The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-21
A|NES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES
Items Cleaned From tho Late Reports
All Districts Arc Being Developod-A
Prosperous Year IL Predict sd-Mining
Notes and Personals.

nO utCPtSb hluAllS III OlO6On 10 hOn
in progress at the North Pole mine,
seven miles from Sumpter owned by |
Alexander Barring of London. The man
.ager, Emil Melzer, who is also chem
ist, recently observed that the percent |
age saved by the syanide process had
slightly decreased, and he found, on
careful examination of the ore taken
from the drift at the 1000-foot level,
that there was small quantity of free
gold, so plates were put in and the free
gold saved on them well justifles the
expense incurred.
Republic Camp.
1t Is reported that the south drift of
the San Poll mine has opened up eight
feet of S100-ore.
1t is popularity of Republic camp
that free gold is found as depth is at
tanned.
The contractors of the Mountain
Lion upraise are rising toward the
shaft at the rate of five feet per day.
They are up 40 feet and expect to
hole through to the shaft by the Goth
inst. The winze is down about 80 feet,
and at 100 feet below the tunnel level.
$50 feet below the surface, drifts will
be started along on the vein. BY the
15th inst. 1t is expected the mill build
ing will be covered and in shape to re-
,ceive the machinery, which is arriving
s.. at Grand Forks and will soon be- de
.ivered on the ground
The increasing of the working capac-
ity of the Republic mill at an early
date Is confidently assured. and the re-
,duction Of the cost of treatment of
the ore is now regarded as an absolute
certainty.
The crosscut from the bottom of the
Golden Lily shaft ran 38 feet, with the
last four feet in quartz, and is said by
Superintendent Coy to be far from
through the ledge" He says that he
got sample from the quartz which as
sayed $36 in gold and II ounces silver
per ton. but water had burst into the
workings in such volume as to 4defy
further prosecuting until j steam boil
er and pump can be set up and the
tcrosscut drained. l am informed thai
a pumping plant has been ordered fol
the Golden Lily TO cost $1,000.
The San Poll mine is again to thu
front. making her promise good, ant
has run into a full face of ore in thu
south drift which corresponds will
the showing at the surface. Superin
stendent drummer being absent, no as
say, if any have been had, have beer
given out for publication.
Samples of seven feet of ore in tn
.stcpe of the Mountain Lion have beef
-assayed. This was the full width o
the stope. The assay showed $50. 4C
Picked samples could have been takel
from the stope which would hay
shown at least $500 per ton.
The Princess Maud Wine shows fire
gold abundantly. A foot of the or
,sparkles with the yellow metal. and
amazingly rich This is the most in
portant development of all the surprii
ing ones that have followed each othe
in rapid succession since the winz
started.
The Republic Wine is keeping up il
record for production of bonanza or
1t is maintaining the same characte
of ore, showing free gold and the pec'
liar form of telluride called by som
petite, which was never encountere
in the mine until opened in this VIM
There is no diminution in the value
in the Surprise drift. 1t is evident ths
the drift is in the same rich chut
which was opened by the shaft.
-sIqmnfoO usoIIH
Although the ore of the Stemwinde
mine at Fairview averages only IS
ton, so much of 1t has been blocked OF
at small comparative outlay that tn
property will soon yield dividends. -,
is found that with 60 stamps the OF
can be milled at 50 per ton.
After years of promise and waitin
the Josie mine at Rossland Is about {
become profitable shipper, beginnir
with 50-ton daily consignment to u
Northport smelter. 1t will require
1904-foot tram to carry the ore fro
the mine to the railway.
James Mills and Charles Cocine, ~
miners, were killed in tunnel of Il
Lake Shore mine, near Nelson, 3.
by the premature discharge of bias
ing shot.
1t is estimated that there are 800,
tons of ore on the dumps of the o
Ironsides and Knob Hill mines,
Greenwood camp, which was taken o
N development.
A strike is reported on the Monar,
in Phoenix camp. The strike consis
of ledge from 800 TO 400 feet wild
and assays from $40 to $50 to TIE Il