The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-04-08
MINES AND MINING NEWS.
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.

Items Cleaned From the Late R0pOrts-
All Districts Are Being Developed-A
Prosperous Year IL Predicted-Mining
Notes and Personals.
The purchase of the Ducktown cop
per mines by syndicate, which was
reported a 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 came in from Sheridan
camp last evening for the purpose of
obtaining supplies necessary to work
the Kittie Clyde claim in that camp.
The work that will be commenced
within the coming week will consist
Of a small amount of preparatory
work and then a shaft will be started
and continued until the value of the
property Is established beyond con-
troversy. The company that has as
sumed control is a Rossland institu-
tion and is reputed to be amply backed
with cash. The Kittie Clyde is on the
same ledge as the Zella M. 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 it 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 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 35 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 1896 was less than
four times the output of 1880. The
southern states show 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 f1imsy tent
which has been in use hitherto.
The galIows 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 a few
days. The boiler and engine are on the
ground.
William Wylie is working three
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 Lily shaft is down 81
feet, 13 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 ou
quartz that samples from $40 to $5(
per ton.
The North San Poll shaft is down 81
feet and looking better with the addi
tional depth.
i The tunnel at the Anaconda pre-
sents change for the better, with wa
ter, quartz stringers and clay COMING
in, the best indications of close ap
proach to the vein.
The Iron Monitor continues improy
ing, with eight inches of ore In thu
north drift at 140 feet deep on the dil
of the vein.
! AO 4lOuUduOl fClA blllI lupIONC
going down. The quartz is harder an,
better looking and the foot wall Il
more permanent.
The North Star tunnel Is In 260 fee
and going ahead. There are small
stringers of quartz near the mouth an,
one also In a 25-foot shaft within a fey
feet of 1t.
Word has just been handed in tina
1924 ore has been struck in the ney
Insurgent shaft, at depth of 15 feet
The Republic mine improves almos
day by day and never looked as wei
as 1t does now. A winze has been start
ed on the No. 3 level, east Of the hang
ing wall, and will strike the pay chut
on Its dip towards the No. 4. The mil
is temporarily closed, on account o
the breaking of the swinging jaw o
one OF the rock crushers.
The Summit main tunnel after cu'
! ting into the fissure, passed 80 fee
. through conglomerate. all of which al
says. This bed has an actual width .
81 feet.
The Dora shaft is down "a feet an