Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-25

corps of experts, arrived from Boise !
Sunday evening and left for Allan
ia Monday morning. They go /
there to thoroughly examine the |
Petit mine, recently bought by the |
Bagdad- Chase company, with a
view to devising the plan of devel- /
opment. Mr.. Coffin stated while
here that the company had not taken |
in any supplies, but that everything
necessary could be procured at the
stores in Atlanta and that work
will probably be prosecuted all win
ter On his return from Atlanta
last week the Statesman published
the following interview with him.
M. H. Coffin has returned from
Atlanta, where he has been looking
after some matters in connection
with the Petit mine, recently taken
over by the Bagdad-Chase company.
He came down to consult with
Manager Wayne Darlington and
will leave again Sunday with c.
S. Verill and c. E. Stevens, ex-
perts whom Mr.. Darlington is send
ing in to lay out the plans for oper-
alton of the property. Preparations
will be made for pushing develop
ment and for erection of the milling
plant so soon as the machinery can
be taken in next spring.
The process has been worked out
by Mr. Verill. 1t will be amalga-
nation and concentration, and it is
settled that a saving of better than
90 per cent can be effected. The
concentrates will be treated on the
ground by the chlorination process.
MIR. Kirby, of the Monarch, has a
large Bruckner furnace which will
be used for the purpose by both
companies.
Mr.. Coffin states the tramway on
the Monarch has been completed
and will be tested on Monday. The
dam for the power plant is being
pushed along. All the cribs have
been put in and the work of fill
ing them with rock is in progress.
On Monday the raising of the
frame of the Monarch mill building
will begin. That is to be mann
moth structure, covering the entire
side of the hill. One building is
to be 200 feet in length.
MIR. Coffin states the Minerva
Teople met with an accident the
first of the month, a break occurring
which shut them down four or five
days. A new shaft had to be pro-
cured. The cyanide building is
in course Of construction and will
be ready for the Garvin machines
very soon.
Tuesday the Statesman had the
following to say about another At
lanta property:
One.of the most interesting of re-
cent developments in this section Of
the state has taken place in the
property OF the Pathfinder Gold
Copper company on Queens river.
Just below Atlanta.
The company owps a group o.
eight claims adjoining the property
of the New Century company. Thi:
is an old property, having beer
worked in the early history of thai
section. Some of the ore was haul
ed to Ketchum and smelted. 1t i:
said it has value of 500 a ton.
Considerable development work
was done at that time, but the ore
could not be handled with the pro
cesses then available, and the prop
erty was finally shut down ant
abandoned. In the course of tim
cave closed the mouth of tn
crosscut tunnel by which the mine
was opened, and it remained scales
up in that manner for many years
Some time ago A. B. Patterson
secured the property. He traced it
history and found the ledge on tn
surface, demonstrating to his salts
faction that it had fine ore bodies
With this information, he too
hold and organized a company 9
Canton, Ohio, to work the mine.
They went to work last Angus
and have opened the old works
Everything was found intact eA
cepting the portion of the tunnt
affected by the cave at the porta
The crosscut tunnel proved to
500 feet in length, cutting the lede
at a depth of 100 feet. There we
a raise to the surface, and dri
had been run some 500 feet on
continuous ore body. Moreove
there was Wine on the hangin
wall side to a depth of 40 feet. M
Patterson learned it was from TIL
winze that the rich ore was shippt
10 Ketchum.
The drift Sill carries the vain