Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-05-16


~. Nellie mine at Horseshoe Bend,
Idaho.
Rosebud, Nevada. now has
mining exchange, the membership
4,.;ne limited TO scvcnty-five.
The Zenalia company at Palisade
&c shipping ore that brings the for
tunate owners an average OF Sl,5oo
a car.
The Montgomery Shoshone Con-
solidated has been shipping at the
rate of one carload Of ore day for
the past two weeks.
The past week has been one OF
the dullest periods that the copper
snares have known since the ia
nous summer dullness of 1905.
Operators at Ely apparently are
agreed upon the present satisfac-
tory condition of the railroad ser
vice being granted by the Nevada
Northern company.
The Bingham mill of the Utah
Copper company is running almost
at capacity, and the company is re-
ceiving copper ores at the same
from over the "high line. y
1t is stated that in the states of
Sinaloa, Sonora, Coahuila, Duran
20. and Nueav Leon at least $780,
600. 600 of American capital has
entered within the last five years.
Directors of the Boston & Mon
tana Consolidated Copper & Silver
Mining company has declared a
quarterly dividend of So per share
aud an extra dividend of $40 per
share.
The Bamberger-De Lamar mill
and mine at De Lamar, New, after
a shutdown of five weeks has re-
sumed operations. The company
intends to work about 800 men
this summer.
According to the best private au-
thority a conservative estimate OF
the American capital brought into
Mexico since 1902 and invested in
mining and smelling ventures
amounts to about SIPS, 900, 600
gold.
A large body of valuable milling
ore has been struck in the very
town of Beatty, Nevada, and as g
result the railroad town is on the
verge of becoming mining center
second only to Rhyolite in southern
Nevada.
A lot of the ore from the claims
OF the Golden Eagle property, or
Government Creek, in Idaho from
which it is intended to take sup
ply for the plant will be taken t'
Denver for treatment to determine
the kind of process needed.
The recent discoveries of ore
bodies on Dry Susie, Maggie
Creek Lone Mountain end othe
places in Elko county, Nevada hav'
set horde of prospectors to seek
ing along the mineral belt that run
due north and south through thi
country.
Most of the discovery work OF
the claims in the Mizpah, Nevad
district is now completed and man
owners are making preparations t
develop their own properties. Sew
eral sales arc reported as havin
been consummated but are not a
yet made public. 8:
In anticipation of a strike,
number of large mines at Angel
camp, in. California, have close
down. The mines are the Utica
the Matson, the Stickies, tn
Angels Quartz, the Crystal and tn
Lightner, employing between go
and 1000 miners.
The rapid growth of Nevad
mining camps has been suble'
matter for the writer OF minin
history for years, and there is ever
day being added to the list new an
stronger camps with=a foundatio
of actual values uuquestioned an
in course of rapid development.
The New Comstock company
Ramsey, Nevada, has broken III
its huge ledge in the tunnel ana
sinking also on the vein iroi
which the S668 assay was takei
The mine, one of the biggest und'
veloped deposits OF ore 10 II
state, is being opened as last
possible.
On Grindstone mountain, twel'
miles south of Elko, another oil