The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-20

before the snow leaves the Hump, the |
lower country will be well over run |
with prospectors before the ground up |
here is exposed. At best the Hump |
will see but a few weeks without snow. |
British Columbia.
Numbers of prospectors are fitting
out at Greenwood for the west fork of
the Similkameen.
Development on the Sunset No. 2
Mining Company's properties in Ross
land is going steadily forward with
three eight-hour shifts.
A Canadian Pacific railway cut open
ed up fine quartz ledge on the Granite
claim, 20 feet wide.
News has just been received of a
good strike on Pass creek, about eleven
miles northeast of Greenwood.
One of the greatest strikes ever made
in the Boundary country has just been
made on the Golden Eagle, near Vol
canic mountain, inBrown's camp, about
IL miles from Columbia, up the north
fork of Kettle river.
The ore shipments from Rossland
camp for the week ending May 18th,
and for the year to date, show that this
was the banner week for the camp.
The shipments amounted to 4,345 tons,
while heretofore they have been below
1000 tons. The shipments were as
follows: Tons this week, lie Roi, 1881;
War Eagle, 1870; Iron Mask, 1926;
Centre Star, IS. Tons this year, lie
Roi, 27,S62; War Eagle, 12,SO7; Iron
Mask, 1885, Evening Star, &c. Deer
Park, IS; Centre Star, IS. Total tons
this week, 4,345; total tons this year,
41,127
Jay P. Graves, who is operating in
the Boundary country in behalf of a
big Montreal syndicate which is about
to erect smelter there has finally Sc
lected a site on the north bank of the
north fork of the Kettle river, one and
half miles from Grand Forks. The
smelter will have a capacity of SOC
tons a day with provisions for an in
crease to 5000 tons. A refinery may
be erected in future. Work will be be
gun within thirty days and tenders fol
million and half feet of lumber
have been asked for.
MINING NOTES.
The DeLamar mine of Nevada is 10(
miles from a railroad, but pays 80 pei
cent of the bullion tax of that state
A cyanide method is used in the 400
ton mill, and $500 ore is treated at ;
, profit.
The April cleanup at the Red Bo.
mine in Baker county, Oregon, is 1927
900. This amount was deposited b.
the mines owners, Messrs. Godfrey
Tabor, in tue vault of the First Ma
. tional bank, of Baker City. The Re,
: Boy has first-class 20-stamp mill, an
: employs so men.
The first shipment of Gebo, Montana
coal from the mine of the Clarke
> Fork Coal & Mining Company, wa
!, made recently, consisting of II cars
= aggregating 300 tons, to be shipped
!, Butte, Helena, and Big Timber. TIL
= output will be increased from day
, day, the development work being pusl
'. ed in three shifts. By July 18th a
output of 1000 tons per day will
reached.
1t is said mat American miners an
prospectors are arriving in Cuba i
e large numbers and the report come
from Santiago that some of them frol
n the western states have recently loca
# ed six gold mines in the Holguin di
trict. These mines are old India
W workings and are believed to be veT
o rich. The country is being secure
<. from one end to the other in search
h minerals. Official notice was given
the location of two copper mines in Il
lie Cobre district.
" Large deposits of carbonate of ziI
Is in Arizona, which have never bee
is touched except by mineralogists, a
le now attracting special attention al
N are being investigated by Missourial
and Pennsylvanians, says the Ell Pa
II Herald. 1t is, perhaps, not general
It. known that the zinc mines of Nilsson
lg were first brought into prominence
y the dry bone" or zinc carbonate viii,
Id was first discovered there; it is said
to have been used by farmers to MAJ
lie stone fences, being white, heavy, IL
lg treless and very ordinary looking roc
y. The leila NJ, in Sheridan Cam
a. Wash, is down 100 feet and from t
be bottom a crosscut was run 16 feet
cut the vein, which carries four feet
by ore that runs in value from 500
lie $1,225 per ION. Drifts have been RI
TX each way from the crosscut for 80 fe
lg Two shifts are employed in sinking
be WINE which has attained a deDth
vn 40 feet, showing a fine body of fiji