The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-11-26

come impossible. Over foot of snow
has fallen at the foot of Sky High.
Pumping the Comstock.
George r. Field, representing the Ris-
don Iron and Locomotive Works of san
Francisco, has contracted with the
American Tube and Iron Company of
Harrisburg, Pa, for large amount OF
special pipe to be used for the purpose of
pumping out the Comstock lode at Vir-
ginia City, New. The Comstoek lode en-
braces some 10 mines that once paid large
dividends, but which have been flooded
for years, necessitating suspension of all
operations. These mines will now be
drained to a depth of $500 feet. Pump
ing will commence January /, 1899.
The Garnet District.
There is no question but that the Garnet
mining district in Montana is destined to
sustain large and prosperous population.
From the Copper Cliff region on the west
to the Top O Deep on the east the min
eral bearing zone is fissured and scanned
with hundreds of small but exceedingly
rich veins and chutes of gold bearing ore
that can only be worked economically by
the leasing system, in which the profits
will exceed the wages of the leaser by a
small margin, and while the mining of the
larger ore deposits of the district will nee
essarily require the employment of a vast
force of miners, the bulk of labor will be
employed in extracting these small ore
bodies.
A Busy Town.
MayflOwer, Mont, is assuming the pro
portions of a busy town. The finishing
touches were last week being put on a
new schoolhouse, and there are 25 pupils
to be accommodated there. A number o
new buildings have been completed thi,
fall and there are others in prospect. TIL,
Mayflower is one of the richest district!
in the west, and its future seems to b,
sufficiently settled to warrant the perma
nent improvements that are going ON.
From Buffalo Hump.
j. R. Wolfe, who has been the residen
assayer in Florence and the Buffalo HUM
camps for some time, came out to Lewis
ton last week. He says the Hump dis
trict is destined to be the greatest quart
camp in the United States. He says ther
are millions of tons of ore in that cam
from which he has made assays, and tina
he believes the average of all the ore vii
not run under $50 per ton i'll gold.
Tunnel on Humming Bird.
The Humming Bird Mining Compan
near Burke, Idaho, let a contract in OctC
Der for 3O0-foot extension of its lowe
, tunnel. The company owns five claim
joining the Tiger and Union, and in
tunnel high up on the hill ore was founC
, They then sunk 40 feet all the way o
carbonate ore, which also carried consiC
cradle gold. The lower tunnel was star
ed this summer, commencing down at til
{ level of George gulch, and is to be pushe
until the ledge is cut.
: Gold Leaf Assessment.
{ The Gold Leaf Mining Company, opera
n ing the claim OF that name in Republi
e has made its third assessment of one mil
= or 81 per thousand shares, on the stool
+ Word from the camp is to the effect thu
l. progress is being made at a good rate
the crosscut tunnel which is being run f,
the ledge. 1t is expected that the vein wi
II ] Dt Cbb NlLllll t1AiOllCA ~ ACtt. nC SJbN
s. of the company is assessable up to 5 cen
Il per share. The company has 100000 shar
Il aside for treasury also, none of which hi
Il yet been sold.
z Four Feet of CarbOnntes.
IS A letter from one of the officers of t
y Klondike Mining Company states tn
/ there is now four feet of carbonate ore
l. the face of the tunnel. Nothing is know
lie as to the value of the ore, but one of t
ID stockholders in Wallace, Idaho, says tn
they are getting some nice specimens
"a wire silver from it. The company's pro
IS erty is near Wardner, lying on the side
o. the mountain above the Stemwinder.
W was incorporated last summer, and wo
lie commenced shortly after the articles
Id incorporation were signed. The stock
n nearly all owned in the Occur dAlen
~ most of it in Wardner.