The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-12

tify the erection Of new plant and ex-
tensive development work. The company
propose to putin an immense electric plant.
Water power will be used I will be taken
from the Payette river and carried fouc
miles to the mines. The mill, hoist. pumps,
drills. etc, will all be run bv electricity.
II only had a short time TO examine
the property, but was very much pleased
with it, said Mr.. Wsmble. The COM
pany back Of il have all the money neces-
sary to make it one of the most extensive
producers on the coast. The ore is there.
All that is needed is a little work. To my
own knowledge there is now in the treas
ury $50, 900 in block silver from these
mines. The company will keep it until
there is an advance In the pnice of the
white metal. The Washington mine near
Idaho City is being pumped out from the
800 foot level The mine has two well de-
tined parallel veins, one gold, the other sill
yer. AS soon as the mine is pumped out
the mill will De started and work will be
pushed on the gold vein. There ia very
promising mine east Of the Washington
between that and the Elmira mines, and on
the same mineral zone, called the EldoredO.
l saw some rock from this mine Of very
high grade, carrying ruby. native and brit
tie silver If the entire mine is anywhere
near as rich as the samples it will develop
into one of the greatest silver producers
IL the United States. / was shown some
sand carbonates taken from near Center
vile which may develop into SON ething
very encouraging to that locality. There
is . big body of these carbonates there and
that section may become second Lead
vile.
THE CYANIDE PROCESS
is being worked very successfully on re-
fractory ores in the Basin, of which there
is a large quantity, making it one of the
most valuable sections in the United
States for the working of this process. In
some places 60 per cent is saved, but this
can be increased. The miners are working
under disadvantage, the old sulphurets
being oxidized forming a sulphuric acid
which partially destroys the effect of the
cyanide"
Summing it all up Mr. Wamble said that
Bose Basin was very promising mining
district Capitalists had neglected TO send
men TO that locality and so it never has
come very prominently TO the 'front.' its
real merits never being properly appreci-
ated. Capitalists had their eyes on IL now,
however, and would no doubt bring it to
the front in the near future. He will pro-
coed st once to New Y ork where he will
make favorable report on his inspection
of the mines of Boise county. He will re-
turn as soon as he has exported some of
the company's property in New Mexico
when otner sections of the state may have
the benefit Of this strong compHny's collat-
eral to develop its mines. Mr.. Wamble
said he felt positive the company owning
the mines of Banner would do all he men
toned above and more too.
THE owYHEE COUNTY MINES
are turning out their usual amount of bull
lion. Good ore was struck in the south
drift of the Black Jack the rock being
thickly impregnated with silver. Super
intendent Irwin is highly elated over the
outlook The Blaine tunnel is now in 200
feet. They are using electric batteries for
blasting. The Venus is working three
shifts of eight hours each. The tunnel is
in 600 feet and they are looking any day to
cut the ledge In the Trade Dollar the
opinion among the managers is that they
have never had the true ledge until re-
Gently. Tunnel No. 3 was expected to cut
winze Q, but the course of the vein has
thrown it several feet east of this Wine.
and they will now have to cross cut in
order to make connections. They are
stopping at Wine where the ledge is
four feet wide and where there is twelve
inches of $500 ore. Tunnel No. has
ledge five feet wide, ope-hslf of which in
white mealy quartz that assays 1917. 1t
carries besides this eighteen inches OF real
tale. Work on the new Trade Dollar mill
is being pushed rapidly.
WILLOW CREEK
near this city is the scene of no little
mining interest at present Charles Mitch
ell, man who came to Idaho in 1856 broke,
from California, where he was worth at
one time $50, 900 started out to prospect this
spring. He took up some claims on the
north FORK Of Willow Greek, about fifteen
miles from this city. One claim, Black
Bird, he found to be quite rich. It is de-
composed matter and runs on the surface
81. so to the ton. 1t gets richer as it goes
down. A recent assay ran S1406
chiefly gold. The rock 10 yellow. White
rock that was thought not 10 be Of much
account ranges as high as $50. 43. as per re-
cent assay by Captain Baxter of this city.
Mitchell has lead all of thirty feet wide
He has found one well defined wall. He is
now driving a tunnel tapping the ledge at
depth of 100 feet. He has already been
offered $500 for one-fifth interest, but Will
work his claim himself. Over 100 locations
have been made in this vicinity One claim
owned by Anderson Cox went over 500 to
the ton, but the vein is quite narrow.
THE MINES on WOOD RIVER,
owned by John Lemp, Cy Jacobs and
others are showing up in fine shape.
Arthur Neal, the discoverer of the Neal
placer and quartz camp about twenty miles
from this city, sold one of his claims dur
ing the week for $780, 600. Work in this
camp is progressing finely and new discoY-
cries are constantly being made.