The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-19

Another 100-foot tunnel will be driv-
en- on the Lost Tiger on Silver noun
tain in the SLOGAN.
There are now rs men employed at
the Yellowstone mine, in the SLOGAN
and 20 on the wagon road from Salmo
to the mine.
One of the Sudbury miners recently
imported by the management of the
the Ymir mine, has already quit work
He says he did not know there was
any trouble here when he engaged, and
objects to work as a "scab." All the
others are expected by the strikers to
quit shortly.
On behalf of the Grand Forks board !
of trade Harry Sheads, a local assayer,
has about completed a collection of
ores of the Kettle River mining divis-
ion for the Canadian mining exhibit
at the Paris exposition in 1900. The
board of trade is arranging this ex-
hibit at the request of the provincial
authorities.
The output from the mines of Ymir
for the present year, computed to the
end of last month"; is as follows: Ymir
mine, 7,4O0 tons crushed and 46 tons
shipped; Porto Rico, 1000 tons crushed.
Dundee, 700 tons crushed; Blackjack
1873 tons shipped; New Victor, 6 tons
shipped; Tamarac, tons shipped. To-
tai, 10,347 tons.
MINING NOTES.
While the prospect for railroad com.
munication this season in the Buffalo
Hump district does not seem to be very
promising, the reports from the mining
districts are more than fiattering.
1t is reported that one of the greatest
strikes ever made in the country was
in the Golconda mine last week, when
several feet of free gold ore was dis
covered in the 250-foot level.
Another dividend being anxiously
awaited at Butte is that of the Boston
C Montana, $40 per share, which is not
due until August 81, but it is thought
it will be more than $40, probably SIS
or 500. In spite of its many lawsuits
the company is waxing more and more
prosperous.
Clark & Sweeny are pushing develop
ment work on the Jumbo in the Buffalo
the latest workings show three feet OIL
500 ore.
While reports from the Buffalo
Hump district are pleasing to those in
terested it is deeply regretted that thu
Big Buffalo group is Indefinitely tieC
up in litigation.
Four men are employed developing
the Elzora, the big silver and leaC
property on the reservation, tire
miles from Bossburg. An incline work
ing shaft is being sunk, which ha
- now attained depth of 45 feet.
q rich body of ore is being penetrated
and the owners, who are experience
miners, are not worrying over it pincl
=. out.
1.-The Slate Creek country, which
just over on the west side of the Ca
cades, but which is usually accounte
part of the Okanogan country, b.
cause all of the business is from thi
? direction, is enjoying quite a bool
% this year. Two 10-stamp mills are no
being taken into the country, and a
% immense amount of development wi
=, y. probably be done within the next yea
y Another big strike is reported in tt
- Mayflower district, Montana, it bein
- in the West or Owsley Mayflower min
- Work has been progressing there stea
lily of late, but with reduced force.
- A petition for the dissolution of Il
u lie Roi Mining and Smelling Compar
" was recently filed at Spokane.
-, A fine strike has been made on Il
~ Weatherby- Bonanza mine. in Il
Chicken Creek district of eastern Or
gon.
=, The belief that the Myers creek mi
~ ing district will shortly come to Il
VIZ front is evidenced by the lively intere
~ there.
The mineral department of the ST
~ kane Industrial Exposition continu
"' to grow in Importance each day. It
Ell mining men of Spokane and Manag
nc Bolster are making of this feature ;
- they agreed to.
,iu The Silver Butte mine and conce
10 traitor, near Libby, Mont, has be
nu sold by the Sheriff of Flathead count
Oh A. X. Sedgwick of Spokane has
Gently completed deal for the pl
III chase of the Wall Street mine in ca
W. ern Oregon for $4,000. The proper
ny was sold by Robinson & Son.
ne Idaho is called the "Gem Of
Mountains" At no time since the d
III the nomenclature was applied to
up state has she proven herself me