The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-05-14
ABOUT MINES AND MINING
PROSPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT.
Funds Obtained for beginning Work
on the Golden scepter Properties
Mines In the RossIand District
Coal Mine Near Fort Steele.

that he brings with him the necessary
funds for beginning work on the Golden
Scepter properties at Quigley in Granite
county. The Golden Scepter is phe
nomenal body of low grade ore and many
thousands of dollars have been spent in
getting the property in condition to work.
The comiany failed before completing the
plant. A new company has been organ
lied and as but comparatively small
outlay is necessary to complete the work
it is anticipated that the mine will be
producing bullion at an early date. The
camp is back in the hills about 80 miles
from the main line of the Northern Pa
cifc The plant includes an electric rail
way and one of the largest and finest
mills in the state
On Lookout Mountain.
The tunnel on the Sovereign on Look
out mountain in the Rossland district
is now in about l25 feet, and a twofoot
body of ore has been opened up. The
mineral is an iron pyrites, with a little
copper, although the latter is not pres
ent in very large quantities. Assays
run from So to SIS, and Gus Peterson,
one of the owners, who was up the other
day, says that an average is close to
SO. The shaft is down about 45 feet,
and considerable quartz is being encOun-
tered, from which good values are being
obtained. There is about two and half
feet of quartz in sight at the bottom OF
the shaft, and the gangue is a diorite
80, cor,a mineral
Crows Nest Coal Mine.
At the Crows Nest coal mine near
Fort Steele there are at present Al men
employed, and number of commodious
log buildings have been erected for their
use. They are now in about 1000 feet
on the vein, and have made considerable
progress in "rooming" the coal. From 40
to 90 tons day is being taken out, and
there is already 1000 tons on the dump.
The work being carried on now, however,
is principally for development purposes,
so that when the time comes as large
a force of miners as may be necessary
may be employed to meet the demands
of the market By the time the railroad
Is finished through to Kootenay lake the
mine will be in shape easily to produce
from 200 to 300 tons per day.
smeIter ut Vancouver.
The council of the city of Vancouver.
b. c., has accepted proposition from the
Van Anda Company to erect smelter
OF 100 tons daily capacity within five
miles of the city and to pay the company
a bonus of 80 cents per ton ON the first
oil Tho paonlp will
vote on it.
The Georgia Fraction.
Victor Monnier has just completed a
lO-foot shaft ON the Georgia fraction, be-
tween the Georgia and the Evening Star,
and a good looking ledge has been dis
closed. The vein is four feet wide and
shows considerable copper, which is not
common on that side of the hill. Two
assays made in Spokane returned $3.50
and a little over $l2 respectively. Work
has been discontinued on account of the
water from the surface, which mterfered
with the sinking of the shaft. Mr.. Mon
nier expects to resume operations when
the weather will permit.
Owyhee and Boise Basin.
Warner \. Root of Denver, Colo, was
in Spokane the other day. Since leaving
Denver, Mr. Root has visited the mining
sections known as the Owyhee and Boise
Basin mining districts in Idaho, and for
the last two weeks has been in the west
eln portion of Baker county, Oregon.
in all of these districts" said he to Il
Spokesman Review reporter, Il found de-
rapidly. all OF the mines increasing in
value of ore and width of vein matter as
depth is gained. In Boise Basin, Idaho
there is greater activity in placer mining
than for many years past, because of the
advent of different organizations with an
abundance of capital to work lodges and
hydraulics Many in those districts fear
the outbreak of war will deter many cap
italists from completing sales already
agreed upon, but 50 far as | could ascer-
tain such did not appear to be the case.
Along the Snake river in eastern Ore
gon, western Idaho and un the Boise
river the placer men are not much wor-
ried about the war. as the building of Il
dozen or more of the endless chain or
ladder dredges, such as are being success
fully used on Grasshopper creek, Mon
tana, and Yuba river, California, and the
changing of eleven of the sand centrifugal
pump dredges along Midas bar on Snake
river above the mouth of the Boise, will
surely bear out the statement"
The Republic.
The usual progress has been made the
past week in the Republic mine in Stew