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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

IDAHO

GOLCONDA LEAD MINES REACHES TWO IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES

The Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., one of the progressive operators of the Coeur d’Alenes, is working its flotation mill in the Hunter District, near Wallace, Idaho, during one shift, and is recovering about five carloads each of zinc, and of lead, concentrates. On account of market conditions for these metals, storage capacity has been provided for the concentrates to a capacity of 300 tons of lead, and 200 tons of zinc.

Underground, one of the important developments was the drift from the 1,800-foot Level of the three-compartment shaft. It has reached the vein at a length of 460 feet, and disclosed a six-foot width of ore, which is being drifted on. Another showing of importance, has been made in the Mayflower Ground, about 2,600 feet east of the present workings. It is six feet of carbonate ore, and carries about 20 inches of high grade.

Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., has struck ore on the 1,800-foot level of its property, near Wallace, Idaho. Early reports are that the vein is of good grade ore and five feet wide.

Golconda Lead Mines was organized January 18, 1927, to operate the Hector and Mayflower Mines. William Beaudry, of Wallace, is Managing Director.
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The Gene Lee Mining Company at Clarks Fork, Idaho, is driving a 100-foot tunnel along a faulted zone, three feet wide, to gain a depth of 75 feet on the lead which it crosses, 100 feet north of the original discovery. The tunnel has been driven 54 feet. Its face has released some water, and is in re-deposited carbonates and crushed quartz, and ledge matter. The heavy timbering necessary, is slowing up the work, but the ledge will be reached about April 1, according to C. L. Heffron, President and Manager of the company. Two men are driving the tunnel.
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James M. Wilson is driving a 300-foot tunnel in the Hyatt Mine, near Weiser, Idaho, for the Long Tom Mining Company. The tunnel has followed the vein about one-third of that distance, and he expects to complete the bore by July 1. Machinery to mill the ore is to be installed as soon as the weather permits bringing it in.
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The City of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has made application to the Power Commission, for a preliminary permit to construct power plants on the North Fork of the Snake River, in Fremont, Madison, Jefferson, and Bonneville Counties, Idaho. The project includes dams and powerhouses above the upper Mesa Falls, and at the lower Mesa Falls, to generate 19,000 horsepower of energy, for use in the city, and to supply nearby municipalities. The cost of the construction is estimated at two million dollars.
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The new concentrating plant of the Jack Waite Mining Company, on upper Eagle Creek, near Murray, Idaho, is scheduled to begin operation February 15. It was designed by W. L. Zeigler, Superintendent of Mills, for the Hecla Mining Company, and constructed under the direction of J. R. Turner, Manager at the mines. Between 450 and 500 tons of ore can be milled daily, as soon as the plant is regulated. A hoist has been purchased from the Union Iron Works, and will be used in sinking a 500-foot shaft from the Idaho Tunnel, from which drifts will be run to the downward extensions of the ore in the upper levels, as announced by the Duthrie interests, last August.

As another addition to its permanent equipment, the Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, Manager, Murray, Idaho, has purchased one of the new light diamond drills manufactured by the Mitchell Diamond Drill Manufacturing Company, at Spokane, Washington. Before it was bought, a test was made on the Main Tunnel Level. Operated by one man, 149 feet were drilled in 30 1/2 hours actual drilling time, at a cost of only 62 1/2 cents a foot.
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The Gold and Copper Mining Company is said to have opened 10 inches of carbonate ore on its prospect, near Prichard, Idaho. Walter Buell, and W. Wechard are operating the property.
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Rupert Winters intends to operate his placer property on the Feather River, near Fairfield, Idaho, as soon as weather conditions will permit. During last season, a crew dug a ditch which will convey the water several miles, to the hydraulic machinery, and everything is ready for actual hydraulicking.
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The Ida Bell Mines, Inc., has opened a vein of free milling gold ore, in the Carson District, in Owyhee County, Idaho, that assays between $30 and $40 a ton. It is five feet thick, and has been followed about 700 feet. A small mill is to be placed in operation within a few days, and as soon as the roads are in condition to haul in machinery, a plant of about 50 tons’ daily capacity will be established.
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The Metropolitan Mines Corporation, R. L. Brainard, President, Kellogg, Idaho, unexpectedly cut a vein at the 135-foot point in its North Crosscut. It has a northeasterly course, and although the vein was in the face of the crosscut, for between 10 and 12 feet, its actual width varies between eight and 18 inches. According to Foreman Eric Ecklund, the vein has similar characteristics to the Sunshine Vein, where he had worked formerly, but not enough development has been done to determine whether it is an offshoot or a separate vein. Development of the crosscut is being continued, and its face is out beyond 160 feet.
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Just eight inches from the point where development was stopped in the lowest tunnel, Minerva Silver, Inc., E. R. Lindsay, President and General Manager, 314 Standard Stock Exchange Building, Spokane, Washington, has opened ore. The ore was eight inches wide where encountered, and in 12 feet of drifting, increased to 16 inches in width. Although one of the samples of the ore contained 600 ounces of silver, with some gold, and copper, the general average of the ore is about $85 per ton.
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Explorers, Inc., John L. Dirks, President, Rookery Building, Spokane, Washington, has two shifts working in the Buffalo Gold Mine, at Granite, Oregon, and the mill is working. Several carloads of concentrates have been shipped, and the ore blocked out for milling, is estimated to be worth $50,000. At Sandpoint, Idaho, the tunnel is being pushed and has cut five feet of commercial gold ore, at a depth less than 100 feet. Arrangements are being made to open an office in Buffalo, New York, and
in this capacity, L. L. Boyer, of Sandpoint, has left for the East.
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IDAHO MINING NEWS 2 15 1931

The Gold Standard Mining Corporation, recently organized, controls the Sunnyside Mine in the Carson Mining District, 18 miles west of Murphy, Owyhee County, Idaho; the Allan Mine, in the Radersburg Mining District, and the Diamond Hill Mine, in the Hassel Mining District, both in Broadwater County, Montana.
W. C. Dewey of Nampa, Idaho, is the president of the newly created concern; Fred W. Callaway of Spokane, Washington, is vice-president and general manager; and Victor Shawe of Boise, Idaho, is secretary and treasurer.
Gold is the predominating ore in the three properties. The limited development that has been conducted on the Sunnyside shows the principal vein to be two and one-half, to five feet wide, and a 100-foot shaft is being sunk from a drift on the ore, which will give a depth of about 265 feet. A new bunkhouse and hoist house have been built and a partly equipped mill on the ground will be completed to handle about 25 tons of ore a day.
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The Clearwater Gold and Copper Mining Company has re-elected the following officers: Samuel Sidenfeld of San Francisco, president; John H. Wourms, of WalIace, Idaho, secretary and treasurer; and Herman A. Bursch of Harrington, Washington, director. The property is situated on the headwaters of the north fork of the Clearwater River, in Shoshone County, Idaho.
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James J. Flynn, superintendent of the Golden Anchor Mines, in the Marshall Lake district, near Warren, Idaho, has returned to the mine and intends to resume development with a small crew. Extensive operations are planned if development through the winter shows up as is anticipated. The mine had been closed down since the fall on account of trouble within the organization.
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The crosscut tunnel which Stratton Silver Summit, inc., started on Rosebud Gulch, near Wallace, Idaho, has cut the Nellie and four other veins, typical of the Coeur d’Alene district in their quartz and siderite vein fillings. Nearly all of them show gray coper, running as high as 33 ounces silver. The crosscut has reached 7 a length of 4,100 feet and is getting close to the extension of the Sunshine vein, which is its main objective. Harry P. Pearson is in charge of the mining inter-eats of W. S. Stratton of Wallace.

J. S. Sawbridge of Yakima, Washington, president of the Sunshine Mining Company on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, has denied all rumors that the mine will close down. Expenses are being trimmed to the limit. They have cut their cost of producing silver to nearly 20 cents an ounce, and expect to lower it to that figure soon. The shaft has reached the 1,700-foot point and a crosscut is being driven 400 feet below the lowest workings on the Yankee Boy and Polaris veins. For two reasons this development is being watched eagerly, since some authorities are of the opinion that the Yankee Boy and Polaris veins unite at depth to form one large vein, and since the Sunshine management opened lead-silver ore on the 1,800 level between its two large veins that may prove to be another vein on the lower level.
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The Yellow Pine Company in Valley County, Idaho, an F. W. Bradley enterprise, is driving a 10,000-foot tunnel easterly to develop gold-mercury deposits in its Cinnabar group, and an 8,000-foot tunnel southerly, to develop the gold zone in its Meadow Creek group. The former adit has reached a length of 1,000 feet and is being advanced at the rate of 10 feet a day, while the latter is 1,500 feet long and is following the strike of the ore at the rate of 12 or 18 feet a day. In the Meadow Creek Mine, a shaft will be sunk 410 feet to join the haulage tunnel. During the winter the payroll has averaged 40 men, a reduction of 56 from the payroll of last summer. Power is furnished by plants at Sugar Creek, and at South Meadow, and a third power unit, using water, with a 525-k.v.a. generator, was built on Sugar Creek last summer. George W. Worthington at Stibnite, Idaho, is superintendent of the company.
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The Golden Chariot-War Eagle Mines Company, Inc., has been organized to operate gold property in Owyhee County, Idaho, according to Kirby Thomas, 2 West Sixty-Seventh Street, New York City, president of the organization. Its capitalization is 1,000,000 shares of $1 par. The main office will be maintained at Silver City, Idaho.
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Judge A. H. Featherstone of the district court at Wallace, Idaho, has rendered judgment in favor of the Idaho and Eastern Mining Company in the suit to determine the ownership of the Stroble lode mining claim, in the Lelanda mining district, near Burke. The case had been in court 26 years, and his decision removes from court the oldest case on docket. The Stroble claim lies between the Stanley and the Hercules ground, and was located in 1901. In due time it was acquired by the Idaho and Eastern company, and the following year the St. Louis and Idaho Mining and Milling Company located the St. Louis claim, which it appears covered practically the same ground.
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The Hope Mining Company, O. A. Holte, president, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has shipped two carloads of lead-silver concentrates, produced by hand jigging. The proceeds are being used in building and equipping an 85-ton flotation mill.
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H. C. Stapleton of Wallace, Idaho, managing director for the Pontiac Mining Company, is giving some attention to the development of the Dew Drop group of six claims adjoining the Terrible Edith Mine. Gold ore has been located in an old 100-foot tunnel, which has reached the junction of an iron vein and a quartz gold-bearing vein, and while the price of lead is low, this seems to be an opportune time to develop the gold claims. The power lines are within a few feet of the portal of the Dew Drop Tunnel, making power for pumping easily accessible, and a shaft will be stated on the vein.
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As soon as the weather warms up, the Jack Waite Mining Company, J. R. Turner, manager, Murray, Idaho, will lay the track for the extension of its railroad up Tributary Creek, which was graded before the cold weather set in last fall. The new road will shorten the haul from the mill to the loading station from four to one and one-half miles. The mill is scheduled to go into operation early in February.
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The ldawa Gold Mining Company, operating property at Quartzburg, Idaho, is said to be negotiating for six gold mining claims located in a new district, 15 miles north of Baker, California, by Boden and Watkins. The report further states that they have offered $50,000 for the group, with a cash payment of $5,000. The Idaho property is equipped with a 25-ton mill, and has produced approximately $425,000 during the past four years, and has paid its stockholders $80,000 in dividends. E. A. Nordquist is Superintendent.
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Robert Burns, W. J. Burns, Dr. David Andrew, and H. O. Hall, all of Salt Lake City, Utah, have organized as the California Gold Corporation, for the development of eight claims in San Bernardino County, California, located early in the year by Robert Burns. The location is about 15 miles north of Baker, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and is reached over the Zion National Park Highway (now I-15). Burns took 14 samples at various points near the surface, and their assays ran between $6 and $65. Trenches, six to eight feet deep, are to be dug, and, if a promising showing is opened, an air compressor will be installed, and the ground thrown open to lease. It is estimated that the entire cost of mining, trucking, and shipping the ore to the Utah smelters, will not exceed $11 a ton.
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Deeds transferring the fee title to the Cumberland, Louisiana, and Montreal patented lode mining claims, together with the mill and equipment, to the Golden Chariot-War Eagle Mines Company, recently incorporated in Idaho, have been filed with the Register in Owyhee County, Idaho. These properties are located in the War Eagle Mountain District, about two miles from Silver City, and adjoin the Golden Chariot and Oro Fino claims, also acquired by the same company. Ten years ago, title to the Cumberland property passed from the Gault Estate, of Montreal, Canada, to Harvey S. Greene, of Cohoes, New York. Its shaft is 410 feet deep, and is said to have produced approximately $600,000 in gold and silver, most of it high-grade ore, but work was discontinued when the cost of pumping prohibited a profitable operation. Old records show that the Cumberland Vein was cut from the Golden Chariot Shaft, at a depth of 800 feet, and carried ore worth from $25 to $88 a ton, across a width of four feet. The new organization of which Kirby Thomas, mining engineer of New York City, is President, intends to move the mill and buildings to the Sinker Tunnel site, and work the Cumberland Vein from the Golden Chariot Shaft, through the Sinker Tunnel.
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The Idaho Gold and Platinum Merger Mines Company, Phil Thorn, Manager, Box 150, Bruneau, Idaho, has moved a tractor to its property to supply additional power to unwater the shaft. The water is said to come in through fractures in the concrete walls of the shaft, caused by blasting, and has been a great handicap in development. Ore is said to lie within a few feet of the water barrier.
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Dave Steiner of Clarkston, Idaho, has opened some rich gold ore in the Sentinel group of mines, in Idaho County, Idaho, near Golden. It is understood that E. J. Dailey of Seattle, field representative of a prospecting syndicate, is negotiating for control of the property.
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The property of the Pine Creek Consolidated Mining Company was bid on by former employees of the company, at a sheriff’s sale. The former company had taken over the Amy Matchless, Olympic, and other mines in the Pine Creek District in Idaho, in the early part of the summer of 1929, but the ambitious program of financing and development that was started, was interrupted by the crash in the stock market.
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The Perseverance Mines Company, Inc., Oscar E. Anderson, President and General Manager, Boise, Idaho, is making preparations to resume development on the quartz lode in the Little Smoky District, north of Fairfield. The No. 4 Crosscut Tunnel will be continued to a vein, rich in gold, silver, and lead, at a depth of 1,000 feet. The ore on the dump assays as high as $107.
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E. R. South of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Manager of the United Asbestos Products Company, at Ashton, has returned from New York and other eastern cities, and has placed a crew of 10 men at work at the mine. It is understood that more extensive operations will be carried on with the return of more favorable weather conditions, requiring a crew of probably 35 men.
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A ledge of gold-bearing ore has been located on Willow Creek, about 15 miles southeast of Burley, Idaho, on ground formerly worked as a marble deposit by M. J. Vea, head of the Stoughton Wagon Company, at Stoughton, Wisconsin. Vea is understood to have patented the ground, and is still owner of it. Plans are to equip the ground for prospecting and development, as soon as the snow is off the ground, and in connection with the work, Vea will probably spend some time at Burley.
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Ore has widened to 4 feet, at a depth of 30 feet, in the incline shaft of the Silver Spoon Mining Company, C. F. Tinsley, Superintendent, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and is quartz filling between diorite walls. This is an excellent showing, as at 20 feet the vein was only two and a half feet wide. Hand sinking has been superseded by a gallows frame, an Anaconda type hoist with cable and skip suitable for a 45-degree incline shaft, and a gasoline-driven air compressor that can operate two drills. An air-driven duplex pump, suitable for piping water from the river, has also been installed. Production will probably not be started before the shaft reaches a depth of 200 feet.
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company is employing 85 men and producing about 260 tons a day from its phosphate beds in southwestern Idaho, near Conda, according to General Manager F. M. Norris. The rock is treated with sulphuric acid at Anaconda Copper’s plant at Anaconda, Montana, to which point the raw rock is shipped from the mine. The phosphate occurs in beds seven feet wide, which outcrop at the surface, and have an average dip of 50 degrees to the horizontal. The beds are mined from an 8,000-foot tunnel, which gives a mining depth of about 600 feet along the vein. Two tunnels, 5,000 feet long, have been driven in the property for the development of future ore reserves.
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The Bobby Anderson Mining Company, at Kellogg, Idaho, Leo J. Bender, General Manager, has resumed development on Pine Creek, with a force of six men, working in day and night shifts. A new tunnel is being driven towards the downward extension of a vein, which has been prospected rather extensively at the surface, and the portal of the tunnel is located convenient for the installation of a mill at its portal.
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According to Managing Director W. A. Beaudry, of the Golconda Lead Mines, Inc., at Wallace, Idaho, the development of the 1,600 and 1800-foot levels has added so much to the ore reserves, that enlarged milling facilities will be required in the near future. The plant can treat 200 tons of ore a day, and will probably be enlarged to double that capacity, as soon as metal prices improve. In addition to these reserves, considerable ore has been opened at the surface of the Mayflower Vein, and the Square Deal is showing up nicely.
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CLEARING HOUSE ESTABLISHED AT BOISE

A mines clearing house has been opened in Boise, Idaho, by F. E. Johnesse, a former U. S. Mineral Examiner, and W. G. Huseman, a mining engineer from the Couer d’Alenes. The purpose of the clearing house is to act as exchanging agent for those having properties to sell, and those wishing to buy properties.

The name of the concern is the Western Mines Agency, and they will do general mining engineering, in connection with the clearing business. No charge is made for properties accepted for listing. In the event of a sale on that property, a commission is deducted from the purchase price. Each week or ten days, a mimeographed sheet of the listed properties is sent to prospective buyers.
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THE MINING JOURNAL
for MARCH 15, 1931

IDAHO

Approximately 200 feet of tunnel and crosscut has been driven on two small lodes on the southwest slope of Goat Mountain, five miles north of Clark Fork, Idaho, by the Goat Mountain Leasing Company. A compressor has been installed, and an average of four men are working. At the surface, these lodes are four inches wide and six feet apart, dipping at about 26 percent into the hill. Ore appeared near the 75-foot point in the tunnel, and continues as far as exploration has proceeded, with assays running 56 percent lead and 20 ounces silver. Ten tons of this class of ore have been mined and a carload shipment will be made in the near future. The tunnel is being continued to a third fissure which appears 300 feet farther up the hill, and which should be reached by the tunnel in another 50 feet. The third fissure is 20 inches wide. The officers of the organization are: A. D. Gabbert, president; C. J. Kimball, vice-president, and Floyd Cebell, secretary-treasurer.
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The General Mines Corporation has opened ore in its workings on Fine Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, that is richer in gold than previous discoveries, according to H. G. Loop, 402 Empire State Building, Spokane, who is president of the organization. The gold is accompanied by about $2 in silver, and a trace of lead. Nearly 300,000 tons have been blocked out, and are expected to average $50 a ton. Joe Hollingsworth is mine foreman.
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The report for 1930 of the Sunshine Mining Company, operating on Big Creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, shows that its cost of mining ore has been cut to an average of $2.45 a ton, and its milling cost to 53 cents a ton. The total cost, including all overhead expenses, taxes, development, and improvement, was $4.53 a ton. Mining costs are considerably lower now, and the mill is not running. During last year, the Sunshine milled 147,948 tons, from which 80 cars of concentrates were shipped, with a content of 2,310,000 ounces of silver, 1,546,000 pounds of lead, and 433,000 pounds of copper. The tonnage milled was considerably higher than the tonnage milled in 1929, which amounted to 62,392 tons. J, J. Sawbridge of Yakima, Washington, and C. C. Samuels of Kellogg, Idaho, are resident and general manager, respectively.
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Acting upon the recommendation of Oscar Hershey of San Francisco, and upon the wishes of its stockholders, the Atlas Mining Company, W. Earl Greenough, vice-president and general manager, Mullan, Idaho, is exploring a promising showing west of the Atlas crosscut. The work is limited to one shift a day. East of the crosscut the Carbonate Hill vein has been followed 500 feet and over 140 feet of that distance the vein averaged eight feet. A shaft will be sunk on the ore later. Last year the company built two large ore bins, one of 500-ton capacity at the Atlas dump, and one of 800-ton capacity at the Hunter mill, connected with the dump by a 2,000-foot aerial tramway.
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The raise that was being driven from the No. 4 to the No. 3 level of the Terrible Edith mine of the Pontiac Mining Company, to prove that the ore on the lower level is a continuation of a rich deposit stoped on the No. 8 level, has given rise to the opinion that there are two veins. Accordingly, a crosscut is being driven from the No. 2 intermediate level, which is one of two levels driven from the raise. Two men are drifting on an iron vein, which intersects a gold producing vein in the Dew Drop claims, adjoining. The work requires the installation of electric equipment, which will probably be delayed until the metal market improves. H. C. Stapleton, Box 46, Wallace, Idaho, is managing director.
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The Sherman Lead Company, Henry L. Day, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, has opened a good grade of silver-lead ore for a distance of 550 feet on the 1,700-foot level of the Leary vein. The ore has been cut off in the western face by the Mart fault and all efforts to locate it again have failed so far. The mill had been handling between 200 and 800 tons a day, but is still idle, pending a better price for its metals.
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The Mutual Mines Development Company was scheduled to make its initial mill run at Gem, Idaho, March 1. The plant has a capacity of 100 tons a day, with provisions to double that tonnage when necessary, and was designed by R. S. Handy, mill superintendent for the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company. More than 6,250 feet of development have been accomplished to a depth of 955 feet. A careful sampling of the various faces of ore showed average values of 10 percent lead and 5 ounces silver. Russell F. and Ben Collins and Harley Little, 312 Old National Hank Building, Spokane, Washington, control the company.
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Under the management of E. O. Wagner of Lewiston, Idaho, the Muscovite Mica Company plans to install machinery at its property at Deary, in Latah County, Idaho, and to resume operations. There has been considerable production from the Muscovite Mica property during the past 20 years.
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The Callahan Zinc-Lead Company, C. W. Newton, general manager, Wallace, Idaho, is diamond drilling from the 800 level of the South Vein to the Galena, a parallel ledge. Following this work, similar prospecting will be conducted at the 1,000 level. The 600 is the lowest level that has been opened on the Galena vein, and, if the cores from the drills come up to expectations, development will be undertaken on the two lower levels. One deposit of commercial ore on the 600 level was 120 feet long, and it is below this vein that the drilling is being done.
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The Central Idaho Mining and Milling Company, W. W. Newton, superintendent, has opened up a new ore body, that averaged $165 in gold and 12 ounces in silver from samples, in the War Eagle property on Crooked Creek, 14 miles south of Dixie, Idaho. Discovery was made from the No. 4 tunnel, and is 126 feet north and 40 feet west, of the old workings. In the near future, the company intends to drive a lower tunnel from Crooked Creek to tap several veins at a depth of 1,200 feet. The 50-ton mill unit, which has been constructed under the supervision of Gus King of the Union Iron Works in Spokane, Washington, is scheduled to begin operations July 1. It is equipped with eight flotation cells and will be operated by hydroelectric power, which has been provided to 800 horsepower. At the present time, the sawmill is being operated by a 20-horsepower gasoline engine. E. B. Ellis Alaska Building, Seattle, is president of the company, and an office is maintained in that city. An operating office is maintained at the mine and is served by the Dixie post office.
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IDAHO SCHOOL OF MINES OFFERS THREE FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1931

Announcements of three research fellowships, offered for next year by the University of Idaho School of Mines, have been sent to mining and technical schools throughout the country, by Dean John Wellington Finch. The net income of each fellowship is $75 a month. Men appointed register as advanced students in the School of Mines and become candidates for the degree of Master of Science in Mining, Metallurgy or Geology.

The fellowships are offered by the School of Mines in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines and the Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology. Successful candidates are given original research problems dealing with some particular phase of mining or milling practice in Idaho, such as flotation theory, gravity concentration, fine grinding, mineral deposits and structural geology.

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IDAHO E&MJ OCTOBER 28, 1922
Labor Situation Improves in the Coeur d’Alenes

Wallace—The advance in wages at all the mines of the Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho, which went into effect on Oct. 1, has had the effect of greatly relieving the labor shortage, particularly of miners. Men are coming in every day, and from present indications, the supply will be equal to the demand, by the middle of November.

The approach of cold weather is also a contributing factor toward bringing about this result, for men are naturally more disposed to seek work underground in winter, than in summer. Miners receive $5 per day and shovelers, $4.50.
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Clarks Fork—The Auxer Gold Mining Co. has resumed operations, after damages to the mining machinery, by forest fires a few weeks ago. The mine is on a fork of Lightning Creek, 6 miles from here. Development will be confined to a crosscut tunnel, which will cut the three veins of the property at depth. Engineers’ estimates indicate an average value of $18 per ton, in strong consistent shear zones averaging 10 ft. in width.
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Hope—The Hope Mining & Milling Co. was reorganized as the Morning Star Mines. Under the reorganization plan three shares in the old company are to be substituted for one share in the new. Assessments will be levied to provide funds necessary for further development.
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Boners Ferry—Construction of the 150-ton cyanide mill on the Cyanide Gold Mining Co.’s property is progressing; the mill structure is practically completed. The equipment will be largely fine-grinding machinery, the ore being ground in solution to 200 mesh.
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MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS May 14, 1921

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Coeur d’Alene.—Machine-drills are in operation on the Lookout Mountain Mine, on Pine Creek. Installation of power equipment was completed recently, and active development work started. The drills are in use in the lower cross-cut tunnel, which has been extended 435 ft. toward the vein, on the 300-ft. level. In the upper workings, the Lookout vein disclosed a strong showing of lead-silver ore, in carbonate form, across a 25-ft. width, and to reach this at greater depth, the present tunnel was started.
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The Alhambra concentrator on Elk Creek is to have its capacity increased, to handle 100 tons of ore daily. The entire plant will be remodeled, and the work will be completed about June 1, according to Stanly A. Easton, president. Jigs, rolls, and classifiers will be added to the flotation machines now in use. The tube-mill is being relined. These improvements were necessitated by the recent discovery of lead-silver ore on the Crescent group. About 14 men are employed in development work on the Alhambra, and Crescent properties.
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It is reported that lessees at the Hunter Mine are finding large pockets of high-grade silver ore, in the old workings of the mine. Several carloads have been shipped from these leases, with satisfactory results.
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Hailey.—The Bunker Hill & Sullivan company has acquired the Mayflower-Bullion Mine, consisting of six claims, situated seven miles from here, and will commence operations within a short time. The Mayflower Mine was originally owned by Col. E. A. Wall, of Salt Lake City, and the Bullion property was among the holdings of the Wood River Gold & Silver Mining Co. The two properties were operated in 1881, and since that time, have produced over 12,000 tons of lead-silver ore, with a gross value of $2,000,000.

Material and equipment have been shipped to the property.

At present the Wood River Power Co. is building a powerline from Hailey, to the Mayflower-Bullion, seven miles. The ore from the property will be shipped to Kellogg for treatment at the Bunker Hill smelter.
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Leonia.—The plan of placer-mining at the Gold & Ruby property is unusual, according to Stewart Campbell, State Mine Inspector for Idaho. A method of separating black and gray sands has been developed, and if the new concentrating plant works as successfully on a large scale as it does in the working model, it will be a new step in placer-mining practice. It is planned to save lead, copper, and other minerals, including garnets, miscalled rubies, as well as gold.
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May 1, 1920 MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS
IDAHO

Boundary County —At the Idaho-Continental Mine, near Porthill, milling operations will be resumed as soon as a force can be assembled, according to A. Klockmann, general manager. Water is flowing in sufficient volume for the generation of power. Approximately 30,000 tons of ore is broken in the mine, and the ore in sight, is sufficient for one and a half, to two years of milling. All of the concentrated ore on hand, was hauled during the winter.
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Coeur d’Alene —H. E. Owen, of Spokane, head of the Wardner Leasing Co., has obtained an option for two years on the property of the Slavonian Mining Co. and the Petronivich claims, having an area of 100 acres at Wardner. Included in the Petronivlch claims is the Butler, from which high-grade ore was shipped.
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The Caledonia Mining Co. has declared its regular dividend of $26,000. This is at the rate of one cent per share, on the issue of 2,605,000 shares. The disbursement, which will be made May 5, will raise the total dividends to $4,063,800.
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The Nabob Consolidated Mining Co. has plans for the installation of equipment for saving the zinc in its ore. The value of the zinc passing through the mill, is estimated at $300 per day. An important saving is anticipated from a new electric-haulage system in the lower tunnel.
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The present board of the Hecla Mining Co. was re-elected at the annual meeting at Spokane, recently. James F. McCarthy is president, treasurer, and manager. The board of directors has authorized the disbursement of an extra dividend of $50,000, at the time of the regular quarterly disbursement of $150,000 in June, making the total payment $200,000 or 20c per share on the issue or 1,000,000 shares. The forthcoming payment will increase the grand total of dividends to $8,205,000.

The company is hoisting 750 tons daily. About 600 tons of this is passed into the mill, the remainder being waste and shipping ore. The quantity of material hoisted, is greater than at this period, a year ago, but less than that of a corresponding period two years ago. Shipments are being made at the rate of 100 tons per day.
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