The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-03

teresting light on the distribution of
gold in the Arctic region.
1t is reliably reported that the rich
est body of ore ever discovered in the
North Star mine, at Tobacco Plains,
Mont was encountered recently in
the 200-foot level.
The steamer National City has ar
rived in San Francisco from Unga
island with a cargo of 450 tons of gold
bearing sand, consigned to the Shelby
Smelling Company. 1t is claimed the
sand is worth 500 per ton.
The production of pig iron in Bel
GUM in March was 1860 metric
tons. For the three months ending
March S1st it was 306,S50 tons, as COM
pared with 242,670 tons in 1898, show
ing an increase of ALSO tons this year.
South Dakota's, new mining law,
provides among other things that any
mine employing men upon the prop
erty must first post upon the mine
notice of any mortgage or other ex-
listing encumbrance.
Graphite is one of the forms of car
bon, the same as the diamond and char
coal. 1t is not affected by any degree
of heat, nor by acids or alkalis. This
property makes it of great practical
value, and enormous quantities are
used in the manufacture of goods for
a thousand different uses.
Two carloads of ore are in course of
shipment to the East Helena smelter
from the Gold Dust mine in the Park
district, Broadwater county, Mont.
Shipments are also being made from
the Little Annie in the same district.
1t is reported that the owners of the
Gellivara iron ore mines in Sweden
have offered to supply all the iron ore
required by the Upper Silesian pig
iron makers during the next six years
on the basis of Is marks ($3.5O per
ton f. o. b. Stettin for 60 per cent ore,
This is an advance on the price at pres
ent being paid in Germany.
The owners of a mine contracted to
sell it on time, and authorized the pur
chasers "to enter into immediate pos
session, and proceed to work and de
velop the same in such manner as may
be deemed most eXpedient and advisa
ble;" and one-fourth of the gross pro
duct of the mine was to be paid or
purchase price. 1t was held that the
owners had sufficient notice of i'm
provements to entitle those who per
formed them to a mechanics lien
One who performs labor on mining
shaft, tunnel, level, chute, upraise, OF
incline, is entitled to a mechanics lier
on the mine for such service.-Hine:
VS.. Miller (55 Pacific Reporter, 401)
Supreme Court of California.
> A patent for any land claimed anC
located for valuable deposits may b'
obtained as follows: Any person, asso
citation or corporation authorized t.
locate a claim, having so claimed ant
located a piece of land for such pur
poses, and complied with all legal re
. quirements, may file in the proper Lane
! office an application for a patent, I'm
der oath, showing such compliance, to
gether with a plat and field notes o
the claim or claims in common, mad
by or under the direction of the Unite'
States Surveyor General, showing &C
curately the boundaries of the claim o
claims, distinctly marked by monu
ments on the ground, and post cop,
of such plat, together with a notice o
. such application for a patent, in cor
- spicuous place on the land embrace
in such plat, previous to the filing o
Il the application for a patent, and fill
! an affidavit of at least TWO person
that such notice has been duly posted
and file a copy of the notice in sue
e land office, and thereupon be entitle
u to patent for the land in the name
8 following: The registrar of the Ian
Il office, upon the filing of such applies
: ton, plat, field notes, notices and aft
davits, publishes a notice that such al
plication has been made, for a perio
> of sixty days, in newspaper to be b
him designated published nearest
such claim; and he also posts such NJ
IS tice in his office for the same perioC
st The claimant at the time of filing tn
e application, or at any time thereafte
within the sixty days Of publication
st files with the registrar a certificate {
lie the United States Surveyor Gener;
thatn $500 worth of labor has been e,
II pended or improvements made on til
t. claim by himself or grantors; that tt
e. plat is correct, with such further d
se scription by such reference to natur;
objects or permanent monuments {
at will identify the claim, and furnish'
re an accurate description, to be inco
re poraed in the patent. At the expir
ton of the sixty days of publicatic
re tho claimant files his affidavit shoWir