Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-08-24
NEWS OF THE MINING CAMPS
DEEPEST SHAFT IN THE WORLD.
The Calumet and HecIa Is Nearly
5000 Feet Deep--The lie ROi Mine
Sale StiII In LitiRatiOn-RichG Gold
Fields in MOntana-Drief Mining
Notes.

Notes.
The Denver Republican publishes some
very interesting details of the famous Cal
umet and Hecla mine of Michigan, which
now has the deepest mining shaft in the
world. The shaft is now 1900 feet deep
deeper than any of the deep mines on the
Comstock, Nevada, and deeper than the
deepest mines in Austria, which have been
worked for centuries. The main shaft
has six compartments, each of which is as
large as an ordinary shaft, one for the
ladderways and the sixth for the wires
and pipes, which are necessary for the
telephones, light, power, water and com
pressed air. The remarkable feature of
this great mine is that the course of the
vein is so undertaking that the engineers
can plan work ahead for thousands of feet
with absolute certainty that the actual
working will agree with the plans. As a
result the underground workings are laid
out with mathematical accuracy. The
great pumps that hoist thousands OF gal
Ions of water every hour are operated in
terchangeably by compressed air and cleo
tricity. There are 800 power drills con-
stantly in operation, each of them doing
the work of six men, operated by cont
pressed air, and these are kept at work
night and day. Every ton of ore hoisted
is automatically registered in the Office.
The lie Roi Troubles.
The British America Corporation can
not buy the majority of the stock of the
lie Roi Mining & Smelling Company.
Judge Richardson of the Spokane superior
court has signed restraining order which
prohibits the holders of the majority of
the stock from selling to the British
America Corporation, and likewise pro-
hibits the big syndicate from buying the
stock and the lie Roi company from trans
ferring it. After reviewing the testimony
and arguments presented, the court said
in preface to its order: "The court is of
the opinion and holding that under the
| laws of this state one corporation may
not acquire shares of stock or any stock
in another corporation, and further, that
under the constitution and laws of this
state the acquiring of majority Of the
shares of stock in a domestic corporation
owning realty within the state of Wash
ington by an alien corporation, such as
the British America Corporation, would
subject said domestic corporation to for
feiture of its real estate, and to forfeit
ure of its right to do business within the
state"
The case has not been tried on its mer
its and will come up in the regular order
for final settlement. The stockholders af-
fected by the injunctions were at a loss
to know last evening what step would be
next taken. The suit for damages in the
sum of S7S0,OO0 is yet to be heard, and
the case involving the appointment of the
receiver at Rossland is to come up for
hearing some time this week in Victoria.
There is prospect for much tedious litiga-
! tion.
New Gold Fields.
Reports from the Sheepeater district, in
Montana, indicate that that portion of
Park county's gold fields rivals the famed
Klondike, says the Livingston Enterprise.
While it offers none of the hardships to
the gold hunters endured by the Alaskon
argonauts, the find promises to involve a
legal contest that may temporarily at
| least interfere with the continued produc-
tion of the yellow metal from the pockets
or veins which produce almost fabulous
yields. The discovery was made some time
since by p. Dougherty, Felix Mccarthy
and N. C. Henderson, who began opera
tions and were making good wages by
employing the primitive method of taking
out the rock and treating it in a rocker
located some distance away on mount
ain stream. Later they made discovery
upon the Legal Tender at point where
the heavy rains of the past season had
caused slide from the old opening in the
mine, exposing formation much resem-
bling the formation about the park gey-
sers. This rock when handled by the
rocker process yields readily to treatment,
greater portion being dissolved by the
simple action of the water, while that
which is too hard and resists this primi-
tive treatment is thrown on a dump for
future milling process. The entire force
employed in taking out the decomposed
rock, moving it from the mine to the rock
er and washing it is not to exceed eight
men, and it is authoritatively stated that
the daily yield is from $l25 to 5000.
Canyon Creek Strike.
There was a good strike made in the
Black Bear, on Canyon creek, near Wal
lace, Idaho, few days ago. The ore is
eight feet wide and assays show it to con-
tain 65 per cent lead and 80 ounces Of sill
yer. The Black Bear was worked quite
extensively some years ago and yielded
good returns to the owners During the
financial panic it was mortgaged and has
lain idle most of the time since. There is
a concentrator on the property, and as de-
yelopment work progresses it should pay
well.
The Mountain Lion.
| The Mountain Lion ledge at Republic
has not yet been crosscut and 1t is the
wonder of mining men who visit it. The
ore in the ledge along the sides of the tun-
mel measures 40 feet. II should be remem-
bered, however, that the tunnel is cutting
the ledge at an angle of about 80 degrees,
hence the true width of the ore body is
considerably less than the figure mention
ed, but present Indications are that there
viii be no less than 40 feet of ore. 1t is
still the universal belief that the east
fEst