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for AUGUST 15, 1930 9

Mackay Metals Responds to Development
By GAIL MARTIN, Salt Lake City, Utah. Nearly a million dollars has been spent in the last
two years on this property, placing it once more in the producing class.

Senator W. A. Clark is credited with saying that, a mine that could not stand mismanagement, was no mine at all. In this category certainly falls the Empire Copper Mine, now owned and operated by the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Custer County, Idaho, for during its 30 or more years of activity, the mine has suffered rather more mismanagement than most mines, yet it has produced around $12,000,000 in ore, and is generally credited with having paid a million, or a million and a half, in dividends. Under the development of the Mackay Metals Company, this mine, first known as the White Knob, then as the Empire Copper, and later as the Idaho Metals, has responded in a most gratifying manner, and a large tonnage of ore proved, reaching to a depth below the 1,000-foot level.

Two years ago, when the Mackay Metals Company acquired the Empire Copper Mine, the property was in bad shape. The ore had been gouged by lessees, and workings allowed to get in bad shape. Drilling on the lower levels struck ore, and systematic development soon put the mine on a steady production basis again. Direct shipping ore was sent to Salt Lake City for smelting, and milling ore was treated in the company’s flotation plant.

The copper deposits of the Mackay Metals Company are of the contact metamorphic type, and occur on a granite limestone contact, well within the main igneous mass. Engulfed blocks of limestone in the granite, seem to have controlled the center of mineralization. Most of the shoots occur 100 to 800 feet in the granite porphyry. No deposition of any importance occurs in the limestone. Garnet rock accompanies the important ore bodies. In the case of most of the ore bodies, garnet accompanies the ore, and is a dominant constituent. Ore bodies are invariably bordered and in many places completely surrounded by garnet rock.

No great amount of searching or luck were necessary to discover the White Knob Mine, so called because of the granite plug, like a giant doorknob, rises out of an evergreen forest. Its vein system forms a long, irregular tan splotch visible for miles, against a background of green and gray. Early mining started near the top of the mountain just below the granite knob, where high-grade oxidized copper ore was mined from glory holes. Tunnels run in the hillside invariably struck ore. So pronounced was this activity, that the surface was pitted with surface workings over an extent of several acres. In this area alone, the company estimates it has 2,000,000 tons of oxidized ores carrying 2 percent copper.

Tunnels, run in at intervals down the hillside to cut the mineral zone, proved the mineralization as intense, below the surface, as along the outcrop. One ore body was over 550 feet high, and had a floor space containing in its largest swells, from 1,500 to 8,000 square feet. Most of the stopes were circular or elliptical in plan. Some of these deposits produced hundreds of tons, and others thousands. During 1916, according to Weed’s Copper Handbook, the Empire Copper, or White Knob, produced 69,475 tons of ore, assaying 3.5 percent copper, $1 in gold, and 2 ounces in silver, to the ton. Values for 1915 averaged 4.35 percent copper, $1.15 in gold to the ton, and 2.25 ounces silver. During 1913, values of the ore ran 5 percent copper, $1.10 in gold and 2.5 ounces of silver to the ton.

Two years ago, the mine passed into the hands of A. J. Anderson, Vancouver millionaire; W. E. Narkaus, British Columbia mining man, and Chase Clark, Mackay attorney. Nearly a million dollars were expended in acquiring the property and putting it in shape. Development was started on the 1,000-foot level, where eight large shoots have been opened up. Of these, the 1,056, 1,057 and 1,008 are the largest. The 1,056 on the 1,000, has dimensions of 80 by
65 feet, on the stope floor. Above the level, 20,000 tons of 3.25 percent copper with appreciable values in gold and silver have been produced.

A crosscut east exposed a body of 5 percent copper ore, 20 by 40 feet. A winze sunk on this shoot indicates that the ore is going strong to depth. Eighty feet northeast of the 1,006, the 1,057 has been opened for 80 feet, on its strike, and 50 feet wide. North of 1,056 is another large body of 4 percent copper. Of the total vein length but a fraction has been developed, foreshadowing a production of many years for the mine.

Main operations of the company, aside from shipments of lessees, are centered on advancing the Cossack Tunnel, to a point where a raise will be put up, and a shaft sunk, to make a connection between this lowest adit, cutting the formation at a vertical depth of 1,600 feet, and the upper ore bodies. Already, some mineralization is beginning to appear in the formation, and within a few weeks, raising and sinking should be begun. Officials of the company have great hopes of this development. Operating costs cannot only be reduced at least one dollar a ton, but opening up on this 1,600 level, of the ore bodies exposed on the 1,000, will double the life of the mine, as well as indicate wonderful possibilities in virgin ground along the strike of the contact.

The company has a large compressor plant at the mouth of the Cossack Tunnel. A three-mile aerial tramway connects the upper levels of the mine and mill on the railroad siding. The flotation plant, which turns out a 22 percent copper product, with a pIus 90 percent recovery, has a capacity of 225 tons. During 1929, according to the company’s annual report, the Mackay Metals Company produced a total of 66,578 tons of dry ore. Concentrate and crude ore totaled 20,060 tons, from which were derived 2,959,808 pounds of copper with a value of $420,009.42. Gold values amounted to $46,181.88, and silver 61,990 ounces, or $81,882.98. Total receipts amounted to $497, 974.24.

Recently the board of directors of the Mackay Metals Company was reorganized, and W. A. Hayes of Los Angeles, a large stockholder, was made president of the company. Mr. Hayes is owner of the Sylvania Mine (Lida/Palmetto/Tule Canyon area), near Goldfield, Nevada, and is a mining man of many years’ experience in British Columbia, Idaho, Nevada, and California. A. J. Anderson continues as vice-president, and W. E. Narkaus becomes secretary-treasurer.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

IDAHO

The only July dividend reported by mining companies operating in the State of Idaho, was paid by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg. The company paid the regular monthly, and extra dividend, of 50 cents a share, amounting to $163,500, and paid $1.50 a share, or $16,485, on its preferred stock. The payment on the preferred stock is a quarterly disbursement.
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During August, the Sunshine Mining Company, C. C. Samuels, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, expects to have the hoist ready to start sinking the main shaft, 600 feet below the 1,300 Level. No station will be cut, until the 1,700-foot level is reached. Six shaft men and two engineers will carry on the work, and it is estimated that it will cost $43 a foot. The formation at the 1,800-foot level is Wallace, with some Revett, and St. Regis, coming through from below.
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The Cossack Tunnel of the Mackay Metals Company at Mackay, Idaho, J. Ray Weber, general superintendent, has reached the 6,000-foot point, and is nearing a point where a raise will be started, to meet a winze to be sunk from the level 600 feet above. This tunnel, when completed, will result in considerable economy. Last year, this mine yielded 20,000 tons of crude and concentrated copper ore, from a granite limestone contact, that were valued at $497,000 at the smelter.
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After four months’ suspension of milling, Golconda Lead Mines, lnc., William Beaudry, managing director, Wallace, Idaho, started milling during one shift a day, to clean up the ore that has accumulated from extensive underground work. Unless the market improves, no concentrates will he shipped until the storage capacity for 300 tons of lead concentrates, and for 200 tons of zinc concentrates, is completely utilized. Plans have been made to double the capacity of the mill to 400 tons daily. Believing that such an increase would be necessary, the management installed coarse crushing machinery able to handle 600 tons of ore daily, and can now double the capacity, by the installation of another ball mill for fine grinding, and duplicating the present battery of flotation cells. Such an enlargement can be made without interfering with regular operations.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. C. Washburn, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has nearly completed the installation of a 500-ton crusher at its Page Mill. The capacity of the flotation machinery in this mill, is 800 tons daily, and, while official confirmation is lacking, it is probable that the Federal organization intends to make additions which will bring the capacity of the plant up to 500 tons daily. Last year, the Page Mine, formerly known as the Corrigan, made a net profit of $272,883, and has large reserves of ore.
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A Worthington centrifugal electric pump, with a rated capacity of 300 gallons daily, has been installed on the 800 Level of the King of Pine Creek Mine, of the New Jersey Consolidated Mines Company. Development has been suspended at this mine, and only two men are working. They are pumping water and keeping the surface plant in good condition so that everything will be ready for work on short notice. A good showing of lead-silver-zinc has been developed in the West Drift on the 800 Level, and plans are being made to start work there as soon as possible. Harry P. Pearson of Wallace, Idaho, is superintendent.
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According to John R. Turner, the new manager for the Jack Waite Consolidated Mining Company, some changes will be made in the mill because with the present arrangement, it is impossible to make any profit. The plant is idle now, but when in operation, the concentrates are hauled under contract by truck four and one-half miles, at a cost of $1.50 per ton; carried over a logging railroad, 13 miles to Prichard, there connecting with the Union Pacific Railroad, at another $1.50 per ton expense; plus $20 a day for the engine used, and another charge for the upkeep of the tracks. The plant was originally built as a leaser’s mill, with jigs and tables, and has been added to from time to time, until at present, it can treat 125 tons of ore daily, and is equipped with flotation machinery. Estimates are being prepared for remodeling the camp, and providing a better method of mining, and handling the ore.
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The Eagle Coal Company of Red Lodge, Montana, is understood to be getting ready to wash gravel along the Salmon River, near Shoup, Idaho, under the direction of L. W. Bick. The company has rights on the bars on both sides of the river, for more than a mile, and has installed new machinery to carry out the old method of placer recovery, which has given satisfactory results from tests. Grlzzlies, vibrating screens, and riffles, will be used, and no quicksilver will be necessary in the recovery.
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The Federal Mining and, Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has lowered its shaft in the Morning Mine, below the 3,850 Level, and is getting ready to crosscut the ore, which has already been located by diamond drilling, on this level. This shaft is really 3,050 feet deep, as it is sunk from the No. 6 Level, 800 feet below the surface. The 8,850 Level is 5,300 feet below the apex of the vein. Full stoping is being carried on, on the lower levels of the mine, principally on the 2,850, 3,050 and 3,250 levels, while less ore is being stoped on the 3,450 level.
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John George, principal owner of a mill recently burned at the Reed Level, of the Bunker Hill Property at Wardner, Idaho, intends to rebuild. He is consulting Cy Garber, mill superintendent at the Hall Interstate Property, in the Deadwood Basin, regarding the building of a 150-ton concentrator, to be built in two units. The first unit will be a modern flotation mill to treat the sulphide ores, while the second unit will be specially equipped with tables and other accessories, to mill the carbonate ores.
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It is understood that the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., Judge A. H. Featherstone, president, Wallace, Idaho, has started work in its recently acquired Square Deal Property, adjoining the Golconda on the east, although it has until January 1 of next year to begin work. Believing that best results can be accomplished by drifting from the 1,400-foot Level of the Golconda, it has undertaken the task, and hopes to locate the ore that was cut off by a fault, after being followed 800 feet. W. A. Beaudry of Wallace is vice-president and general manager.
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The Whitedelf Mining Company at Clark Fork, Idaho, Compton I. White, is operating on a three shift basis, and producing a carload of concentrate a week. The product contains 69 percent lead, and 55 ounces silver to the ton. Ore is being mined from the Meredith Stope, 650 feet deep, and is showing a decided increase in lead values.
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The Granada Lead Mines, Inc., Ross L. Roundy, manager, Wallace, Idaho, has driven its new tunnel in the Hunter District about 200 feet, and the entire face is in a mineralized formation. Specks of galena ore are being encountered, indicating its proximity to an ore vein.
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Harold Hovey and Bill Swigart, a mail contractor, are developing a gold-silver prospect, located near Parker Mountain, Custer County, between Challis, and the old gold producing camps of Custer and Bonanza. The discovery was made last fall, when Hovey and Swigart were hunting, and is in a rugged region from which all of the ore and supplies will have to be packed, or hauled on wagons. They have taken out 1,100 pounds from grass roots that netted them $851 after payment of all costs, and have some ore that is said to assay 100 ounces gold, and 250 ounces silver.
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As a result of its failure to comply with terms, the option held by the Western Mines Company, to purchase the Belle of the West Property, on the West fork of Nine Mile Creek, has been forfeited. The announcement was made by George B. Trask, Postoffice Building, Wallace, Idaho, owner of the Belle of the West ground. A new concern, the Silver Cloud Mines, Inc., has taken an option on the ground and has eight men at work on development. A part of the stock in the new company has been set aside so that the Western Mines Company can exchange its stock, and a part of it will be sold to finance development. The ground is opened to a depth of 250 feet, including a vertical three-compartment shaft, sunk 90 feet below the main tunnel. Plans are to continue this shaft to the 200-foot point and crosscut to the vein. Accommodations at camp are far ahead of present requirements, and can take care of 60 men. Steam heat, hot and cold water, and shower baths are provided; the compressor is driven by electricity. F. A. Woods and Henry F. Conover, both of Waitsburg, Washington, are president and secretary, respectively. An operating office will be maintained at Wallace.
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Following two years’ idleness, the Hilarity Lead-Silver Mining Company, J. A. Glowe, president, Mullan, Idaho, has cleaned up all indebtedness, and outlined plans for further development. An assessment of 5 cents a share has been levied to provide funds to carry on the work. A large deposit of low-grade lead-silver-zinc ore has been opened in the main tunnel, and in a crosscut at the 200-foot point of a shaft, sunk from the tunnel level. Electric power is available for development. The directors of the company are: S. G. Garrett of Wallace, and John E. Sherrard, Albert Peterson, and C. W. Ingram of Mullan, Idaho.
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For several weeks, Ed. Booth and Wilham Sites have been rehabilitating the property of the Sunrise Mining Company, Ltd., comprising 11 mining claims, adjoining the Sunset Mine, in the Beaver District of Shoshone County, three miles north of Burke, Idaho. Upon completion of this work, C. Fred Merriam of Wallace is to examine the ground. Financial arrangements have been made to carry on considerable development, pending a favorable report. C. Fred Kratzer, 215 Waverly Place, Spokane, Washington, is general manager of the company.
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for AUGUST 30, 1930

S. F. COURT AWARDS DECISION IN FAVOR OF MINING COMPANIES

On June 16, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, dismissed the case of Christ Lauma, against the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, and the Hecla Mining Company, for alleged damages to his land, in the valley along the Coeur d’Alene River. Lauma claimed $13,500 damages.

The mining companies won a decision over Lauma, last November, in the United States District Court at Coeur d’Alene, on the ground that they bought the land from a party, named Brown, who had granted them an easement relieving them from any claim for damages. As a result of tailings deposited in the river. C. W. Beale of Wallace, Idaho, attorney for the Coeur d’Alene Mine Owners’ Association, handled the defense for the mining companies.
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IDAHO

The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, Superintendent, is installing a 50-ton concentrating plant, and a 300-ton generating plant, on the War Eagle Property, near Dixie, Idaho. A 1,200-foot 4x4 flume has been built, and a lOxlOxl6 penstock, and 8x8x16 pressure tank, have been set up for a Samson Turbine, which will generate 300 horsepower. The electric equipment will also include seven motors of from 25 to 100 horsepower. A 20-horsepower motor is now being used to operate a No. 4 Buckeye Sawmill. As soon as the 10-mile wagon road to Dixie, which is now under construction, is completed, machinery will be hauled in.
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Hope Mining Company is planning to build a flotation plant on its territory, near Clark Fork, Idaho. Work will be in charge of A. K. Wintereck. High-grade ore has been shipped from this property for the past two years, and it is said that more than 150,000 tons of mill ore have been developed.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General manager, Wallace, Idaho, has sunk its shaft in the Morning Mine, 150 feet below the 3,650 Level, and is getting ready to cut the station, skip pockets, etc., on the 3,650 Level. The shaft is 2,900 feet deep below the 800 Level, or No. 6 Tunnel Level, from which it starts. The No. 6 Tunnel Level is 2,370 feet below the apex of the vein. Stoping is being done on the lower levels of the mine, principally the 2,850, 3,050, and 3,250 levels, and development work has been started on the 3,450 level. The Page Mine is in regular operation.
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Idaho-Montana Mining and Oil Company, E. W. Conrad, Wallace, Idaho, President, has resumed operations, which were suspended during a survey of the property. Work is now being concentrated on the west side of the creek, in the West drift, where copper carbonates, siderite, and some talc are showing. A crosscut is being driven to determine the width of the vein.
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Operations are said to have been resumed on a three-shift basis, by the Jack Waite Mining Company, John H. Turner, manager, Wallace, Idaho, and two carloads of ore are being shipped every three or four days. New stopes are being opened to replace old ones nearly depleted, and 60 men are employed. On August 18, operating and reorganizing plans were presented to the stockholders at a special meeting in Wallace. This property is now controlled by the Duthie interests of Seattle, Washington; Mike Savage and H. J. Rossi, formerly in control, having resigned.
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Explosion of a gasoline stove caused complete destruction of a three-room building, used as an office and as living quarters by H. L. Kauffman and his niece, the former of whom, is manager of the Homestake Mines Corporation, operating near Hailey, Idaho. Personal damage was estimated at $2,000, while loss to the company was said to be $1,500. Construction of another building is now under way. It is said that good ore has been encountered in the tunnel of the Homestake property.
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The Mackay Leasing Company has let the third 100-foot sectional contract to Mike Hemovitch, for driving the Cossack Tunnel into the ore zone on the 1,600-foot Level. The tunnel is being advanced at the rate of 100 feet per month, and the present face shows lenses of oxide copper ore. The Mackay Company has a two-year lease on the Cossack Level.
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The Goldstone Mines Corporation, Andrew Prader, General manager, Baker, Idaho, has remodeled its mill, formerly equipped with 10 stamps, plates, and two Wilfley tables, and has installed a 100-ton ball mill. The plates are to be retained, but the tables will be discarded. The company’s new hydroelectric plant is driven by a 42-inch Pelton water motor, using Pratt Creek water, brought through a 3,800-foot pipe line, on a 600-foot head, belted to a 250-k.w. generator. After the current is stepped up from 440 to 11,000 volts it is wired to the mine, where it is transformed to the voltage required in running compressor, quartz mill, and all other machinery, as well as lighting camp, and mine. A. J. Theis of Spokane, Washington, is president of the company. James Johnson is mine superintendent, and William R. McCulloch, and Frank Perry, are in charge of the power plant.
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On June 30, 1930, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company reported a quarterly profit of $689,780. Profit totaled $1,362,517 for six months ended June 30.
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The Silver Basin Consolidated Mining Company, L. O. Tollefson, 343 Peyton Building, Spokane, Washington, President, has acquired the Sanwood group of 23 claims, adjoining its present property, about five miles north of Wallace, Idaho. The Sanwood is a combination of the Glenwood, and San Juan groups. Miss A. M. Hoffstater, a Director of the company, is assisting in financing this property.

According to E. G. Gnaedinger, mining engineer of Wallace, previous development consists of several small tunnels, three of which have been driven near a fault plane, and a long major crosscut tunnel, which starts at the best location for permanent development, camp site, and surface plant. He recommends that the latter tunnel be continued for at least one-half mile, to intersect the entire mineral zone. A depth of 1,100 feet, has already been attained, and this work is expected to go 600 feet deeper. A sufficient supply of timber and water is available.
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President Walter H. Hanson has notified stockholders that the Coeur d’Alene Lead Company will be dis-incorporated, and its assets distributed pro rata, among its stockholders, as soon as litigation between the controlling interests and W. Earl Greenough, Manager of the Atlas Mine, is settled. The assets consist of shares of Atlas Mines, Ltd.
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George W. Roddewig, mining engineer, 602 Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, formerly with the Clark interests of Montana, has advised the Independence Lead Mines Company to drift eastward on its ore body, near Mullan, Idaho. The ore showing in the winze below No. 5 Tunnel, is said to be increasing in size and values. H. B. Kingsbury, of Wallace, is General manager of the Independence Lead Mine.
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The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, S. A. Easton, general manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has practically completed the 500-foot raise, from the Hooper Tunnel, to the upper levels of the Crescent Mine, on Big Creek. One shift is now operating the 150-ton Crescent Mill six days each week. It is expected that the new vein, cut late in 1929 in the old mine above Wardner, will soon be entered on the lower levels. The August dividend of 50 cents per share brings the grand total to $47,221,563.
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The Decker Development Company, which has held a lease on the property of the Stewart Silver-Lead Company at Kellogg, Idaho, recently acquired ownership of the property at a sheriff’s sale. No explanation has been given for the Stewart Company permitting its title to lapse on this mine, which formerly paid $2,000,000 in dividends. George Decker, and Elmer Brown, of Kellogg, control the Decker Company. It is expected that the property will now be developed more intensively.
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Ending two years of litigation, the State Supreme Court has placed the Lead Cliff Mining Company, in possession of the Two Tails Mine, east of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, which was claimed by C. L. Wickstrom. The Lead Consolidated Mining Company, successor to the Lead Cliff, will now proceed with operations. The property is held under a long-term lease from the Idaho Silver-Lead Company, the owner. H. L. Poston is in charge of the Two Tails property.
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L. L. Boyer of Sandpoint, Idaho, representing Boyer Mines, Inc., recently examined the Lucky Seven Group, adjoining the Syringa Prospect, northwest of that town. If this property is accepted, it may be financed by Explorers Prospecting Company, which is preparing to resume diamond drilling of the Boyer property.
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The Caribou Mining Company at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has purchased pipe and machinery, and is getting ready to enter the list of producers. With the exception of the president, no change was effected in the official roster of the company at the recent meeting of the organization. The officers are: Frank Reed, who succeeds C. H. Scott, as President; Dr. B. A. Loveless, Vice-president; Charles O. Sowder, Secretary, and John Boothe, Treasurer.
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The Great Western Copper Company, Jackson C. Hill, superintendent Hayden Lake, Idaho, intends to install a compressor, and pumping machinery, to combat a flow of water in the shaft, and which is fast increasing in volume. Some high-grade silver-lead ore has been struck in the shaft, which has been sunk 42 feet below the tunnel. Its collar is about 165 feet below the surface, as the 200-foot tunnel gained considerable depth in its progress.
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The 425-ton flotation mill, of the Sunshine Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, is in continuous operation on a three-shift basis, and the ore in the mine is maintaining its persistence. The new hoist is in operation, and is working direct, through the incline shaft from the lowest, to the main haulage tunnel, thereby eliminating the necessity of transferring on the 500 Level, from the incline, to the vertical shaft. This feature, it is estimated, will cut the cost of producing silver, from 20 to 18 cents an ounce. C. C. Samuels is General manager.
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CANADIAN COMPANY TAKES OVER PHOSPHATE MINES IN IDAHO

Idaho’s phosphate mining industry will receive an impetus of considerable force, from the operation being started in Bloomington Canyon, south of Paris, by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, of Trail, British Columbia.

According to B. B. Shelledy, and J. E. Miller, representatives of the smelting company, who are now on the ground, they will develop phosphate claims, lying a mile south of the Mcllwee Mine, in Paris Canyon.

The company expects to make shipments next spring, of 100 tons a day. The phosphate rock will be shipped as mined, without crushing or drying, to the new ten million dollar plant now being erected by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail. There it will be made into treble super-phosphate fertilizer.
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IDAHO

The suit filed by the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, against the Boise Fayette Lumber Company, on June 25, 1929, recently came before the District Court of Judge Dana Brinck. The mining company is operating a gold dredge on Grimes Creek, above Centerviile, Idaho, and claims that oil from chutes and skids of the lumber company, settled into the water of the creek, and mixed with the placer ground, prohibiting the recovery of the gold. The Morning Star and Dessie D placer claims were those injured by the grease, and the complaint further states that the loss to the mining company is $398,369.45. The plaintiff also asks for $45,387.80 for depreciation, which brings the entire damages to more than $400,000. S. K. Atkinson, 615 First National Bank Building, Boise, is president of the mining company.
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It is understood that A. J. Koebel,of Spokane, will resume diamond drilling at the Boyer Mine, in the vicinity of Sandpoint, Idaho, as soon as he can move his equipment from its present location in Stevens County, Washington.
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T. M. Thompson, of Spokane, and associates, have taken an option on the property of the Wolverine Mining Company, Ltd., on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, and intend to start exploration by November 15. Ore has been found at intervals along 700 feet on the 500-foot Level, and J. M. Porter, and C. A. Fay, mining engineers, who have examined the ground, expect an improvement within 200 feet on this level. Thompson plans to do further work on this level, and, encouraged by a strike of five feet of gray copper in the Crescent Mine, about a year ago, will sink 300 feet lower. A compressor and hoist, both driven by electricity, are at the mine.
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H. C. Stapleton, of Wallace, Idaho, will resume development of the Terrible Edith Mine, owned by the Pontiac Mining Company, about the first of November. He is particularly interested in continuing a crosscut from a drift, from the 850-foot Level of the raise above the Main, or No. 4, Tunnel. This crosscut was started to prove whether the vein on the No. 3 Level is the same vein as yielded a large tonnage of ore at the No. 4 Level, and should reach its objective in another 40 feet. The raise from the No. 4 Level is up more than 400 feet, and will be continued farther.
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Fred Cunningham and associates, have started a drift in the Shamrock Group of mines, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, that will gain a depth of nearly 1,000 feet, on a 22-foot surface cropping of lead and silver. Work is to be continued through the winter.
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A meeting of the stockholders of the Delaware Mines Corporation was held at the old boarding house at the Rex Mine, on October 20, to consider refinancing the development of the ground. Close to $140,000 has been spent in the development, and a comparatively small amount of money is required to bring the mine to production. Matt Baumgartner, 823 Lindelle Block, Spokane, Washington, is President of the company, and F. C. Bailey, Box 292, Wallace, Idaho, is General Manager of the mine.
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Eighteen inches of lead-silver ore have been opened in a 100-foot raise, above the main tunnel level of the Teddy Mining and Milling Company, east of Kellogg, Idaho. The ore is similar to that on the upper level, and is getting wider as the drift continues. L. D. Hudson, E419 Sprague Avenue, Spokane, Washington, is General Manager of the organization.
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According to Frank B. Johnesse, 628 First National Bank Building, Boise, Idaho; President of the Consolidated Mines Syndicate, a 50-ton reduction plant will be built at the Princess property, northeast of Fairfield, in the near future. Both the Princess, and the Revenue property, in the Volcano District, are under development.
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The Commodore Gold Mining Company, William C. McNutt, President and General Manager, Lewiston, Idaho, is nearing the point where it will erect a testing plant of between 30 and 60 tons’ daily capacity, in the vicinity of Elk City. For several months they have been testing the ground with steam shovels.
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The K. C. Mining Company, owned and operated by K. C. Glancy, and J. E. Blackburn, of Nampa, Idaho, is raising on a vein of high-grade gold ore, and has made two shipments to the United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company, at Midvale, Utah. The low grade is being binned. Next spring, a 700-foot crosscut will be run for the purpose of cutting three promising surface showings at depth. The camp includes a timber shed, 30x80 feet; a blacksmith shop, three bunkhouses, and an ore bin. Among the constructive improvements planned for next spring, is a mill, which can handle the lower grade ores.
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Following some litigation, control of the Perseverance Mine, in the Little Smoky District, Camas County, Idaho, passed from George R. Colvin, of Boise, Idaho, to a new board of directors, including: Oscar B. Anderson, of Boise, President and General Manager; J. H. MacCoy, of Spokane, Vice-president; Isobel H. Wood, of Spokane, Secretary-Treasurer; A. C. Gaffney, of Missoula, Montana; E. Claude McCoy, of Rosalia, Washington; A. P. Larson, and Walter E. Parker, both of Spokane. This action was brought on the part of the stockholders, alleging that Colvin, who owned 51 per cent of the stock, was receiving a salary of $250 a month, plus expenses, and his wife, as vice-president, was also on salary.
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The long tunnel of Stratton Silver Summit, Inc., has reached a length of 4,716 feet, according to Manager W. J. Stratton of Wallace, Idaho. The bore is 6x8 feet in the clear. A drift is being advanced toward the west, and is out 850 feet. Harry P. Pearson is Superintendent of the work.
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It is understood that the Silver Cliff Gold and Copper Mining Company, Ltd., has received applications for the lease of a part of its property, and has taken the matter under advisement. The following officers and directors have been elected:
Roy Ream, of Dayton, Washington, President;
Henry Volkman, Sr., of Wallace, Vice-president and Treasurer;
Ed C. Young, of Wallace, Secretary and Manager;
Floyd L. Redmond, of Springston,
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The Mutual Mines Development Company has doubled its crew at Gem, Idaho, in order to have the mill ready for operation by November 1. The building is 28x90 feet, and will house the flotation cells, dryers, cleaners, filter, and storage bins for the concentrates. Initial capacitywill be 100 tons daily, but with the addition of flotation cells, can be doubled. Russel F., and Ben Collins, and Harley Little, of Spokane, control the organization, and have spent about $186,000 in developing the mine, to the point where it justified a milling plant. Vice-president Russell F. Collins, is located temporarily at 811 Powell Building, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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B. S. Dailey, of Seattle, and associates, are said to have purchased a group of mining claims in the vicinity of Golden, Idaho, from F. O. Miller, of Clarkston, Washington, and his son. Dailey and his associates plan to spend about $25,000 in development.
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In line with its program outlined early in the summer, Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., William Beaudry, Managing Director, Wallace, Idaho, is installing a compressor three times larger than the one they have been using. The old one will be used when necessary also. The 200-ton mill has worked intermittently since it resumed work five or six weeks ago, with four carloads of lead concentrate, and three of zinc concentrate, recovered from its operation. The three-compartment shaft is being sunk from the 1,600-foot Level, and early in November, they expect to be to the 1,800-foot point, and doing lateral development there.
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According to General Manager W. Earl Greenough, the first shipment of ore, made to the Gold Hunter Mill, at Mullan, Idaho, by the Atlas Mining Company, netted more than $80 a ton. It included 44.2 dry tons of ore that assayed 16.4 ounces silver and 44.7 percent lead to the ton. About 140 feet of the East Drift, from the discovery crosscut, are in ore and the West Drift, which is out 150 feet, is opening up some ore that may develop to be a commercial deposit.
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Weiser, Idaho, men have organized the Long Tom Mining Company to operate the West Goodenough, and the Hyatt Group of gold mining claims, in the Marshall Lake District, in Idaho County, Idaho. Already, they are building bunkhouses, and other buildings, and are driving a tunnel in each of the mines. Supplies for the winter are being hauled from Weiser, in two trucks.
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The Caribou Mining Company, Frank Reed, President, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has opened some ore that is estimated to run from $35 to $50 a ton. The vein has been proven 12 feet, and may be wider between walls.
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Contractor H. A. Hansen has driven the Long Tunnel, about 1,000 feet, in the Rainbow Mining and Milling Company’s property, eight miles southeast of Medimont, Idaho. In another 1,500 feet, they expect to reach the ore located by diamond drilling. Three holes were driven; one passing through 38 feet of ore, and another through from 8 to 10 feet of mill grade. During the past few months the management has spent nearly $9,000 in securing patents, $10,000 in diamond drilling, built three miles of road, a small camp, and added some machinery, rails, and ventilation pipe for the 2,500-foot tunnel. George Austin, 301 Mohawk Building, Spokane, is President.
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A resumption of activity of the Gem State Mining Company is planned, according to President and General Manager James M. Porter, mining engineer, 720 Peyton Building, Spokane. This property is 8 patented, and 12 unpatented mining claims, in the Hunter District, near Wallace, opened by six tunnels, the longest of which is the No. 4, at 1,878 feet. Lead, silver, and zinc, are the principal metals.
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A. H. Dahle of Sheridan, Montana, mining engineer, and associates in Utah and in California, have taken over the Lamoreaux Group of auriferous quartz claims, on Hughes Creek, near Gibbonsville, Idaho. They have engaged a small crew in developing a promising vein. One other gold-bearing property in the Gibbonsville District, is preparing to reopen, and plans are afoot to erect a flotation mill in that camp. Gibbonsville has a production record exceeding $2,000,000 in gold bullion; but below the oxidized zone, the ore bodies became too refractory for the treatment methods employed. The camp has been idle during the past quarter.
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Development has been speeded up materially since Granada Lead Mines, Inc., hooked up its compressor with the power lines of the Washington Water Power Company. The connection required only 1,000 feet of line. The crosscut tunnel was started about 2,000 feet from the railroad and highway, and is in 315 feet. In another 170 feet, it is expected to enter the Granada Vein, which is a mass of oxidized iron at the surface. Another shift may be added. Ross L. Roundy, of Wallace, Idaho, is General Manager.
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The Washington Water Power Company has delivered three transformers, each weighing 5,000 pounds, to the property of the Jack Waite Mining Company, near Wallace, Idaho. They will be used to supply additional electric power, and men are replacing the light, with heavy, copper wire. The old 130-ton mill is working, and construction of the new mill, and of the railroad between the mine and the junction of Eagle and Tributary Creeks, are being rushed. J. R. Turner, of Wallace, is Manager of the property.
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The only dividend reported as paid by mining companies within the State of Idaho, during October, was that of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company. The sum of $11,485 was paid on its preferred stock, and $163,500, representing its regular monthly and extra dividend, was paid on the common stock.
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The incline shaft of the Sunshine Mining Company, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, Manager, is down approximately 150 feet below the 1,300-foot Level. As soon as it reaches the 1,700-foot Level, crosscuts will be run from both the 1,500 and the 1,700. Revett formation is expected to be permanently established at the 1,700 Level.
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Twenty-two inches of high-grade lead-silver ore have been opened in the View Point Mine, on Spring Creek, near Clarksfork, Idaho, owned by E. Becker, H. Vogel, and Chris Leyendecker. The strike was made at a depth of about 70 feet. At the surface, ore has been traced across a width of 45 feet.
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The Solar Development Company, Ltd., subsidiary of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, of Trail, British Columbia, has started the development of the Star Group of phosphate claims, in Bloomington Canyon, near Paris, Idaho. R. B. Shelledy, of Spokane, has arrived at Paris to take charge of the work, and was accompanied by J. A. Miller, of Vancouver, who will act as foreman. The raw product will be shipped to Trail, and distributed after treatment there. Shelledy expects to use 25 men on this project.
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An application has been made to dissolve the Wilbur Mining Company, Ltd., by A. T. Jenkins, H. H. Miller, H. S. Steuart, W. A. Devan, and Harry W. Marsh, Directors. The Wilbur property consisted of 19 mining claims in the Evolution District, and it is understood that it has been merged with the Western Union Mining Company’s property, adjoining. Harry L. Day of Wallace, Idaho, is President and General Manager of the Western.
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The ore body opened recently in the Sullivan section, of the property of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, near Kellogg, Idaho, has been opened on the Kellogg, or No. 9 Level.
On the No. 6 Level, 700 feet above, the ore was a 15-foot width of silver-lead milling ore of good grade, and the same is true of the ore at the lower level. Effort is being made to reach this vein on the No. 17 Level, 1,600 feet below the Kellogg Tunnel.
Bunker Hill and Sullivan has purchased the first new ball-bearing grinding machine that has been developed by the United States Bureau of Mines at the Idaho Station, and is using it in sampling its Hall-Interstate Mine in southern Idaho.
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The Idaho Dredging Company has taken over 240 acres of gold-bearing property in the Pierce District, about 20 miles east of Orofino, Idaho, from J. B. Crawford, on a royalty basis. Tests have been made to determine the amount of water necessary to operate, the size of screen necessary, and the rate of feeding. It is estimated that there are 2,500,000 cubic yards of gravel, averaging $1.17 a cubic yard, available.
Plans are to install about $25,000 worth of machinery, including a steam shovel, and a gold-saving machine, each able to handle 700 cubic yards of material in eight hours. After the machinery is installed, only four men will be required to carry on capacity operations during each shift.
The officers are: W. S. Delaney, President; R. A. O’Connell, Secretary; and C. A. Ballinger, Engineer, all of Marshall, Minnesota. Their offices are at Orofino.
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The Cal-Idaho Mining Company, Thomas Berry, Superintendent, has completed seven and one-half miles of ditch and flume, from Kirks Fork, to Gold Hill, near Elk City, Idaho. An open cut through which to run tailings to the Red River, and give the operations a fall of water necessary to operate, remains to be constructed. Capacity will be between 7,000 and 10,000 cubic yards daily. Already approximately $60,000 has been spent in getting ready to work the placers. The Cal-Idaho company is made up of Huntington Beach, California, men.
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Several tons of beryl, from the deposit of the Muscovite Mica Company, eight miles north of Deary, Idaho, have been sacked for shipment. The ore assays 10 percent beryllium oxide. A. H. Bentz, 2718 College Avenue, Spokane, is General Manager.
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Damages to the extent of $100,000 were awarded the Idaho Gold Dredging Corporation, in its suit against the Boise-Fayette Lumber Company. This is only about a fourth of the damages asked. The alleged damages to the mining company resulted from the oil and grease from the sawmill, getting into the water, and mixing with the placer ground, thus prohibiting the recovery of the gold. An appeal is almost certain.
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According to General Manager Coleman Frazier, of Burke, Idaho, rather extensive construction and development, is scheduled by the Blue Ribbon Mining Company. New and larger mine buildings will be erected, an electric light plant to supply both the camp and mine, water power, a five-mile telephone line to connect with the lines at Burke, and a mile of road for the transportation of machinery and general hauling. About 800 feet of crosscut tunnel, 4x6 ½ feet in the clear, have been completed, and it is proposed to drive a 8,000-foot tunnel, to tap the vein at greater depth. This would add 400 feet of stoping ground. Irwin Enos, 2208 West Second Street, Spokane, Washington, is President.
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The Ima Mines Corporation, W. P. Barton, Manager, May, Idaho, will erect additional housing facilities for its men, and build a new shop. Drifting at the 700-foot Level has been making good progress, and will require a length of nearly 1,500 feet.
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Ore bins will be set up at the Lone Butte Mine, operated under the management of S. R. Reynolds, of Kootenai, Idaho, and the road from the mine to the main highway graveled. A compressor house has been built, and a compressor installed. The lower tunnel is being continued to the main ore body.
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The Paris Mining and Milling Company, a comparatively new concern, has worked steadily [during] the past three months sinking a prospect shaft, three miles up Paris Canyon. Samples of the ore indicate good values in copper. Newer and more modern machinery is to be installed to speed up operations. F. T. Shepherd is President of the concern.
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The Sunrise Mining Company has built a blacksmith shop, and finished grading for a compressor and powder house, at the No. 5 Level of its property, in the Beaver District, three miles north of Burke Idaho. The power line right-of-way has been cleared, and power connection is to be established as soon as possible. Sufficient timber has been assembled for the winter’s work. The No. 8 Tunnel is being driven ahead to reach the downward extension of the ore in the No. 2 Tunnel. C. Fred Kratzer, 215 Waverly Place, Spokane, Washington, is General Manager of the organization.
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The Burnt Cabin Mining Company, J. H. Pointner, Superintendent, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has completed a double-compartment raise, from the No. 8, to the No. 2 Level. Work will be resumed as soon as the weather will permit in the spring. About 50,000 tons of milling ore have been blocked out, and the program outlined for next year includes about 100 feet of drifting on the No. 8 Level, to block out additional ore, and the construction of a 50-ton flotation mill. E. L. Overjorde is President.
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The improved crushing plant, at the Page Mine, of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, was placed in operation September 1. The improvements effected were a Symons Cone crusher, vibrating screen, rolls, and new sampling plant.
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Principal development outlined by the Harmony Mines ‘Company, E. F. Nieman, Superintendent, Box 47, Salmon, Idaho, is sinking from the 900, to the 1,200 Level, and lateral work on the 900 Level. The principal construction during the next few months will be the installation of a 950-cubic-foot direct-connected air compressor at the station on the 800 Level.
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Extensive development and constructive improvements have been effected by the Spokane and Idaho Copper Company at its property, 17 miles from Harvard, Idaho. The No. 5 Tunnel has been repaired, and both the No. 5, and No. 6 Tunnels, retimbered. The Easton Tunnel will be continued, to further develop an ore body opened in the No. 6 Adit. A new rooming house to accommodate 35 men, and a new boarding house and cook house to accommodate 50 men, have been established during the summer. Frederic Keffer, 1108 Paulsen Building, Spokane, is Manager of the company.
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A. H. Dahle, of Sheridan, Montana, Mining Engineer, and associates, have taken a lease and bond on the Ranger Mine, in the main Rocky Range, east of Salmon, Idaho, and have started cleaning the old workings. The ground belonged to the estate of George L. Shoup, and has been idle nearly 25 years. This is the second property that the Dahle party has acquired in Lemhi County; only a few weeks ago they acquired the Lamoreaux Group, on Hughes Creek, near Gibbonsville.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation, H. L. Brainard, President, Kellogg, Idaho, has let a contract to the Washington Water Power Company of Spokane, for the construction of a line up Big Creek, from the Sunshine Mine. Among the recent installations are a 12x12 Gardner compressor, and a 75-horsepower motor. The objective of development is to open a number of veins in its property, that are parallel to the Sunshine Vein, and it is believed that the extension of the present crosscut will open one of the veins.
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An eight-inch width of high-grade silver-lead ore is said to have been opened in the upper tunnel of the North Idaho Mining and Development Company, on Lightning Creek, near Clarks Fork, Idaho. A five-drill Ingersoll-Rand compressor has recently been installed, and will be used in continuing the lower tunnel to reach the downward extension of the vein. The lower adit is in 880 feet, and it is estimated that in another 300 feet it will reach its objective. Two shifts of seven men each will drive the lower tunnel. A. F. Alcorn of Clarks Fork, is General Manager.
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HAIGHT HAS EQUIPPED EL ORO MINE FOR WINTER OPERATION

The El Oro Mine, near Hailey, Idaho, has settled down to regular operation for the winter, with a force of 15 men under the management of Ingersoll E. Haight. The No. 1 and No. 2 Tunnels have been re-timbered, and development will be confined largely to driving the No. 3 Tunnel, 165 feet lower than the No. 2 Adit.

A few days ago, the mill was placed in operation, but it is yet too early to obtain much data on its recovery. The steam power plant, new camp buildings, and sawmill, are adequate for the demands upon them.

C. Wesley Smith, the owner of the property, maintains headquarters at Room 711, 60 State Street, Boston.
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Some Rich Gold Sirikes in Idaho
By ROBERT N. BELL, Consulting Engineer, Boise, Idaho.

Recent discoveries of high-grade gold at depth are reviving interest in Boise Basin, a famous placer field.
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Progress development continues to disclose rich segregations of native gold values, along the Quartzburg porphyry belt, of Boise Basin, 30 to 40 miles northeast of the capitol of Idaho. Boise Basin is a historic placer gold field. and is credited with a total yield in placer gold of $65,000,000.

The oldest lode gold mine of the district, in fact, of the State of Idaho, is known as the Gold Hill and Iowa Mine, now owned and operated by the Talache Mines Company. This old property is credited with a production of $7,000,000 in gold values, above its 700-foot Level. The present owners have continued the development to the 850-foot Level, which is now being explored with marked success.

The most recent development, is the extension of the main stockwork porphyry stope of stringer ore, of $7 or $8 mill feed values, into the adjacent granite formation, where the vein has been opened for a stope length of 100 feet, and several floors high, giving daily stope face samples, of from one to four ounces gold, per ton, including occasional segregations of picture rock. This has markedly increased the mill returns recently.

In addition to the more extensive development of this horizon, the company is planning to extend the main shaft, to the thousand foot level, in the near future. A. H. Burrough, Jr., Quartzburg, Idaho, is President and General Manager.
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Two miles west of the Gold Hill, the Helshazzar Mine, of the Idawa Gold Mining Company, E. A. Nordquist, Manager, is opening a new level at a depth of 460 feet, and has recently encountered its rich ore channel, with segregations of native gold, up to several ounces in weight, which gives encouragement of finding segregations of native gold similar to those encountered between the No. 3 and No. 4 Levels, where one pocket contained $10,000, and single lumps of native metal up to 105 ounces in weight, far exceeding any of the historic placer nuggets of the district.

This mine is equipped with a 25-ton mill, has produced approximately $425,000, within the past four years, and has paid its stockholders $80,000 in dividends.
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Another rich gold strike recently made along the porphyry belt, 10 miles northeast of Quartzburg, at the Comeback Mine, is of keenest interest. This is a local development enterprise on a big shear zone, 50 to 100 feet wide, cutting a complex of porphyry dikes. It has been developed by a crosscut tunnel at a depth of 150 feet, and has a drift a thousand feet long, on the zone.

A hanging wall drift carries thin pay shoots of very high-grade silver ore, and a foot wall vein with fair milling values, four or five feet in width, carries segregations of rich gold ore. Both these better pay bands, are richly mineralized with complex sulphides, including pyrite, a little chalcopyrite, zinc, lead, grey copper, and ruby silver.

The development has been wholly financed by small shipments of crude hand-picked ore, varying from five tons to 30 tons. The larger lot gave returns of 10 ounces gold, and 125 ounces silver, per ton.

Recently the miners threw aside, on the dump, some lumps of hard quartz which they thought contained white iron pyrite. After the rains had washed the talc off, this was discovered to be light colored native gold. Lumps up to six inches square, were found to contain assay values of 500 ounces in gold, and 500 ounces in silver.

This particular pay streak of bonanza values is now being sought for, by removing the lagging in the drift, from where it is believed to have come. It is expected it will be uncovered shortly, and some interesting shipping results obtained. This deposit has recently been tapped by a new crosscut tunnel, at an additional depth of 200 feet, where some good panning rock is being encountered.

At Grimes Pass near the Comeback Mine, the Independence, and Coon Dog groups, with considerable development on a series of fissure veins exhibiting rich segregations of gold ore, as well as a base metal including lead, copper, and zinc, have recently been examined by some responsible Los Angeles engineers, with a view to further extensive development through a crosscut tunnel, from the Payette Canyon Slope nearby.

These recent discoveries, and development at considerable depth, of high gold values, is attracting much attention to this extensive porphyry belt, in the main granite batholith area, of Idaho.
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General Metals Merger, 1247 Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington, is making provisions to increase its personnel from 6, to 31 individuals. E. A. Gabryel is President; W. J. Galbraith, Forbes Richard, A. H. Dougall, Jr., and Melville G. Henry, Vice-Presidents; and Paul C. Dubuar, Secretary and Treasurer. After the examination of many properties, five were selected and are either conditionally controlled or owned by the merger. They are: the Silver Cord Mine, Point Ashley, Alaska; the Lawrence property in Yavapai County, Arizona; the Alto property in Custer County, Idaho; the Boston American, and the Silver Creek Mines in Snohomish County, Washington; and the Bethania Mines in Mineral County, Nevada.
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The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, President and General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, is driving a connection between the lead-silver ore body on the 2,800-foot Level, and the main shaft. Below the 2,000-foot Level, all production is handled through a winze, and the direct connection will reduce the cost of mining.
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The Progress Gold Mining Company has sent samples from its recent strike on Eagle Creek in the Coeur d’Alenes, to Chicago, to confirm the analysis run by George Jemison, 1605 Denver Avenue, Portland, Oregon, according to A. E. Hoover, East 828 Garland Street, Spokane, who is General Manager, and Consulting Engineer for the company. Jemison’s analysis showed that the ore carried 41 percent phenacite, the orthosilicate of beryllium. The samples are being taken from a deposit known for a width of 30 feet, and the vein has been traced through croppings over three-quarters of a mile. Hoover has spent several thousands of dollars in purchasing complete mining equipment, which will be taken to the mine soon. This machinery includes a compressor, engine, water liner, jackhammer, steel, and camp equipment.
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The Delaware Mines Corporation, which last summer suspended development of the Rex Property, near Wallace, Idaho, has been reorganized as the Associated Mines Corporation, Ltd. Matt Baumgartner, 323 Lindelle Block, Spokane; F. C. Bailey, formerly at Wallace, but now in Spokane; and Roy H. Kingsbury of Wallace, have organized the new company. Baumgartner and Bailey were President and General Manager, respectively, in the Delaware. Further development is anticipated.
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Granada Lead Mines, Inc., Ross L. Roundy, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has entered the Granada Vein, at the 500-foot point in the tunnel, and has penetrated the ore for seven feet. In appearance, the ore is similar to that opened on the higher levels of the vein.
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The Papurel and Graham Mountain Mining Company, Antone Papurel, President, Box 517, Kellogg, Idaho, plans to install a compressor to be driven by water power. Next spring, the lower tunnel will be continued about 200 feet, to reach the vein at depth.
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Sven A. Anderson, of Sinclair, Idaho, has contracted with the Moyie Gold-Copper Mining and Milling Company, Ltd., at Banners Ferry, Idaho, to drive 125 feet of tunnel on the No. 1 Vein. The work has started, and supplies are on the ground for the winter.
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Metallurgical tests are being made by the Constitution Mining and Milling Company, at Masonia, Idaho, William P. White, Manager, which shut down on account of low metal prices. It is probable that next spring, changes will be made in its 150-ton smelter, to insure a higher recovery.
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Frank Glennon is operating a five-stamp mill at Gibbonsville, Idaho, on ore from his claims, at Cyanide Gulch. and is saving 86 percent of the value of the ore, which averages $30 a ton. The ore is a sulphide, containing gold and silver, and a small amount of lead. The group comprises six claims and twelve veins, from a foot to four feet wide, across the property.
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Ben Castle has hauled a test shipment of ore from the Dewey Mines, to Grangeville, Idaho. The ore was shipped to the Tacoma Smelter. F. M. Watson is General Manager.
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The power line from the Sunshine Mine, to the Metropolitan Mines Corporation’s ground, in Big Creek, has been completed, and connections made at the mine and machine shops. As a part of its enlarged program, the deep crosscut has been started to the vein 500 feet ahead, at a depth of between 600 and 700 feet. The officials of the company are: R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, President; John Sandford, Vice-President; and Roy Kingsbury, Secretary-Treasurer. Robert Maddrell has been elected to a recent vacancy on the board.
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A. J. Rasor of Goeur d’Alene, Idaho, has discovered a vein of lead-silver ore in the Beauty Bay District and is developing the showing. It is five feet wide, and samples of the ore carry from 25 to 35 percent lead, and good silver values. Machinery and equipment will be installed next spring, if the prospect gives promise of becoming a producer.
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METAL MINING IN IDAHO REPORTED IN GRAPH FORM

“A graphic history of metal mining in Idaho,” recently issued by the Department of the Interior, as Geological Survey Bulletin 821-A, gives, in the form of graphs, condensed data on the course of placer and lode mining in the state, since its beginning in 1860, with an interpretation of the graphs. The early, rather short-lived boom in placer mining was followed by lode mining, which has passed through various boom periods in different areas. The Coeur d’Alene District now dominates mining in the state. Although ores of several metals exist in Idaho, the production of lead-silver ore is the only branch of the industry that is of importance now, or likely to become so, in the near future.
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TOWN MINE TAKES ON ACTIVITY AFTER THIRTY-YEAR REST

The Town Gold Mine, on the outskirts of Jacksonville, Oregon, has passed to John M. Price, of Nampa, Idaho, and C. C. Clark of Medford, Oregon. New equipment, including a Gardner-Denver compressor, drills, new steel for trackage, shop tools, and complete and extensive laboratory equipment, is being installed. The new owners announce that they will erect a 100-ton reduction plant at Jacksonville, and do custom business, along with the concentration of their own ores.

The Town Mine has been closed for the past 30 years, since a general decline in the gold industry of the region. Its former production approximates $250,000, which was milled at the Opp Mine, adjoining. Its history dates back to 1852, when .a pioneer placer miner of Jacksonville located and operated the diggings.

In the late 50s, when gold was discovered in the quartz veins of the region, and on the exhaustion of placer gold, the owners of the property looked to the quartz veins for the source of gold, which had fed the gulch. Soon after, a prospector named Johnson recovered a pocket, on the veins near the surface, which yielded $30,000. Later, another prospector named Bowden, struck another pocket, higher on the ridge which yielded $60,000.

There are about 3,000 tons of ore on the dumps, and 25,000 tons are blocked out in the mine, while considerable ground awaits development. The ore in former millings averaged $20 a ton.

The new owners have acquired the ground from George Schrump, local miner, and are incorporating as the Midas Gold Mines, Inc., with a capitalization of $1,000,000, under the laws of Oregon. Those financing the project are the Andrews Implement Company at Portland; H. G. Myers of Boise, Idaho; Charles Moore of Yuba City, California; W. R. Price of Nevada City, California; and Messrs. Clark and Price. Price is Engineer in Charge, and H. E. Ellsworth, formerly of Alaska Mines, but recently with the Sylvanite Mine at Gold Hill, will be Chief Metallurgist.
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The Pandora Mining Company has agreed to a new lease and bond on the property, near Martin, Idaho, which allows more favorable terms, according to Charles A. Mayo, 241 North Twenty-fourth Avenue, Yakima, Washington, President of the company. They plan to do
about 1,500 feet of diamond drilling in the early spring, and to continue development and ore shipments during the year.
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The Solar Development Company, Ltd., R. B. Shelledy, Superintendent, Paris, Idaho, has built a loading platform at the railway station in Paris, and has started hauling out its phosphate ore, from Bloomington. The railroad cars are routed to the new $10,000,000 phosphate smelter, at Trail, British Columbia.
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Coeur d’Alene miners are rejoicing in the announcements of S. A. Easton, and J. J. Sawbridge, that they do not intend to cut wages, reduce the number of employees, nor their days of employment. These men need no identification. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company has a payroll of about 1,600, is producing about 17 tons of pure zinc daily, and is gradually getting into the production of cadmium. The Sunshine Mining Company does not intend to adopt the five-day work week.
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The Silver Spoon Mining Company has ordered a compressor and hoist, for the further development of a discovery in Meadow Creek, 15 miles north of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, by R. L. Holsington. Assays of the ore recently developed show 33 ounces silver, and 19 percent lead.
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The Day Development Company, a corporation, has taken over the Center Star Prospect, on the South Fork of the Clearwater River, seven miles west of Elk City, Idaho. Eight men have been employed, a compressor has been installed, and supplies delivered for the winter.
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The Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, Manager, Wallace, Idaho, is making preparations to sink an incline shaft, from the main tunnel, into a body of high-grade galena, running 80 percent lead. This ore body was opened a year ago, and is 10 to 12 feet wide, and 40 feet long. Water was turned into the new settling dam on the tributary of the North Fork River on November 24. The new 500-ton mill is expected to go into operation in February. The building has been completed, and the machinery is being installed. Approximately 100 men are on the payroll.
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The Explorers Prospecting Company, John L. Dirks, President, Rookery Building, Spokane, is getting $9 gold ore from the diamond drill cores in the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho. The drilling is being done by A. J. Koebel, formerly of Daisy, Washington. Tunnel and shaft development will probably begin within two weeks. Two shifts are expected to work.
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Flotation machinery is being installed in the 200-ton John George Mill, at Wardner, Idaho, and the plant is expected to be in operation within 30 days. It will replace the old plant, destroyed by fire several months ago.
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Three of the largest producers in the Coeur d’Alenes curtailed production, December 1. The Dayrock Mining Company, headed by Frank M. Rothrock, Exchange National Bank Building, Spokane, is maintaining a six-day week, but on a one-shift basis.
The Hecla Mining Company, James F. McCarthy, President and General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has adopted a five-day week, but has not reduced the number of shifts. The movement affects approximately 450 men underground and at the surface, all of whom will be retained. The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has curtailed similar to Hecla. Federal has been operating its Page Mine on a one-shift basis, for five or six months.
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The Little Lightning Mining Company is starting a tunnel, to open at a depth of 150 feet, a vein that has been traced 1,200 feet at the surface, and contains some galena. The objective will require about 180 feet of tunnel. The company is sponsored by W. D. Farmin, of Sandpoint, as President; R. M. Taylor, 324 South Fourth Avenue, Sandpoint, Vice-president; and W. M. Hallenbach, Secretary and Treasurer.
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The Bobby Anderson Mining Company, Leo J. Bender, Manager, Kellogg, Idaho, has opened more than three feet of carbonate ore, carrying commercial values in lead and silver, in its property on Pine Creek. The discovery was made in an open cut, which was being driven under a prominent outcrop, and resembles the ore in the upper workings of the Sidney Mine, a well-known producer. The ore is making in a 10-foot ledge, with well-defined quartzite walls. Further development will be carried out immediately.
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The Yellow Pine Company will make the largest expenditure among the gold mining companies in Idaho during this year, according to Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector. This is the largest gold operation in the state and is carried on by F. W. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco. Some silver and antimony are being mined along with the gold. George W. Worthington, at Stibnite, Idaho, is Superintendent.
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THE MINING JOURNAL FOR JANUARY 15, 1931

IDAHO

The Golconda Lead Mines Inc., William Beaudry, Managing Director, Wallace, Idaho, is doing surface exploration on the Mayflower Claim, about 2,000 feet east of the Golconda Shaft. The vein is from 20 to 30 feet wide, and boulders of solid galena, from one to two feet wide, are said to have been .found.
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The vein at the 900-foot point in the Metropolitan Mines Corporation’s tunnel is 15 feet wide, with the mineralization of the footwall about twice that of the hanging wall. The tunnel is being continued to the original objective, a vein between 125 and 150 feet ahead. R. L. Brainard of Kellogg, Idaho, is President.
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The Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, has completed preparations for developing the vein at the 3,650 Level of its Morning Mine. At this depth, the ore averages 9.3 percent lead, 4.7 ounces silver, and 6.4 percent zinc, and diamond drills sunk 200 feet deeper, reveal similar values across a similar width. The bottom of the shaft is 150 feet below the 3,650 Level, and further sinking is not planned for the near future.
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The Sherman Howe Mining Company, A. W. Walker, President and General Manager, Burgdorf, Idaho, is operating one of the most modern mining and milling plants in the state. The mine is operated continuously, and the mill, about 75 percent of the time. The mill can handle 150 tons of ore dail, and is equipped with a gyratory crusher, regrinding equipment, ball mills, amalgamators, and flotation. Power is supplied by a Diesel engine.
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The Silver Spoon Mining Company, at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, has sunk the discovery shaft 20 feet by hand, and is installing a compressor and hoist to sink a shaft to a depth of 200 feet. During the late summer, five buildings were erected to house the employees, and one for machinery. The vein in the shaft is a quartz-filled fissure 30 inches wide, between diorite walls. The metallic content is lead-silver sulphide, with a small proportion of the sulphides of iron, zinc, and copper. High-grade ore, assaying from 19 to 26 percent lead, and from 7 to 32 ounces silver to the ton, occurs in somewhat irregular streaks on both walls, and in the middle of the vein. The officers of the Silver Spoon are: R. L. Hoisington, President; G. E. Dodson, Vice-President; Emma Hoisington, Secretary; and Alma Dodson, Treasurer.
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The Little Sunshine Mining Company has suspended operations on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho. About 125 feet of development had been done on a showing in the main tunnel, and a 500-foot shaft sunk below that depth, when operations were suspended. The move affects 14 men. William Stokes has been in charge of the shaft sinking. J. R. Moore, 902 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington, is President of the company.
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Bids have been asked on about 500 feet of crosscut tunnel on the River Tunnel level, by the Bobby Anderson Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho. The objective of the work is to reach a vein, which has been prospected rather extensively at the surface. Leo J. Bender is General Manager.
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On January 1, the Keystone Phosphate Company shipped 25,000 tons of mine run rock, from its mines in the Montpelier District, two miles from Paris, Idaho, to Japan and New Zealand, according to General Manager W. H. Honefenger. A mill is to be built in Idaho this year, but in the meantime, the grinding will be done at Los Angeles, California. This company ships some of its rock to L. J. Whitney, in Spokane.
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The Weigle Mining and Milling Company has engaged three men to clean up its property, near Kellogg, Idaho, and will drive a crosscut at an angle, from the main tunnel in the Eldorado Claims. This crosscut will start from the 700-foot point in the 1,000-foot tunnel, and will reach its objective in about 60 feet. When the ledge is reached, the crosscut will be run into Weigle ground, about 1,200 feet farther on, and any ore opened as the crosscut advances will be developed. The new work planned will gain a depth of about 1,000 feet below the upper workings. The Weigle Company owns the adjoining Liberty Bell Claim and in the near future, will have it surveyed for a patent. C. F. Diemond, of Pasco, Washington, is President.
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The Standard Stations, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with provisions in its charter to do mining, oil development, manufacturing, etc., has filed a copy of its articles of incorporation with county auditor in Bonner County, Idaho. It has a capital stock of $1,000,000, divided into shares of $25 par value. There are 42,000 preferred and 3,000,000 common shares. The Corporation Trust Company, 10 West Tenth Street, Wilmington, Delaware, is the authorized agent for the corporation.
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During the quarter ended October 31, 1930, the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, H. G. Washburn, General Manager, Wallace, Idaho, reports net earnings of $266,672, before depreciation, depletion and taxes, as compared with $273,650 in the preceding quarter, and $785,780 in the quarter ended October 31, 1929. During the third quarter of the current year, 82,688 tons of concentrates were shipped, as compared with 31,671 tons in the preceding quarter, and 40,412 tons in the third quarter of last year. The shaft in the Morning Mine has reached a depth of 3,650 feet. Skip pockets are being cut, and laterals will be driven to cut the ore above. On the 3,450 Level, the vein has been opened nearly 1,500 feet, and is rich in metals, principally lead.
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The Hope Mining Company, at Clark Fork, Idaho, is electrifying its surface plant and workings, and hopes to have its 85-ton flotation plant ready for operation within 90 days. A substantial tonnage is in sight, and continued development is scheduled. The officers are: O. A. Holte of Coeur d’Alene, President; Samuel W. Purdy, of Clark Fork, Vice-President; and Carl Jensen, also of Clark Fork, Secretary and Treasurer. A. K. Wintereeck is Metallurgical Engineer.
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The Sunshine Mining Company, on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, C. C. Samuels, Manager, is highly encouraged over development, west of the shaft, on the 1,300 Level. The blind vein, containing lead, which was opened a year ago, between the Polaris and Yankee Boy Veins, is believed to be uniting with the other two. The shaft is within 100 feet of its objective, the 1,700-foot depth, and a lateral will be pushed as rapidly as possible to learn what relation the lower showing bears to those above. About 500 tons ore are going through the mill each day.
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Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector, has reviewed the various development projects of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, and in part, his report states that the main oreshoot has been opened 400 feet on the No. 9, or Kellogg Level, and the limits of the ore have not yet been determined. Development of this vein still continues at the No. 6 Level, where it has been followed 500 feet. Above that level, a 100-foot raise has been driven, so that counting the dip of the vein, its known length is nearly 1,300 feet. At the No. 17 Level, the Meiers Drift is being driven to the vein, and the face of the drift is believed to be near the downward extension of the ore. A large fan has been installed at the No.19 Level, to insure better ventilation at that depth, and on the No. 20 Level. S. A. Easton is General Manager.
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Talache Mines, Inc., is displaying a 50-pound gold ingot, marking the fifteenth month of its operation of the old Gold Hill Mine, at Quartzburg, Idaho. Smelted into its present form, it is about two inches deep, three inches wide and eight inches long. A. H. Burroughs, Jr., is President and General Manager of the company. He took over the mine after it had been abandoned many years, unwatered the shaft, and sunk it to 700 feet, where he struck gold. Since that time, 54 ingots, similar to the one now being displayed in the local bank, have been taken out, and the shaft now stands at 850 feet.
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Herb. Johnson and Joe Snell have resumed work at their lease from the Never Sweat Mining Company, in the French District, near Silver City, Idaho. Returns from their last shipment of concentrates were reported as profitable. Windsor J. Lloyd of Nampa, Idaho, is President of the company. The property comprises 12 patented mining claims, equipped with concentrating tables, oil flotation cells, and other machinery.
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COSTS AND MINING PRACTICES AT THE PAGE MINE IN IDAHO

The Page Mine, which may be classed as one of the new active producers of the Coeur d’Alenes, is the most westerly of the producing lead-silver-zinc mines of the district, being situated five miles west of the city of Kellogg. It is operated by the Federal Mining and Smelting Company.
The development of the flotation process is largely responsible for the activity of the Page Mine, which is producing a daily tonnage of 300 tons. Mine run of ore averages 8.5 percent lead, 2.8 percent zinc, and 2.6 ounces of silver, per ton. The property is equipped with a 300-ton daily capacity flotation mill, which was constructed and put in operation in December, 1926.

Many interesting facts regarding the history of the mine, its development, ore deposits, and the mining methods used, are contained in a paper by J. E. Berg, General Manager of the Federal Mining and Smelting Company, which has been published by the United States Bureau of Mines as Information Circular 6372. A number of drawings are used to illustrate the special methods and equipment employed.
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