The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-04

be IN place and the big ore house COM
pleted.
Coal mining in this state is making
rapid progress. The production of 1898
was 2,02S,000 tons, an increase of about
40 per cent over 1897. And yet the limit
has not been reached.
There is quite snow blockade report
ed along the line of the roads and trails
in the Palmer mountain country, mails
for the camp being piled up at Bridge
port and Coulee City.
The Myers creek country is rapidly
coming to the front, rich strikes are be-
ing reported from there, and mining gen.
orally is improving as the county is de-
veloped.
The Mephisto Co. reports that in min
ing an open cut on their claim on Klon-
dixie mountain, % miles northeast of Re
public, they found boulders which assay
over $4,000 in gold.
A two-inch seam of quartz has been
encountered in the Dora shaft at Repub-
lie. 1t assays $l,03763 per ton. This
shaft, it is estimated, will cut the ledge
within week.
Confirmation of the recent strike in the
drift on the 200-foot level in the Evening
Star has been received. The vein has
widened from three to six feet, and
sample taken across the face assayed $50.
Fifteen men are at work on the Lin
coin and City of Paris, in Central camp,
Boundary district. The S00-foot tunnel
is in over 900 feet, and it is expected the
ledge will be reached about the middle
of March.-Ex.
The Cleveland Mining Company, of
Springdale, Wash, is shipping supplies
and lumber daily to the Cleveland mine.
Foreman McGrath says he expects the
boiler, hoist, pump and other machinery
to arrive shortly.
The Yellow jacket properties on Mey-
ers Creek have been re-lOcaed by the
Ruth Gold Mining u Milling Company.
The new company expect to do considera-
BILE development work on the property
early in the spring.
+ Reports from the Copper Mountain
o continue to be most favorable. Work on
+ the Wine is still in progress, which has
now reached depth of eighty feet. The
= ore that is taken out is of the same grade
as for some time past.
w. J. Vaughn is just down from Bodit
camp on Toroda creek. Mr.. Vaughn
J brings quite lot of fine looking samples
= from Bodie and Trilby camps and reports
some work going on this month. Al
i, Sheridan camp the Snyder properties arr
= working two shifts.
{ The Nickel Plate has 20 feet of gooC
i copper ore running from $l8 to $40. Tit
. Columbia Kootenay has a big body o
. SIG ore and on the No. and Josie dump
- ore is rapidly accommodating for shipmen
e, this spring. These properties belong t.
: the b. A. C. and are in the Rossland camp
The Kalispell Inter-Lake hopes, and eX
~ poets, the coming spring to record tn
y opening of big quartz claim within
10 short distance of Kalispell. Some loca
'1 tions were made late in the fall that vii
~ develop into a big mine if the promise @
IL assays from the surface rock is fulflle
II by later development.
. The ore shipments from Silverton dun
u ing 1898 exceeded 900 tons, returning
y net value of $l25,OO0 to the owners
'e Judging from the amount of development
y work done and the ore blocked in tn
a. mines in the vicinity of Silverton, tn
ie Silvertonian believes $l,00O,O00 worth {
10 ore will be shipped out in 1899.
is The gold output of the Pierce City dis
III trict, in Idaho, for 1898, is estimated b
e the mining men of that district at $75
~ 600. This amount shows a decrease {
~ about $4,000 from the output of lS9'
which was fixed at about 100000. TIL
decrease is attributed to the increase
activity in the line of developing quart
propositions, which has had n tendenc
49, to detract from placer enterprises, tn
main source of the gold output.
. at can now be definitely settled thu
the much talked of consolidation of Sc
= eral Butte copper concerns has been vi
tually settled. 1t comes to us from a pr
vate source in Boston that the Rockefe
Ter interests had virtually succeeded
getting control of the Boston & MontaT
of company, also that of the Butte & Bostc
- and Montana Ore Purchasing compani
If this is true, F. Augustus Heinze wi
Il, return to Butte as general manager
- the above mentioned companies This
~ the best news that has come to Butte f
many years. In Mr.. Heinze the conso
y; dation syndicate has the very best ms
- obtainable, and all Butte rejoices in Il
49, selection. This will settle litigation tn
has hampered this camp for the past fe
- months, which alone will be worth mu'
= to us, let alone the fact that future oper