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

arCh mine, near the summit OF
Atlanta ridge to the new mill on
the Boise river
A dam has been built across the
Boise river and an electric power
plant installed capable of developing
six hundred H P. This will supply
power to run the air compressor
and hoist at the mine, and will also
furnish the necessary additional
power required to run the mill and
leave some for sale to other compa-
MES.
The mill, which is now nearly
completed, is of one hundred fifty
tons daily capacity, and is adapted
for treating the ore by amalgama-
ton, concentration and cyaniding,
which method has been found to
give the highest results of extrac-
ton.
With this plant completed and in
full operation together with other
enterprises under way in the At
1anta district, Elmore county is
destined to make one of the most
important advances in gold produc-
ton of any county in the state, and
the county is to be congratulated in
securing the liberal class of inves-
tors and practical operators who
have recently become Interested in
this and other of it's mining re-
sources.
PETIT MINE. Adjoining the
Monarch mine to the east, the
Petit mine on the same lode and
ore courses is developed quite ex-
tensively by three adit levels and
numerous raises and undergo Ound
connections which has completely
blocked ready for extraction ore to
the gross value of something like
one million dollars, which aver ages
about fourteen dollars per ton in
gold and silver. In this direction
on the lode and gold tenor of the ore
Incl cases and amounts to fully
ninety per cent of the combined
values, otherwise the ore and
veins of the two mines are prac-
tical1y identical, and the lower
adit face of the Petit is within one
hundred feet of the long upper tun-
mel heading of the Monarch mine
from the opposite side of the
mountain and in a lode of such
pronounced strength and permanent
cy this fact practically insures a
continuance of the values and ore
resources of the Petit to a further
depth OF five hundred feet, which
would match the lower level of the
Monarch mine. This is strong
prospective feature of the Petit
and greatly enhances its value.
The Petit mine was sold last fall
to the Bagdad-Chase Gold Mining
company Of Rochester, New York,
of which MIR. Wayne Darlington
is manager and Mr.. c. E. Stevens
is superintendent in charge.
This company has commenced
the erection of fifty ton mill
which will use the same process as
that designed for the Monarch mine
This mill will be strictly first class
and up to date all through, and will
be run by electric power supplied by
the Monarch power plant. The i'm
t., possibility of obtaining material
and machinery and getting it hauled
before winter closed in is seriously
rctarding this enterprise, but every
thing is being done toward its con-
| struction that can be, and next sum-
me- will see its completion. In tie
meantime development is beng con-
tinued at the mine
EAST ATLANTA MINE. The
Petit mine by no means termi-
mates the eastern extension of the
great Atlanta lode, as it continues
for several Thousand feet further
to the east and has been found ore
bearing at several points in tina
direction, particularly on the Eas
Alana, or Old Chunk mine, where
a tunnel of considerable Length has
been run, and ore discovered CON
tanning high values in gold, and {
further development of this portion
of the lode will doubtless revea
important ore resources.
MINERVA MINES. o
the Monarch mine, over the crest o
the Atlanta ridge, the Minerv;
mine is developed by total o
twepty-six hundred feet of cross-cu
tunnels, drifts and raises, of which
six hundred fifty feet was drives
during 1906
This property carries two iarg
/ assures containing big shoots o
/ fine milling ore, five to fifteei