Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-14


mately 81, 900, 600.
The Dreamland, in the Rosebud
section of Nevada, is in four feet of
ore that will average $3.50 per ton.
Parties returning from the east
declare that no state is better re-
garded by capitalists for legitimate
mining investments than Utah.
Lumber costs anywhere from 500
to SIS thousand delivered at the
mines in the Ely, Nevada, district,
and in many instances it cannot he
purchased even at that.
What gives many indications of
being a rich copper region has been
discovered a few miles northwest
of the town of Schwab, near what
is known as Cow Creek, in Califor-
mia.
An unfavorable water season, as
we'll as diminished activity in deep
gold mining in Owyhee county, re-
duced the gold prodcution in Idaho
in 1905 by about $500, 600 to 81,
O75, 600.
The mining district of Good
Springs, New, while giving very
little news of results to the outside
world, is registering achievements
of merit that cannot but impress
the average seeker after results.
From the manner in which Sew
en- Troughs stock is passing hands
on the stock exchange these days
it is evident that Salt Lake is
very much interested in this COM
pany and the district in which the
property is located.
The Rosebud district, in Nevada,
is experiencing the Doom expected
after the severe winter weather
disappeared, and people are going
into the camp occasionally. There
are about 800 people in the town
and perhaps 500 in the di trict.
Word from the east is that the
Montgomery Shoshone property
will be fully equipped with the
mill by May 1st, and the plant in
running order by that date. Then
will begin the era of dividends SO
soothing to the investors con-
science.
Ore from the Southern Pacific
mine, in the Sierra Madre district,
near Ogden, Utah, shows valua-
&c
and $2.4 gold to 90. s per cent cop
per and $50 gold, containing free
gold in several places, also running
high in molybdenum.
One curious tact is that only two
of the six blasting accidents in
Idaho last year occurred in the
Occur d'Alenes, which uses so to
IS per cent of all the powder used
in the state, and one of these was
in prospect hole only twenty feet
deep.
Superintendent James E. Bever-
idge OF the Emma Copper company
has notified the Salt Lake offices of
the company that the drift has
gone into the recently encountered
ore body for a total distance of forty
feet, and the ore is growing richer
with each shot The property is
located in Alta district, Utah.
j. w. Burnham, manager OF the
Southern Pacific company, operat-
ing the property in the Sierra Madre
az
while the company owns copper
mine of splendid proportions, the
q management is showing up gold
values that make of the property
a proposition of additional inter
est
In the Lee and Echo districts OF
Inyo county, California, are to be
found conditions existing that sell
dom attach anywhere else on the
globe. The veins are wonderfully
we'll defined in both sections.
While the surface showings as 6
rule are not SO great, even shallow
depth has shown splendid ore
bodies.
In the very complete review oy
the state inspector of the great min
ing section of the Occur d. Alenes,
it is shown that this district las
year produced 90 per cent of the
lead, 81 per cent of the silver, s.
per cent of the copper, 95 per cent
of the zinc and Sd per cent of the
gold and all the anthony of The
state of Idaho.