Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-10-07

In view OF the fact that other locations
have been made recently and that hti-
CATION is in progress to establish title to
land within the city limits supposed TO
contain valuable clay, he was advised by
his attorney that a safe plan would be
to locate this land, which is why the Lin
coin is added to the list of Spokane coun-
ty mining properties.
4 Pump for Helena-Frisco.
The Helena Frisco, at Gem, Idaho, is
to have Il new pump, which Will handle |
all the water draining into the mine, !
raising it 900 feet at one lift. At pres |
ent the mine is worked through a tunnel |
at the level of the mill ore bins, which |
runs into the mountain to where it is
600 feet below the upper workings OF the
mine. There Il station was built and u
shaft sunk. 1t is now down 900 feet
! from the tunnel level, making the l 600
| foot level of the mine. A station is now
being cut at the bottom OF the shaft,
where, as soon as it is completed, the
new pump will be located. Any one but
miner or an engineer of wide experience
would stand appalled, at the eontempla-
ton of such thing as putting this piece
of machinery 1000 feet down into the
bowels of the earth and then supplying
it with power sufficient to operate it.
Even the pipe to carry the water will
have to be very heavy to stand the strain
of column of water 1000 feet high.
The Rich Ore Looks Cheap.
The reason assigned by mine owners
for not exhibiting representative lot OF
specimens of the ores of Republic camp
at the Spokane fruit fair is that the rich
est ore in the camp so closely resembles
white porphyry that it would cut sorry
figure beside the ores of other districts
which show their real value to the naked
eye. The Bryan & Sewall and Copper
Mountain are the exceptions to this rule.
The construction of a dam at the
mouth of Copper Mountain lake is nearly
, completed. This will make the lake
nearly three fourths of a mile long and
about a quarter of mile wide. There
. will now be no shortage of water TO OPP
crate the plant of the Republic Mining
company, no matter how extensive it
> may b. in future.
= Monitor to Ship -Four Cars.
:. The Monitor of Saltese, Montana, is
a preparing to ship four car loads of high
n grade ore. 1t will be necessary to pack
: it four miles on horseback, but it yields
: well in both gold and copper and will
Il pay even under such conditions. This
move will be quite an advertisement 70,
the properties in the gold-copper belt
;. south of Saltese, where there are a mum
q Der of properties which have gooc
"a showing on the surface, and where Jh,
: development work SO far as it has beer
"a done fulfills every promise made by thu
o. surface showings.
On the Quesnelle.
y The Ashcroft Mining journal state
n that hydraulic mining on the Quesnel
FLYER is proving highly successful thi
e. year. The Bleson dredge working Of
lie that stream is bringing up gravel aver
t. aging IS cents to $l.50 per cubic yard
lie 1t is expected that dredging operation
will assume large proportions On tn
tie stream next season if these favorabl
X values continue to appear.
ne Mining Briefs.
The Washington mine IN the SLOGAN
~ soon to resume operations.
IL Six inches of snow fell at the Rec
- mine in the Slocan last Thursday.
rs 1t is said that work is to be resume
ny on the Virginia Consolidated at Bake
nc City.
70, Lane c. Gam is looking over tn
Il" gold fields around Baker City, in con
le- pany with j. +. Hardee.
III The Noble Five in the SLOGAN is boil
cred seriously with foul air i'll the low,
ny tunnel.
ny One car per day is the average shil
as ment from the Idaho mine, in the 81
o, can, with 90 men employed.
ho The final payment of $4,000 has bee
made on the Pothook group of CLAIM
near Kamloops, b. c., by the Engli.
ter syndicate.
po- The Last Chance switch from the
on & s. railway in the SLOGAN has been col
ly, pleted and work on the new ore house
len well under way.
or The Sunset No. 2 at Rossland is to
'dy developed by driving the tunnel on t
BOO 35O-foot level about 800 feet to poi
to under the discovery shaft. A contra
Die has been let for the work.
The Florence Miner is stirring up t
oil business men of that camp in an endeav
ion to get them interested sufficiently
zed make good road between Florence a
not the new discoveries in the Hump.
nal town has been established at the latt
OPP place known as Rigley. This new d
'e'd trict gives great promise and as is l
lgh ually the case, the local newspaper
cas- wide awake, endeavoring to get the bu
III ness for it's merchants. The distance