The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-16

The hex mine, near Sumpter, Ore,
was sold to the Consolidated Mines AS
sociation of London last week. The
price is not made public
More or less work on the claims in
Wilmot camp, near Keller, Wash, has
been done this season. Wilmot camp
is named in honor of Lew Wilmot,
county commissioner for the South
Half district.
The collection for the mineral exhi6-
it from Dixie. Idaho, for Spokane is
fast nearing completion. 1t contains
some large collections of high grade
ore, and will make a creditable show
ing for the camp.
The Treasure Box property is the lat
est sensation at Bossburg, Wash. ow-
ing to the fact that a shoot of high
grade gold quartz has just been encoun-
tered in its upper tunnel, which is now
in about so feet.
The development work on the ALI
ance, on Toloman mountain, near Kel-
Ter, Wash. is progressing with entire
satisfaction. The drift at the end of
the lower tunnel will soon encounter IA
body of splendid galena and copper ore.
The Montreal parties who bonded the
Father lode also secured three or four
other claims in the immediate vicinity,
giving them one of the best groups on
Sunset Peak, in the Ceur d'Alenes.
They have already started to get things
in shape to work.
A deal has been closed in Denver by
which an English syndicate purchases
for $500 900 cash the property of the
Big Five Mining Company at Ward,
Col The properties include the Niwot,
Dew Drop, Columbia and other we'll
known gold producers.
Great activity is being shown this
year in all the mining camps along the
Methow Valley, Wash. From Slate
creek, just across the summit of the
Cascades, to the mouth of the Methow
money is being put into the mines and
work is in progress upon dozens oil
properties.
A vein of coal eight feet across has
just been uncovered on the Taenum, the
mining district recently discovered 20
miles west of Ellensburg, Wash. The
coal was found in the contact between
the mineral and sandstone. and tests
have shown it to be of excellent quail
ity for blacksmiths' use.
The Nespelium country west of Kel-
Ter, Wash, has of late given to the dis
| trict a strike of more than ordinary
Importance. A prospect of few months
ago, admittedly promising one, now
ranks as a shipper and promises to
make that section famous. The prop
erty is the now famous Stephenson
claim.
One of the most important mining
deals in the history of the southern
Oregon mines has just been completed
at Ashland. The Montreal & Oregon
Gold Mines (limited), Canadian cor
poration of which Charles G. Griffith is
manager, has purchased the Ashland
mine for consideration understood to
be 100000.
Sumpter camp will have a mining
exhibit at the Spokane exposition. Ev-
cry one is enthusiastic over the affair.
There is great excitement as the re-
suit of discoveries made in Plumbago
canyon by Colorado miners. The camp
is about 25 miles north of Laramie,
Wyo., and II men have been employed
for some weeks. A carload of the ore
was sent to Denver and returns show
so to 20 per cent copper and eight
ounces of silver to the ton. A large
number of mining men have gone to
Plumbago canyon and staked OF
|, claims.
The Last Chance mine at Saltese, in
, the Ceur d'Alenes, shipped two cars oil
ore last week, which a couple of leas
ers have taken out during the spring
and summer. The U. S. mine, adjoin
ing it, shipped one car few days ago
These two mines have been shipping
occasionally for six or eight years
generally being worked by leasers, ant
they have proven valuable properties
The ore is mainly a carbonate, with
r more or less gray copper and yields
from 500 to $3.50 per ton above freight
and smelter charges.
, Interest in the Badger creek gold DIS
trict, 40 miles up the Boise river, wa;
revived by the result of development
work that has been made since the dis
covery of the district A tunnel ha.
been run 127 feet, cutting the Copper
Queen lode 80 feet deep. 1t has opened
Il feet of ore which carries an average
, value of about $50 in gold, while mucl
/ of it is very high grade. The walls are
granite we'll defined, and the vein gives
, every indication of being valuable
! Some little prospecting has been don,
+ in addition, and the results indicate
great gold district.