The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-12
WINTER WORK IN MINES
BUSY COEUR D'ALENE CAMPS.
Bis Rush to the Pierre's Lake Dis
trict Following the Reported
Strike in the Little Gem-Ship-
ments From <asIo and Rossinnd.

The deep snow has not interfered with
the activity that prevails in all of the
Occur d'Alene camps. All of them are
now liveier than they have ever BEEN
At Mullan the Morning mill is pounding
out more concentrates than ever before
since it has been operated, and the own
ers, Larson & Greenough, are said to be
clearing up a good profit ON their ship
ments. There have been extensive inn
provements made about the mill recently
and at the mines, away up on the mount
ain back of the town. The narrow gague
road that carries down the ore to the mill
has all that it can do to keep the big plant
running, and Mullan is now one of the
busiest camps in the whole region AT the
big properties on Canyon creek every
thing is running at the top notch, and
hundreds of men are at work The Nam
moth, Standard, Frisco, Poorman and Ii
ger are all shipping all the concentrates
that their mills can produce, and there is
soon to be another mill built at Gem to
handle the Mammoth ore. The Poorman
and Tiger plant is working full blast and
the canyon is seeing better times than 1t
has for many years. At Wardner the Last
Chance and the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mines are crowding their record for pro-
duction and the town is busy place. The
rush of prospecting that was started three
years ago has continued through the past
year and there are numerous new prop
critics in the Nine Mile and Sunset dis
tricts that bid fair to rival the older prop
critics in production and richness.
Little Gem Strike.
A rich strike is reported to have been
made at the bottom of the 90-foot shaft
in the Little Gem mine, about three miles
east of Rock Cut and about one mile from
the well known Giant claim. Almost a
month ago vague report gained curren-
CIV that rich strike had been made in
the Little Gem in the Pierre Lake district
but nothing definite could be gained
Some of the samples were brought to Mar
Gus, which showed maleable free gold
and it was stated that they would assay
all the way from $4,000 to $4,000 to the
ton. These were not mere chips, but they
were chunks of rock six inches long, which
would weigh from five to ten pounds.
1t is said that the vein runs transverse
ly across the bottom of the shaft describ
ing nearly perpendicular dip, and is full
10 inches in width, with free gold sparse
ly scattered through the rock outside the
vein. This property is owned by the
Federal Mining company of Spokane, DIR
Valentine being one of the principal and
original shareholders. There is big rusf
to the Pierres lake district in conse
9uence of the new strike.
Kaslo Shipments.
The Payne mine has repaired its ma
chinery and rejoins the list of shippers
for the past week, with record of 45t
tons of ore, which brings the total ship
ments for the week over the Kaslo & Slo
can railway for water transportation from
Kaslo to 1900 tons, as follows:
Mine and Destination Tons
Payne-Everett. .... . 45
Ruth-Pueblo and Everett ....... %
itewater-Everett.. go. $50. "a
Lucky Jim-Pilot Bay .......... 8
SLOGAN Star-Pueblo .......... 6
Last Chance-Aurora .............. 8
heco-DenVer. $50. $50. ....... 4
Queen Bess-KaslO .......... ?
Rambler-Tacoma .. .. 3
Montezuma-Aurora 49,. .......... 9