The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-23

Virginia's south vein, at Rossland, is |
being continued.
Above and below ground 25 men are
employed at the Rambler-Cariboo.
Eight men are working under con-
tract at the Sovereign in the SLOGAN.
Work on the Humming Bird on the
north fork of Kettle river, in the Boun-
dairy, has resumed.
The crosscut on the 327-foot level of
the Old Ironsides, in Greenwood camp, |
has encountered the ledge.
A big strike has been made on the
New York. located just east of the
Fontenoy and Waterloo, in Camp Nc
Kinney.
The strike made on the United EN-
pire, Ten-Mile creek, in the SLOGAN, last
week is a most pronounced one.
The painters are giving the ST. Eu-
gene concentration building at Moyie,
B. c., rather striking appearance.
Drifting on the 300-foot level con-
tinues in northerly and southerly di-
rection in the Deer fark at Rossland.
The ore bin for the Lake Shore mine,
near Moyie is finished, and shipments
from the mine will Immediately begin.
Development work is being carried
on extensively on the Four Hundred
and the Della, two adjoining proper
ties in Central camp.
The crosscut in the Morrison mine,
in Deadwood camp, at the depth of 22O
feet is &c feet in width and has not yet
reached the hanging wall.
j. Edwards Leckie bonded the Yam
zee Girl, the Yankee Boy and the Bell.
The properties are on Hardy mountain,
three miles from Grand Forks.
A party of c. P. r. engineers will this
week begin the preliminary survey of
spur from a point on Browns creek,
north fork of the Kettle river, to Path
finder mountain on the east side of the
river.
MINING NOTES.
A little over $4,000, 900 900 constitute
the gold money of the world.
The crosscut tunnel in the John Bull,
at Loomis, goes along steadily.
A good deal of preliminary work has
been done at the Trune, near Loomis.
At the Wehe, near Loomis, the work
of sinking the 500-foot shaft is going
we'll
On Whisky Hill, near Loomis, the
crosscut tunnel has reached nearly the
100-foot mark.
Snake river is beginning to produce
as fine a quality of granite as can be
found anywhere.
Placer claims near Delta, Idaho, are
showing up better than in 10 years, and
all miners are happy.
The sixteenth regular monthly divi-
dend of the Deer Trail No. Mining
Company has been declared
The Spokane stock exchange will
hereafter have two calls per day in.
stead of one, as formerly
On the Buckeye, at Loomis, work in
the 500-foot tunnel goes at the rate OF
about two and a half feet a day.
Mining at the present time is by fan
the most important industry in the
great territory tributary to Spokane.
AT the Gold Hill, near Loomis, Su
perintendent Chilson reports 100 feet
in tunnels and 100 feet in shafts made
the past month.
The largest output of certain metals
ever recorded in any one year in the
history of American mining, stands t
the credit of 1898.
Ore taken from the Gray Eagle, Il
miles west of Davenport, Wash, has as
sayed $104 per ton in gold, with some
silver and lead.
A fine quarry of marble has been dis
, covered near Colville, Wash The mar
J BILE is easily worked, and takes a higl
polish. The quarry will be developed
at once.
Some great reports have been re
, ceived from the Money claim in Nespe
linn district, and if the values are a.
o reported a startling strike has beer
made.
At the Palmer Mountain tunnel Al
, feet were made in 10 days in driving
the tunnel, and 20 feet in the west drift
on the big ledge, which is holding it
own with every shot.
5 One of the richest ore shoots ever un
, covered in Union county, Oregon, is sit
uated three miles south of Sparta, il
S Union county, Oregon, on the Powde
river slope and is named the Bonn.
Blue.
t Flattering reports have come dow
from the Wells-Fargo claim nea
S Springdale. A vein three feet in width
S carrying galena, with ledge matter 70
+ nearly % feet to a depth of 65 feet, ha
been fully opened.