The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-25

d'Alenes is estimated at $4,000 per day.
Branscombe & Sonnemann OF Spokane
have just added twenty men to their force
on the Cumberland mine at Silver City.
The Mammoth Hecla and Black Bear
are new properties, but their output is
becoming large. The Black Bear is un-
der bond to Larson Greenough of the
Morning and Joe Macdonald of the Hell
ena 4 Frisco. They have made their sec
ond payment on the bond.
The ore from which these concen-
trates We're obtained averaged in value
ST .27. The management is very much
elated over what they regard as such a
good showing, and caluclate that the
mine will soon go on the dividend paying
list.
The Babcook mine lies on the west
side of Wild Horse creek, about six miles
from the town Of Ymir. 1t is under lease
to Frank Davey M. f. There are about
20 men employed and ore is being ship
ped to the Northport smelter at the rate
OF 20 tons per diem.
c. p. Richardson OF Newcome. Idaho
county, has been operating two giants on
his Moose creek placers the past year.
His ground is on an ancient channel. 500
feet above the bed of the present south
fork of Clearwater river. He says he has
two miles OF ditch, 800 feet for dump, 1876
feet depth of gravel and a channel 500
feet wide
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan tunenl,
connecting the mine with the mill, is be-
ing driven at the rate of 1926 feet per
month. 1t has been driven about 1000
feet, with 60OO feet more to go before
completion. The 9-inch main from the
compressor to the mine is two miles long
and goes over a great mountain. This
main viii be laid in the tunnel when the
latter is completed.
Where Mercur now stands was situated
the town of Lewiston in 80 and 20, when
silver was discovered. Very rich ore was
shipped, but the vein was pockety, and
the camp was finally abandoned In it's
palmy days it had about 1900 inhabi-
tants. The silver vein lies from 100 to
200 feet below the gold vein and has
scarcely been prospeeted as yet. Some at
tention is again being paid to it.-Mer
cur Mercury
The Neihart Miner says: so modest
are the owners of the famous Big Seven
mine that. they did not announce the last
two dividends of $4,000 each. Yet ssch
dividends were declared for September
and October, and there is ore enough in
sight to continue such declaration of div
idends for some time to come The mine
is rapidly changing from a silver to a
gold producer, although the silver ore en-
cOuntered is very high grade.
j. i. Parker, engineer and general
manager OF the Dundee Gold Mining
company, has had thorough tests made
of the concentrates turned out by the So
ton concentration put in to treat the low
grade ore of the Dundee mine near
Ymir. Concentrates from the coarse Jig
of the first run gave returns, two tests,
of S24 90 and $50 10. From the second
screen, from two assays, $50 80 and
$50 so were obtained.
Work has been commenced on the new
smelter at Cascade, by c. A. Stoess, who
has been placed in charge OF the work.
The most fortunate circumstance in con-
nection with the work of building this
structure is the discovery of a large body
of clay, which may be used in the manu-
facture OF all the brick necessary for the
construction of the buildings, while lime
for fuxing purposes in sufficient guam
titles has been found near the site of the
smelter The fume for furnishing the
water supply will be mile long and
about three feet square
The mines at Wallace, Wardner and
Mullan are mining approximately 100000
tons of ore per month, which is concen-
trated to about $4,000 tons before ship
ping to the smelters. The mines which
produce this are the Bunker Hill & Sui
Ivan and Last Chance at Wardner; the
Tiger Il POorman, Helena g. Frisco, Stand
ard, Mammoth, Black Bear and Hecla
near Wallace, and the Morning at Mullan
1t is estimated that the output of thes,
properties for 1899 will be an increase
of 20 per cent over that of 1898.
The Old Abe at Wardner is being de
veloped by means of l50O-foot crosscut
tunnel. Good bodies of silver-lead ores
have been encountered, as well as ricf
streaks of copper glance. It's ores are 8
good deal in the form OF chalco-pyrites
This property belongs to John Finch anC
St. Clair Brothers of Wardner, who vii
put in compressor plant early the com
ing spring.
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