The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-03
NEWS OF THE MINING CAMPS
THE EXCITEMENT IN IDAHO
Buffalo Hump the Latest Attraction
Miners Rushing There-klon-
dixie Output Is SmnIi-Montana's
Coal Production-A Cariboo Div
fdend-slinfng Notes.

"Ihere is the widest time in Florence
camp, in Idaho, / ever saw in the west"
said a travelling man who came IN from
there. "The town is deserted by every
able-bodied man who can possibly leave
it. Everybody has gone to Buffalo
Hump. l was in Florence several weeks
ago, and it was quiet. Times were dull
er there than in any other Idaho town |
visited It's different now. It's
Klondike rush, and no mistake. People
are fairly running over each other in the
mad chase for piece of the rich lodges
that are being found on the Hump.
81 haven't heard a word that indicates
disappointment on the part of anyone
who has located on the big Buffalo ledge.
Every man who came back to Florence
from the new discovery while l was
there had the same good story to tell.
The ore is rich. Some of it is enormous
ly rich. They can't assay the ore in
Florence any more. All the assayers
have closed up shop and gone to the new
camp TO look for bonanzas them
selves. The ore is free mill
ing, however, and they crush
it and pan it and thus estimate the
values. l saw some fine look
ing coarse gold crushed out of some of the
rock.
Persons going should be well sup.
piled with blankets and warm clothing.
The season is short up in that country
and it will not be many days now until
the snow will be flying, and it gets very
deep in that region. 1t looks like
genuine find of an immense zone of rich
ore. / heard it freely commented upon
that the miners We're acting fairly in
the new district and that few were tax
ing more than one or two claims. The
formation is said to be quite hard, re-
quiring drills, powder and fuse as part
of the prospector's equipment"
The lie ROi Suits.
1t had been thought that since the
Turner faction in the lie Roi company
had won its injunction fight against the
Peyton faction and the British America
Corporation, the suit for damages in the
sum of $4,000 might be dropped. Such
is not the case The suit was filed in
the superior court 1t will be remem-
bered that the suit is for an alleged de-
probation of the price of the stock held
by the plaintiffs which they allege is due
to the troubles from the time the sale of
the property was first considered, up to
the time of w. a. Carlyles appointment
as receiver.
In addition to the complains an Aft
davit was filed by the plaintiffs setting
forth that the defendants have been sum-
moned to appear in Rossland Friday be-
fore the court of British Columbia in
the case involving the appointment of a
receiver for the property, and it is alleg-
ed that immediate examination of the
defendants is therefore necessary. Judge
Prather granted an order requiring the
dispositions of the defendants to be given
before J. w. Graves.
Refused Forty Thousand.
John A. Finch of Spokane offered to
bond the John Bull claim for $4,000 and
pay 3 per cent, or $4,000, down. The
offer was refused. The John Bull is
owned by w. r. Forrest, Angus Gamer
on and others and is on McRae creeb;
near Christian lake, B. c. The claim
was located about six weeks ago and nc
work has been done on it.
Beech's Victoria shows, in a shaft but
four feet deep, ore the full width of the
shaft, four and One-half feet, with an av-
erage assay of $24.60 in gold and copper
COnI of Montana.
Edward w. Parker's official report or
coal production of the United States fol
the geological survey, shows Montana
product last year was l,647,sS2 short
tons, as against 1913 ,445 in 1896, anC
1904, 1913 in 1895, a gratifying increase
The average price per ton rose from SID
in 1896 to $l.76 Montana ranks sixth
of the states in the Union in production
by machine, as AZ per cent of her pro
duct was SO secured. During 1897, 233,
men We're employed, on the average, il
Montana's coal mines, as against 1886 il
1896 and 2l4S in 1895
The NIondike Output.
f. Z. Leech, superintendent of tn
u. S. mint at San Francisco, esti
mates that the gold output of the Klon
dixie this year has been only about So,
100000 The receipts at the mint hav
amounted to Sl,750,OO0 since the frs
arrival of Yukon gold few weeks age
The receipts of the Seattle assay offic
have been about the same. The larg
, est single deposit at the mint was Sl2O
600. Mr.. Leech estimates that abou
S25O,0OO in dust and nuggets has gon
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