The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-12-26

from the Bullion tunnels and is run
ming drift by which depth of 500
feet can be attained. The property has
the same ledge as the Bullion and I'm
the latter property it has been drifted
on 1900 feet. opening large bodies of
copper.
The Last Chance property. near SAL
tese. Mont. it is reported. has its
crosscut in 500 feet. with 20 feet to go
to reach the vein. 1t will take two
months to complete the work on ac-
count of the unusual hardness of the
rock. The crosscut will encounter the
ledge just under where ore was taken
out for former shipments The prop
erty has shipped s150,o0O worth of sill
ver-lead ore in the last few years.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Big Four mining COM
pany in Wallace. Idaho, few days
ago. these officers were elected to serve
for the year: President. w. J. Baker:
secretary. E. L. Brown. treasurer, f..
stone. Herman j. Rossi and H. +.
Reese We're elected directors.
encountered on the Paymaster Mining
company's property in the Osburn dis
trict. The property has been exten.
sNeiy developed. but so far the val
ues nave been mostly In lead J. NJ.
burns OF Spokane is president OF the
company.
Marsh Mining company. which re-
Gently acquired the Cooney group in
the Occur d'Alenes, Is rapidly complet-
ing preparations to operate that prop-
erty in a more extensive manner than
has ever been undertaken there be-
fore. according to ]. " Pohlman or
sopkane. With the power lines COM
pieted from the Hecla mine. Arthur y
Booth. manager. is ready to push on
eratlons. The machine drills, recently
Installed. are In operation and two
shifts are at work. Tunnels We're driv
en- oy the old management at the 500
ana SoO-foot levels and good showinvs
disclosed at each depth. Mr.. Pohlman
says 1t Is expected to ship ore early
next spring
II. Robbins. superintendent of the
marguerite Mining company. on Tres
Tie creek, near Hope. Idaho. in Spo-
Kane for the holidays, reports rich ore
SHOOTS were encountered 200 feet be-
iowsthe apex. last week. The ore at
this point is four and one-half feet in
width. Only one test of the ore has
been made. This showed returns of
slos In gold. A smelter test from 400
tons, using 50-pound sample. yielded
S4o per ton in gold. The country rock
Is quartzite and diorite: veins being
assures paralleling porphry dykes
across the strata.
announcement is made that electric
power will be installed this winter nj
the United Lead Mining company's
property at Osburn. Idaho. Besides
the long tunnel under consideration IL
Is the intention to sink on the ledge
OF the German American at point 500
ieet in from the tunnel portal. The
tunnel on the property is now i'm 1.s0O
feet and 1t is the intention to continue
1t to the Good Hope lead. Ore has
been disclosed in the upper workings
There Is 20 tons of ore on the dunn
n
Sullivan Mining and Coneentrating
company regard the ruling by
Judge Frank s. Dietrich of
the United States district court in
Idaho in ordering the Federal Mining
q smelling company to appear as a
party IN suit instituted by II through
the january Mining company, a sub.
sidiary concern, as a decided victory.
me court ordered the consolidation OF
dozen actions brought Indirectly by
the Federal company against the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan into one suit.
Involving total of s7,500.0o0 This
ruling. the Bunker Hill people say. !
brought the Federal company into the
open and. they add. discioses the force
behind the smaller corporations. The
basis for action is that the apex of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan vein is in the |
property owned by the January COM !
pany. which would, according to the
mining law of Idaho, give to the Jan.
uary coNpany title~to the ore which !
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan is MINING
in the Occur d'Alenes.
oregon Smelling & Refining COM
pany at Sumpter. Ore. win resume
operation after an enforced idleness OF
Two years. The company's propert,
was sold at auction at Baker CITY a |
rev days ago to W. G. Mennon Of
Newark, \. j., represented at the sale
by Scott German. The price paid was
$4,000. The personal property was
sold at a separate sale on November /,
y, when it was bid in for $4,000 by
L. ;. Baiilie of the Columbia mine /
This has also been turned over to Mr.
Mennon. II is announced that the new
owner viii remodel the plant and pu,
II on a commercial basis.
Be- H A. watson of Wallace. Idaho
said in an interview that the residents
or his city and the Occur d,Alenes i'm
general will renew their campaign TO,
the extension of the Spokane d Inland
Empire Electric railway system from,
Occur dAlepe City to Wallace To give
them direct connection with Spokane
he added: 1.-The Occur dAlene mines
are yielding larger output than ever
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