatented claims, in the Yreka District, near Kellogg, a number of which are held under lease and option.
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A deposit of beryl has been opened by the Muscovite Mica Company, at Deary, Latah County, Idaho, according to R. L. Spiker of Lewiston. Some of the ore has been assayed, and runs as high as 10 percent beryllium. The crystals, which are six-sided in shape, range from very small, to nearly 10 inches, through the cross section. Plans are to engage a crew to start shipping to Los Angeles. Special rates have been obtained on mica to California, where it will be consumed in lighting fixtures, tires, roofing, and other commodities. The development is financed in Lewiston, and Kooskia, Idaho, and in Spokane, Washington. The officials are: Homer Lipps, president; W. A. Moss of Pullman, vice-president; William E. Parry, Box 116, Lewiston, secretary and manager, and Mr. Spiker, treasurer.
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The Triumph Development Company, near Hailey, Idaho, has suspended shipments, and has laid off 60 men. Thirty men are retained, and will block out the ore bodies in the lower levels, until such time as the price of silver improves.
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A concern, to be known as the Paris Mining and Milling Company, is being incorporated to operate mining property in Paris Canyon, near Paris, Idaho. Its capitalization is $500,000, divided into 50-cent shares. In one of the claims, a four-foot thickness of ore has been located, and dips at an angle of less than 45 degrees. New equipment will be purchased and installed, to facilitate development. The officers of the company are: F. P. Shepherd, president; C. L. Richard of Pocatello, vice-president; and F. Leslie Shepherd, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Richards is a geologist of considerable experience.
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The Indian Head Calcite Co. at Indian Head Mountain, 10 miles west of Weiser, Idaho, has opened a vein of calcite, from 4 to 20 feet thick, and is mining it as pure as 100 percent. For several months, a crew of six men have been driving tunnels, laying track, and are now ready for the installation of a compressor, crushers, grinders, and screens. Dr. Weiss, of Ontario, is president of the organization and W. P. Tonning, of Weiser, is vice-president. Headquarters are maintained in Weiser.
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During the three months ended April 30, 1930, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company realized a net income of $400, 145, before depreciation, depletion, and taxes, as compared with $288,781 in the preceding quarter, and $801,298 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The higher earnings during 1929 were attributed to the high prices of lead, and zinc, in the first three quarters of the year. The production for the period ended April 30, 1930, was 31,268 tons as compared with 27,019 tons in the preceding quarter, and 39,190 tons in the three months ended April 30, 1929. H. G. Washburn of Wallace, Idaho, is general manager of company activity in the Coeur d’Alenes.
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In behalf of the Dayrock Mining Company, Frank M. Rothrock, Exchange National Hank Building, Spokane, Washington, is said to have purchased the Black Cloud Property, including the old mill and water rights; the Sunshine Property, the Iowa Lode Claims, and the California Lode Claims, Nos. 8 to 16. All of these interests are located on Nine Mile Creek, in the Coeur d’Alenes, and the sum of $40,000 is reported to have figured in the deal.
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The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, president and general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is getting some good results from the exploration of its Pilot Property, near Mullan, taken over in the early part of the current year. A crosscut has been run to the vein, where bunches of galena ore were opened. The vein has been followed in a drift about 400 feet, and has shown improvement as development continued.
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The American Gold Corporation, Ltd., has been granted a permit by the California Corporation Commission to sell 200,000 shares of its capital stock. This organization came into being a few months ago, through the efforts of J. S. Tremayne, 720 Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California, who acquired the Sunnyside, and Dewey, gold mines, in the Thunder Mountain District, in Valley County, Idaho. P. H. Butler of Joplin, Missouri, is vice-president and manager of operations.
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The Continental Standard Mining Company at Leadore, Idaho, has listed its stocks on the Salt Lake City Stock Exchange. The company is capitalized for 8,100,000 shares of $1 each, and has 400 stockholders, 2,888,361 shares of treasury stock, and $52,082 in the treasury. According to the report accompanying the listing, seven men are working, and it is estimated that 80,000 tons of silver-lead ore are blocked out. C. M. Sonoda, 519 Main Street, Seattle, Washington, is president of the organization, and Gordon McMillan is chief engineer at the mine.
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The Interstate Finance Corporation, H. H. Underhill, president, is said to have taken over the McCarty Mine, about 11 miles from Boise, Idaho, and the holdings of the Continental Mining Company, seven miles from Horseshoe Bend. The Interstate concern is as present, drilling for oil at Fayette, but will begin work on the mines at the earliest possible date, with a view to placing them on a production basis. Four known veins of gold-silver-lead ore cross the McCarty Mine.
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Development of the War Eagle Mine at Dixie, Idaho, of the Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, superintendent, has revealed almost two feet of a 14-foot vein, as being especially rich. The rich streak assays as high as 55 percent lead, and $10 in gold, to the ton. The War Eagle Group is made up of seven claims.
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John George’s concentrator, at the old Reed Level, of the Bunker Hill Property, at Wardner, Idaho, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of between $80,000, and $100,000. It had a capacity of 150 tons, and was completely rebuilt about a year ago. Mill feed had been supplied from various lessees in the upper workings.
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Development of the property of the Maybird Mining Company, J. L. Hunt, president, Kellogg, Idaho, has been resumed after a year’s idleness. A good showing of lead-silver-zinc ore has been opened in the No. 1 Tunnel, which is in 750 feet, and a drift from the No. 2 Tunnel, has followed the ore, 480 feet. The best showing, however, is a foot of ore of good grade, opened in the 100-foot incline shaft, sunk below the No. 2 Level. No pumping had been done during the last year, and the mine is full of water.
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The Dickens Consolidated Mining Company at Kellogg, Idaho, has opened two feet of commercial ore, in virgin ground, 50 feet south from the No. 6 Shaft Level. A crosscut has been run to the ore, and two drill holes have proven the vein to be 500 feet long, but it has not been determined whether or not the ore is a continuation of the vein at the No. 5 Level. No mining nor milling will be carried on, and an assessment of 1 cent a share, which will provide about $25,000, has been levied to pay indebtedness, keep a watchman, buy power for the pumps to keep the mine from flooding, and pay taxes. Although no assays have been made on the ore, it is said to carry higher copper values than have been found in other parts of the mine, and has some value in lead, and silver. Frank J. Wallace is in charge of the mine.
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The new ore opened on the 500 Level, by the Sunshine Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, general manager, and which is believed to be a part of the Yankee Boy Vein, has been explored more than 800 feet. The best showing has been opened lately, and carries 200 ounces silver in places two feet wide. It is probable that a similar condition will be found in the unexplored area of the Polaris Vein. In spite of the low price for silver, the company is operating at profit. The cost of producing silver during 1929, was a fraction over 20 cents an ounce, and will be reduced by improved and enlarged milling facilities, the new hoist, elimination of the vertical shaft, and consequent transfer of loads hoisted from below the 500 Level.
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The following officers and directors were elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cedar Creek Mining and Development Company, held recently at Wallace Idaho: Charles Bollinger, of Wallace, president; F. A. Butenschoer, of Portland, vice-president; L. W. Devenbach, of Wallace, secretary-treasurer; Peter Johnson, of Aberdeen, and J. V. Butenschorer, of Portland.
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The vein on the 800-foot Level, of the King of Pine Creek Mine, of the New Jersey Consolidated Mines Company, is improving in ore content, as development continues. A drift has been run between 60 and 70 feet on the footwall, and a crosscut run from there, to the hanging wall. The crosscut revealed stringers of ore, making a low-grade milling ore. Then the drift was continued another 50 feet, and again a crosscut run to the hanging wall. This crosscut also showed eight feet of ore, but of much improved grade of lead-silver, which is classed as good milling ore. Harry
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The Sonora Mining and Milling Company, George L. Richardson, secretary and manager, Box 412, Wallace, Idaho, has let a contract to crosscut 50 feet from the East Drift. Apparently the vein was lost in the drift, and it is believed that it will be reached by the crosscut, and at a depth of about 450 feet below the surface. The Sonora organization owns 12 claims in the Leland District, east of Burke. The western part of the property is said to be the richest ground, but funds are insufficient for its development at the present time.
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William Knoell, who, with members of his family, own the Leroy Group of 10 mining claims, in Daly Gulch, near Wallace, Idaho, has let a contract for 50 feet of development. About 500 feet of development has been done in the ground, and the new prospecting is on a showing, about 200 feet below the crosscut. Four veins cross the property.
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On behalf of the Inspiration Lead Company, W. J. Stratton of Wallace, Idaho, has made a payment of $5,000 to the Moe Mining Company, according to the terms of the bond under which the ground was purchased. The bond is for $50,000, of which $15,000 has been paid, and the balance is due in March, 1931. Considerable money has been spent in constructing buildings, equipment, and in sinking a 150-foot shaft. Two men are doing preliminary work, and keeping the property in good condition.
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The Silver Hills Mining Company, W. j. Burridge, president, 707 Utah Savings and Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, has established a surface plant at its mines in Cassia County, Idaho, near Burley. The camp includes boarding and sleeping quarters, a 10,000-gallon tank, 1,700 feet of
pipeline, a blacksmith shop, compressor house, stables, a cellar, powder house, and other outbuildings. Development consists of about 400 feet of tunnel, driven to cut the main east-west fissure zone, at a depth of about 607 feet. On the surface, this fissure is 100 feet wide, and in a 170-foot shaft, 20 feet of milling ore have been developed.
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The production during May, of the Constitution Mining and Milling Company, at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, general manager, was 900 tons of concentrates, as compared with an output of 810 tons of concentrates, during April. During May 3,500 tons of ore were mined.
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