The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-02-04
And yet the limit

40 per cent over 1897. And yet the limit
has not been reached.
There IL quite snow blockade report
ed along the line Of the roads and trails
in the Palmer mountain country, mails
for the camp being piled up at Bridge
port and Coulee City.
The Myers creek country is rapidly
coming to the front, rich strikes are be-
ing reported from there, and mining gen.
orally is improving as the county is de-
veloped.
The Mephisto Co. reports that in min.
ing an open cut on their claim on Klon-
dixie mountain, "a miles northeast of Re-
public, they found boulders which assay
over $4,000 in gold.
A two-inch seam Of quartz has been
encountered in the Dora shaft at Repub-
lie. 1t assays $l,O37.83 per ton. This
shaft, it is estimated, will cut the ledge
within q week.
Confirmation of the recent strike in the
drift on the 2O0-foot level in the Evening
Star has been received. The vein has
widened from three to six feet, and
sample taken across the face assayed $780,
Fifteen men are at work on the Lin.
coin and City of Paris, in Central camp,
Boundary district. The SO0-foot tunnel
is in over 600 feet, and it is expected the
ledge will be reached about the middle
of March.-Ex.
The Cleveland Mining Company, of
Springdale, WASH, is shipping supplies
and lumber daily to the Cleveland mine.
Foreman McGrath says he expects the
boiler, hoist, pump and other machinery
to arrive shortly.
The Yellow jacket properties on Mey-
ers Creek have been re-locaed by the
Ruth Gold Mining 4 Milling Company.
The new company expect to do considera-
BILE development work on the property
early in the spring
Reports from the Copper Mountain
continue to be most favorable. Work on
the winze is still in progress, which has
now reached depth of eighty feet. The
ore that is taken out is Of the same grade
as for some time past.
W. J. Vaughn is just down from Bodie
camp on Toroda creek. Mr.. Vaughn
brings quite lot Of fine looking samples
from Bodie and Trilby camps and reports
some work going on this month. At
Sheridan camp the Snyder properties are
working two shifts.
The Nickel Plate has 20 feet OF good
copper ore running from $l8 to $40. The
Columbia Kootenay has big body of
$l8 ore and on the No and Josie dumps
ore is rapidly accumulating for shipment
this spring. These properties belong to
the B. A. c. and are in the Rossland camp.
The Kalispell Inter-L Lake hopes, and ex-
poets, the coming spring to record the
opening of big quartz claim within a
short distance of Kalispell. Some loca-
tons were made late in the fall that will
develop into big mine if the promise of
assays from the surface rock is fulfilled
by later development.
The gold output Of the Pierce City dis
trict, in Idaho, for 1898, is estimated by
the mining men Of that district at $751;
600. This amount shows decrease of
about $4,000 from the output of 1897,
which was fixed at about 100000. This
decrease is attributed to the increased
activity in the line of developing quartz
propositions, which has had tendency
to detract from placer enterprises, the
main source Of the gold output.
ut can now be definitely settled that
the much talked of consolidation of sew
eral Butte copper concerns has been vir-
tually settled. It comes to us from pri-
vate source in Boston that the Rockefel-
Ter interests had virtually succeeded in
getting control of the Boston & Montana
company, also that Of the Butte & Boston
and Montana Ore Purchasing company.
If this is true, F. Augustus Heinze will
return to Butte as general manager of
the above mentioned companies. This is
the best news that has come to Butte for
many years. In Mr.. Heinze the consoli-
dalton syndicate has the very best man
obtainable, and all Butte rejoices in the
selection. This will settle litigation that
has hampered this camp for the past few
months, which alone will be worth much
to us, let alone the fact that future opera
tions Of these mammoth properties is now
assured, and apparently free from the
stock jobbing elements that have always
been more or less connected with the Bos.
ton end."-Western Mining World.