The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-12
MINES AND MINING CAMPS
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Items From the Rich Regions OF tho Pa
cffc Northwest, News From All the
Principle Mining C~mps-Psrsonals-
Mining Notes.

Mining Notes.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
reports the statistics of the mineral
and metal production in the United
States, showing that the total value of
the mineral production in 1898 was
$709,S16,750, against s64S,SO4,S99 in
gold and 5S,763,123 ounces of silver.
The coal production was 21S,1O6,559
short tons, an increase of ia, 900 tons
over any previous year. The pig-iron
production was 11,773,934 tons, the
greatest quantity ever made in any
country in one year.
The copper production was 595, 9Oo,-
232 pounds, also the largest ever re-
ported, and more than half of the en-
tire production of the world. Other
leading items were: Lead, 22S,475
short tons; ,104 short tons of zinc;
3O,499 TASKS of quicksilver; 51,774,465
barrels of petroleum.
Besides the production from native
ores, there were $22,O24,96O gold; 49,
74S,OOO ounces of silver; 36.O55,95
pounds of copper; S9,209 tons of lead,
and 7,127,7S4 pounds of nickel, refined
and prepared for market in this coun-
try from foreign ores and base bull
lion.
Republic Notes.
Work has been resumed on the Delta.
The shaft on the Rebate is 70 feet in
depth.
The Stray Horse tunnel has been
driven 165 feet.
The new pump on the Golden Lily
shaft is working finely.
Work is progressing on the south
drift on the Princess Maud.
The Bodie shaft is 235 feet deep and
station has been cut at that point.
The Golden Lily tunnel is being driv-
en- for the vein on the Troubadour
ground.
The double compartment shaft on
the Ben Hur has reached a depth of
140 feet.
The big tunnel on the Wauconda has
been driven but 80 feet, but the face
is all in ore.
The ore in the Bodie shaft is getting
better constantly. The shaft is now ZIG
feet in depth.
Work has been suspended on the |
Palo Alto 1t is said that suspension |
is due to lack of funds.
The Black Tail tunnel is yet about 80
feet distant from the ledge-at least
that is the supposition.
The new tunnel on the North Star
is in $50 feet Two lodges have been
encountered in running it.
Everything about the Republic mill |
and mine is progressing in a manner
satisfactory to the management.
The ore chute through which the San
Poll drift is running is as rich as when
first encountered two weeks ago.
The Trade Dollar has closed down,
the inflow of water having become too
great to be handled without machinery.
There is possibility that work will !
shortly be resumed on the Alabama,
property near the foot of Lake Cur
lew.
Sinking is in progress on the San
Juan, and the claim is made that there
are some rich stringers of quartz in
the shaft.
The Gold Ledge has been shut down.
The water came in too rapidly to rem
der further work profitable without the
aid of pumping machinery.
Surveys for the Mountain Lion mill
at Republic, Wash, were made last
week, and from now on the work of
preparing for the enterprise will be
pushed as rapidly as possible.
The rumors which have been in cir
culation for some time that the con-
trolling interest in the Deer Trail No
company had passed to Toronto have
now been definitely confirmed.
The Zala NJ, in Sheridan camp, is to
have a compressor as soon as they can
get it on the ground. 1t will be of
five-drill capacity, and the intention is
to have it in operation the latter part
of August. The 5O0-foot tunnel, with
the eight shifts, is already being driv-
en-.
British Columbia.
A rare metal known as nagyagite,
composed of tellurium, lead and gold,
has been found on a claim owned by
Robert Wood of Greenwood at Triple
Lake camp on Canyon creek, a tribu-
tary of the Kettle river. Assays give
values of s124.1S per ton.
Fahey Bros. and Jack Stewart have
a force of men at work on the Four
Hundred claim in wellington camp. A