The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-09-04
THE TUNNEL AND SHAFT
nUsY SEASON or PROsPECTORs Is
NOT YET PASSED.
Progress OF Development work,
sale Of Properties and ship
ments Of Ore.

iofe ana That some exceedingly promis
ing finds have been made On the Ore
gon group Of mines, half interest il
which was recently purchased by Johl
NJ. Smith Of the Smith Bros. Sheep Com
Pany, about 20 men are at present EN-
ployed- A few days ago contract wa
let for the driving of 2OO-fOot tunne
and when this is finished there will b.
in all about 200 feet of tunnels in tn,
Oregon mine alone. 1t is q free millin.
gold proposition which runs about SIS Il
the ton Three hundred tons of the or,
have been taken out and a five-stamI
mill will be at work upon it BY Novem
Der of this year. The Plymouth grouI
in the same district is also showing III
well and the tunnels driven in which
Congressman Hartman is interested
and the work being done is more with
view to finding out what there i.
than to get any immediate returns.
Mr.. Howell says, however, that ths
prospects are that mill will be put in
there, too, before very long. Other prop
critics that are showing up well are the
Jefferson, Gallatin and Madison and the
Yankee Girl. all south Of the Oregon
group and all of the free mining va
riety. number of Butte gentlemen
headed by NJ. ]. Connell, went up there
today, and while their trip is ostensi
bly, for pleasure in the way of hunting
and fishing, they will, very likely, looL
over the mines before they return.
Pierce City.
Pierce City camp is showing consider
able activity. The Golden Gate company
reports new strike on its property II
miles from town 1t has been WORKING
all summer ON an open cut, and has
struck larger vein carrying a higher
grade of ore. The Golden Bar company.
on the headwaters of Orc Elmo creek, i
working a whim and is down 20 feet
in good ore on u vein 20 to "a inches
wide. The ore is high grade and free
milling. Ellis, Morrow & Laribee have
completed a run of their best orr
through the stamp mill of the Column
bia Mining Company's plant. The result
was satisfactory and they will at once
begin to drive $50 feet more of tunnel
on the property. The owners of the
klondike claim have completed a cross
cut on the surface and have exposed a
vein of base ore 40 feet wide The com
Pany has commenced to drive on the
ledge and will work all winter. The
Pioneer, on Musselshell creek, claims a
large share of public attention The
ledge is growing wider and retains its re
markable richness, assaying as high as
1910 per ton. Gaffney & Ericsson have
found the ledge on their extension.
which shows almost the same richness
G. p. Henley has force of men at work
stopping out ore, which he expects to run
through the Columbia mill He clean
ed up a handsome sum in this way a
short time since.
BOstOn and Montana Claim.
John Bordeaux and associates are
now at work on the Boston and Mon
taHa claim at Meaderyille, Mont, and
are down go feet from the surface with
a single compartment shaft. 1t is the
intention of Mr.. Bordeaux and the men
associated with him in his enterprise to
go down $50 feet more and then cross
cut extensively. If no ore is found by
that time the syndicate will have about
$4,000 spent in looking for it which Is
about the value of the entire claim as
far as the surface is concerned. The
Boston and Montana people are in
doubt about there being any pay veins
in this claim and they have teams
busily engaged hauling away tailings
from the dump of the old smelter on
the claim which is said to 90 about
per cent copper. This ore was treated
in the old Boston and Montana shelter
before the Great Falls plant was con
structed and the imperfect machinery
Of those days failed to save all the
value OF the ore. Besides the ore that
was treated with the old method, the
dump contains thousands of tons of
low grade ore that was not at that
time considered worth smelling. The
dump Of the old smelter and the ore
now being taken from the East Colusa,
which is one of the old mines of the
camp, is sufficient to keep the Butte
and Boston smelter supplied with ore
at the present time
Morning Mine improvements.
The march Of improvements around
the Morning mill at Mullan, Idaho, still |
continues The new ore bins are done, /.
and new railroads have been built both |
there and down below. The lower road
leaves the old line near the narrow
gauge round house, running lower down /
parallel with the Northern Pacific spur. |
This line was built solely to handle tim /
beers. The Northern Pacific brings them /
in from Kingston or up on the Bitter /
Roots, and when rolled off from the cars
they land on a skidway, on which they /
roll all the way down hill to the narrow /
gauge cars that haul them up to the
mine The ore is handled by the John
s. George, the new 40 ton engine bought
last year, and it would seem impossible
to handle more ore than one engine can
deliver, as on a track only three miles
long two trains can not be worked to
advantage, and the line is too crooked
to work long double-header trains. But
the old 25 ton engine is used as a switch
engine, hauling all the timbers from the
lower yards up to the third leg of the
where the loaded cars are
.urned over 10 the ore train.
Ore Shipments.
Ore shipments over the kaslo & Slo-
an railway last week were as follows: ,
4.