The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-12-08
Big Shipments Of Ore From the
Occur d'Alenes.
AN EXODUS FROM WARDNER
A Trip to 1hree Great Producing Mines
The Great ore Strike in the
Tiger.

Wallace, Idaho, Dec. There is moth
ing that could speak in stronger terms
for the value of the Occur d'Alene dis
trict as good mining country than the
fact that at the present time several
mines are working successfully in the
face of the low prices of silver and
lead, and paying all underground EN-
ployes-miners and shovelers alike
$3.50 day.
The fact is, the past two years have
opened the eyes of the mine managers
to the fact that their business was being
conducted in an extravaganza manner,
and the mine owners have been clipping
off extra expenses here and there and
improving the machinery in the mills
to increase the output without increas-
ing the expense.
Among the mines that are now Cd
Grating in the Occur d'Alenes are the
Poorman, the Tiger, the Standard, the
Frisco the Gem and the Morning, while
the big Bunker Hill & Sullivan would
be had it not been for the strike among
the employees that caused it to close its
works. The well known improved
mines that are not working are the
Black Bear, the Granite, the Custer,
the Sierra Nevada and the Stemwinder.
There are many small mines besides
and host of them that are almost
entitled to wear the name of "a mine"
but which lack some development or
shipping facilities and on which work
stopped when silver and lead first
slumped. Some of the acknowledged
mines that are now idle are good prop
orfiac n mic,
failure to keep development work suf-
ficiently ahead to insure a good body
of ore, or by attempting to use machin-
cry that wasted the time Of the mer
Nothing proves this more than the fact
that during the past year mines that
have been working, have, even in the
face of the hard times, put in more i'm
proved machinery, and those that have
not done so are arranging to do it dur
ing the present winter III other words.
it has been demonstrated that even
with low prices the mines of the Coeur
dAlenes can be successfully operated
when good facilities are afforded an6
the latest improved machinery used.
ON CANYON CREEK.
Canyon creek, the gulch where the
greatest activity is apparent in the
Occur d'Alenes at present, affords many
delights to the visitor 1t is about |
seven miles long and runs in an east
erly direction from Wallace 1t has been
traversed by two railroads, the North
ern Pacific and Union Pacific, but tho
latter is little disfgured at present |
owing to the big freshet of last spring. |
The former, however has been repaired |
and operates daily. 1t is what Jim Hill |
would call stiff grade up the canyon |
and the big engine snorts and puffs |
violently going in, but when it starts
out with big train loaded with con-
centrates, it skates down as gracefully
and with the ease of a toboggan.
The Tiger and Poorman mines are at
Burke, in the upper end of the canyon.
They are excellent properties. Each has
a large concentrating mill and the other
necessary buildings, and as the prop
critics adjoin each other there is only
space for the railroad track between
them. This avenue is used for all pur-
poses. It is the main street of the town
the stores and residences all facing
upon it owing to the narrowness of the
gulch at his point-and it is the only
available play ground for the children.
When the train comes in nearly the
entire street is occupied by the cars.