Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-17

Total -. ...... ........... 6, 393, 225
This ore'was distributed among the diff
ferent smelters as follows:
fueDlo ................ d, l62,OOO
Everett ....... 2, 1852 900
Pilot Bay $50. -. ........ 1926, 900
Omaha 80. 342, 900
Kaslo >. =. :. .,.............. 10000
Denver -. :. -. -. ..... $4,000
Aurora. :. ............. $4,000
nelson ............ lO,ZZo
lOtul .CyOOO.GAt
The ore cleared at the Kaslo customs
house during the month is covered by the
following figures:
No. of pounds .................6, 1857 900
Pounds lead -. .2,777, $50
Ounces silver -. ........... 326,05O
Valuation >. :. ............ 1926, las
OF the above $4,000 pounds went out
from Ainsworth.
The same table covering the month of
November, 1896, is very different and
shows an enormous increase in the month
past. November, 1896, shows as follows:
No. pounds ore Iii, 100
Pounds lead ............. 439,
ounces silver .............. S3,S5l
Valuation :. :. .............. $66,4S9
The Black Diamond at Ainsworth made
her first shipment for the month-Novem-
Der 30th-about 80 tons of concentrates.
skaguay to Have Wagon Road.
Redd Mcdonald of Helena, Mont, has
just returned from visit of several
weeks to Skaguay, where he has been
looking over the field with view of en-
gaging in business there in the spring.
"The Skaguay trail was fully as bad as
it was painted" said he to Spokesman
Review reorter. $50 great was the haste
to get across to the lakes that no man
would stop even to roll a boulder out of
the trail or to chop off small tree that
might prove an obstruction. Horses were
dubbed until they would jump over the
Instructions, and the result of the inhu-
manity and extreme hurry was trail of
dead horses from Skaguay to the lakes.
1t will be different next year. A COM
pany with plenty OF money is blasting
out as good a wagon road as one could
wish all the way from Skaguay to the
lake. 1t will have a solid rock founda-
count Of swampy ground and loose cordu-
roy. A tramway is also in course of cree
ton to the summit.
81 was also at Dyea, and work is just
beginning on tramway over the worst
of the trail there. Dyea has no harbor,
and all the merchandise is unloaded at
Skaguay now and transported across on
barges.
"Skaguay is lively camp, but there is
not much money in circulation. Men who
are staying over there waiting for spring
are hanging on to their money. l look
for big rush in the spring by way OF
Skaguay, as l believe its wagon road will
enable a man to walk right through to
the lakes with ease. l am going back to
engage in business. but shall not go as
early as some The lake won't break up
before the lst of June, and if men go up
there sooner they will have to sit around
in snowstorms and wait. Last year the
ice went out May 2S, but the Indians said
The Florence Camp. .
Florence is lively camp. There has
been strong movement of capital into
Florence, Idaho, this season. Within q
year it is said Florence will have an ag.
gregate pay roll that will make it one Of
the best mining centers in the state and
there will be six mills running soon in
the camp. A year ago there We're but
two running along in desultory fashion
The Bannel mill started up about three
weeks ago and is doing good work. Cap.
tain N. ID. Moore will soon have a five.
stamp mill working on his Blossom and
as that property has yielded thousands Of
dollars when worked by hand, the cap
tain's company will doubtless find the
product of the mill most profitable. The
Poorman company announces that mill
has been ordered for that property, but
it will not be put in place until spring
The new Hiyu mill will doubtless be in
operation next week and the Waverly
has new five-stamp mill on the way
which will replace two-stamp mill now
in use there. The latter mill, it is un-
derstood, will go to the Bluebird mine.
The mill on the Ozark is running night
and day and is reducing from IL to Is
tons of rich ore daily. The pay roll OF
the Banner, Waverly and Ozark Complain
les must be fully $3.50 per day now. with
a prospect that it will be increased soon.
it was unusually early. 1t often stays in
until tho middle of lima -