The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-07

soon as the ground is in readiness for
them. Prospects are good for lively
winter in the SLOGAN.
The Pathfinder mine will shortly
make an experimental shipment OF 10
tons of ore to the Trail smelter.
Provincial Constable Dinsmore will
engage men this week to cut trail
from the end OF the wagon road, Is
miles north of Grand Forks, TO Frank
lin. and Mckinley camps, the new min
ing camps on the east fork of the north
fork of Kettle river.
The labor question is fast adjusting
itself in the SLOGAN. Men are being
put to work as fast as they can be Sc
cured and the scale of SO. SO per day
is being paid. No questions are being
asked. Five men were shipped in from
Montreal this week to go on the Payne
at SO per shift, but came down the hill
the same day they went up when they
learned that the scale was SO. so per
shift. The force at the Payne is being
increased steadily. There are plenty
of miners to be had at So. so per day,
but not at SO. There are rumors of 20
or 80 men coming from the old coun-
try.
The British Columbia government
will issue miners licenses at pro rata
prices for periods of less than a year
before June /, when all licenses will ex-
pire in future.
An aerial tramway will connect the
c. p. X. with the Gold Bug. owned by
the Boundary Creek Mining & Milling
Company.
Advices from Camp Mckinney state
that the ore encountered in the tunnel
in the Granite and Banner is richer
than any hitherto taken out.
MINING NOTES.
The Delos mine, copper, on Boulder
creek, will be worked throughout the
winter.
J. r. Mcleod has uncovered an inn
mense showing of galena OH the Equi-
table group, Boulder creek.
Arrangements are being made for
putting in winter camp at the Divi-
dend group on Law creek.
The main shaft of the Centre Star
mine will appear in the shipping list
this coming week.
The shaft is down to the 500-foot
station in the Josie Sinking will be
resumed for another 100 feet, when
drifting will be commenced.
The Northport smelter, on certain
classes of ore. returns nearly double
the values given by the Trail institu-
ton.
Crosscutting has again been started
in the North Star. and the main tun-
mel will be driven ahead to intersect
the Iron Clad ledge, which is believed
to lie about 100 feet distant.
Good progress is being made in all
parts of the Sunset No. 2. Two ma
chine drills are at work. Both are
prosecuting on the 100-foot level from
the new shaft Twenty-seven men are
at work.
The shaft on the Green Mountain is
down for a distance of 800 feet and
drifting on the ledge has progressed
for distance of 40 feet. The drift
is still in rock that is strongly mineral
lieu. mere WtIt no HCW OcNtlOpilOhIS
of note during the past week.
Development has been actively re-
commenced upon the Mud Lake, just
north of the Knob Hill.
The Northport smelter has made a
deep cut in rates for treatment. SINH
lar action is expected on the part of
tn c. P. r. at Trail.
OF 10
famous by the Comstock, development
work continues to make such brilliant
showings as promise much for the fu-
ture of the camp. The latest strike
gives assays of 81 per cent copper.
The mineral exhibit from Libby at
the Spokane Industrial Exposition is
all gathered. and it promises to be a
good display.
The Okanogan Free Gold Mines, Linn
tied, the Rossland company, operating
a group of free milling claims near Orc
in Okanogan county, Wash, has de-
clared its first dividend of a quarter
cent per share.
The report has been circulated that
Clark & Sweeny have given up their
bonds on the Cracker Jack and Jumbo
claims in the Buffalo Hump camp, and
it has been stated that the firm would
withdraw from that camp. But a
Grangeville paper is saying that they
have greater confidence in the camp
than ever, and that they expect to open
some mines there.
Manipulation in Cotton.
New Orleans, Sept. 29.-The widest