Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-25

lor years, necessitating suspension of all
operations These mines will now he
GRAINED to depth of $500 feet Pump.
Tug VIII commence January |, 1899.
A Busy Town.
Maytiower, Mont, is assuming the pro
portions OF busy town. The finishing
touches were last week being put on IA
new schoolhouse, and there are % pupils
10 be accommodated there. A number of
new buildings have been completed this
lail ana there are Others in prospect. The
MaVfioWer Is one of the richest districts
IN the west, and its future seems to be
sufficiently settled to warrant the perma-
hent Improvements that are going ON.
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 fssured 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 nee
essarily require the employment of vast
force of miners, the bulk of labor will be
employed in extracting these small ore
bodies.
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
trct 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 viii
not run under $50 per ton in gold.
Gold Leaf Assessment.
The Gold Leaf Mining Company, operat
ing the claim of that name in Republic
has made its third assessment of one mill
OF 81 per thousand shares, on the stock
Word from the camp is to the effect thai
progress is being made at a good rate IL
the crosscut tunnel which is being run fo
the ledge. 1t is expected that the vein vii
be cut within another 40 feet. The stocl
of the company is assessable up to cent
per share The company has 100000 share
aside for treasury also, none of which ha
yet been sold.
Tunnel on Humming Bird.
The Humming Bird Mining Compan,
near Burke, Idaho, let contract in Octo
Der for a 300 foot extension of its lowe
tunnel The company owns five claim
joining the Tiger and Union, and in
tunnel high up on the hill ore was found
They then sunk As feet all the way o.
carbonate ore, which also carried consid
cradle gold. The lower tunnel was start
ed this summer, commencing down at tn
level of George gulch, and is to be pushe
until the ledge is cut.
Four Feet of Carbonates.
A letter from one of the officers of tn
Klondike Mining Company states tina
there is now four feet of carbonate ore i
the face of the tunnel. Nothing is know
as to the value of the ore, but one of tn
stockholders in Wallace, Idaho, says tina
they are getting some nice specimens {
wire silver from it. The company's prof.
erty is near Wardner, lying on the side
the mountain above the Stemwinder.
was incorporated last summer, and wor
commenced shortly after the articles {
incorporation were signed. The stock
nearly all owned in the Occur dAlene
most of it in Wardner.