The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-18
WORKING TUNNEL
FOR HERCULES
New Avenue on COeur d'Alene
Property to Be 5000
Feet Long.
WILL TAP MAIN ORE
BODIES AT DEPTH
Pittsburg-Idaho Mines at Gil
more. Idaho, Declare Three
Cent Dividend.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
SPOKANE. Wash. Aug. 17-1mmedi
ate construction OF main working tun-
mol, 5000 feet In length. on the Hercules
property in the Occur d'Alenes was as
sured when the stockholders OF the Hum
ming Bird Mining company confirmed the
action OF the directors in leasing thelr
No 5 tunnel TO the Hercules people. III
was decided TO renew operations on the
upper workings Of the Humming Bird
property. where the showings are en-
cournginc, Drifting on the No. tun- :
nel was suspended two years ago, otter
$500 feet mad been completed The Her
cules company will extend this tunneo
TO get under Its main ore bodies. flItS
feet depth VIII be gained and II Is
MANNED to complete the work In three
wears The new directors OF the Hum :
ming Bird company are. as follows; Presi-
dent Harry L, Day: vice president, En-
gene r. Day; secretary and treasurer, F.
NJ Rothrock: L. w. Hutton and August
The Gold Ridge Mining & Deyelop-
horn Mining e. Milling companys hold
iqss q nine claims In IN tne Ten rsme anne
mer secretary and treasurer OF the cor
poration now In Spokane to confer with
H. J. Rice, president and S treasurer Ti o, oi
the company. a flve-ton mill VIII DC
Installed at once, Sixty per cent of the
proceeds from mine work Is TO apply on
The purchase price, Before purchasing
talned report from F.. W, Riddell. a
mining engineer of Portland who saws
the average OF sixteen assays was S2S.o3.
Seventy thousand dollars worth OF ore Is
Money Is Missing.
J.. r., Collier, receiver of the Naomi
Gold Mining company, says In report
filed in the spokane county superior cour1
from the sale OF stock was paid as com
missions to l.. l.. Rntliff. sales man
sger.. and there is no trace Of the re.
we're sold at 81 a share when receiver
was appointed. The company. which
Is centralized at 81 100. 600, exchanGed It's
Ing claims In Oregon. says the receiver
Afterward Irwin transferred back 900,
300 shares Of the stock. which was held
as treasury stock, and IT was THIS stock
RAtliff as sales manager. The company
did not file its articles OF incorporation In
Oregon. where the property is located
The debts amount TO $4,000, Including as
sessment work.
Directors OF the Pittsburg- Idaho mines
at Gilmore, Ida, havo lust declared
new compressor which was ordered some
time ago and the pneumatic drill are now
being Installed, There is much activity
al the camp, the mines sending out from
Several properties will begin shipping
In a short time. Work is progressing
on the Allie and the Silver Dollar mines;
Announcement is made that work will
be resumed on the snowstorm Apex prop
erty In the Occur d Alene district In Sep,
lember. One hundred feet Of tunnel Will
be driven. At the annual meeting d
few DAYS ago the board OF directors was
reelected, with A. 3. Babb president and
general manager, j. Laumer OF Spo-
kane is secretary. The treasurer re-
port shows the company TO be in good
financial condition. 1t has no debts and
mas a cash balance in the treasury.
Wagon Road Completed,
The Bullion Mining company has. com
pleted Its wagon road from the mine TO
the railroad and has awarded a contract
for the building OF fume to furnish
power for the drills and for domestic
PURPOSES Work on the fume Is TO start
rangements for shipment OF two cars
OF copper ore In the near future. and il Is
said that an excursion will be run to the
property on this occasion to enable stock.
the property and INSPECT the work being
done at the property.
l.. K. Armstrong. superintendent of the
mining department OF the Spokane in
lerstate fair, Is making preparations for
convention OF mining men from all
parts OF Washington. Oregon Idaho.
Iumbia az the fair IN Spokane the week
Of October . The Spokane Mining Mems
club and the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce will cooperate with Mr. Arm |
strong in making the meeting the most
important OF its kind in This part OF the
country,
2. P. Lint. president OF the Marshall
Lake Mining &c Milling company. develop
Ing twenty claims on Mount Marshall !
idaho, has received assay returns on |
twenty-three samples taken from eight
claims showing the ore from the veins |
carries an average value of $50. SO In gold
and 81 cents In silver, while selected
SAMPLES ran as high as sl9S.l0 TO the |
ton, Several hundred feet OF tunnels were |
force Of men is crosscuttlnC the princi- !
pal vein. The values are increasing as |
the work progresses and the operators |
are confident OF developing rich mine |
Mr. Lint said: "The only handicap is |
the lack OF transportation, but with the |
building down the Salmon river OF the |
Gilmore & Plttsburg railway ONLY |
question OF a few months at most we will
have Transportation within a few miles |
OF our claims and We shall begin opera
tions on extensive scale"