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cHALLI£, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY
WSBOm-Vk
DECEMBER 30. 1925.
IftQjOOO.OOO LEAD-SILVER MINE 38 ML AWAY
nens*T-«to«nding—almost un
mblc is the ore development in
{Misgst»«! wro
te feet of. high grade lead sul
h*a been cross-cut on the
vein twenty-two hundred
below the apex. Fnllv twenty
feet of the great vein of solid
( exceedingly rich, going around
er cent lead and a* many ounces
and. the remaining fifteen
around 3« pew cent lead and 30
eg of silver. When the writer
ed the strike December 17th, a
tape showed a breast of ore in
sross-cut to be thirty-eight feet,
the hang wall yet to be en
tered, and a general sample
b the face gave a fire test return
I per cent lead and 50 ounces of
r to the ton.
Fortune in Crosa-cut Alone
Ottt
ver
driving the cross-cut working
1 across the vein ten railroad
50 tons capacity, were shipped,
value of which will exceed
100 and all bins left filled with
tanty-two Hundred Feet Depth
he tunnel caught the vein when
fen into the mountain thirteen hun
8 feet and atps the ore on the
Ie of the vein at a depth of twen
wo hundred feet. The vein is op
1 up at intervals between that
1 and the apex by a series of
rt tannai, driven in sheer rocky
b and by shafts to shallow
1A». proving the continuity of the
k This early work of exploration
« performed by the Livingston
ker»throughout a period of forty
p, aad from which opening these
1 had a return that enabled them
» it almost bevond calculation, :
*l«o it»- value, 00 staggering and ,
dfnng are the aernlts of even -
itarvatjve estimate. Engineers
the value of the ore ''in sight"
004)00,000,00. To what further
in affluence all this time.
if* With Wealth Immense
tonnage developed in this
the great vein will go no one
but the granite formation,
■lone would cut it off, is a
Livingston vein production is
•way.
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POULTRY MONEY VS.
PIN MONEY
Qnoa ponltry raising was ''the old
lady's job"—in that way she made
pin money.
Row it pays the grocery
prosperous farms and provides, rea. y
cash to keep the old man's name off
the "dotted line."
Want to tackle it? Let's go over the
gAppa together.
Thfi First State Bank
"There Is No Substitute For Safetif
»HOES,
WHÄfYOIF WANT BATE, CAPS,
j deposit,
limited only by transportation and
power facilities and these are hem.'
providwl as fast as money can be ex
peruled. * ^
The ore zone was first encountered
about two months ago, about the time
of the death of Ate Jam« S
ker. tie managing director of the
Livingston Mine- Corporation. Fol
lowing his death it was onlv recently
that operations continued in the por
tion of the company's holdings where
thLs strike was made. A few week*
ago a ten foot breast of ore was
cross-cut and followed for a short
distance alono what at that time at>
peare'd to be the hang wall, but which
was broken through about the first
of December, disclosing the immense
j .8l.000.00 Tunnel Foot
j Three shifts of nine men each
j taking out a fifty ton railroad ear
each twenty-four hours in driving the
cros-cut which is yielding values of
about 81.000.00 each tunnel foot
' The strikfe ha . known of in
Màckoy, the supply point and branch
office headquarters of the owners, the
are
Livingston Mine.- Corporation, for
about two weeks and its dailv de
velopment has been the only topic of
conversation as reports were rec.-ived.
A. \V. Walker, who succeeded his
father in the active management of
the property went to New York
shortly after the ten foot breast of
ore was developed and it was daring
his absence that the cross-cut Was
continued. His early return afforded
him an opportunity to see the work
continue and the further development
take place. What was thought to be
the width of the vein in the first
strike made a great future for the
property, but its continued expansion
was bevond all dreams, though, ac
eord "* to , the formati ,°\
P°^ lb,e and now /' roven W be a facI '
Description of Vein
Former state mine inspector. Rob
ert N'. Bell, in preparing the manu
script for a special mining edition
to be issued Jan
; - « over the Cen
the Maekav Mir.«
uary 6 th.. w io'
tral Idaho Minen! Empire, an area
of country two hundred miles in
width and three hundred miles
m
, > , • , . .
--•*• ano ■•hich, on account of the
1 inen.sity of the district wi • ifs
""S W* made aecewryily
«k ' . rep V rt beln ^
' wa, taking
^ anU «
«, ,
! Fifteen miles south of Spusw
' e , ree ^' the Living-ton min-.- has been
' tb " ~ eeae °* - ar ? e capital t><vé»tiriint
I ''• Tr ' r '? tbe P** three years w.t!t the
I ■ wlletion of a mining a ni r»-».r
1 l't au - 6 thr»-** mile aerial »non ana
* mdred ton concentrating -nil! to
• "' :nei with considerable expensive
! '* «"»''ruction.
j " Thls property embraces a large
i ^ rtJt, P 01 patented lode claims laid upi
across Baihoft.1 Ridre. at an elevation
of over ten thousand feet above
level. Its ore deposits embrac
very interesting
..-a
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ar.d prumisiat
geologic conditions. Its so ealled Lit
tle Vein is a flat dipping fissure vary
ing from a few inches to three or four
feet in thickness from which several
carload shipments have been made of
crude ore containing values of thirty
to forty per cent lead, eighty to a
hundred o"nces in silver and several
dollars in gold per ton.
''On the south side of Railroad
Ridge and traversing the bluffy f_;e
of a quartzite mountain, the Living
ston Big Vein is one of the most in
teresting surface prospects of lead
ore in Idaho. (It is in this vein the
strike was made.) It ean be follow
ed with the eye in persistent outcrop
at a gentle dip for fully two thousand
feet. The outcrop line resembling a
trail along the cliffy mountain side.
hich. oh elose investigation, carries
'ead carbonate and gslena mine-al
from a few inches to several feet in
'•ic-Vness that has r-r-*duccd crude
-hipping ore values of ferta per cent
! ead and forty ounces silver from
several development openings along
ts coarse.
''Parallel to this interesting fissure
-nd about ofrty feet above it. is a
ire-mineral quartz porphyry d'ke e
qually persistent, and itself contain
ting good values in lead, silver, and
gold. Another small fissure of cube
galena is found above the dike.
•'The present center of develop
has been thru
a vertical vein between the lower end
of this outcrop and Railroad Ridge
known as the Little Falls vein, which
croosses a small glacial basin, and is
said to have disclosed some fine bod
ies of lead zinc sulphide ore.
PROFESSOR NOODLE
O OH CHARLlfc L,
■»feMyVCU'RE SOvSXHJ
ME'- j-^
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JDear Professor
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swell showS
and dancesw
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we're wed.
do you suppose
he'll always
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He 11 treat you
ridht, 1 Have
fear—
Hut this I
will avow—
that he won't
treat as
often, dear,
as He
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now !
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Prof. Noodle
Yacht's Spinnaker j
A spinnaker is a large. loose, bar
! looninc salt used as a supplement to
the ordinary sails of racing yachts,
i only used since lS«k It was at erst
I known as a Nl-obe. because of the
yacht Niohe. owned by an English
yachtsman named Gordon. In the Royal
Tendon sailing race of the above-men
Honed rear Next year the Sphinx
■iso carried such a sail, and the sea
duhhed It the Spinier and 'ntar
^sSmakw.
JID
LEATH BR VESTS, SHIBTö -
"I am advised that this develop
ment has been extended several hun
dred feet west where it has recently
intercept«] in a vjuth eross-cnt the
north diping Livingston vei% at a
^ ***** two thotSLl L-t
below it- highest «mopping», where
bonanza values have been encounter
cd disclosing a body of nearly elean
galena ten feet wide, from which a
number of carload shipment" hare
already ben made to the Salt Lake
smelters. And a gratifying demon
stration of the original geologic
promise of the denosit has been made.
"This property was discovered bv
the Livingston brothers forty years
lago and carried by the family for that
| length of time principally through
he unbounded faith and persi-teney
f A. S. Livingston, who has survived
thg
proper*- to a successful disposition
of it at a good figure to the present
.
" jlr. Livingston, daring his long
tenure of ownership traced this vein
system for two miles acmes the rug
ged mountain si- pcs with fifteen or
twenty shallow development open
in<~ from which high grade ore was
extracted and shipped. These ship
ments. totalling twenty in number.
varving from five to thritv tons nev
er ran under fortv ounees silver and
fortv per cent lead some of which
went a great deal higher. Mr. Liv
in^ston is still hale and hearty at sev
entv. spends his summers on Salmon
and L st River and is highlv grati
fied at the sucee^f-d outcome of his
rears of faith in the deposit."
Increase Large Track Fleet
The Curtis truck transportation
outfit has fourteen Mack trucks
bringing out the high grade, each
loading^about three tons to the trip
and most of the- trucks making a
round trip from Maekav. the shipping
noir.t. to the mine daily. Twelve
other tracks have been ordered for
immediate delivery. The ore bunkers
at the tramway headhouse at the por
tal'of the tunnel are blocked with
of both shipping and milling
e« a« are also those at the mill.
liis rears
stren-rou* effort in
corr.nany.
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Grcat Toluu * e ore
The milling garde of ore now pn>
ore
dueed from this vein is very rich and
heavy for milling purposes, and
would, near transportation, bear ship
ing expense. Hereioiore the mill has
been run on lower grades, using tbe
flotation system, but with the weignt^i|
Very Old Clock Runa
, n En
done .iury -ince
uBt lI recently.
of , hr victory of Trafalgar
a record or its havinc
K40 an ! recently, when the clock
being moved, a hive of dead bee» -.nd
about fifty pounds of honey were dis
.covered behind it
In the tower of Wolvey (Nuneaton»
nd. there is a elocs that has
the time of t hartes II
t.»rigtnally It he«l bet
The second «itai, made . s
■.me hand.
w«>od. was put on sn comiueiuoration
Tiler- Is
•een repaired in
as
-aAoL ÜxnDS Ox DRY GO
Will Keep Roads Open
This week the Highway District
officials have a force of men and
tractors opening up ihe Walker Way
—a road that was built by the eom
: -any to cut ont one summit between
the mines and Mackay. The fleet of
trueks will now leave the highway at
; '.hilly for .this cut off and it is thot
! road can be kept open all winter,
: at "*?* a wlU ** mAae
j 10 ° so '
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in the present mill feed the manage
ment is in-.tailing Wilder tables
catch the main values, running the ta
r ie tailings through the dotation e
Coneentrates are being
to
quipment.
shipped.
■ Adding to Power Plant
The hvdro-electrie power plant of
. . .
, ^ne Livingston Mines Corporation is
I aow inadequate to supply the * mill
' acd "à"« with the necessary power
| especially daring the winter month»,
; and an order for a Diesel engine has
I been placed of snfieîent capacity to
hook tip the plant for the present,
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T Bnß < 3 0tier »«»elopmenta
i . This, one ot the greatest ore strikes
! Ln , the *"*®7 o£ lhe d *
'dopraent along many lines for the
«^ejafiy in the way of pow
er and T '* d w " rfc - Already the man
gement has arranged for widening
:be Walker Way to „xteec f.et as
! **>" 35 wether permits and addition
^ hyaro-eleetrw possibilities are be
in aL/ nTesu y al . „ .
1 ^
drench of the O. b- L. to the Howell
' aEeh ' th,rt F tttdes ^
terminus, is not at aU onhtelv wnh
tne coming of spring. The Howell
ranch is at the mouth of the canyon
. *^«re the Walker Way hits the dag
^»7 roau turongk this canyon pass
lt3 comparatively low snmmit.
Flan Deep Working Tonnai
Already a lower tunnel site, farth
! er down the canyon from the tram
1 way headhouse. has been surveyed an
j tdaas are perfected to start uoon
rbe long tunneL which will give an
; other thousand feet of depth on the
i strike, and also afford a working
» r unn el for the ore production of two
adjoining mines, the Little Fall and
j
the Transvaal and eventually perharc
i penetrate the old Silver Bnle terri
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Dress Shirts - Scarfs
Sweaters - Leather
Coats
MAKE EXCELLENT
PRESENTS
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COME IN AND LET US
HELP YOU SOLVE
YOUR PROBLEM
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"WHERE YOU AND A SQUARE DEAL USEZ"
Mail Orders Promptly Filled
ODS *ad GROCERIES, call at HE S
tory »nd the other claims of the lit -
ingston group. Coadztiemo moo miml
tor this piece of work, with *
dance of timber, water eta? at ka
for mining purposes.
Almost Iaaûtiaaa
The development that W taken
place here guarantees a great fatare,
not only for th*
. but for deep miming gCBOTiy,
throughout thfc Central fdih o Miner
al Empire. There is a long fife of
production ahead of the Livingston
-vit
alone. A miner, lang «xjmew
vem
ed in the Butte an dC
mining district», whü* on the _
made the remark ti the «häita 8
vet unborn that would five to
d'AJanc
the
day when the ore resources» of the
vein were exhausted.
^ Livingston Mines Corpocaöon
^ mcorp.rated for three auHion
shares with a par vainc of $lMm*h
A control or sixty per cent of th»
stoc t is held by A. W. and Tom Walk
er, sons of the developer ot t%pr^
, ^ ^ by JohB Mriitnn», Oth
| p^wninewt m mi
; 4 of- the
! honi of directors, being tfce
; ^ stoekboldma ia
j ^ & Sullivan. AH M
j withdrawn from the m _
! is nose for sale, so slant tnp Wt
ger.—Maekay Ming- .
The Salmon river rui flcisr h^R ia
which the Livingston ^situ ate»*- ltaa
an extensive range of highly mi i
i alized- mines which ace now a nd to v 4
J been in the pafct deary pnaurgi
} 'fiber properties »Mg ™**® 1 or
1 less degree of development Rtwiat
to a similar strike aa tht one a
the Livingston.
1,000 ten m
It is not only the smptodMU-Mr
of high grade ore that meawa the
greatest production of minera l aa lth
of any mine in Idaho for 3
come, but the mill grade alone, will
be sufficient to give an earthquake
shock in mining circles. With fiftee n
twenty feet of rieh mill ***. *
mill of a thousand ton daily cap a cit y
certain, for it. would, have a aunply
of ore for many years to come- This
to
to
is
in the plans of the present m»n«p -
is
for the immediate near future
ment
No Stock far Safe
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