The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-02-26
I'LL AROUND THE GANPS'
MINES or THE NORTHWEST.
mineral clain, In tho kamIoepp Dss-
trict Afroras an Interesting study
-neyelopmens work an Park
ceunty, nEontana-A strike by
1--WE Travellers In Idaho.

County, Montana--A strike BY
Tive Travellers In Idaho.
The Erin mineml claim, situate on tbs
north side Of the iron Mask and Cope,
Queen mineral claims, about five mile.
southwest Of Kamloops, b c., and owned
BY MessFs Beattie, Buxton and Blair, and
on which development work has been go
ing ON for some months past, is said to b.
proving itself one of the best properties in
the camp. On New Years eve an immense
body of ore was struck in a crosscut made
from the shaft at depth of 40 feet. The
vein Of solid ore Is about seven feet wide
and gives an assay from $40 in gold to 80
per cent copper, as wen as q proportion Of
silver. Other assays made run in value
from $50 to $62 per ton. At Coal Hill the
Pcthook Txl2 shaft is being theoretically
sunk by : force Of six men, making an av-
erage of about one foot each day Of 10
hours. The shaft has reached a depth OF
40 feet, all in much shattered and decom-
posed rock, with the assures filed and sep
anted by thin plates Of native copper,
and, as yet, impregnated but sparsely with
rich copper glance. One corner, the south
west, is sight worth seeing, being plas-
tered with bright native metal Altogeth-
er this claim Is a most interesting study.
just how the native metal came to be de
posted in such profusion throughout this
great mass Is conundrum not vet solved.
There Is not much, ii any, doubt, that it
Is product Of alteration, and it is not
likely to prove a normal constituent OF
the dyke, even il, as seems probable, the
fissure be found to be on dyke. It an
parently comes from the teaching of the
gray ore or glance. The rock itself is
either serpentine or mixture Of that rock
with elOrite. and this alternates with a
conglomerate Of many parts. About 81 in
gold adds to the value and the plates of
native copper are gradually becoming
thicker as the work of sinking progresses.
struck IL Rich.
Michael Guertin and his son, Alcide.
who left Fort Saskatchewan in MAY last,
with man named Irish, to travel to Ida
no BY team, are said to have struck ii rich
in that state through an accidental diseov-
cry OF a rich quartz claim. The story
reads like fiction. The party was travel,
ing over high range of mountains near
Boise City. when one Of their horses be-
came exhausted and they were compelled
to camp for the night on the mountain ton
In the morning Irish wandered a little
distance from the camp and CHANGED to
pick up some fragments of peculiar look
ing rock, which he showed to his compan-
ions- They examined it, and. actuatet
principally by curiosity. took a bag and
partly filed it with the broken rocks. On
reaching Boise City they had the rock as
sayed, and the assayer pronounced it gold
quartz worth $S5 to the ton. On the news
becoming known throughout the town.
great excitement was aroused and Irish
was offered 1000 for his third share.
which he accepted and departed for Port
land The claim was duly SURVEYED and
staked and active operations will COM
menee when the snow goes. The Messrs. |
Guertin and their new partner. named |
Carson, have been offered $4,000 for the |
claim. but refused the offer.
Wen Equipped Party.
Sixty-seven men, comprising the Alas
kan klOndike Cooperative Expedition.
have arrived at Tacoma over the Northern /
Pacific The party comes mainly from
New York and Philadelphia and win leave
Tacoma for Alaska with one Of the most
complete outfits ever taken into that
country. They win carry complete com
Plement Of the most approved machin.
cry, two steam launches, a sawmin and
an assaying and refining plant. Fifty
horses have been purchased in Tacoma for
draft purposes. Three mechanical engin-
GERS, two mining engineers, one assaye.
and refincr, two chemists, two physician,
and one dentist are included in The party.
They will carry an outfit sufficient to las.
them Is months.
To Control the KIondike.
Joseph Ladue, recently from the north
I'm gold fields, says: ~The North Ameri-
an transportation and Trading Company
s the only one now buying claims in the
understand that they are
Icting as agents for the Rothschilds. l.
net MIR. Cudahy on the train from Chi
ago to San Francisco and he told me that
hey had just received 100000 in drafts
which had been given in payment of /.
ialms there. He said the company was .
citing as agent in purchasing, and learn :
hat the Rothsehilds are preparing to
pend =, 600 900 for the purchase Of mines.
{ looks little as though the great Eng
sh banking house was making stipend. i,
us efforts to control all the claims on the
1ondike'
Control the Stem wInder.
A mining man from Fairview camp. b. +
:, brings the news that Mackenzie c
lam, the well-known railroad contract /
., have recently acquired seven-eighths
Iterest in the Stemwinder mine, in that K
mp, paying for the same 100000. p
Found Another Rich Pocket, d
The Graves brothers, the Trinity conn A
:, California, miners, whose rich strike o
VerGl months ago caused rush TO that 7
Ut Of the state, have arrived in San =
nneiseo with 81 pounds of gold, valued y !
$4,000. the product of pocket recent = :,
found in lower level of the Blue jaw y
inc, the same property in which their 2
1t phenomenal find was made. o.
Spokane Men In Luek. d
A rieh strike Is reported to have been 1.
ade In the Cumberland mine on War "
gle mountain at Silver City, Idaho. The :,
inc, which is being worked by Some Z,
IN and BranscOmbe Of Spokane, has had :.
ore body running about 500 in gold =
le new strike is in the 2O0-foot level and
l2-ineh streak Of ore that carries "
200 in gold and s4OO in silver. The de- =
lopments in the mine indicate that Il "
~ be as rich as the mine which made
ar Eagle mountain famous in the early
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