Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-21

property during the summer, which /
proved, however, poorly adapted for
the treatment of its ore, which is |
a hard qartz and needs stamps for I
its successful reduction to pulp. /
This mine also has a saw mill
and several good camp houses. 1t
is owned by the New Century
Exploration and Investment COM
pany of Chicago, Illinois. ]. w.
Mccoy is president; T. T. Watson
is secretary, and j. T. English is
manager of it's Idaho mines.
This company owns two other
groups of claims in the Black War
rior district on Little Queens
river. They are known as the Up
per and Lower Queens river
groups and have total of twenty
two hundred feet of tunnels and
raises that have exposed several ore
shoots in places of good width and
carrying values ranging from seven
to ten dollars per ton with OCCASION
al specimen values that run very
much higher.
The ores of these mines at shall
low depth below their groupings are
rather base and will need consider
able handling in addition to plate
amalgamation to get their values.
The machinery for two Kinkead
mills and a small saw mill is on
he Y Dc
River group, and the company is
planning to erect this machinery
next sumner.
RED BIRD. On the northwest
slope of the main Black Warrior
creek near the Little Queens river
divide, the Red Bird group of claims
was acquired during the year by
the Blue Cap Mining company of
Cleveland, Ohio.
This property carries a we'll de-
fined We in three feet wide that con-
tains average gold values of fifty
dollars per ton, which has been
maintained from the surface to
the bottom of the sixty foot shaft.
A new cross-cut tunnel is now be-
ing extended to tap this fissure at
considerable depth below the bottom
of the shaft.
This property was equipped with
five ton prospecting mill supplied
with concentrating table and
copper plates, and with which sew
eral test runs were made which
demonstrated that the ore is rather
difficult to work, as the results
produced only show a saving of
eight dollars in free gold to the ton
on fifty dollar ore. The ore, how
ever, produced result of little
concentrates that carry very high
values. A four hundred pound lot
of these were shipped that yielded
gold at the rate of four hundred dol
lars per ton. A subsequent test
from the same ore showed values of
fifty or sixty cents per pound in
+ gold.
In addition to these rich concen-
trates, the coarser sand in the tail
ings contain high values in gold,
but with fine grinding prove to
be very susceptible to cyanide
treatmnet and a combination wet
process will probably be involved in
the successful reduction of this ore.
Mr.. Ed. Schwerd of Boise is mana
ger of this company.
IMPERIAL. This claim 10
owned by Boise people and is sit
uatcd three thousand feet south
west of the Red Bird on the same
mountain side. 1t is also developed
with shaft sixty feet deep and
carries pay streak twcnty-cight
inches wide of fifty dollar gold ore.
. Like the Red Bird, the ore is diff
, cult to treat and does not yield any
better results to amalgamation.
J A recent run of eight tons made
, from this claim gave nine dollar:
, per ton in free gold and some very
r high grade concentrates.
, The formations of the Blacl
Warrior district are principally sof
' gray granite with numerous dikes
: of diorite and quartz porphyry, large
: and small, together with zones o
gold bearing granite rock of grea
width that carry low values, bu
might be made to pay handsome
profit if handled on large scale
These are accompanied with
number of small veins containing
Z rich specimen ore.
PATHFINDER Near the moutl
of Little Queens river, the Path
finder group of claims is traverset
with a large fissure vein said t,
: contain good values, and the com
4 pany owning it has recently let {
q contract for q long 1,roSs-cl,t t1.rr,a