The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-17

Is; Centre Star, So total shipments
for the year, $3.50.
The necessary arrangements for be-
ginning work on the st. Elmo property
have been made. This claim is on the
south slope of Red Mountain, one and
a quarter miles from Rossland.
The superintendent OF the Evening
Star at Rossland has been busy getting |
the road from the mine to the railway |
(about a half mile in lengthy in con-
dition to ship ore. There is about 100
tons of ore on the dump and the inten-
ton is to take more out of the slopes
in the upper and lower tunnels.
The Bosun or New Denver has made
a 2O-ton shipment, the last that will go
out until the labor troubles are settled.
This property has shipped 100 tons per
month from the date of its opening,
and wound up May with record of
500 tons since January list. The ore
bodies are improving continually.
On the Mountain Chief, close to New
Denver, the force has been increased
to IL men. Tests are being made OF
the ore in the Slopes and on the dumps,
and other preliminary work is being
done preparatory to starting up the
property. A force of 100 men will be
put on when they can be had.
A large force of men have gone to
Ten Mile to move the hundreds OF tons
of Enterprise ore lying on the wharf
and on the dump at the mine. This
will be shipped within the next ten
| 70 Enfpr-
prise owners about $4,000. All prep
arations are being made to open the
mine on a large scale as soon as the Ia
Dor troubles are settled. One hundred
and fifty men can be worked advantag-
eously in the mine.
MINING NOTES.
The bond which Clark & Sweeny held
on the Big Buffalo has been given up
During May the Columbia, North
Pole and May Queen mines shipped to
Baker City from Sumpter, 1885
pounds of concentrates and ore.
Some assessment work is being done
at Buffalo Hump, in spite of the draw
back of unfavorable weather, this be-
ing among the things that cannot walt
The Butte & Boston company has
sued Heinze Brothers for $5O,OOO dam
ages and an injunction to restrain
work on the ore body apexing on the
Michael Davitt claim.
The Delamar Mining Company have
purchased the Big Buffalo mine FOL
$500, 900, the first payment OF $4,000
to be made July 18th. This mine Ii
the original discovery of the famous
Buffalo Hump.
T. r. Hunsaker and son and Bert
= VIM. and Jack Vaughn, who discovered
? and recently sold the Vaughn coppe
mine. on the Oregon side of the Snak
= river have received from Glass Bros
of Basin. Mont, the second payment OF
the purchase price of the mine. A few
= DAYS ago the Hunsakers and Vaughn
: bonded another copper property nea
-. the Vaughn mine, for $4,000.
- A charge of perjury against Georg
y. A. Blodgett was dismissed on motion
- of the county attorney. Blodgett SUI
-. = mitted an affidavit in the suprem
: court endeavoring to show colluslo
, between District Judge Clancy an
> John MacGinnis in the receivership G
the Boston & Montana Company.
. The Red Boy mine has sent to tn
= First National Bank at Baker City 1t
o. cleanup for May. The output wa
~ about $4,000. One who is intereste
Il in the mine says the May cleanup wa
almost the same as that of April, whic
y at the u. S. assay office, Boise, weighe
% 115 pounds. This mine, if it continue
q to weld at the same monthly rate, WI
y produce 100000 during 1899.
~ The register and receiver of the He
ena land office have received a decis1o
- from the assistant commissioner OF u
~ general land office, in the actlo
= brought by w. B. Gaffney and Other
u against Davis G. Turner and other
- that is of great interest to mining me
~ in this state. The assistant comm
. sioner in effect holds that If a perso
acquire the right to patent for mine
u al lands, under the statute of limit
DC lions of the state, they do not forte
~ that right by failure in subsequel
40 wears to perform assessment work
- the property.
10 Continual rain and snow rend
o. travel and work almost impossible, al
"a make life in Buffalo Hump even dull
III than usual. The army of prospecto
d. is getting impatient for the disappea
III ance of the snow. Small patches
- bare ground, however, are beginnil
90 to show on the hillside south of La
IL creek and down near Fish lake, thous