Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-11-04
INVESTIGATES
CYNIDE GOLD co.
EDITOR OF MINING TRUTH HAS
GREAT FAITH IN MINES OF
BOUNDARY COUNTY
GOLD SAVING MACHINE FEASIBLE
Expects This District To Be Center
of Mining Mems Interest


who have held faith for so many years
in the mineral resources of the sec
ton Immediately tributary to Bonners
Ferry, is held out in the fact that an
increasing amount of attention is be-
ing directed to this district by the
Northwest Mining Truth, of Spokane.
publication that is sought for advice
by thousands of mining investors of
the United States and Canada Evil
dences of Mining Truths growing in
terest in this district is found in the
fact that special examination was
made on behalf of the publication
named of the Bethlehem Gold Mines,
Ltd, about six weeks ago and an ex-
haustive illustrated article prepared
and published, while on Sunday of
this week, H. W. Power, assistant and
news editor of Mining Truth, in spite
of bad roads and the possibility of
most unfavorable weather, made a
special trip to the Buchhorn district
to look over the property of the Cynide
Gold Co. He was accompanied on the
trip by G. B. Kendall, of the Redemp-
ton Gold Co., of Spokane and Seattle,
and T. ]. Wilson, Montana rancher
who may become financially interested
in the proposition.
| Asked by the Herald for a statement
covering his trip to the Buckhorn, Mr.
Power said:
"A large number of Bonners Ferry
| people are undoubtedly acquainted
with the history of the Buckhorn mine
as it is one of the earliest locations
of the district. According to informa-
ton from various sources the property
first received attention some rs years
ago and since then a great deal of
money has been expended upon it, in
both underground and surface devel-
opment. But in no case have results
so far been satisfactory, at least from
a profit earning standpoint, and those
who invested have had their financial
fingers burnt.
Upwards of 1000 feet of tunnels
have been run on the ground, not to
mention a great deal of surface cut
ting, while the remains of stamp mill
on the property stands as a mute wit
ness to past failures.
THE trouble appears to be that
while the values are in the ore, and
while a considerable tonnage of ore
has already been developed and is
ready to be stopped and milled by what
ever process is most suitable, the prob
lem of saving the values is where all
attempts hitherto made have failed
But several revolutionary things in
the milling of ores have happened dur
ing the past two decades, and there is
therefore hope that some process may
be capable of saving values found in
the rich gold veins of the Buckhorn.
1.-THE trouble encountered in this
connection has been the extremely
fine nature of the gold. Only small
proportion of it is free milling so that
it is not much wonder, under the cir
cumstances, that failure attended the
early day stamp mill methods of ex-
traction Had the nature of the ore
been less refractory than it is, or ii
the property had been located close
to a railway track, the Buckhorn
would undoubtedly be large produc-
err today 1t has remained for inven-
tive genius to bring forth some meth
cd of milling the ore that would make
it possible to get the bulk of the val
ues out of the ore at point close to
the place where the ore is mined.
Parties interested in a machine
called the Redemption Gold Machine
and which is. an entirely new prinoi-
pie in gold saving in searching around
for. a location to give the process q
try-out under ordinary working condi-
tions, connected up with Messrs. Ellis
and LaFountain, who with several 9th
er practical miners, had formed the
, Cynide Gold Mining Company, with the
: result that an arrangement has beer
made between the two companies tc
split fifty-fifty in fifty per cent of the
Cynide Gold stock, the balance to be
put in the treasury and sold for the
purpose of raising funds to complete
. mill installation, together with tram
. way and power plant. This vii
place the property in position to be-
: come an active producer, perhaps il
. a small way at first, and, as the pro
ject develops, if past tests Of the pro.
. cess are borne out by practical reali'
cation, in a much larger way, will un
: doubtedly result in a mining enter
: prise of tremendous Importance, ant
which may cause a revolution ine golC
saving methods
: "It will certainly be the matter o.
: greatest interest, not alone to Bon
ners Ferry people, but to mining mer
: throughout the Pacific northwest
: what happens at the Buckhorn in the
: next three years. There can be M
: question as to the values being there
: and the possibilities of development
are good. The Redemption Gold pro
: cess appears reasonable in theory anC
: has been worked satisfactorily in {
: small way, and there remains only it,
: application on a commercial scale
Under the circumstances the projec
: appears reasonably certain of success
provided management is such as t
: materially assist things along to tn
extent of making every dollar of tn
: investors money do as much as eacl
dollar possibly can do, and. from wha
know and can learn of those behin'
: the project, I feel quite certain tina
: this will be done. and Boomers Ferr.
people will be helping themselves
: perhaps to an extent that they canno