Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-02-22
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.
Items Cleaned From the Late Reports
All Districts Are Being Developed-A
Prosperous Year Is Predicted-Mining
Notes and Personals.

The management of the Trail smelter
expects to be able to blow in the new
lead furnace about March LIST. A great
quantity OF SLOGAN silver lead ores have
been received at the smelter and if the
experiment proves successful the Trail
smelter will have all the ore it can handle
of the lead variety.
Hen Hur, Republic.
Ben Hur-A great body of ore is being
exposed in this mine and it is increasing
daily. The long drift is following the
ledge, and clean breast of ore is in
the face. By the time custom mill is
ready for business here, Ben Hur will
have hundred thousand dollars worth
of ore in sight.
The Republic Mine.
The Republic-very fiattering returns
come from ore encountered in the drift
making for Jim Blaine ground. The ore
body is wide and rich. One extraction
continues without interruption, and the
bullion output this month will be large.
The mill is running smoothly and with
much larger capacity than formerly.
British Columbia Properties.
There is in sight in the Noble Five
mine body of ore estimated at 5,375
cubic feet. Calculating 600 lbs. to the
foot and 800 to the ton, the mine is
worth $l9l, 250. 1t is thought at Sandon
that this ought to run up the stock of
the Noble Five at a bound.
The Payne last week shipped so tons
over the X. & s., and 300 tons by c. p.
R. Last Chance shipments were 40 tons,
Reco 20, and Ivanhoe 40, total of $50
tons for Sandon for the week. Queen Bess
of Three Forks shipped AZ and Idaho l7Os.
The Whitewater shipments were "a, and
Michigan 81.
Change in Mining Law.
Some criticisms have been made that
the proposed change in the mining law of
this state does not give the locator suffi.
cient time in which to perform the work
demanded. From our point of view 80
days is not too short time in which to
do 10 feet of work to hold discovery
claim. A locator who cannot do that
amount of work in three months time
would probably not find time to do it in
as many years. The new law proposed
in this state has been adopted by the
leading mining states and has been found
to work well and without injury TO any
prospector who is honestly trying to show
that his claim has more merit than few
stakes in the ground and notice upon a
piece of paper.--Miner & Electrician.
Camp Mckinney.
The report comes from Camp Mckinney
that remarkably rich assays have been Sc
cured from the Minnehaha claim. From
the first 40 feet on the shaft the average
assays were 800 per ton in gold, and
some assays went as high as 5000. As
says taken from the cross-cut at 65 feet
gave $llS in gold. At the 100 foot level
a drift was run to tap the vein and the
first ore struck went $l35. The ore at
this depth averaged $27.4O in gold. The
pulp from this assay gave some fine
showings of free gold and the concen-
trates assayed $355.S7. A sample from
the same ore with the galena yielded
$l25.50. A heavily mineralized streak in
the center gave $l77.36.
The Bunker Hill and Last Chance own
ers are trying to tie up all adjacent prop
critics. The Bunker Hill company now
owns over so claims. High price of lead
is the stimulent.
The building for the new five-stamp mill
on the Winnie Group, near Murray, will
be put up in April. The lumber is now
on the ground.
j. Wharton, who has charge of the
South Peacock mine in the Seven Devils
for a Boston company, has bonded the
Great Vale copper claim near Cuprum
for $4,000.
Lucky Boy ores at Custer City, Idaho,
are worked over plates and Willy tables,
saving about 81 per cent of the values.
Tailings have accumulated to the amount
of about 10000 tons, and the company
will put in a cyanide plant to rework
them.