Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-28
MINERAL EXHIBIT
At STATE FAIR
WAS ONE OF BEST
Many Visitors Attracted to
Lemhi County's Dislay Of
Ore - Development There
Now Extensive.

The mineral exhibit at the state fair
made by Lemhi county with Walter l..
Thompson, a mining man in charge,
attracted great deal of attention.
Lemhi county is the center Of a vast
mineralized belt. There is a good deal
of mining activity in the county. The
minerals produced in Lemhi county in
clude lead ores, copper, tungsten,
cobalite, gold. silver. etc.
BIGGEST COBALT DEPOSIT.
Lemhi county has the biggest cobalt
deposit in tho world. The firm in Ko-
komo, Ind, that makes the Haynes
automobile, owns the cobalt and
smaltide mines in the BIackbird min
ing district. This mineral is used as
alloy to harden the steel used in the
manufacture of Haynes cars.
The copper mines in Lemhi county
owned by the Greenhorn Mines COM
pany, are now being taken over by the
Clark interests of Butte and Arizona.
They are shipping in and installing
machinery.
The ores exhibited at the state fair
came from every district in the county.
A representative display taken from
the exhibit will be shipped to Omaha
where it will be exhibited by the I'm
ion Pacific railroad; the rest of the
exhibit will be displayed at the Boise
Commercial club.
In brief this splendid exhibit repre-
scented the following minerals and dis
tricts in Lembi county:
Lead ores--From the Gilmore mine
in the Texas district; Sims minis,
Spring Mountain district; Teddy mine.
Spring Mountain district; Lemhi I'm
ion mine, Spring Mountain district;
Leadville mine, Junction district
10o-ToN CONCENTRATION
Copper ores-From Eureka and Nc
Dewitt creek districts; from Blackbird
district; from the Carmen creek dis
trict. There was a representative dis
play of copper ore from the Harmony
mine in the McDevitt creek district.
A 100-ton concentrator is being in
stalled there. At the Pope Shenon
mine in the Eureka district a 50-ton
Cottrell process Is being put in.
Gold ores--From Golden Rule mine
in the Eureka district; Allison & Gold
Dust mine in the Mackinew district;
Ulysses mine in the Indian creek dis
trict. There was a fine display of
placer gold from the Gibbonsville dis
trict owned by i. e. Edwards of Boise.
And there was gold ore shown from
the A. D. e. NJ. mine in the Gibbons
vile district, from the Monolith mine
in the Mineral Hill district; from the
Sulphide mine in the Eldorado district
Lead-silver ores-From the Ander-
son mine, the Yellow Jacket mine and
the Columbia mine, all in the Yellow
Jacket district.
The Columbia mine has these ores:
Tetrahetrite, salena, malichite and
azurite.
In the Eureka district the Red Cross
mine has these ores: Lead, silver
gold and uranium.
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS.
Interesting and attractive industrial
EXHIBITS we've made during the fair by
these well known firms:
The Idaho Power company had two
booths, one occupied the center of the
fine arts building, the other the CEN
ter of the agricultural and horticul-
tural building. Many kinds of electrical
devices were shown and demonstrated
Links business college and the Par
agon business college, both of Boise,
each had a very attractive booth.
The state bureau of markets had a
booth from which the free weekly
markets bulletjp was distributed
Aunt Jemtpa flour and Karo syrup
also Mazda, were very well demon
strated in an attractive booth presided
over by the pancake and doughnut
queens, respectively.
The Boise-Payette Lumber compa nv
had a very effective exhibit in the
shape of a large wood staye silo lit