Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-10-28


Myers Greek.
a. W. Barry, who owns a group of
I'VE claims, two of them joining the
wisconsin, has started crew TO work.
With shortening days Myers Creek
camp has taken on increased activity
and on all sides preparation for winter
Is being rushed. No effort has been
made to boom the camp.
The Homestake, recently purchased
by the Dittmer Brothers. is reported to
be showing phenomenally fine ore. All
work being done in that section is
yielding satisfactory results.
julius Pohle, one of the heavy own
ers in the Leadville Gold Mining Com
pany, has started work on the proper~
ties of the company, which are said to
be among the most promising in that
camp.
Bolster and Chesaw are growing
steadily and at last visitors here can
be furnished suitable sleeping accom-
modations One of the two hotel build
ings at Bolster opens tomorrow. At
Chesaw a three-story, 20-room frame
hotel is well under way and is being
pushed to completion.
South of Chesaw, on either side of
Myers Creek equally gratifying show.
ings reward work. The independent
Temple Group, Omega and other prop
critics on the east side the State of
Washington Group and many other
claims belonging to Simpson, Wood
worth, lllsley, Jackson and others on
the west side of Myers Creek now being
worked, are showing up in a way to
gladden. the hearts of their owners. A
good deal of work will be done this
winter.
British Columbia.
John Y Cole returned from a visit
to the Bunker Hill on the Pend dor
ellie river. He reports that the site for
the mill has been graded. Its ground
dimensions will be 80 by 70 feet.
News from Camp Mckinney, B. c.,
says fine strike of rich gold ore in the
lower level on the Waterloo The re-
port is that six feet of ore in the west
drift at the 80 foot level averages bet
ter than $3.50 a ton and has been do
ing so for several days. There is plen-
ty of free gold showing in it, and the
sulphurets which carried the high val
ues in the upper drift are said to be
abundant in the lower workings.
In the Orc Denero in Summit camp
the crosscut at the bottom of 200 foot
shaft is As feet long. Two recent as
says gave average values of $50 and
$47 per ton, reapoctiyely.
Harry eager, NJ. e, states that he
had a satisfactory interview with Jay
p. Graves in regard to securing a site
for his proposed smelter adjoining the
CRANKY smelter now building at Grand
Forks The smelter, he adds, is now an
assured fact. Mr. eager proposes treat
ing sulphide ores by the Loder, or Ward
system of pyritic smelling. He will
reach here in a few days with his prin-
cipal, Edward 7. Bradford, president of
the Southern Smelling Company of
Denver, Col.
w. f. Robertson, provincial mineral
ogist, made an examination of the sew
eral mining camps in the immediate
neighborhood of Columbia. He says
he found the ore bodies simply mex
haustible.
A special meeting of the directors of
the Rambler-Cariboo company will be
held at Rossland on November 2. The
purpose of this meeting is to declare a
dividend of one cent share. AS the
capital stock of the company is now
100000 shares, the declaration of this
dividend means the distribution of
$1,000.
The cleanup from the five stamp mill
on the Granite and Banner, in Camp
Mckinney, last week was a gold brick
valued at $537. The shaft is down 80
feet in solid ore.
Development on the Humming Bird,
on the North Fork of the Kettle river,
is being carried out en- an extensive
scale.
MINING NOTES.
Four thousand acres of rich placer
ground will be brought into use by the
building of the great High Line ditch
in southern Oregon, when it is COM
pleted. This ditch will be the greatest
on the coast, and the cost of it's con-