Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-01-08

The Payne group, located near Sandon,
the Oldest location in the district has
about $500 feet of development work, and
four miles of wagon road; has shipped
$3.50 tons, for the year. and employs 60
men. This property was sold in Septem-
Der, 1896, for 100000 cash, and has since
produced ore enough to repay the pur-
chase price.
Mines without Power Machinery.
"A list of the principal producing mines
that have no power machinery is as fol-
lows:
Black Fox, shipping point, Forks of
Kaslo river; has shipped 60 tons of ore.
Iron Hand, shipping point, Iron Hand
siding: has shipped $50 tons dron) ore for
the past year. Northern Belle, shipping
point, Whitewater; has shipped 10 tons.
Whitewater, shipping point Whitewater;
has shipped 200 tons; employs % men.
Antoine, shipping point, McGugan's; has
shipped 10 tons; employs six men. Sur
prise. shipping point, McGuigan's: has
shipped 100 tons; employs IL men. Ram
bier. shipping point, McGuigans; mas
shipped $50 tons and viii soon ship 800
more. Northern Belle No. 2. shipping
point McGuigans: has shipped 100 tons
Wellington. shipping point. Wellington
employs 10 men. London. shipping point.
Bear lake; has shipped 10 tons of 1000
ounce ore employs eight men. Mountain
Chief shipping point. Mountain Chief
siding: has shipped 100 tons; employs Is
men. 1vanhoe, located at Sandon: has
shipped 100 tons: employs 10 men. Chamb-
ers shipping point, Cody; has shipped Ia
tons of ore; employs four men Nepaw4,
hi Inlx hac oh
20 tons. Buebird, shipping point. Cody
| has shipped 10 tons; employ five men.
American Boy. shipping point sandon;
has shipped As tons, employs six men.
AJAX shipping point. sandon; has
| shipped 80 tons: employs six men. Good
enough, located at Cody; has shipped
| $50 tons; employs 10 men. The Carnation-
Tenderfoot group; has shipped is
| tons; employs five men.
No statistics are at hand for the fol-
| lowing mines The Best, California, The
Idaho, Alamo, Cumberland group and
| numerous others of considerable moment
The Railroads and STEAMBOATS,.
| In the fall of 1894 the Nakusp IL Slo-
| can railroad was completed from Nakusp,
on Upper Arrow lake, to Three Forks-a
| distance of 80 miles-and leased to the
| Canadian Pacific railroad. In 1895 the road
was extended TO Sandon, and is locally
known the Canadian Pacific railway
branch. 1t is now equipped with one Co
ton passenger engine, one Cotton freight
engine two passenger coaches, an ample
| supply of freight cars, and has an S5-ton
passenger engine in transit.
| A branch line of the Canadian Pacific
railway extends from Revelstoke to Ar
rowhead, where 1t connects closely with
the boats of the Kootenay and Columbia
Steam Navigation Company. This com
| rany has two steamboats-the Lytton and
| the Nakusp-one tugboat. and eight
barges. Two of the barges are fitted with
tracks, and will accommodate six loaded
freight cars each. Freight Is loaded on
the cars brought to point of consign-
ment and discharged: cars are reloaded
| with ore direct for the smelters as far
east as Omaha, and west to the coast
smelters-some of 1t In bulk and some in
, | sacks-without further handling.
In December, 50. the Kaslo Il SLOGAN
railroad-a narrow gauge road-was COM
pleted from Kaso to Sandon and Cody,
and is equipped with two 35-ton engines
and one palace coach, Is box cars and five
| fiat cars. All cars have standard aXles
| and air brakes, and the road-bed is for
| heavy equipment. The company has just
| received a new 42-ton locomotive, and a
, | new palace coach, and has ordered % new
box cars. The purchase of a rotary snow
| pow Is under consideration. The opera
tors of this line have also asked fol-
= dump ore-cars, to handle ore in bulk, sc
| that bins may be constructed by min,
owners along the road, and ore handled
at the smallest expense. Eventually
barges will be placed on the kootenaS
| lake, and the dump-cars can then dis
charge direct into bins or ears, from tn,
main line.
All freight out over this route at pres
ent goes by way of the Nelson q For
: Shepard, and Spokane Falls & Northern
roads to Spokane.
The International Trading and Navga
: ton Company has two steamers-the AL
. berta and the decentralization Kootena.
lake, from Five Mile Point and Nelson l.
Kaslo, and they are handling their shar
of ore and freight.
The Kootenay and Columbia Steam
Navigation Company has also two steam
ers-the Nelson and the kokanee-plyin
~ the Kootenay lake between Nelson an
= Kaslo, and in the summer monthly triu
o Bonner's Ferry are made by the
r | boats.
= Up to the present time transportatio
facilities have all been taxed to their flu
y extent At one time last fall over 100 ear
of freight lay at Revelstoke for the Sic
10 can and Rossand camps.
Labor and business.
u Statistics are not obtainable as to tn
= number of men in the whole Kaslo-S Sic
s. can country and it's towns and camp.
l. | but conservative estimate places it q
< 100. The number employed in mines an
1t mills is about 800. Miners get $3.50 fo
Is 10 hours, day shift; the same for min
90 hours at night. Car men and shovelleI
rs get So for same hours. Board costs 81 DC
s. week.
" Business of all kinds is fairly well rel
n | resented in the towns of the Kaslo-Sl,
" can, but only a partial list of the mel
:. chants engaged could be obtained Coco
s. of all kinds-not perishable-are mostl
bought in Toronto and other Canada