Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-09-06
MINES A ND MINING

| Gold Mountain country, Ill ULan, Is
looking more encouraging and hopeful
!, right now than it has for twelve OF
fifteen years.
twelve-inch vein of rich galena ore
was uncovered fifty feet below the sur.
face in the Basin properly at Wallace,
Idaho last week. Senator Hepburn is
one OF the owners of this mine.
strike of gold in the grass roots
In the Left Flank claim on Michigan
hill, near Centennial, Wyo.. has made
excitement At thirty feet a three
foot ledge showing $40 to the ton was
uncovered
The largest and richest natural
sIuice box In the world. and perhaps
the greatest deposit of gold on earth,
is to be found In the combined gold
Of the black sand concentrates OF the
Snake river, Idaho
The Washington Mining & Milling
| company, operating rich gold proper
ties on Bear creek In the Marshall
| lake district, is running night and
day shift, the stamp mill being kept in
| operation sixteen hours out OF "a.
| There is a great deal of metal min.
ing going on In the region radiating
| from Pocatelo, and the opening OF
| good coal measures In that section will
| do more to build up southeastern Ida
no than anything that has ever hap
pened.
The North Star mine, on the east
fork of Wood river, will. soon join tho
ranks OF producing mines. Two years
and half ago the Ha.iey mining bu- |
reau secured a lease upon 1t, with an |
option to purchase at any time within |
five years for 100000
A man named La Point has been at
work on the Snake rive, below Parma.
Idaho, installing a small plant for sat-
ing the values from The river sandA
This plant has been worked for soma
time and the results are so satisfao
tory that a large one is to be installed
Work at the Petit mine at ATLANTA
Idaho, is being rushed. The power
plant is being put in, and 1t will BIS
one OF the fine ones of this part OF
the state The plant will be supplied
through a flume 500 feet in length
from which fall Of 5S feet is secured.
The manager of the Rainbow COM
pany's properties in Little Cottonwood
district reports having tapped high
grade silyer-lead ores in that proper.
~, and he is now certain that he is
going TO make a mine of it. The ore
shows 1S9 ounces of silver, 25 per
cent lead and 40c in gold, with some
copper.
A Spokane dispatch says that Thos
l.. Creenough, millionaire miaing man
and former partner OF Peter Larson,
has announced the purchase of $4,000
acres of placer ground in Fremont :
% miles from Lander the {
nearest railway point. and will spend {
ST 100000 in improvements on the
+,
oil locations are being made nine
miles south Of Levan. in Juab coun- /
ty. Utah, and the locators believe they
viii develop some phenomenally rich
oil properties. Oil was shipped from
this section, in small quantities. sever :
al years ago. but lack of capital and
proper facilities resulted in cessa- :
lion of development
The Mink Creek coal mines, near !
Pocatello, Idaho. have been opened to
4 depth of 800 feet on the dip of the
vein, which is twelve feet thick be
.ween walls and which has a pitch OF :,
between 30 and 80 per cent from the e
The quality of the coal is
improving with depth. and the mine
will undoubtedly make fortunes for its
,wners. N
The anthony district of Utah Is In
he northeast corner of Garfield coun.
y. about 200 miles from Salt Lake
,ity. A rancher discovered the anti. o
nony properties some twenty-six years ol
go. and but little work has beer NJ
lone. But now Montana capital ha;
AIKEN hold of the proposition and
00.ton concentrating mill to handle OF
he lower grades of ore is nearing com di
letion.
Sheridan county. Wyoming. coal
mines have practically doubled then
apacity since last season. and the
omlng winter will witness by far the
reatest business ever handled from
he field Anticipating the tremen- ou
Gus tonnage. the Burlington has pur es
based 100 new engines OF the heav he
est type of freight locomotives. and tn
dded 5000 cars to its equipment be
Meridian operators say II sufficient
liners can be secured the output will di
ractically double that OF any pre- sh
ious year. an
According to producers of copper tn
lie supplies in consumers hands are
wer than they have been in years. nj,
ne producer says even the copper in tn,
10 form of scrap has been practically aft
,nsumed. and that manufacturers can co
Dt stay out of the market two weeks wi
niger. IN,
1t is stated that the Big Giant prop n
-ty, near Boise. as 1t stands would lee
sep a l000-ton plant running. 1t is IN,
e plan of the company, however. af-
r making a working test to deter. rio
inc finally what process is adapted to -