Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-30
NEWS Of MINES and MINING
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Items From the Rich Regions OF the fa-
cific Northwest, News From All the
Principle Mining Camps-Personais-
Mining Notes.


Washington has taken long strides for
ward as mining state. With this prog
ress has come need of legislation In be-
half of the mining industry. This need
is felt in the mining camps, where present
evils due to laws which work badly are
plainly apparent.
The question of how taxes shall be
levied upon mining corporations and up
on mines is one which is attracting most
attention, and will be the subject for
some earnest pleas for relief.
The regulation of assessment work ana
the time in which it shall be done is an
other matter which mining men generally
think should be fixed so that claims will
not lie idle so long as at present. These
and other matters of less moment are top
les which are being discussed by men IN
terested in mining, and the gentlemen
who have been elected to serve in the
legislature are being interviewed by MN
! ing men, who hope that this session Will
give the necessary attention to the MIN
ing industry.
Dividend Payers.
| The LIE Roi leads the list, of course,
with $S25,0OO paid. 1t is probably true
that the Payne mine in the SLOGAN has
paid more dividends than the LIE Roi, but
it is owned by close corporation and no
statement of profits is ever given to the
public. The SLOGAN Star is credited with
the largest payments of any S,ocan prop
erty, having paid 100000 up to March,
1897, which is given as the date OF the
last. The Reco, at Sandon, is listed as
having paid 1927 500, the last payment
being 100000 in January, 1898. The
Whitewater mine is credited with pay
ments of $4,000 up to April, 1898, when
the last payment was made. The Idaho,
another SLOGAN property, mas paid 1884,
600 up to May, 1896. The Cariboo, the
mine which made several Spokane men
wealthy, is credited with $236,965. The
Last Chance and Rambler Cariboo, two
SLOGAN properties, have paid $4,000
apiece. The Hall Nine, Ltd, of Nelson,
an English corporatlo., has paid 100000.
The Republic and Deer Tran No. are
the only Washington mines on the list.
Fort Spokane Property.
News was received last week at the Of
fee of the Crystal Mining Company from
Superintendent Gray that he had six feet
of solid galena ore in the face of the drift
on the Crystal mine and that develop
ment indicates that the ore body will
widen to probably ten feet. This ore he
states is of the same quality and appear
ance as that which assayed an average of
$50 per ton upon his recent visit to this
city. This news is highly gratifying to
the stockholders in the company, as it
makes the property an immediate pro-
Queer. The Crystal is about mile from
Fort Spokane and wagon road connects
it with Davenport from which point ship,
ments will be made. AS the ore carries
valuable fluxing qualities, the company
will be at no great expense for shipping
1t is the intention of the superintendent
to begin shipping after he has demonstra
ted the length of the pay chute by drift
ing.
A Big Bond.
M. D. Griffin of Chelan, who is inter
ested with his son Frank, has bonded
their property on Okanogan river, on the
Colville reservation, consisting of three
claims, to M. L. Turner, of Seattle, repre-
senting New York capitalists, for $500,
600. If the deal goes through, it will BIT
the biggest that Okanogan county has
thus for had. The first payment, now OF
the road, is to be $5,OOO> and the pur
chasers take hold at once and push de
velopment. In six months payment O
$4,000 will be due, and the balance
$245,0OO, at the expiration of year
Scarcely any development work has beer
done yet, the purchase being made almos
entirely upon the strength of surface in
dications, which latter are most favora
BILE. 1t goes to show that the mining
world has already considerable confdenc,
in Okanogan county mineral lodges.
wyoming's Soda Lakes.
| Wyoming is thought to have NOR,
than 20 soda lakes of commercial impor
lance. These lakes are widely scattered
throughout the state and are invariabl,
found in depressions. Most of these de
pressions have no outlet; hence the opin
ion of biologists that the soda came il
with the spring water and leached out
the water evaporating, thus leaving il
some instances beds OF soda more than 81
feet in depth and hundreds of acres il
surface and dimension.
The surface of these lakes, through
the action of the sun and air, has beer
incrusted over with a powdered sods
closely resembling great patches of pur,
snow. On examining them with a picl
one might well imagine that he were on {
lake of ice upon which light snow hat
fallen, for the soda beneath is transpar
ent crystal closely resembling ice.
A Rare Mineral.
1t will be of interest to metallurgist
and biologists to know of the occurrence,
of an exceedingly rare mineral that wa
found near Florence, Ravalli county
Montana, by Percy Train recently. i
occurs in small six-sided prisms, and I'D
on analyses proved to be PARASITE, car
Donate of cerium, with a general formuls
(CaF) (CeF) Ce (CO3)3, with, in this case
a part of the cerium replaced by didy
mum and lanthanium. This is its frs
occurrence in the United States. as Il
was first discovered in the United Statel
of Colombia, and has only been founc
since in Greenland,