The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-27
Some of the Payne ore is now being

The Mollie Hughes will ship a car
load of ore 10 the Nelson sampler.
The Duncan mine, near Nelson, has
increased its plant with 30-horse
power hoist
The management of the Morrison, at
Greenwood, reports the tunnel is in
over 300 feet.
The crosscut tunnel on the City of
Paris and Lincoln in Whites camp,
near Greenwood. is in 900 feet
James McGregor, the provincial in
spector of mines, is looking through
the different mines of Boundary creek.
The five-drill compressor plant on
the Brandon and Gordon Crown was
started on the 9th inst, and ran as
easily as though it had been in use for
years.
Ben Finnen reports that a most i'm
portant ledge of ore has been uncover
ed in the Douglas property, near Ross
land. The ore is of a good grade and
the ledge is SAID to be 80 feet wide.
During the course of running in
their long tunnel at the Selkirk mine
they are coming across a great amount
of rock impregnated with gray copper,
galena, and copper which will assay
high.
The mine owners of the Nelson di-
vision and the Silver Lead Mine Own
ers' association of British Columbia,
have announced that after June LIST the
wages of miners will be reduced from
$3.50 to SO a day.
A meeting will be held in Sandon on
May 25th to confirm the sale of the
Payne mine and to issue the new stock.
Half a million shares will be retained
as treasury stock, the capital being
100000 in 81 shares.
Mr.. McMurray, the manager of the
Snowshoe, at Greenwood, has had
large hosting and pumping plant or
dered from the James Cooper Manu-
featuring Company, to be sent to the
mine. Extensive operations will short
ly be carried on there.
A wonderful strike has been made in
the tunnel of the Spotted Horse claim,
near Ymir, b. G. At about rs feet
from the mouth of the tunnel a rich
chute of free-milling ore carrying con-
siderable visible gold was disclosed.
An assay from picked specimen gave
a return of s1O,S14.3S in gold per ton,
while an assay from average samples
of the rich strike gave $202.56. The
ledge varies in width from about IL
inches to two feet six inches. The as
say mentioned above, although of
course taken from a picked sample
containing visible chunks of gold, is
the highest ever taken in this vicinity.
MINING NOTES.
There is a growing tendency on the
part of the land office department at
Washington to enforce more strictly
the regulations concerning the loca-
tion of mining claims.
Copper strikes are being made on the
lower Illinois river and in the vicinity
of Preston Peak, Idaho. Several prom
inent copper miners have been in that
vicinity for some time making examin-
ations.
A rich strike is reported on the so
foot level of the Bamboo Chief mine,
one mile west of Virginia City, Mon
tana. Assays OF ore extracted from
vein varying in width from Is to 20
inches shows returns of $1,000 per ton.
The lessees intend to utilize the Largey
mill, located short distance from the
mine, for the purpose of working the
ore.
Thomas COoney, of Helena, has just
cause to be enthusiastic over what
promises to be come new quartz min
ing district within full view of Helena,
being in the foothills this side of the
Missouri river on the road to Canyon
Ferry. A lead, carrying free milling
gold ore, which Mr.. Cooney and part
ner have been developing during the
winter and spring, is improving in
quantity and quality of the ore
During the month of April the mines
of the United States produced 1884
tons of copper, against 21,91S tons in
March, or a decrease of 1864 tons.
Foreign mines produced 1911 tons of
the metal during April, against an out
put of 8,077 in March, decrease, 166
tons. There were exported during
April 1882 tons of the red metal from
this country, against an expectation of
14,414 tons in the preceding month, a
decrease of 6,991 tons, or almost so per
cent.
superintendent J. w. Cunningham,
of Idaho, of the United States assay
office, has just completed his statement
of the mineral production of the state
of Idaho for the year 1898. 1t shows
a falling off as compared with the pro.
| dnctinn of 1907 of S1oo enz nhn ID