Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18
MINING NOTES.


There are more than 5000 shareholders
in the Drum Lnmmon mine, Montana.
Colorado stock brokers selling charges
on 81 stock and over are per cent; be
tween 81 and s., , per cent?
"dokimastie' test is a metallic assay
in which all the accessories are of ma
tme to justify absolute accuracy in the
result
The British American Co., owning the
lie Roi mine, Rossland, b. c., are pre-
pairing to sink a vertical shaft to cost
100000.
The gold output Of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa, district, for the year '93
was l,47S,473 ounces; for ~. 2,024,l59
ounces; %, 2,277,635; '0G, 2,2sl.S75; 81,
3,034,674; '9S, 100000.
Quicksilver's highest price in San Fran
cisco was in 1851 So per pound; low
est, 80 cents in -. Its present worth in
San Francisco is SIP per flask OF 76l
pounds.
Erwin and Drockert le.sees OF the Old
Joe mine, at Norris, Montana, have
encountered a large body of high grade
/ one i'll crosa-cutting in the lower tunnel.
\ sample across the vein in cut has an
assay value of S75 per ton.
1t is learned authoritatively. that the
/ only change to be made in the ROYALTY
clause OF the Yukon regulations will be
to raise from $500 to $4,000 the amount
Of output from each claim to be exempted
from the 10 per cent royalty
There is over 80 men in the Humy
country who are developing their OWL
properties, and all report fine showing
II reports are true, the Hump will be one
OF the best mining districts in Idaho a,
soon rs sufficient development work ha,
been done.
The Porcupine placer mining district
on the Dalton trail bids fair to becom,
one of the best known and best producing
gold camps in Alaska. No point i'll Amer
lean territory, except Forty-Mile river
below Dawson, has shown its richness
! Already there have been located some 20l
claims on the creek, and there will nm
dopbtedly be a larger rush this spring an,
summer.
The Porcupine district is we'll within
American territory, even within the ter
ritory which would remain were larry
concessions to be made to British Colum
bia by the international commission nov
at Washington.
The CmYallo Of Republic is being in
corporotod by McCm1en, McClurg & CO
The claim lies l5O feet north of Lon
Pine and Joins the Transit ON the mort
and the Nevada ON the west The stoc
. viii be handled by McCaron. McCIurc
Co. Surface ASSAYS So 81 gold to the ton
The lead runs entire length of claim.
In beSsemerizing copper MATES the los
of silver is usually very large, propol
tionatciy. and The loss Of gold compare
lively slight. The three principal los,e
in pyriti- smelters are III alags, nue due
and yolatilization.
As rule all assays, containing in thei
charge carbon, puff up because OF forma
ton Of calbonic OXIDE thus requiring tn
use Of a larger crucibIe, which in sucl
case should not be more than two third
filled with the assay sample.
Two feet and half of solid high grade
ore has been encountered in the shaft al
the Uiyu mine near Florence, Idaho. al
a depth of between seventy and eighty
feet below the first level The shaft i,
going down at the rate Of a set OF timbers
for every two shifts, and is now nearly
one hundred feet below the first level
The work OF sinking will continue to the
depth of two hundred feet below the
first level The managers are highly
pleased with the showing, as they did
not expect to have any ore in the shaft
] At the denth nttnined