Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-04-14

Items Cleaned From the Late Reports
| All Districts Are Being DeveIoped-A
Prosperous Year IL Predicted-AIining
Notes and Personals.
The purchase of the Ducktown cop
per mines by syndicate. which was
reported week ago, is cosummated.
The Lewisohn brothers, copper kings
of New York, are the purchasers Of the
Pittsburg & Tennessee Copper COM
pany's plant and the plant at Duck
town. The price paid was $157 500 In
cash. Other adjoining property is also
purchased at an additional expendi-
ture of nearly 100000.
Sheridan Camp.
w. H. Giles returned to Republic
from Sheridan camp for the purpose of
obtaining supplies necessary to work
the Kittie Clyde claim in that camp.
The work that will be commenced
within a short time will consist
of a small amount of preparatory
work and then shaft will be started
and continued until the value of the
property is established beyond con-
ltroversy. The company that has as
sumed control Is a Rossland institu-
ton and is reputed to be amply backed
with cash. The Kittie Clyde Is on the
same ledge as the leila NJ and carries
silver-bearing ore of high grade. The
| ledge has been traced the entire length
of the claim, by cuts, which have ex-
posed ledge varying from four to six
feet in width. 1t is fair to presume
that 1t is about five feet on the aver
| age. The ore body Is from "a to SO
inches in width.
Gold and silver.
A table showing the average yearly
| output of gold and silver for Germany,
United States and the British colonies
and dependencies is analysed by Con-
sui Constable in a single sentence in
| which he says: THUS the United
| States and the British colonies to-
gether produce somewhat more than
| one-half of the total annual output OF
| gold, and nearly one-half the annual
| output of silver throughout the world"
A further analysis of the table indi-
Gates that the United States alone pro-
| duces about % per cent of the gold Of
the world. and over IS per cent of the
silver.
The coke production Of the southern
states In 1896 was over 10 times-the to-
tai production for the same section in
1880, while the production of the
United States in 1895 was less than
four times the output of 1880. The
southern states show a material gain
In 1896 over that of any year since
1880, having produced 3,S17,255 short
tons, or 80 per cent of the total pro-
duction Of The whole country.
Buffalo Hump Notes.
The Big Buffalo people have their
new bunk house up and it is quite an
Improvement over the flimsy tent
which has been in use hitherto.
The gallows timber is up for the
hoist on the Big Buffalo claim and the
shaft is timbered and everything
ready to begin sinking as soon as the
hoist arrives, which will be in few
days. The boiler and engine are on the
ground.
William Wylie Is working three
shifts on the Jumbo, driving in on the
lower tunnel in fine showing of ore,
which is improving as the tunnel ap-
proaches the ore chute already devel-
oped In the upper workings.
Republic.
The Golden Lilly shaft Is down 81
feet, Is feet below the foot wall of the
ledge. which dips easterly into the hill.
The south drift on the Trade Dollar
mine is forging ahead and sending out
quartz that samples from $40 to $50
per ton.
The North San Poll shaft is down SIS
feet and looking better with the addi-
tional depth.
The tunnel at the Anaconda pre-
sents change for the better, with wa
ter, quartz stringers and clay coming
in, the best indications of a close ap-
proach to the vein.
The Iron Monitor continues improv-
ing. with eight inches of ore in the
north drift at lao feet deep on the dip
of the vein.
no AIOuUhuOI NclH SJlll improves
going down. The quartz is harder and
better looking and the foot wall is
more permanent.
The North Star tunnel Is In $50 feet
and going ahead. There are small
stringers of quartz near the mouth and
one also in 25-foot shaft within few
feet of 1t.
Word has just been handed in that
1924 ore has been struck in the new
Insurgent shaft, at depth of Is feet.
The Republic mine improves almost
day by day and never looked as we'll
as it does now. A winze has been start
ed on the No. level, east of the hang.
ing wall, and will strike the pay chute
on its dip towards the No. 4. The mill
is temporarily closed, on account of
the breaking of the swinging jaw of
one of the rock crushers.
The Summit main tunnel, after cut.