The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-02-11

The Spotted Horse and Lone Star min
eral claims situated ON Red mountain at
Ymir, have been sold for $500 by T. A.
Coutts to Hank Noll, both Of Porto Rico
Siding. The transfer has been recorded
in the gold commissioners Office at Mel
son.
]. H. spiking last Monday put force
Of men to work on the Josie, Big Horn
and Little Giant claims in Sheridan camp,
lying about mile south Of Snyder's camp
and near the Uncle Sam. This group is
owned by Trail, B. G., company.
The Reindeer Gold Mining Co. of Re-
public has been working continually and
has tunnel in seventy-five feet, with an
approximate distance Of forty-five feet
more to the ledge, when the ledge will be
cut at depth Of Ninety feet.
A crew of men have started to work on
the Tenasket claim, about three miles
southeast Of Republic. A short tunnel
will be run to tap the lead so feet deep
and if the result is satisfactory deep
tunnel will be run, the site having been
selected.
The Fontenoy, in Camp Mckinney, has
been bonded to DR.. J. F. Reddy and as
sociates for $4,000, ten per cent of which
has been paid. This claim is located l2O
feet from the famous Cariboo mines and
there is a S3-foot shaft on the property
there is a 83-foot shaft on the property.
Among the most promising mines Of the
Newport district in Idaho is the Pride
of Idaho. The owners of this property
are running tunnel to tap the vein at a
great depth, which they expect to strike
about the first of February. They are
now in about 1875 feet and sending 1t
through as fast as two shifts can push it.
News comes from Republic that good
ore is being encountered in the workings
ON the Noble Three Republic group. This
group of claims lies Immediately in the
heart of the belt, and within 1900 feet OF
the Republic mine, adjoining the Jumbo.
Anaconda, Dora and Troubadour, and
gives promise of making a good mine.
Ezra Baird and r. D. Williams returned
to Lewiston recently from Spokane. They
had been called to the mining metropolis
says the Florence Miner, on deals con.
nected with their Buffalo interests, and
made some transfers for large figures
The Buffalo Development Go. has &c.
quired additional interests by its late
deals, and is displaying great energy in
developing the interests Of this new Ell.
dorado.
Krennerite, a mineral not previously
identified from this country, has been
found in the Independence mine at Grip
pie Creek. 1t occurs in brilliant crystals
of pale yelowish bronze color, but tin
white on cleavage faces. Eliminating the
insoluble matter, an analysis shows the
mineral to contain 43.S6 per cent gold
0 .46 per cent silver, and 55 SO per cent
tellurium. The crystals are small and
about as broad as long, and the prismatie
faces are striated. They have a perfect
basal cleavage, which is a prominent fea
ture of the mineral. The lack of any ap.
preciable quantity of silver in the Grip.
pie Creek ores, as shown by the returns
of the smelters( is proof that much if not
nearly all of the mineral passing as syl.
vanite is either krennerite or it's subspe-
des, calverite. krennerite ranges from
silver-white to brass-yellow in color, and
is so near sylvanite in its physical prop
critics that frequently the eye cannot dis.
tinguish one from the other.-George-
town (Colorado) Courier.
All the great copper mines Of the Unit.
ed States were discovered by accident
rather than the wit of man, says the Bos.
ton News Bureau. The pigs uncovered
the Calumet & Hecla. A wandering COW
is responsible for the Quincy. The Tam.
arack was a piece of bull luck by reason
Of the fact that its vertical shaft struck
the Calumet vein in richness. just under
the only large worthless spot found in the
Calumet vein. Had the great tract Of
barren ground separating the Calumet
and the Hecla continued few hundred
feet lower down and made barren the
upper acres Of the incline of the Tam.
arack property, the Tamarack might
now be of little account instead of a
dividend stock as above 5000 a share
These remarks are emphasized by the
fact that the Tamarack management
spent some years ago two or three hun.
dred thousand dollars to the north Of
kearsarge trying to find the Kearsarge
vein on the Seneca and Ameek proper.
ties to make thereof paying copper
mine. The effort was fruitless, but a
year ago an overblown tree showed the
Kearsarge vein to be just to the east OF
where it had been looked for in the north
ern properties, and the result is the Mo.
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