Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-02-17

The Spotted Horse and Lone Star min
oral claims situated on Red mountain at
Ymir. have been sold for $500 by 7. A.
Coutts to Hank Noll, both of Porto Rico
Siding The transfer has been recorded
in the gold commissioners office at Mel
son.
J.H. Spiking last Monday put force
of men to work on the Josie, Big Horn
and Little Giant claims in Sheridan camp,
living about mile south of Snyders camp
and near the Uncle Sam. This group Is
owned by Trail, B. c., company.
The Reindeer Gold Mining Co. of Re.
public has been working continually and
has a tunnel in seventy-flve feet, with an
annroximate distance of forty-flve feet
more TO the ledge, when the ledge will be
cut at a depth of Ninety feet.
crew of men have started to work on
the Tenasket claim, about three miles
southeast of Republic. A short tunnel
will be run to tap the lead 90 feet deep
and If the result is satisfactory deep
tunnel will be run, the site having been
selected.
The Fontenoy, in Camp Mckinney, has
been bonded to DR.. j. F. Reddy and as.
sociates for $4,000, ten per cent of which
has been paid. This claim is located l20
feet from the famous Cariboo mines and
there is S3-foot shaft on the property
there is q s3foot shaft on the property.
Among the most promising mines of the
Newport district in Idaho is the Pride
of Idaho. The owners of this property
are running a tunnel to tap the vein at a
great depth, which they expect to strike
about the first of February. They are
now in about l25 feet and sending it
through as fast as two shifts can push it.
News comes from Republic that good
ore is being encountered in the workings
on the Noble Three Republic group. This
group of claims lies Immediately in the
heart of the belt, and within 1900 feet of
the Republic mine, adjoining the Jumbo,
Anaconda, Dora and Troubadour, and
gives promise OF making good mine.
Ezra Baird and r. d. Williams returned
to Lewiston recently from Spokane. They
had been called to the mining metropolis,
saws the Florence Miner, on deals con.
nected with their Buffalo interests, and
made some transfers for large figures.
The Buffalo Development Co. has ac-
quired additional interests by its late
deals, and is displaying great energy in
developing the interests of this new ell
dorado.
Krennerite, mineral not previously
identified from this country, has been
found in the Independence mine at Grip
pie Creek. 1t occurs in brilliant crystals
of a pale yelowish bronze color, but tin
| white on cleavage faces. Eliminating the
insoluble matter, an analysis shows the
mineral to contain 1885 per cent gold,
0. 46 per cent silver, and $50 per cent
tellurium. The crystals are small and
: about as broad as long, and the prismatic
faces are striated. They have a perfect
!. basal cleavage, which is prominent fea-
e ture of the mineral. The lack of any ap-
: probable quantity of silver in the Grip
: pie Creek ores, as shown by the returns
d of the smelters is proof that much If not
t nearly all of the mineral passing as syl-
IS vanite is either krennerite or its sub-spe'
cies, calverite. Krennerite ranges from
silver-white to brass-yellow in color, and
o is SO near sylvanite in its physical prop
r critics that frequently the eye cannot dis.
D. tinguish one from the other.-George.
J. town (Colorado) Courier.
lie All the great copper mines Of the Unit
r ed States were discovered by accident
l. rather than the wit of man, says the Bos
lie ton News Bureau. The pigs uncovered
IS the Calumet & Hecla. A wandering COW
n is responsible for the Quincy. The Tam
lie arack was piece of bull luck by reason
X of the fact that it's vertical shaft struck
Il the Calumet vein in richness. just under
Is the only large worthless spot found in the
70 Calumet vein. Had the great tract o.
Is barren ground separating the Calumet
lie and the Hecla continued few hundred
d feet lower down and made barren the
/. upper acres of the incline of the Tam
IF arack property, the Tamarack might
is now be of little account instead of q
d dividend stock as above 5000 share
lie These remarks are emphasized by the
It fact that the Tamarack management
d spent some years ago two or three hun
Is dred thousand dollars to the north o.
4 Kearsarge trying to find the Kearsarg'
d vein on the Seneca and Ameek proper
1t ties to make thereof a paying copper
mine. The effort was fruitless, but 4
year ago an overblown tree showed tn,
Kearsarge vein to be just to the east o
p where it had been looked for in the north
ern properties, and the result is the Mo
70 hawk mine, which promises to be a divi