The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-01-07
buffalo Hump Trail.

Buffalo Hump Trail.
move was inaugurated in Grangeville
on Christmas day TO open a raw hide
trail to Buffalo Hump. A subscription of
$500 cash was quickly raised and Sam l.
Silverman, who represents large Spokane
mining interests, will duplicate the sum.
1t has been decided to keep the road open
all winter to the Buffalo Hump camp.
Great Northern Mine.
The Great Northern mine on Douglas
mountain, about six miles north of this
city, has six feet of ore in the face of the
main tunnel that will assay across the
face $45 in gold and copper. The width
of the vein is not known, but the own
ers estimate, based on the surface show
ing, that it is no less than 30 feet.
Mining Notes.
The Ruth, in SLOGAN, has been shipping
steadily all summer and fall.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
Company declared a dividend of $2l 900
A number of Murray miners got em-
ployment at the Burton during last week.
The mining industry in the Newport
district, Idaho, is advancing in impor-
lance.
The Transvaal, South Africa, yielded
$57 ,5SS,6l0 in gold for the first nine
months of this year.
The dredge that has been in operation
near Warm Springs, Idaho, yielded $24O
day above expenses.
William Dashley has bonded the Tiger
lode in the Garnet district for $4,000 and
is sinking on the ledge.
The first cleanup of the Athabasca mill
produced a gold brick valued at nearly
$4,000 in a 2S-day run.
Michigans great copper producer, the
Calumet Hecla, has paid to date total
of 55,S5O,OOO in dividends.
Crows Nest Coal shares advanced SO
to $40 during last month. None, however
are being offered at that figure.
Three tons of ore from the Pathfinder,
in the Boundary district, were taken to
Trail last week for smelter test.
The first gold quartz mine operated in
California with machinery is claimed for
Col. Chiffon, near Placerville, in lS49.
The HOmestake in the Black Hills, S.
Dakota, has paid total in dividends of
S7lls,75O and the Highland $3,764,7lS.
Two strong companies are said to be
negotiating for the Enterprise mine near
Silverton. The owners value it at $780,
O0O
The Roszana Mining Company has let
a contract for $1,000 worth of work on
the property of the company in Republic
camp.
The TigerPoorman Mining Company
of Burke has declared its December divi-
dend of two cents a share, amounting to
$4,000.
The Payne of the SLOGAN, has shipped
about $4,000 tons of high grade ore the
past year, which it is claimed will net the
owners 800 per ton.
Messrs. Ross and Fox have purchased
the Williams and Bell stage system, which
has been running between Grand Forks
and Marcus and Bossburg, Wash.
The wages paid by the lie Roi mine last
month was $27 900, and other expenses of
running amounted to 81 900 more. The
number of men then employed was 300.
The director of the U. S. mint estimates
that the increase this year in the gold
production of the United States, South
Africa and Australia will be $45, 100000
over that of 1897.
Republic camp is becoming popular in
Toronto. The daily papers of that city
TEEN with advertisements of brokers and
operators who have stocks and mining
interests in the camp for sale.
The Last Chance, Frisco, Standard, You
Like, Morning, Black Bear and Mammoth
no doubt also pay dividends this month,
but they are not made public in most in
stances until the close of the year.
1t is reported that a 9-foot ledge was
struck in the Little Spokane tunnel, Troy,
Montana, district, of which feet is ship
ping ore. Should the report be verified,
it will greatly stimulate mining in that
locality.
1t is reported that a rich strike was
made in the 600-foot level of the Lucky
Boy mine at Custer, Idaho, last week.
The ore body is said to be nearly four feet
in width and runs from 1925 to $3.50 in
gold per ton.
The Morning Glory at Republic is far
richer than ever. Free gold glistens all
over the rock. The immensely of the
strike almost surpasses belief. Specimens
taken from the shaft last week will assay
away up in the thousands.
The Crystal mine, a half mile from Fort
Spokane, near the mouth of the Spokane
river is showing full face of galena ore
which runs 1923 across the ledge as far as