Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-06-25
CHAT ABOUT THE MINES.
BODIES OF ORE BEING BLOCKED
OUT IN A RossLAND PROPERTY.
Alenes and the Project Includes
IA Cyanide Plant.

0NsNe -
camp is said to be attracting not little
attention. The Miner says of it: Gross
cuts about 40 feet long have been run on
either side of the main tunnel at the east
end of the ore chute, and neither cross
cut has yet found the WALL In other
words, the ore body has been proved to
| be more than so feet wide. cross-cut
/ has just been started to the south, 100
feet west of the first cross-cut, and this
is now in 10 OF IL feet with a magnificent
body of ore in sight. The ore seems to
be quite uniform in character. 1t carries
a certain amount of waste, but taken as
a whole it carries high values in both gold
and copper The gold-bearing substance
is a sort of rotten black quartz. Small
pieces of pure sulphide, showing much
copper, are scattered through the entire
mass. Nothing quite like it has before
been seen in the camp"
For Half a Million.
If reports from Murray are correct,
the North fork is about to blossom as the
rose, the understanding there being that
the Paymaster, Golden Chest, Joe Dandy,
Dora, Katie Burnett and several c0ntig-
uous properties have been purchased pre-
sumably for the Delamar people. The
consideration is not made public, but it
> is variously reported at from 100000 to
: half million. Four mills are now on
4 the property, three l0stamp and one 20
The report at Murray is that the new
Y company will erect a large cynadine
o plant.
o The Monte Cristo Sold.
f. E. Snodgrass and other officials o.
!, the Monte Cristo mine at Rossland wen
O to that city the other day to sign thu
necessary documents for a transfer o
the Monte Cristo property to syndicate
~ which it is supposed has control of the Col
q onna Gold Mining Company of Rossland
+ The Colonna company owns the Buckley
~ No. 2, claim adjoining the Monte Cristc
Il on the west slope of Monte Cristo noun
=, tain. For some time the deal has bee
- on. just what the terms are is as We
=, unknown, but it is said to be on the ba
= sis of l23 cents per share, though larg
:, part of the deal means merely transfe
of stock. The Buckeye and Monte Crist
er will hereafter be worked together.
an Great Ore Chute.
tb The new tunnel in the Tomboy min
near Telluride, Colo, has cut great OF
~ chute at the depth of 450 feet below I'll
in old workings. The upper workings ha,
Ia shown continuous body of free millin
vi ore over 1000 feet long and nine to
feet wide. The controlling interest in Il
nd mine was recently sold to the Roth
:, childs. Governor Adams, one of the owl
~ ers, says the new development makes Il
II mine one of the greatest in North Anne
mo lea.
Placer Claims.
he Messrs Sutton and Vantassel, two mi
ers from California, who own a coup
ol of placer claims on Fourth of July cree
'P- four miles from Grand Forks, claim
ig- be striking it rich in their claims. N
ice Vantassel says that they are now fin
'ht ing nuggets of gold, some as large as
'ul full grown bean.
ng Bought "a Trout Lake Property.
The British Columbia Exploration Co
in pany of Tacoma, Wash, has purchas
nor the Ottawa claim, near Trout lake, in t
na+ Lardeau country. The company was
H., ganized last fall and the Ottawa is t
in llrSt property IL mas purchased. Inc CO
Wv sideration is said to have been $4,000.
,os is silver-lead property.
boundary Creek.
W The final payment under the bond
ing the No. 7, in Central camp, has be
us made on behalf of the Boundary Min
'or' Company of New York. The total amor
lies paid as purchase money and commiss
col for this claim was $l3,S00 The compa
on has spent more than $4,000 in devel
Sses ment, so the claim has cost it about S.
eal 600 to date.
wed Big Block of Stock Sold.
re- A sale of 100000 shares of stock in
han Iron Mask mine at Rossland has b.
The made, the consideration being $780,
ude cash, or 20 cents per share.
ate The Florence District.
A visitor to the camp at Florence
AN ports that prospectors are everywh
and many new locations are being ms
HI There are over 1000 locations in I'll
car now, and there will be lot more bel
was the season is over.