The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-11-11

site. The three companies own the
line.
There Is much building going on and
the little sawmill here has more orders
than it can fill. although the cheapest
kind of rough lumber costs $50 per
thousand.
The wagon road is completed to with
in eight miles of camp and although
there Is about three feet of snow here
the trails are fairly good, as there is
enough travel to keep them well beaten
down.
British Columbia.
The Ymir minc, B. c., has succeeded
In securing twenty-five men from the
outside. The management claim they
have fifty-seven men now at work in
the mine, and producing sufficient ore
to keep the forty-stamp mill running
continuously. As the mill treats In the
neighborhood of 100 tons day. the
Ymir should ship $4,000 in bullion,
Gre and concentrates this month.
Some heavy development Is planned
for the Columbia-K Kootenay. 1t centers
around new three-compartment shaft
to be sunk from the No. 6 level, and it
will be carried down indefinitely.
Three cars of dynamite recently ex-
ploded in the old Ironsides mine at
Phoenix, B. c. The dynamite was being
thawed for use in the mine. Fortunate
ly no one was about at the time. and
consequently no one was hurt, but the
damage in the way Of broken glass in
the town was very great. The men
were just about going for the dynamite
to take it down in the mine when the
explosion occurred.
The deepest placer shaft in British
Columbia Is on the Miocene ground,
Horsefly river. It sinks through 432
feet of gravel and has not reached bed
rock.
The new 60-horse power motor will
be ready in about Is days.
The Morrison mine in the Boundary
Creek district of British Columbia will
soon become one of the leading ship
pers of that great district.
Superintendent Fox of the Golden
Eagle, north fork Of the Kettle river
reports that another rich ore chute has
been encountered in the shaft at q
depth of 120 feet. The values In gold
and copper average $50 per ton. The
bottom of the shaft is In ore. 1t IL
proposed to run another drift aftel
sinking a few feet further.
The ledge on the Iron Mask has beer
cut at a depth of 400 feet. and at tha
point it shows values fully equal t.
those met in the upper workings. 1t Ii
18 feet wide, and of that about five fee
is first grade, worth about $33. Th'
rest will 60 in the second class. and al
; average will be in the neighbOrhood o
$12.
MINING NOTES.
The Iconoclast, near Keller, Wash, !
} looking fine. The miners are runnin
waukee Mining Company and the Blac
: through nice looking quartz heavil
mineralized, and have cut throug
. some nice stringers Of copper ore.
q Two mines in the immediate vicinit
of Meyers Falls, WASH, will begin tn
l steady shipment of ore within the nez
: thirty days, and the indications ar
g that IL the shipments are once starte
4 they will continue throughout the 81
( tire winter season.
II The gold output of Cripple Creek di
.. trict in October was $2,001.60O. Tn
is the first months production that hs
e exceeded $2,000,000. 1t is estimate
IS that the total for the year will not ia
70 short of $18,00O.0O0.
The Helena-Frisco Company, opera
Is ing the we'll known mine on Canye
"a creek. in the Occur d'Alene distrit
n. has enlarged it's borders and has TAKE
N in the property of the Galena Mimi
c. Company, the group owned by the M
D. Bear claim.
in The directors of the Bonanza Mini
Company, whose mine Is near Bot
ia burg, Wash, declared monthly dividel
lie No. 4, of a quarter cent per share,
., be maid November 20 to stockholders
i'd record November Is.
m The work of overhauling the Tig
Ell. mill at Burke, Idaho, continues. 1t
,r. not expected that it will be ready to r.
on before December l.
IN. In the drift at the tentn ieVei LIN
od the Lee shaft of the Isabella compa
at Cripple Creek, Col, miners are wol
.ee ing behind a bulkhead in six inches
nd ore literally covered with free go
he which would easily assay from $15O,e
to 5000. 1000 to the ton, and probal
higher. The miners are paid to chan
their clothes before entering. IL
;.h are locked in, and they change tn
ON. M clothes again when let out. The m
are eral appeared at first to be gran
aas quartz. It is of a reddish color.
~ upon closer examination crystals
NV quartz can be seen. and all over 9
A. through the quartz are small slivers
oan @ free gold. On some pieces 1t would
G - impossible to place the point OF ?
IN ell without touching solid gold.
W = would appear that the sylvanite' Ct
.nd vite and oxidized calaverite 10.
.n,a aua above has at greater depth changed
the free gold.
It at - y wound..
.s,. Wallace. Idaho, Nov. l1.-Fr