The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
NEW SHELTER
FOR IDAHO CAMP
Boise and St. Louis Men to
Help Producers at Spring
Mountain.

That all arrangements for the build
ing of smelter in the Spring Noun
tain mining district. Lemhi county, Ida,
have been completed is the assurance
given by w. z. Clarke of the Clarke &
| Oakley Mining company, who is in the
city for day or two on business.
The proposition is one that is backed
by Boise and st. Louis parties and the
understanding is that the delivery of
structural material and equipment will
begin next month, the purpose
being to have the first 10O-ton unit of
the plant in operation next spring. The
smelter is designed to handle both lead
and copper ores and the promoters of
the undertaking, David Curgino and H.
L. Fisher of Boise, are said to have
secured great deal more money from
st. Louis operators who make a spe-
cialty of such investments. than will be
necessary to see the proposition placed
soundly on its feet.
According to Mr.. Clarke, the smelter
is to be located at a point that will be
convenient to his cOmpanys properties,
the Iron Mask group the Gilmore mine,
the Wood and Hagenbarth properties
and several others in the same region.
He says that Mr. Fisher is now at Pitts
burg for the purpose of securing a con-
tract with the Gilmore company that
will insure a steady tonnage from the
company's big lead mines. All the other
producers have agreed to give their ores
to the works and, with the large
amount of development that is going
on and the showing that is being made,
Mr. Clarke figures that the smelter
will not be long in operation until the
enlargement of its capacity will become
a necessity.
Like most mines that are located
eignty-fiYe miles from railroad, SAID
Mr. Clarke, Eve consider the ores i'll
the Iron Mask property low-grade, but
with a smelter close at hand, we are
sanguine of the future. We are now
running a tunnel which is in over 400
feet and which is designed to tap
vein of lead ore that outcrops on the
surface. An open cut has been run on
this ledge for forty-five feet. 1t is ten
feet wide and in the face there is now
exposed a sixteen-foOt breast of car
Donate ore that averages 80 per cent
lead and carries some silver and some
gold, as well. This ledge is a assure
that cuts the formation at right angles
to the main contact for which the tun-
mel is being driven and which will be
opened at a vertical depth of $50 feet.
The tunnel encountered a twenty-inch
StringeT of fine ore the otner day ana
this is expectedAto show a width of
anywhere from On to twenty feet be-
fore the main ledge is reached"
Mr. Clarke states that the Gilmore
company has been marketing all the
ore it could get teams to handle during
the past season, while its fifty-ton trac- !
ton engine train has been making the
round trip of 40 miles to Du Bots every |
five days.
The Lemhi Union Mining company, |
Mr. Clarke says, is also making a fine |
showing. 1t has about eight feet of |
lead ore on the 200-fOot level of its |
mine workings The IeadVilIe company
is doing well, also, and there is con-
ore piled on its dumps at the |
present time. Several other properties |
are doing well and the expectation is |
that the region will prove another /
Occur d'Alene section in the near -fu-
ture.