Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-04
QUICKSILVER ORE
FROM IDAHO SHOWN
MINING CONGRESS
Fern Company Gives Consent
for Removal to Washington
for Permanent Exhibit
Work at Mine All Winter.

Cinnabar ore specimens from the
Fern Quicksilver mine in the Yellow
pine Basin district attracted wide at
tcntion at the mineral exhibit at st.
Louis, Nov, IL to %, held under the au-
sfices of the meeting of the American
Mining congress.
The exhibit was so good as to be
selected among few others by Her
bert w. Smith, chief Of the war min
erals division of the United States gov
eminent, to form part of the perma-
nent war minerals exhibit at WASH
1hgton, d. c., and in q letter to the
company asks permission to hold the
fine specimens and bottle of quicksil-
Yer, which the company management
has decided to grant.
Some time ago James Z. Fox and
Ike Marks, who head the company,
were invited to send some specimens
Of cinnabar from the Yellowpine dis
trict to the congress. They accepted
the invitation, sent one exceedingly
III ge specimen some smaller ones and
a bottle of quicksilver taken from the
ore at the small retort at the mine.
PLEASED WITH ExhIRlT
In his letter asking for the exhibit.
Mr.. Smith says: "On behalf of the Or
Eanization as a whole and for the war
minerals division in particular, want
to thank you for the very interesting
exhibit which You sent US and which
formed so pleasing part of the ex-
Eibit of the war minerals division. A
photograph of the exhibit will be sent
TO you as soon as they are completed.
In preparing the exhibits for return
to those who submitted them. the or
EaDization has chosen a very few of
the most interesting and representative
exhibits to form part of permanent
war minerals exhibit in the general Of
fiCes at Washington. This is to serve
double purpose-both to form an in
tclesting exhibit for visitors in the Of
fee, and to furnish specimens for use
before the various committees of the
house and senate when hearings core
un for the war minerals bills now be-
ing considered. Yours has been chos-
EN- as one we would like to include, and
If you care to have us use it in this
way, please write me at Washington.
d. c. In the meantime | am carefully
packing your exhibit and sending it
to Washington, and should you decide
that you do not wish us to use it, it
car be returned to you from there.
IF the bottle of quicksilver you
sent is of too great intrinsic value to
include in such exhibit, we would or
course, wish to return this to you"
PROGRESS SATISFACTORY
The exhibit of fine ores and bottle
of quicksilver, extracted from ore at
the mine, has attracted much atten-
ton of the mining men who attended
the congress and it is likely to mean
far more to the district than is at
present known.
j. f. Fox. general manager eff the
company recently from the mine, re-
ports that work is progressing there
steadily and that there will be no let
mp during the entire winter the men
having plenty of supplies and equip
ment to continue work until the SHOWS
leave the hills next spring when more
can be taken in.
The district in which the Fern quick
silver mine is located has recently
been taken into the forest service be-
Ing included in the 1,116,0OO acres re-
Gently designated as d forest reserve
by congress. In the designati ton is
shown the proposed road to be built b,
me service into the reserve. This road
runs within four miles of the mine and
telephone service will be given to this
point. The Fern Quicksilver compan,
ard others interested in the district
viii build the four miles of road needed