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

feet wide, consisting of a shattered
quartz and ta1cy ganguc that aver
ages about fourteen dollars per ton
in gold and silver, o. which high
percentage is gold
The ore is mined in overhead
Slopes with square set timbering.
1t is conveyed through a long
cross-cut tunnel from the mouth
of which it IS transferred by a
Leschen two bucket aerial tram to
mill lower down the mountain
side on the Yuba river slope.
The mill is of ten one thousand
pound stamps, equipped with copper
plates and one Whitley concentrate
ing table. There is also a cyanid-
ing plant in course of construction
to treat the tailings, which contain
about half of the gross value of the
ore, the balance being saved as free
gold on the plate.
This mill was not run to it's full
capacity. but nevertheless made
large production of precious bull
lion during the year and affords
handsome demonstration of the inn
portance of deep development on the
assures of this district. Before the
iOllS ld111C1 was III lildl ldppCQ
the ore bodies of this mine at
depth of several hundred feet, the
proposition was looked upon in a
skcptiCal manner, for the cropping
of the vein and it's shallow develop
mentS were very badly shattered,
disturbed and low grade.
This company is running it's mill
with steam power and using cord
/
per cord. Its new cyanide plant is
of the Garvin type and of forty tons
a day capacity, and it is proposed
! to install water power with which
to operate the entire plant during
the summer of 1907.
The cost of timber at this mine is
six and one-half cents per lineal
foot, and lumber is twenty-three
dollars per thousand. The cost of
transporting supplies from the
railway ranges from one and half
to three cents per pound, according
to the season, which will give an
idea of the conditions under which
this camp has operated
The Minerva mine and mill en-
p1oys an average of about thirty
men, and the wages for miners is
| Po- ~ POI nay VI SfSh iiOdi
borers, So 90 per day; timbcrpen,
engineers and blacksmiths, 400
per day OF eight hours. w. c.
| McElhcny of Pittsburg, Pa, is
president OF the company. w. ].
Keough of Atlanta, Idaho, is super
| intcndcnt in charge of the work.
OTHER MINES. -Among the
north Atlanta mines that were
toDe-af4I
the year and have considerable
ore resources and future promise,
are the Jessie Benton and Atlanta
Eagle mines; also the Tahoma
mine, both lying north of the Mon
arch. The latter property was un-
fortunate in getting tangled up by e
company of irresponsible promoters.
1t has been quite extensively de-
veloped in former days and pro-
duced good deal of pay ore, and
merits reOpening and further ex-
tensive development.
The Atlanta Eagle company
plans were interrupted by the San
Francisco disaster, where the own
ers of this property reside. This
property has two good veins, in
which important ore shoots are
<ilO~Vn 10 exist, ana L am I'M formed
that the affairs of the company have
been adjusted, and that extensive
development of the property will
shortly be undertaken.
BLACK WARRIOR DISTRICT.
RICO-MAMMOTH MINE. The
. most important operation of tn,
year in the Black Warrior district
twelve miles north of Atlanta, wal
~
a force of twenty to thirty meI
: were employed during the summe
) and considerable development worl
: done on the property, which is re
, ported to have disclosed a pa,
{ streak of very rich ore in the vicin
[ ity of the original discovery of tn
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