The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-11

The line is about two miles long 1t
runs from Frank Brown & Co.'s store, !
on the Cameron & Norman TOWNSHIP to /
the Buffalo Hump Development Com |
pany's office, on the Fortune, and from
there to the Boston & Bun alo-Idaho
Company's Office. on the Concord town
site. The three companies own the
line.
The wagon road is completed to with
in eight miles of camp and although
there is about three feet of snow here
the trails are fairly good, as there is
enough travel to keep them we'll beaten
down.
There is much building going on and
the little sawmill here has more orders
than it can fill, although the cheapest
kind of rough lumber costs $50 per
thousand.
British Columbia.
The Ymir mine, B. c., has succeeded
In securing twenty-five men from the
outside. The management claim they
have fifty-seven men now at work in
the mine. and producing sufficient ore
to keep the forty-stamp mill running
continuously. AS the mill treats in the
neighborhood of 100 tons day. the
Ymir should ship $4,000 in bullion,
Gre and concentrates this month
Some heavy development is planned
for the Columbia-Kootenay 1t centers
around a new three-compartment shaft
to be sunk from the No. level, and it
will be carried down indefinitely.
Three cars of dynamite recently ex-
ploded in the old Ironsides mine at
Phoenix, B. G. The dynamite was being
thawed for use in the mine. Fortunate
ly no one was about at the time. and
consequently no one was hurt, but the
damage in the way of broken glass in
the town was very great. The men
were just about going for the dynamite
to take it down in the mine when the
explosion occurred.
The deepest placer shaft in British
Columbia is on the Miocene ground,
Horsefiy river. 1t sinks through 432
feet of gravel and has not reached bed
rock.
The new 60-horse power motor will
be ready in about Is days.
| ut nOIIlSOu ullut III luc DOuuudl y
Creek district of British Columbia will
soon become one of the leading ship
pers of that great district
Superintendent Fox of the Golden
Eagle, north fork of the Kettle river
reports that another rich ore chute has
been encountered in the shaft at g
depth of 120 feet. The values in gold
and copper average $50 per ton. The
bottom of the shaft is in ore. 1t IL
proposed to run another drift after
sinking a few feet further.
The ledge en- the Iron Mask has beer
cut at depth of 400 feet, and at tina
4 point it shows values fully equal t.
e those met in the upper workings. 1t i
Is feet wide, and of that about five fee
4 is first grade, worth about $33. TIL
l rest will go in the second class, and al
average will be in the neighborhood o
$12.
MINING NOTES.
$ The Iconoclast, near Keller, Wash, /
e looking fine. The miners are running
L waukee Mining Company and the Blac
L through a nice looking quartz heavil
mineralized, and have cut through
e some nice stringers of copper ore.
e Two mines in the immediate vicinit
of Meyers Falls, Wash, will begin tn
Il steady shipment of ore within the mex
: thirty days, end the indications ar
9 that if the shipments are once starte
II they will continue throughout the ell
y tire winter season.
II The gold output of Cripple Creek di:
, trict in October was $4,000, 500. Thi
is the first months production that ha
e exceeded 100000. 1t is estimate
s that the total for the year will not ia
e short of $18,000,000.
The Helena-Frisco Company, opera
IS ing the we'll known mine on Canyo
e creek, in the Occur d'Alene distric
l. has enlarged it's borders and has take
u in the property of the Galena Mimi
G Company, the group owned by the Mi
p Bear claim.
The directors of the Bonanza Mimi
Company, whose mine is near Bos
IS burg, Wash, declared monthly dividen
le No. A, of a quarter cent per share,
i, be paid November 20 to stockholders {
a record November Is.
n The work of overhauling the Tige
IL mill at Burke, Idaho, continues. 1t
+ not expected that it will be ready to ru
u before December 1.
D. In the drift at the tenth level frol
10 the Lee shaft of the Isabella compan
at Cripple Greek, Col, miners are wor
&c ing behind bulkhead in six inches
ID ore literally covered with free gol