The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-11-07
Country Tributary to kaslo Never
in Better Condition.
THE TOWN IS BEING REBUILT.
New Lodges Have Been Discovered and
Producers win Ship Thousands 20
Of Tons Of Ore.

years ago thinks the place is dead or
deserted because they have turned their
backs.upon it, they are laboring under
a. mistake. The fire of last February
and the floods of May and June did
much to contract the size OF the rap
idly. built town and some ugly scars
are yet in sight to mar the natural
beauty of a favored site for little
city on the wave dashed shores of old
Kootenai lake.
This fall quite number of new build
ings are being erected in the burned
district. Fletcher Il Fletcher, have re-
built the Grand Central hotel, l. A..
Garland, the dry goods man, has built
a handsome two story frame, the Byers
Hardware Co. occupy a fine building
farther up and on the opposite side Of
the street from the old store. The
agency of the Bank of Montreal, CHS
ho1m's grocery and other business
houses occupy new sites on upper Front
street and q new business block is ap-
preaching completion on the lot below
where the Occur d. Alene hotel stood
in ante-fire times. John Keen's two
story building, corner of Third and
Front streets is occupied as the dis
trict government recording Office, tel
egraph Office and residence. H. Gieg-
erich has rebuilt his warehouse and will
erect a much larger and more conn
modious store than the temporary
quarters he has been occupying since
the fire. . 49, ~
Mineral Belt Tributary.
The past seasons development has
proved that there is much more min
eral wealth on the Kaslo slope of the
Selkirks than was hitherto supposed to
be, which must find an outlet via Kas-
10 no matter what railway facilities
the government or Canadian Pacific
railway furnishes on the west or SLOGAN
lake side.
The ores of Jackson basin and Creek,
Whitewater, Lyle, Bear, Spring,
Twelve Mile, Blue Ridge and the south
fork of Kaslo must necessarily CRAWL
ate to Kootenai lake, and as there has
been much activity in all these sections
the past season many new finds have
been made and large quantities of ship
ping ore have been exposed.
New Group of Claims.
The south fork of Kaslo creek, empty
ing into the main stream five miles
west Of the town, has until the past
summer been supposed to be off the
mineral belt, but only eight
miles from town by wagon road and
trail a group of claims have been de-
veloped to that extent that the owners
expect to ship several car loads of ore
this winter. Besides this there are at
least dozen others which will be pro-
sdueeps of silver-lead ore by next sum-
mer.
Dry Silver OreLead.
Quite a strike of dry silver ore has
been recently made on Blue Ridge
creek. Three essays gave returns of
$500 to 81, 200 and 1890 ounces per. ton.
1t has long been claimed that the dry
ore belt to the north OF Watson carries
it's course well toward Kootenai lake,
and the recent find appears to bear out
this theory. 1t is quite well demon
strated that plenty of dry ore will be
at hand when "a local market is estab-
nshed oNuse such product, and that
the smelling plant at Pilot Bay can
secure all that is necessary toemix with
the salena ores. t f1CE ID
! - ; Big. Shipments Expected. L
Conservative persons estimate from
10000 to 1900 tons will be the output
of the SLOGAN mines during the coming
shipping season. At least half, and
possibly two-thirds will go out over
the Nelson & Fort Shepard and Spo-
kane e. Northern. Mr.. H. G. Stimmel.
formerly of Spokane but now resident
freight agent for Mr. D. c. Corbin. is
very diligent in rustling up business
for the lines he represents sand no
doubt will have the main bulk of this
traffic. ~.
= The snowis gradually creeping down
from the SUBMITS of the higher NOUN
tains toward the shores Of the lake so
that by another month at the farthest
the raw ihider and the mule sskinner
will be busy keeping the. ore moving
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