The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-02-11

approximate distance Of forty'Ave feet
more TO the ledge, when the ledge will be
cut at q depth Of Ninety feet.
A crew Il men have started to work on
the Tenasket claim. about three miles
southeast Of Republic. A short tunnel
viii be run to tap the lead so feet deep
and Il the result 10 satisfactory a deep
tunnel win 30 run, the site having been
selected.
The Fontenoy, in Camp Mckinney, has
been bonded to DR.. ]. +. Reddy and as
sociates for $4,000. ten per cent of which
has been paid. This claim is located 100
feet from the famous Cariboo mines and
there Ia S3.foot shaft on the property
there Is S3-fOot shaft on the property.
Among the most promising mines Of the
NEWPORT district in Idaho is the Pride
OF Idaho. The owners Of this property
are running tunnel to tap the vein at
great depth, which they expect to strike
about the first Of February. They are
now in about les feet and sending II
through as fast as two shifts can push ii.
News comes from Republic that good
ore is being encountered in the workings
on the Noble Three Republic group. This
group of claims lies immediately in the
heart of the belt, and within 1900 feet Of
the Republic mine, adjoining the Jumbo,
Anaconda, Dora and Troubadour, and
gives promise of making q good mine.
Ezra Baird and r. ID. Williams returned
to Lewiston recently from Spokane. They
had been called to the mining metropolis,
says the Florence Miner, on deals con-
nected with their Buffalo interests, and
made some transfers for large figures.
The Buffalo Development Co. has ae-
quired additional interests by its late
deals. and is displaying great energy in
developing the interests Of this new el-
dorado.
Krennerite, a mineral not previously
identified from this country, has been
found in the Independence mine at Grip
pie Creek. It occurs in brilliant crystals
OF pale yelOwish bronze color, but tin
white on cleavage faces. Eliminating the
insoluble matter, an analysis shows the
mineral TO contain 43.s6 per cent gold,
0 40 per cent silver, and SIS 50 per cent
tellurium. The crystals are small and
about as broad as long, and the prismAtie
faces are striated. They have a perfect
basal cleavage, which Is a prominent tea'
ture OF the mineral. The lack OF any APP
preciable quantity Of silver in the Grip
pie Greek ores, as shown by the returns
Of the smelters( is proof that much II not
-. III n xais pl
yanite Is either krennerite or its sub spe-
eies, ealverite. krenneTite ranges from
silver white to brass yellow in color, and
is so near sylvanite in its physical prop
critics that frequently the eye cannot dis
tinguish one from the other.-GeOrge-
town (Coloradol Courier.
All the great copper mines Of the Unit
ell States we're discovered by accident
rather than the wit Of man, says the BOa
ton News Bureau. The pigs uncovered
the Calumet 4 Hecla. 4 wandering COW
is responsible for the Quincy. The Tam
araek was a piece Of bull luck by reason
OF the fact that its vertical shaft struck
the Calumet vein in richness. just under
the only large worthless spot found in the
Calumet vein. Had the great tract Of
barren ground separating the Calumet
and the Heela continued a few hundred
feet lower down and made barren the
upper acres OF the incline Of the Tam.
arack property, the TamAraek might
now be OF little account instead ui a
dividend stock as above $500 a share
These remarks are emphasized by tbs
fact that the Tamaraek management
spent some years ago two or three hun
dred thousand dollars to the north Of
Kearsarge trying to hnd the ksarSaTg'
vein on the Seneca and Amesk proper
ties to make thereof q paying eopPei
mine. The effort was fruitless, but I
year ago an overblown tree showed tbs
Ksarsarge vein to be just to the east o.
where il had been looked for in the north
ern properties, and the result Is the Mo
hawk mine, which promises to be a divi
7 dend payer in q few years.