The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-22
MINES and MINING CAMPS
METALS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Items From the Rich Regions of the Pa
cifc Northwest, News FROM All the
PRINCIPLE Mining Csmps-Psrsonals-
Mining Notes


aster of a mine and its product. 1t is
a very common occurrence that gold
mine. at depth, becomes silver mine;
and a silver mine runs into copper,
and that poor expectations run into
unexpectedly rich realizations, an In
stance of which is the experience of the
Utah Consolidated as a gold mine its
stock sold at 81. 80 per share; now 1t is
a copper mine and its stock sells at $50
per share.
Green McKeever has started to build
a $4,000 dredging plant at Old's Ferry
four miles east of Huntington, Oregon.
They are placing material on the
ground and will commence active OPP
erations on the boat this week. They
intend to dredge the bars of the Snake
river below ODDS Ferry for distance
of four or five miles.
A rich strike of copper ore is report
ed on the Highland King claim, recent
assays going $211 in gold, silver and
copper. The property is situated on
Diorite creek, % miles from Fort
Steele.
1t is announced that w. S. Stratton
has sold his famous Cripple Creek
mine, the Independence, to company
of London capitalists. The price 1t not
stated. but Is believed to be not less
than s20,000,000.
The directors and some of the princi-
pal stockholders of the Amador Copper
Mining Company have returned to
Wallace from a visit to the company's
property, near Iron mountain. They
we're so we'll satisfied with the pros
poets there that they located five more
claims on the same ledge, giving the
company seven quartz claims and one
placer-the latter being equivalent to
a good mill site.
A correspondent was up to the Six
teen to One" near Wallace, during last
week, and found that there had been
mo exaggeration in the previous re-
ports, but that it was even greater
than had been represented. In fact, 1t
is unknown as yet how great it is, as
the ledge has never been crosscut.
The largest tin mine in the world is
believed to be that on the island OF SUI
10 Brani, in the bay of Singapore, pro-
ducing monthly over 1000 tons OF tin.
Among other unique forms of gold
mining" will appear this season
force of miners working In diving
suits in the Sacramento river, Cal, be
tween Redding and Kerswick.
The steady advance in the price OF
materials that go into the manufacture
of machinery must necessarily have
the effect of raising the cost of this
ri q6.
vances are as We. noted.
The output of Capt. DeLamar's Mer
cur (Utah) mines, that has already
reached 600 tons daily, is to be in
creased to 900, and to that end the en-
largement of the roasting plant is to
be commenced within few days.
The report is current in the copper
country that the Calumet & Hecla Is
going to cease sinking and adding new
levels, and will confine its efforts tC
the stopping of ground already opened
AS the report goes, the company has
enough ground opened to keep then
busy for ten or twelve years, and they
will rush production while copper is
selling at high prices. The bulls prob
ably have been too enthusiastic in cred
iting the mine having enough territor!
opened to last a dozen years withou
opening new ground. Calumet & Hec
la sends out not far from 100000
tons of rock annually. Multiply thi
by IL and it gives a total that means
considerable in the way of cubic fee
of ground. There is no question Blu
that the company could increase 1T
output considerably for the coming few
years if it cared to do so, but its polio,
has generally been a conservative one
Iron ore.
L. T. Mitchell, who has had charg
of the work of the Blue Jacket mine il
the Seven Devils district, Idaho, was il
Boise last week. He told most in
teresting story of what has been don
there and of the showing made by tn
mine. His statement discloses tn
fact that the Blue Jacket is one of tn
remarkable copper mines of the cour
try. He says they drove the crosscu
tunnel $50 feet to reach the ledge, GU
ting the latter at depth of 80 fee
They found the vein to be % feet wide
between we'll defined walls. There
a streak of five feet of what Mr.. Mitcl
ell terms solid copper" The ore
very nearly pure metal and runs froI
80 to 80 per cent copper The remain
der of the 22 feet of the ledge run
from 8 to 10 per cent copper.
A gasoline hosting engine is bein
installed at the Ivanhoe, in the Slocal
1t will be used at the Wine which
he unfr