Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-11-04

Never before in the history of the Trail
,nek district have 80 many men been en-
doyed in the mines of the camn. Never
j.,iore have the mines of the camp been
hpping 80 much ore. As Il result OF
those two conditions Ros~land is enioyinv
prosperity hitherto unknown.
The War Eagle Consolidated Company
!, essentially Canadian corporation The
company is incorporated under the laws
If this province. The head office OF the
tompany is in Toronto, where the princi-
pal stockholders reside, consequently but
little is heard here of the company do
ngs, as all business, not directly tributa-
nv to the mine, is transacted there. The
mine in addition to paying all operating
experiments, adding permanent improve.
ments, additional mahchinery. etc, since
June of thi, year has been paying dyi-
bends at the rate of | cents per share
per month, or Is per cent per ann,lm ON
The capital stock.
Two hundred and fifty men are en-
be more than doubled when the new plant
is in successful operation. Two lotion
skips will be employed in the new shaft
and these skips will give the mine II hoist
ing capacity of 2ooO tons per day OF "A
hours.
The management of the mine has open
ly stated that from known ore reserves,
there is at least three wears supply of
ore in sight, without taking into account
any ore bodie, that will be opened up in
the regular development of the mine. 1t
is also stated that the company will after
the first of January increase the month
.ag dividend to $50,OO0-and may possibly
make it larger.
Adjoining the War Eagle on the east
is the Centre star mine.
The purchase of the Centre Star by the
t-ooderham- Blackstock syndicate even ut
such a fabulous price as $2,000,oo0 was \
rare stroke of business. With the Centre
Star and War Eagle this syndicate now
holds undisturbed the key to Red noun
tain.
Purchase prices of mines running up in
the millions are few and far between,
cal mining men, is an isolated case where
two millions were paid for ii property ~
fore dividend had been declared
Nevertheless the Gnoderham Black ck
syndicate paid this enormous price, and
it is confidently believed will more than
come out even" within the first tive
years after acquiring possession and the
commencement of shipments.
Strike in the Conquest.
A sensational mining strike was mad
last week in Il property owned by Spokan
men, and only A. miles from the city. Tn
miners in the Conquest broke into fou
and IL half feet of ore Of this. three fee
il profusely mineralized quartz, whicl
ASSAYS 500 per ton, and a foot and a hal
is carbonateS, speckcd with native coy
per. The carbonates have not yet bee
assayed.
The Conquest is owned by d. W. Hell
ley, Mayor f. ID. Omsted, Harry l.. Roy
ers and W. Nj. Ridpath. 1t is six mile
down the Pend d'Olielle river from New
port. The section is familiar to thot
sands of Spokane people who have go'
on the Great Northern summer eNeu
sions to Albany Falls.
"The strike was made in the upper tan
mel of the old workings" said MIR. Henle
AT point 40 feet from the mouth
the tunnel there is Il break in the form
ton. and we made an air shaft do"
through it. Fifteen feet from the botto
of the tunnel. in this air shaft, we follow
what appeared to he a Strlnger, ana II
feet in we opened up this ore BODY l
ASSAY I have just received gives; ''o'
s5l6; copper, $67 20; lead S3o4o' sll''
$685."
The Honduras MIL.
The mortar from the Golden VIM
mill. which burned two wears ago, "
taken to the Honduras mill at the ne
of Pony gulch. near Delta. Idaho Ii
week. They claim that they Will be at'
ming stamps in the new mill WITHIN
week. 1t has been years since any III
ing has been done on Pony ghi'h'
though there are some very @o'" IN
pects there. The Honduras will be
first stamp mill in there, although
Fay Tempet"n put up ana "o'N''
cannon ball mill some wears ago l.
other mills of the kind put up Ill
Occur d'Alenes, it proved lali''e'
quartz being too hard to be crushed
that method rapidly enough to MAKE
pay. The Buckeve. near Murray
has one of the cannon ball mus
when it has very rich quartz II rN
it and the cannon balls VIII CRUSH IT,
handling ordinary rock l. ""' ". W
question. The Honduras mil VIII
driven by water power,
Irrigation scheme.
1t is understood that tn" r"h''"',
been let for the building OF the NV"
irrigating canals in Yellowstone ''''
Montana by the state arid lana ,''''
sioners. which the latter have heei
work upon for the past year. l''
on the north side of the lello" 9'"''
will irrigate over 10000 acres t." .I
! and the one on the south side VIII q,