Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-02-22

feet above the bed Of the present south
fork of Clearwater river. He says he has
two miles of ditch, 800 feet for dump, 1856
feet depth Of gravel and channel 800
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 5000 feet more to go before
completion. The 9-inch main from the
compressor to the mine is two miles long
and goes over great mountain. This
main will 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 its
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 prospected as yet. Some at
tention is again being paid to it.-Mer
cur Mercury.
The Neihart Miner says: $50 modest
are the owners of the famous Big Seven
mine that they did not announce the last
two dividends of $4,000 each. Yet such
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 silver to a
gold producer, although the silver ore en-
countered is very high grade.
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 large body
of clay, which may be used in the manu-
faeture 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 hume for furnishing the
water supply will be a 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 & Poorman, Helena & Frisco, Stand
ard, Mammoth, Black Bear and Hecla
near Wallace, and the Morning at Mullan.
1t is estimated that the output of these
properties for 1899 will be an increase
of 20 per cent over that of 1893.
The Old Abe at Wardner is being de-
veloped by means of a l500-foot crosscut
tunnel. Good bodies of silver-lead ores
have been encountered, as well as rich
streaks of copper glance. Its ores are a
good deal in the form of chalco-pyrites.
This property belongs to John Finch and
st. Clair Brothers of Wardner, who will
put in compressor plant early the COM
ing spring.
j. L. 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 1914. 80 and $50 10. From the second
screen, from two assays, $50 80 and
$50 80 were obtained.