Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-08-31

man, has just entered into deal with
w. l.. Hoge, the Anaconda banker, to
build 80 miles of railroad from Milford,
Utah, to the state line mining districts.
The road will cost 100000 and it is
said that it win be of vast benefit to an
important mining region, particularly
the famous camps of De La Mar and
Phoebe, which will be put in closer
touch with smelters and trade centers.
The road goes to the dividing line be-
tween Nevada and Utah and Salt Lake
City people regard it as connecting link
in the railroad of the future which will
connect Los Angeles and Salt Lake by
the shortest line possible. The Oregon
Short Line is backing the new enterprise.
Preparing for q Fall Run.
J. NJ. Porter of Wallace and H. L.
Madgwick of Lewiston, officers of the
American Placer Mining Company, op-
Grating on Orc Elmo creek, in the Pierce
district, Idaho, were in Kendrick arrang-
ing to commence work on their placer
property for fall run. j. M. Porter
left for the mine for the purpose of max
ing some new surveys for pipe line
that they will put in at once, the pipe
being here ready for freighting out now.
The company has spent approximately
1000 developing its property.
Placer Discoveries.
Fall creek, which empties into the Sal
mon river near the state bridge, on the
road to Warrens, Idaho, has had its
share of excitement in the last two weeks.
Rich placer has been reported discovered
there and the creek and its tributaries
have been staked out the entire length.
One party returning from there for sup
plies claims that he got as much as IS
cents to the pan. He says it is 'shot
gold" and very pure, being worth con-
siderably more than the gold in the Ba-
sin. The Fall creek placer ground is
situated at an altitude of from 1000 to
6OO0 feet, and the claims can be worked
very late, owing to the light fall Of snow
in the early part of the winter. 1t is
best reached by wagon in three-quarters
of days drive from Florence.
Another Cariboo Dividend.
The Cariboo Mining Company, operat-
ing the Cariboo mine in Camp McKin-
ney declared its twentieth dividend last
week. The payment is the usual one of
two per cent, aggregating $4,000. This
is probably the last regular dividend that
will be paid by the old company, the
mine having passed into the hands of
British Columbia company as stated II
few days since. This brings the total
OF dividends paid by the Cariboo COM
pany up to $236,964.76.
Mining Briefs.
w. A. Stuart has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the mining exhibit at the
Spokane fruit fair. ~.
Surveying is in progress for an electric
railway from the Silver Cup mine to the
landing. ZEE ~
A corps of engineers is surveying the
line for the Canadian Pacific railway
from Arrowhead to the head of Kootenay
lake.
The Easter Sunday mine on Sulphide
mountain near Bossburg has been bonded
to Messrs. Moffat, Stripe and Patre, rep
resenting Chicago capital. Work has
commenced.
1t was learned at the Office of the Lib
erty Mining Company that it has been
decided to let contract to sink shaft
on that property in Republic camp. An
open cut encountered ledge few days
since.
Oliver Durant of the Centre Star mine
passed through Spokane on his way from
Butte to Rossland with the deeds to the
property which were executed in Butte.
The final payment on the mine will be
made forthwith.
Considerable freight is going out of
Kendrick for the Pierce district, in Ida
no, and the indications are that work
will be continued on some properties all
winter.