Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-07-09

III looks as unOupn the WOflu needed cop
per more than gold 1t is predicted that
copper will sell for Is cents before Janu-
airy |, 1899. 1t is being produced at a
total cost of less than one-half that figure.
In the Occur d'AIene Mines.
The Atlantic Mining Company of Wal
lace has let a contract to run it's tunnel
$50 feet farther in, the work to be COM
pleted in 100 days. There is considerable
ore in the face, and it is expected that
by the time the new contract is finished
the ore chute will be fairly opened up.
Peter Albinola, president of the Lom-
hardy Mining Company, reports that ore
has been found in their crosscut tunnel.
The lead was cut some time ago and they
have been running for the hanging wall.
T. H. McGraw, agent of the Wallace
| Mining Company, the owners of the Black
Cloud, says the new concentration will be
ready to run about the 10th inst. As soon
as everything is running smoothly this
mill should increase the output of the
Occur d'Alenes by from one to two car
loads of concentrates per day. 1t will be
the first regular shipments to come down
Nine Mile for six years.
The trail from Wallace to Stevens peak
is now completed, and a number of par
ties owning claims in that vicinity will
utilize it for taking in supplies while they
do development work.
John Thiard has located the Lion lode
claim near the head of Trail gulch, near
Delta, and thinks in it he has one of the
main sources of the gold with which the
gravel of that gulch was filled. The ledge
where discovered is but half an inch thick
but is full of gold. He will develop the
property as fast as possible and learn just
what it is Some of the small veins of
the gold belt have been very rich, but it
is believed to be the smallest one on which
location has ever been made in the
camp, and Mr.. Thiard believes it is the
richest. 1t is located up about the head
of the creek which runs down the gulch.
Another CnriboO Dividend.
The Cariboo, Mining Milling & Smelt-
ing Company, operating claims in Camp
Mckinley, b. c., paid its 10Th dividend
last week The payment was the usual
amount, 2 cents per share, or a total of
$4,000. A dividend for a similar amount
was paid early in May. This payment
swells the total dividends paid by the
company close to the quarter million
mark, the exact figure being $220,965.
Lake CheIun Mines.
"There is considerable mining activity
around Lake Chelan. \ great deal of work
is in progress on Railroad creek, which
is called the new Klondike, and which
is producing much high grade free gold
ore. Two outfits have recently gone into
the Bridge Creek district, one from Walla
Walla and the other backed by Connec-
ticut capital
There are busy times at Lakeside.
Where one steamer year ago ran on the
lake when it found business enough to
warrant trip, two steamers now ply
regularly. with plenty of business. Judge
|. A. Navarro of Lakeside has just UNI
covered a vein of free milling ore near
that place that is said to assay $5l per
ton. The fruit crop around the lake is
simply immense. Orchards and mines
make Lakeside a prosperous town.
On the Methow great deal of assess
ment work is in progress, but little de-
velopment work is going on aside from
that. That section, like all the rest,
awaits capital to make it profitable. The
district just now suffers on account of the
Republic boom, which occupies the public
mind to the exclusion of all other mining
camps in this part of the state, and which
owes its prominence largely to the fact
that it is cheaper to develop than is the
Okanogan country. With as much atten-
ton given to Okanogan mines that part
of the state would doubtless become as
famous as the Colville reservation.
KoOtenai Business Growing.
As an evidence of the growth of the
business of the Kootenay country in the
past few years, the figures showing the
increase of the government revenue from
the New Denver, B. c., district since 1887,
might be of interest, taken from a gov
eminent document: lSS78S, $26,425;
lS9S-S9, $22,905 l8S99O, $4S,939; 1890
81, $43,986 1912, $67 ,465; 1928,
$9l $50; l893-94, $67 1923; l994-95, $780,
l06; 1886, $l40,S42; lS96-97, $384,S4.
Divided the Minnie Claim.
DIR. G. w. Averill, of Grand Forks, B.
c., and Isaac Evans, who have both
claimed the well-known Minnie claim,
few days ago settled the matter out of
court by each taking half of the property.
The Minnie has over $1,000 worth of
development work done on it, and has
paystreak that assays $50 in all values.
1t is situated in Browns camp, about II
miles from Grand Forks.
Notes of Mines.
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