Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-11-25
MINES AND mining NEWS
NOTES FROM MANY CLAIMS

Strike I'm Idaho-Near1y One Hum
dred and Forty Feet of Ore I'm
Knob Hill-Odds and Ends From
Various Camps I'm Three States.
A late patent is that granted to Fl. L.
Charles, formerly of Butte, but now Of
Basin. The patent is for reverberatory
furnace which is especially adapted fol-
the sulphide copper ores of this state, as
well as for the Montana Goals, which
carry SO much ash. Mr.. Charles has been
a metallurgist and practical metallur-
gical worker for Is years. There are two
separate attachments to the furnace; one
is an air skinner, the other front bridge
and fiue. Either one can be attached to
any of the furnaces now in use without
the other. Mr.. Charles says one man can
handle four 50-ton furnaces of this type
much easier and do his work faster and
cleaner than where the furnaceman has to
stand for 20 to 80 minutes and skim from
six to eight tons of Stag every three to
four hours. On trial run in one of the
smelters in Butte, before the patent was
applied for, Mr.. Charles acted as furnace
man on day shift for 10 days, and in that
time there was not rabble used to skim u
pound of Stag. The fastest time was
eight tons of Stag blown off in six minutes
and the slowest time was eight tons of
Stag blown off in Is minutes.
Big Idaho Strike.
A great strike of high grade gold ore
has been made in the mineral belt which
lies between the now famous Buffalo
Hump and Thunder mountain, in Idaho.
The strike has been made upon the Morn
ing Star group of four claims, owned by
M. O'Brien, A. L. Harchelrode, l. N.
Smith and j. p. Heape. The four claims
the Morning Star, North Star, South
Star and Lone Star-are located end to
end along great vein which crops from
80 to 80 feet wide throughout the 5000
feet, and shows wonderful body of free
milling quartz. While there is an abund-
ance of this quartz carrying free gold in
large quantity, there is an additional large
quantity of rich sulphides and black sui
phurets sufficient to keep a score of FIVE
foot Huntington mills and Whitley cou-
centrators at work for years. A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of tons of ore
away up into the millions, while it is diff
cult to estimate the average value of the
ore, which is enormously rich as far as
opened.
The course of the ledge is northeast and
southwest. 1t lies about IL miles south of
the Buffalo Hump and % miles north
west of Thunder mountain. The vein is
contact between porphyry on the east
and granite on the west. The Salmon
river runs through the claims and the
vicinity never has much snow At pres
emit the bunchgrass is still green, afford
ing the best feed for saddle and pack ami
mails.
Huge Ledge Found.
Word reached Spokane last week from
Greenwood camp, B. c., that the cross
cut which has been running for several
months across the ledge in the Knob Hill
property has finally got into the foot wall
after running continuously through 1877
feet of solid ore. The story almost seems
too big to be true, but it is vouched for by
mining men from that camp who are famil-
lar with the monster lodges of the Bound
airy Creek country. The Knob Hill is the
oldest location in Greenwood camp, and
was staked in 1891 by Henry White.
The success of the Knob Hill and Old
Ironsides claims is due to the business
sagacity and good management OF a Spo
kane operator, Jay P. Graves, who is now
on an extended trip to eastern cities. He
obtained control of the Old Ironsides and.
Knob Hill, adjoining claims, and organ
lied two companies to operate them, fully
confident that he had properties which
would one day prove great mines.
The properties are in Greenwood camp,
six miles from Greenwood City. and
good wagon road has been built to them.
They were located under the old mineral
act and are consequently the American
size claims, l500x600 feet. Both are crown
granted.
Another Dividend.
The Republic Gold Mining Company de-
clared its third monthly dividend last
week. This makes $4,000 paid in profits
by the mine within the past 80 days. The
enlarged mill started up last week. 1t
will have a capacity of from 30 to 40 tons
of ore daily. 1t is expected that the
monthly dividends will continue at $780,
900 the rest of the year, with an extra
one on Christmas, and that, beginning
with the new year, the monthly payments
will be doubled. Mining men familiar with
the property offer to wager that it will be
paying profits of 100000 monthly before
next June. The remarkable ore body
tapped recently at depth of 400 feet is
meeting all expectations. Drifts ere be-
ing run both ways from the point of the
recent strike, and are cutting high grade
ore quite up to the average of that found
at the point of the strike.
Montana SHOWS.
For the past week it has been steadily
storming in the high mountains near
Sheridan, Mont. The result is severe
Inconvenience to the miners and leasers
who are at work in the high lands. Many
of them were figuring on getting out one
more shipment before laying in their sup
plies for the winter, and should much
more snow fall the trails would soon be-
come impossible. Over a foot of snow
has fallen at the foot of Sky High.