The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25
Mining Matters In idaho.

The Post Boy will keep twenty men at
work all winter
The Camas N. 2 is. yielding it's usual
amount of rich gold ore.
Several leasers are working the Carrie.
with the most satisfactory results
There are three feet of STOW on the
ground between Bay Horse and Skylark
mine.
The Albion mine is looked upon with ia
Vor by Portland parties, and sale will
probably be- effected.
The Skylark has discharged thirty men.
the deep SHOWS for bidding the shipping Of
any more ore this winter.
The Jarvis tunnel is in 100 feet, and 700
feet will be completed by spring. The in
dlcatlons are very promising.
A big body OF gray copper and bromide
mas been struck IN the Monte Cristo, in
Shields gulch, near Osburp.
A milling and concentrating plant is to
be erected at the Hope mine very soon
Rich bodies of ore are il sight everywhere
in the mine.
Forty men are at work on the Argentine
near Osburn, and shipment of ore may be
expected in few days. The mine is said
TO be looking remarkably well.
There are again rumors that the Ketchum
smelling plant is about to be Sold tits
said there is now ore in sufficient ouanti-
ties to justify the immediate blowing in OF
the smelter.
The main shaft of the Silver King mine
st Sawtooth will be sunk 800 feet further
this winter. New machinery has been put
In, an elevated tramway has been con-
structed, the mill. which has never been
completed, Is TO be remodeled end arran ged
10 treat the output OF the mine.
Minnie Moore mining company in Bellevue
for the last eighteen months, will leave in
day or two for some point in the eastern
states presumably TO take charge of some
other business in connection with his
London house. II is thought that the sale
OF those bonanza properties Just across
the liver, which has been pending SO long,
ID about consummated; otherwise he would
not leave at this time Haley Times
The King of the West is looking as
though the company intend to do some
thing, Sam Friend, the superintendent,
has pushed things this fall. He did not get
orders to commence operations until Octo.
Der and had over 1900 feet. of water be-
side old Slopes TO pump out, get in his win
ter supplies, wood, etc, but by energy and
push, for which Sam is noted, he has
everything in apple order.-Keystone.
The PoorInan mine, at Burke, has put in
complete electric plant the power house
being located about one and one-half miles
from the mil, and the power is trans
mltted by copper wires, two OF which
are half an inch in diameter, and the other
four three Fights of an inch. The water
for power TO generate the current is
brought two miles in fume and then
piped to the power house, having a fall of
500 feet TIE power house is supplied
with two huge dynamos, each having ca
pacity OF $50 horse power. There is a sen
arate wheel for each of these, three feet in
diameter, with double nozzles. Each dy-
namo is also provided with an EXETER of
six horse power. The two machines are
capable of transmitting 500 horse power to
the nine. with very small percentage of
loss 1t only requires one wheel and one
nozzle TO furnish sufficient power to run
the mill and drills.