The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-28

Buckhorn mountain, lying east Of /
Myers Creek.
A. w. Barry. who owns a group OF /
five claims, two of them Joining the /
Wisconsin, has started a crew to work. I
With shortening days Myers Greek /
camp has taken on increased activity /.
and on all sides preparation for winter
is being rushed. No effort has been
made to boom the camp.
The Homestake, recently purchased
by the Dittmer Brothers, is reported to
be showing phenomenally fine ore. All
work being done In that section is
yielding satisfactory results.
julius Pohle, one of the heavy own
ers in the Leadville Gold Mining Com
pany has started work on the proper
ties of the company, which are said to
be among the most promising in that
camp.
Bolster and Chesaw are growing
steadily and at last visitors here can
be furnished suitable sleeping accom-
modations. One of the two hotel build
ings at Bolster opens tomorrow. At
Chesaw a three-story. 20-room frame
hotel is we'll under way and is being
pushed to completion.
South of Chesaw, on either side of
Myers Creek, equally gratifying show
ings reward work. The Independent
Temple Group, Omega and other prop
critics on the east side. the State of
Washington Group and many other
claims belonging to Simpson, Wood
Tl1u1au nd nth
the west side of Myers Creek now being
worked. are showing up in way to
gladden. the hearts of their owners. A
good deal OF work will be done this
winter.
British Columbia.
John Y. Cole returned from a visit
to the Bunker Hill on the Pend dor
ellie river. He reports that the site for
the mill has been graded. Its ground
dimensions will be 80 by 20 feet
News from Camp Mckinney, b. c..
says fine strike of rich gold ore in the
lower level on the Waterloo. The re
: port is that six feet of ore in the west
) drift at the 80 foot level averages bet
D ter than $3.50 ton and has been do
ing so for several days. There is plen
t ty of free gold showing in it, and the
g sulphurets which carried the high val
a ues in the upper drift are said to bt
!. abundant in the lower workings.
o In the ORC Denero in Summit CAM
t the crosscut at the bottom of 200 foo
h shaft is As feet long. Two recent as
d says gave average values of $36 ant
SAT per ton, respectively.
n Harry eager, NJ. e., states that h
e had a satisfactory interview with ia,
n p. Graves in regard to securing sit
d for his proposed smelter adjoining tn
CRANKY smelter now building at Gran
8 Forks. The smelter, he adds, is now a.
p assured fact. Mr.. eager proposes treat
e ing sulphide ores by the Loder, or War
n system of pyritic smelling. He Wi
reach here in few days with his prir
n cipal, Edward I. Bradford. president G
o. the Southern Smelling Company c
et Denver, Col.
n w. F. Robertson, provincial minera
ID ogist, made an examination of the SCI
eral mining camps in the immediat
a. neighborhood of Columbia. He say
m he found the ore bodies simply inc,
,e haustible.
n A special meeting of the directors {
ID the Rambler-Cariboo company will
held at Rossland on November 2. Th
10 purpose of this meeting is to declare
ye dividend of one cent share. AS I'll
In capital stock of the company Is no
n ,250. 900 shares, the declaration of tn
n dividend means the distribution
it $4,000.
The cleanup from the five stamp mi
on the Granite and Banner, in Cam
Mckinney, last week was gold brio
-, valued at $537 The shaft is down
% feet in solid ore.
hn Development on the Humming Biz
on the North Fork of the Kettle rive
~ is being carried out on an extensi'
al. scale.
20 MINING NOTES.
ng Four thousand acres of rich plac
ground will be brought into use by Il
he building of the great High Line dit
lft in southern Oregon, when ii is col
er. pleted. This ditch will be the create
nut on the coast, and the cost of its co
struction is $4,000, furnished by Po
or land capitalists.
Tia c. ]. Heidenrich of Saltese. Idaho.
Nm enthusiastic as ever over the outlo'
for the Monitor, the copper property
In, which he has been working for the la
cd year. There is now $4,000 or 500
ct, worth of ore on the dump which h
is haan talxan ont In sinking the shaft a,