The Mena star., 1899-06-15
ENCOURAGING TO OUR MINERS,


 There is an encouraging feature regarding the mining prospects O thls section of country tha' possibly has not been fully con sidercd- fact that other sections now known as rich producers oi the precious metals at one time had very similar surface indi- cations. It was from these indi- cations that paying mines were finally developed by the expendi- ture of labor and capital, and we have reasons to believe that such expenditures here will bring similar results.
 We have been favored with a copy of Mines and Minerals, for June. published at Scranton, Pa. and Denver, Col, containing an account of tho Bohemia mining district of Oregon, and the manner of developing the rich mines of that place, from which we quote the following:
 "The Helena mine surface ore averaged from 50 cents to g.. 65 per ton. By drifting on the ledge seventy five feet. gaining about thirty feet in depth, they struck ore assaying S25 to $30. 900 to the ton gold. the pay streak being about six feet wide, one foot of which showed the free gold. glittering by the light of candle from roof to floor and plainly visible to the naked eye. They continued to tunnel ninety feet further with the gold glittering conspicuously all the way There they quit work for the want of room to store the ore, the ledge at this point gaining in width and producing richer specimens than ever found before in the mine, some pieces carrying so much free gold that it was hard to tell whether the gold held the quartz pr the quartz held the gold. The same body of ore has been tapped at four different levels about 100 feet apart, the lower of which shows to be wider and richer with a little more base metals.
 Surface ore on the Anaconda mine on Farview mountain assayed from Sl 30 to S per ton, and at a depth of thirty five feet a sixty pound lot of selected ore averaged & per pound. Ten tons of ore from the same hole milled S50 per ton free gold. The Conf dence group on the east side of the camp is gold and copper proposition assaying as high as B per cent copper and running high in gold and silver. They have completed 36o feet of tunnel on the ledge, had rich ore all the way, from a few inches to five feet wide, some places three feet wide being nearly solid metal, iron, copper, lead. etc.
 'In surface cut on the Wall Street mine, where the outcrop showed to be but two inches wide, at depth of four feet it was eighteen inches wide, eight inches of same being pure galena, assaying SGT. 50 per ton gold, silver and lead, being 52 per cent lead, the pure black galena yielding from slo to si5 per ton free gold by mill tests. The remaining ten inches were free milling, the ore running as high as $500 per ton and showing the free gold very eonspicuously A shaft twelve feet deep, on another ledge on same property where the outcrop was two feet wide. showed but little value; bottom of shaft was five feet wide, free milling ore, and assayed SEQ gold ger ton.
 Prospectors of this section have numerous assays that are entirely reliable, giving over S1 per ton at the surface. none of these giv- ing results from rock taken six inches below, while others have richer returns from assays of rock taken few feet deeper. Our prospectors certainly have cause to feel encouraged.