Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-11-25

for years, necessitating suspension of all
operations. These mines will now be
drained to a depth of $500 feet. Pump
ing will commence January l, 1899.
The Garnet District.
There is no question but that the Garnet
mining district in Montana is destined to
sustain large and prosperous population.
From the Copper Cliff region on the west
to the Top o. Deep on the east the min
eral bearing zone is fissured and scanned
with hundreds of small but exceedingly
rich veins and chutes of gold bearing ore
that can only be worked economically by
the leasing system, in which the profits
will exceed the wages of the leaser by a
small margin, and while the mining of the
larger ore deposits of the district will nec-
essarily require the employment of vast
force of miners, the bulk of labor will be
employed in extracting these small ore
bodies
A Busy Town.
Mayfower, Mont, is assuming the pro-
portions of a busy town. The finishing
touches were last week being put on a
new schoolhouse, and there are % pupils
to be accommodated there. A number OF
new buildings have been completed this
fall and there are others in prospect. The
Mayflower is one of the richest districts
in the west, and its future seems to- be
sufficiently settled to warrant the perma-
nent Improvements that are going on.
From Buffalo Hump.
j. r. Wolfe, who has been the resident
assayer in Florence and the Buffalo Hump
camps for some time, came out to Lewis
ton last week. He says the Hump dis
trict is destined to be the greatest quartz
camp in the United States. He says there
are millions of tons of ore in that camp
from which he has made assays, and that
he believes the average of all the ore will
not run under $50 per ton in gold.
Tunnel on Humming Bird.
The Humming Bird Mining Company
near Burke, Idaho, let contract in Octo-
Der for a 300-foot extension of its lower
tunnel. The company owns five claims
joining the Tiger and Union, and in
tunnel high up on the hill ore was found
They then sunk 45 feet all the way on
carbonate ore, which also carried consid-
cradle gold. The lower tunnel was start
ed this summer, commencing down at the
level of George gulch, and is to be pushed
until the ledge is cut.
Gold Leaf Assessment.
The Gold Leaf Mining Company, operat-
ing the claim of that name in Republic,
has made it's third assessment of one mill,
or 81 per thousand shares, on the stock
Word from the camp is to the effect that
progress is being made at good rate in
the crosscut tunnel which is being run for
the ledge. 1t is expected that the vein will
be cut within another 40 feet. The stock
of the company is assessable up to cents
per share. The company has 100000 shares
aside for treasury also, none of which has
yet been sold. /
Four rect of CarbOnates.
A letter from one of the officers of the
Klondike Mining Company states that
there is now four feet of carbonate ore in
the face of the tunnel. Nothing is known
as to the value of the ore, but one of the
stockholders in Wallace, Idaho, says that
they are getting some nice specimens of
wire silver from it. The company's prop
erty is near Wardner, lying on the side of
the mountain above the Stemwinder. 1t
was incorporated last summer, and work
commenced shortly after the articles of
were signed. The stock is
nearly all owned in the Occur d'Alenes,
most of it in Wardner.