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


.. A sawmill is also on the ground. but
VIII not be set up until spring.
The SLOGAN Star supplies the ore for
this entire plant, and is developed to II
depth of about 200 feet The No. 5 tun
mel win cut the vein at a depth of abou:
| 900 feet. and will be about 1000 feet long. !
| The mine is thoroughly equipped with Il
rail track and steel push cars. 1t has new
bunk and boarding houses. and employs |
| 40 men. Recent improvements have been
| made at an outlay of $25. 600. and the ship
ment of ore since January, 1896, has been
| 1900 tons,
| The officers or the company are Angus
Smith. president Byron n. White, vice
| PRESIDENT; j. Hoyt Smith. secretary and
| treasurer: Bruce White, business man
| ager,
The Noble Five Consolidated Mining
| and Milling Company is erecting Potion
| concentration which will be ready to run
| January l. 1897. 1t is situated at Cody
on the south fork of Carpenter creek. and
| also on spur of the Kaslo & SLOGAN
| railroad. The flume from Carpenter creek
is 400 feet long: penstocl< 1900 feet long,
10 inches in diameter, and has a fall of
$50 feet Ore is delivered at the mill by
| an aerlal bucket tram, directly iTom tie
mine The tram is 6loo feet long, of
| Finlayson double wire, automatic in
| operation and was made by the Colorado
| Iron Works of Denver. The towers are
| very solidly built and the whole work is
the most substantial of any similar struc-
lures on the Pacific coast, If not in the
W hole mining wcrld.
The mill is supplied with ore from the
l tAI
The output from these mines since Janu-
airy, 1896, has been 1000 tons. The mill
and mines employ usually about so men.
The mines are developed by eight levels,
1000 feet of tunnels, drifts and up-raises.
| and equipped with camps for accommo-
| dation of $50 men.
The officers of the company are: j. ID.
Porter. president; j. G. McGuigan, vice
president; S. S. Titus, treasurer; J. +.
Cutler secretary, and r. M. Sherman
| business manager.
i The sampler at Kaslo, capacity 100 tons
p | daily, has just been completed by tho
Kootenay Ore Company. and expects to
u receive the ore from the Kaslo & Slocar
railroad in bulk, determining it's value
,, and either buying at the sampler, or re
shipping it as 1t was received. or sackinl
|
The Washington concentrator is in thu
y Washington basin, and is supplied will
. water from Michigan lake by a 24O0-foo
l. 1ume. Its ore is shipped at McGuigan
siding over the Kaslo & SLOGAN railroad
II 1t is owned by Mitchell and ST. Jean, an,
o draws it's supply of ore from the Wash
ington mine. This mine, owned by tn
u Washington Mining Company. is one of
/ Nv l, on.
an old and wel-known produced of high
| grade ore. 1t has between 1900 and 160
- feet of development work, and a goo
- | wagon road to McGuigans siding 1t
~ total output has been probably $500, 900
:, | Shipments for the past year were 1i1
=. tons. The officers of the company are
!, j. l.. Montgomery, president; Il. e. JET
- ferson, vice president; ]. l.. Retallaci
> treasurer Ralph L. Clark, secretary.
- The Lucky Jim, located at Bear lax,
is equipped with a 5O-horse- power boile
= and 4-drill compressor; has shipped II
tons of ore to the SLOGAN Milling Com
i, panys concentrator. The mine employ
~, "a men, and is owned by Braden Bros
:, Mathews and others.
- The Antelope mine, located in tn
% Jackson basin, has power hoist, an
T., /
:, | by a larger hoist and stronger pump.
> The SLOGAN Boy, on Payne's mountain
=, is developed by about 1000 feet of tunn
~ and cross-cuts, 200 feet of shaft, and
~ 300 foot tunnel on another vein. 1t
- operated by a whim, and ships at M,
- Guigan's siding. The output for the yes
-, was 600 tons, and the ore runs as high &
a. 300 ounces silver and 10 per cent lead. Tt
1 g Il POL Hos
and other Spokane men 1t is now und,
lease to Gibson and Keith and employ
80 | 20 men.
-, The Monitor, located at Three Fork
has about 1900 feet of tunnel and eros
cuts, and is equipped with steel ore car
he ore houses. a 2OxS0 bunk and boardr
~ house, and employs IL men. This is Il
do only SLOGAN mine that produces any gol
he the ore-all very high grade-averagir
I'D IS per ton in gold The output of ore e
h. the year was 225 tons. The mine is owl
oh ed by George Pettys.
,ix The Ruth mine. situated at Sandon hi
in about 1000 feet of tunnel. upraises al
-, | drifts, and has been stopping out ore f
to year. 1t has a wagon road one mi
ba | long from the mine to the railroad Il
m longest developed ore chute in the cou
|
TO- house, ore house for Il sorters and er
,oa ploys GO men. Its output for 1896 was II
oh | tons. Preparations are being made
nv ship the ore in bulk to the Kootenay o
Company. at Kaslo. to be sampled Bi
~ | will be built above the track, the o
nj hauled in wagon, dumped, and then sh
an into cars. The Ruth is owned by M
~ | Vey Bros, J. II. Alexander and other
,ts The Wonderful group located at Sa
don, has $500 feet of development wor
"a and an excellent four-foot trail, per ce
H. | grade, one and one-half miles long,
he output has been 400 tons, of which
.ee tons have been shipped to sound smelte
.rv and Pueblo, Colo The ore, up to the pre-
ba ! ent time, is washed out of the surface
To- two bitches. The mine employs % ms
as The officers of the Wonderful compal
me are w. w. d Turner, president; H.
tb | Bell, secretary; J. NJ. Armstrong trea