The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-01-28
MINES AND MINING CAMPS
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Items From the Rich Regions OF the Pa
cifio Northwest, News From All the
Principle Mining Camps-Personals-
Mining Notes.


Tacoma has sold the Eagle mine and a
number of other claims in the Swauk dis
trict, Kittitas county, to a New York
syndicate for $4,000. The claims are sit
uated on Cougar creek, branch of Will
liams creek, about three miles north of
Liberty postoffce. A ten-stamp mill,
with a daily capacity of fifty tons, is in
cluded in the sale. The ore is free mill
ing, running from $l5 to $35 per ton.
Peter Sandberg and Prof Olaf Bull are
among the stockholders of the selling
company.
British CoIumbia's Exclusion statute.
The following is the full text of the
anti-alien law:
l. That every person viii is not less
than eighteen years of age and is Brit
ish subject shall be entitled to all the
rights and privileges of free miner UNI
der this act, upon taking out a free
miners certificate, so long as such GER
tifcate remains in force.
2. No Joint stock company or cor
poration shall be entitled to take out
free miners certificate unless the same
has been incorporated and not simply
licensed or registered under the laws of
the province, and unless such company or
corporation is authorized to take out
miners license by the lieutenant gov
ernor, in council, the word ''person" in
this section shall include only such com
panies or corporations as aforesaid.
3. A miners license taken out by any
person not authorized so to do by this
section shall be null and void.
A. This section shall not affect free
miners certificates issued before the com
ing into force of this section, and in case
any person or corporation not allowed
under this section to take out a free
miners license has prior to the coming
into force of this section acquired any
interest OF any claim under the provi
sions of the placer mining act, such Ii
cense may be renewed from time to time,
but such renewed license shall not entitle
the holder thereof to hold or acquire any
interest in any claim under said placer
mining act, except such interest so ac-
quired prior to the coming into force of
this section.
8. No free miner after the coming in
to force of this section shall hold any
claim under said placer mining act, or
any interest therein as trustee or other
wise for any person who is not a British
subject or for any corporation not au-
thorized to take out free miners Ger
tifcate as above provided.
The attorney general, when the order
for the adoption of the report of this bill
came up, suggested that the order be dis
charged and the bill recommitted for the
purpose of the introduction of the follow
ing amendments, which were adopted:
THAT the order for the consideration
of bill No. q be discharged, and the bill
referred back to the committee of the
whole house with instructions to strike
ioutsub-section of section ,, of said bill
and substitute therefor the following:
"a. a free miners certificate. issued
before the coming into force of this sec
ton, the holder of which is not Brit
ish subject, shall not entitle the person
holding the same to take up, record OF
acquire any interest in any claim under
the placer mining act, but such certifi-
cate shall be valid only with regard to
claims recorded under the placer mining
act prior to the coming into force of this
section, and as to which the holder OF
such certificate was, prior to the coming
into force of this section, the owner either
wholly or in part. Any such certificate
may be renewed, but such renewed Ger.
tiicate shall only be valid with regard
to claims recorded under the placer min
ing act under the circumstances in said
subsection stated
"And also to add to said section >. the
following subsection:
"'6. This section shall not apply tc
persons to whom the lieutenant governor
IN council, may, under the provisions OF
the placer mining act, grant lease fol
dredging, or for what is known as ny
draulic mining, as distinguished from or
binary placer sluicing.'
This act was signed by Lieutenant
Governor McGinnis ON Jan. Is, and j.
now in effect, becoming operative as soor
as signed.
British Columbia Minerals.
A table of the yearly output of all
mines for 1890 1897, inclusive, shows that
the minerals produced in 1897 were $40,
455,26s in value, as against 81 ,5O7 1856 il
1896, or an increase of 40 per cent. II
1890 the output of all the mines was only
$2,60S,s03.
The total production of 1898 will muci
exceed that of 1897. The district o.
West Kootenai contributed over 90 pei