Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-06-08

Of this amount there was consigned to
the Everett smelter 1872 tons, Pueblo
smelter $40 tons, and Kootenay Ore Com
pany 81 tons.
Not ton was sent out during the
month from the Payne mine, the largest
shipper in the Slocan, owing to the de-
struction of the tramway by fire, but this
is now rebuilt and regular shipments have
been resumed. A new ore crusher is also
being installed at the Payne, this time at
the foot of the tramway, instead OF at the
top, as heretofore.
Both the Whitewater and SLOGAN Star,
heavy shippers, sent out no ore during
May till last week, owing to deep snow
and lack of water. Many others were
troubled in the same way, but are now
preparing to begin a steady and increas-
ingly large output from now on through
the season. Bad roads and trails also pre-
vented many tons from being sent out
this last month. The prospects, however,
are that the month of June will show an
immense increase in the amount of ore
sent out.
During May there was cleared through
the Kaslo custom house $50 tons of ore,
valued at $67,735, containing 696,OS6
pounds of lead and "a 052 ounces of silver
OF this amount the output of Nakusp,
which now reports through Kaslo, is cred
tied with 270 tons of ore gross, valued at
$l5,49S, which contained $4,000 pounds of
lead and 81 300 ounces of silver.
Florence Camp.
On all sides can be heard the sound of
the hammer and saw, indicating the activ-
ity and hustle of busy Florence. New
business houses are being erected. Good
dwellings are going up, leading one to be-
leve that we have passed through the
prospective age and are now fairly on the
road to prosperity as a mining camp of no
small magnitude. The latest and most
welcome news to many is the contem-
plated starting of the old Waverly, a
property which has been poorly managed
in the past, thereby getting into bad re-
pute. In an interview had by the Spokes-
man review representative with Manager
Matkin, late arrival from Dayton,
Wash, twas learned that at recent
meeting of the directors sufficient money
was raised to place the mine on paying
basis, and to add more boiler power to the
hoist and few more stamps to the mill.
1t is rumored that the Double Standard,
one of the claims of the Red Bird com
pany, is now looking remarkably well
with three-foot vein of milling ore r.
NJ. Sherman has bond on the controlling
interest of the Red Bird properties.
boundary Greek.
Not all the mines that will be operated
under the direction of the British America
Corporation will be owned or controlled
directly by that big syndicate. For bus
mess reasons it is sometimes better to op-
crate properties through auxiliary COM
panies. Under this system the CORPORA
ton has acquired the controlling interest
in the properties of the Boundary Creek
Mining and Milling Company. The aux
iliary organization, which is nominally in
control, is the London and Canada Syndi-
;ate, of which Hector McRae is the lead
ing spirit. The syndicate will control
100000 shares of the company's stock,
which is 10000 more than half. Under
he terms of the deal the syndicate is to
lame the managing director and the ma
ority of the directors of the Boundary
reek Mining and Milling Company.
The terms of the sale, or option, as it
night more properly be called, will place
Ultimately in the treasury of the com