The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-12-15
NUMBER 80
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Charles e. Kingsley was the success
full bidder, yesterday, for the contract
let by the Banner Mining and Milling
Company, for 300 foot extension of
the crosscut tunnel now being run to
cut the Banner ledge on the company's
property.
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The electric power was turned on
and all the connections made with
both mine and mill at the Cumberland.
early this week The electricians claim
it is the most complete transformer
and power plant at any Of our mines.
The machinery at both the mine and
mill have been tested and work salts
factorily, but it may be some days yet
before they will be kept steadily at
work, and it is not Mr.. Buckbee's in
tention to crowd work at the mine dur
ing the winter About twenty men are
now on the payroll and the force will
not be increased much before next
spring
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The Idaho Development Company,
some time ago, began sinking shaft
below the tunnel level, on a shoot of
ore encountered about 1000 feet from
the portal, bnt when down only 30 feet
suspended the work on account Of
water, has ordered pump for that place
and is putting in temporary hand
pump SO that work of sinking may
again begin. The vein is ~ feet wide
on the shoot, and the ore high grade.
The Addie mill is kept steadily RUM
ing with ore enough in sight and in tie
bins to keep it going indefinitely The
same company is having an air pipe
laid from the power plant at the lower
tunnel on the Trade Dollar Extension
for the purpose Of continuing work on
the higher levels.
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A big crew of mechanics is now en-
gagged on the construction of the new
DeLamar mill All the east end Of the
old mill has been torn down, leaving
only the line shaft and pull eys con
Meeting ii with the engine room and
with the water wheel remaining. The
tank building, ore house, crushers,
rolls, etc, are all entirely removed,
new foundations put in, and carpenters
are now busy at work putting up the
heavy superstructure. Two Chilian
mills are to be put in and entire new
leeching tanks of the latest design will
replace the old oues. When all the
work is completed DeLamar will have
a cyanide mill which will be of the I,t-
est design, calculated to save values
closer and do the work more econom-
ically than could be done with the old
mill
John S. st Clair and j E. Masters
returned, Saturday. from their pros
pecting tour, on the head of Castle
creek. They say that Nugget was
wrong in giving the Rawhide the credit
Of being the big prospect Of that new
camp, and that it is another claim be-
longing to the same parties the Flor
ence which is making the big show
ing of copper. They succeeded in Sc
curing three claims on the same lead.
Mr.. Masters says that the same crop
pings shown on the Florence can be
found at intervals for distance of
four miles and that he thinks the lead
will be found continuous for that dis
tance. Assays have been reported from
the Florence as high as 40 per cent
copper, but Masters says he has no
knowledge Of any going higher than IA
per cent, which at the depth attained,
looked good enough to him. He is
confident that the district will turn
out to be an important copper pro
ducer.
Masters says that Foester & Williams
are hard at work developing the claims
further down the creek which they re-
Gently bonded from Goodman brothers.
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The December dividend Of the Bunk
er Hill and Sullivan mine at Wardner
is s300,0Oo This is now without ques-
tion the greatest silver lead mine in
the world It has, during 1905, dis
tributed among its stockholders s3,-
255,OOo, and total in dividends to date
of 50. $4,000.
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