The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-08

per mines by Syndicate Wnlcn was
reported week ago, is cosummated.
The Lewiston brothers, copper kings
of New York, are the purchasers of the
Pittsburg & Tennessee Copper COM
pany's plant and the plant at Duck
town. The price paid was $751; 500 in
cash. Other adjoining property is also
purchased at an additional expendi-
ture of nearly 100000.
sheridan Camp.
w. H. Giles came in from Sheridan
camp last evening for the purpose of
obtaining supplies necessary to work
the Kittie Clyde claim in that camp.
The work that will be commenced
within the coming week will consist
of a small amount of preparatory
work and then a shaft will be started
and continued until the value of the
property is established beyond con-
troversy. The company that has as
sumed control is a Rossland institu-
ton and is reputed to be amply backed
with cash. The Kittie Clyde is on the
same ledge as the Zella M. and carries
silver-bearing ore of high grade. The
ledge has been traced the entire length
of the claim, by cuts, which have ex-
posed ledge varying from four to six
feet in width. 1t is fair to presume
that it is about five feet on the aver
age. The ore body is from "a to SO
| inches in width.
Gold and silver.
A table showing the average yearly
output of gold and silver for Germany
United States and the British colonies
and dependencies is analysed by Con
sui Constable in a single sentence in
which he says: "Thus the United
States and the British colonies TO
gether produce somewhat more thar
one-half of the total annual output o
gold, and nearly onehalf the annua
output of silver throughout the world.
A further analysis of the table indi
Gates that the United States alone pro
duces about % per cent of the gold o
the world, and over 80 per cent of tn
silver.
The coke production of the southern
states in 1896 was over 10 times the &c
tai production for the same section il
1880, while the production of tn
United States in 1896 was less tina
= four times the output of 1880. Th
southern states show a material gal
in 1896 over that of any year sine
1880. having produced 3,S17,255 shol
tons, or 80 per cent of the total PR
/ duction of The whole country.
Buffalo Hump Notes.
The Big Buffalo people have the
, new bunk house up and it is quite a
r improvement over the fiimsy tel
, which has been in use hitherto.
The gallows timber is up for ii
: hoist on the Big Buffalo claim and IL
, shaft is timbered and everythin
Q ready to begin sinking as soon as IL
/ hoist arrives, which will be in fe
days. The boiler and engine are on IL
+ ground.
, William Wylie is working thr'
!. shifts on the Jumbo, driving in on IL
f lower tunnel in a fine showing of or
which is improving as the tunnel a
G proaches the ore chute already devt
oped in the upper workings.
l. Republic.
d The Golden Lily shaft is down
feet, 13 feet below the foot wall OF Il
L ledge. which dips easterly into the hi
= The south drift on the Trade Dolls
IS mine is forging ahead and sending o.
r quartz that samples from $40 to 81
per ton.
e The North San Poll shaft is down
L feet and looking better with the ado
IS tional depIn.
Y The tunnel at the Anaconda pI
sents a change for the better, with "
IS ter, quartz stringers and clay comiI
in, the best indications of close a
Il proach to the vein.
D. The Iron Monitor continues impro
a ing, with eight inches of ore in Il
d north drift at 140 feet deep on the d
e, of the vein.
The Troubador vein still improv
If going down. The quartz is harder al
Il better looking and the foot wall
l. more permanent.
d The North Star tunnel is in 260 fe
and going ahead. There are SIN;
s. stringers of quartz near the mouth a
n one also in 25-foot shaft within fl
Is feet of 1t.
rs Word has just been handed in tn
1t 1924 ore has been struck in the NJ
Of Insurgent shaft, at a depth of Is fe
The Republic mine improves almC
n day by day and never looked as W
A. as it does now. A winze has been sta
a. ed on the No. level, east of the haI
E. ing wall, and will strike the pay CHI
st on its dip towards the No. 4. The m