Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-06-28

agree to pay the standard union rate Of
wages.
The Sunset property, in Deadwood
camp, has closed down in order to pre-
pare for the new improved plant that
is to arrive shortly.
A rich strike was made on the Hart
ney, on Silver Mountain, in the SLOGAN,
last week.
A. w. Mcintosh and J. I. Woodrow,
the owners of the Silver Shield on Key
stone Mountain, near Revelstoke, con-
template making trial shipment Of a
carload of ore from the claim to the
Trail smelter.
Preparations are being made by the
Coin Development company to do ex-
tensive work on the Coin Fraction, ad-
joining the Chambers group above Co.
dy, in the SLOGAN.
Billings & Bennett, the owners of the
Yellowstone mine near Salmo, B. c.,
have discovered the Yellowstone vein
on the Yosemite, the northeastern ex-
tension Of the first named property.
Early last week machine drills were
put to work in the shaft of the White
Bear at Rossland, which is now down
to the 250-foot level, and which is to be
deepened to the 350-foot level.
MINING NOTES.
A lead and zinc mine is being opened
at Bristol, New Hampshire.
Location certificates when placed on
record do not require revenue stamps.
A placer location may be made in
contiguous tracts of ten acres each.
Copper and silver ores occur in
quartz porphyry in the Lava Beds dis
trict Of San Bernardino county, Cal.
Land in California more valuable for
limestone or marble than for agricultu-
raj purposes may be located under the
mining laws.
Miners can survey their own claims
with considerable accuracy by using a
common open-sight compass provided
with sights and by taking care in max.
ing accurate measurements.
The Ontario vein at Park City, Utah,
is a vein in qartzite, from which $13,-
559,500 have been paid in dividends.
The Gold Boy group, in eastern Ore
gon, about 80 miles from Baker City,
has ben bonded to the Spokane Coop
erative Mining Company, for 100000
Work is to be commenced at once upon
the property, it being proposed to do as
much development as possible before
the bond comes due next December.
The Tacoma smelter has refused to
enter the big smelter trust and is pre-
pairing instead to double its present ca
pacity, making it the largest smelter
west Of Denver. Negotiations are now
pending between the owners of the Ev-
erett smelter and the promoters of the
smelter trust. AS yet no definite ar
rangements have been made whereby
the Everett smelter will join the trust.
The Tacoma smelter now has a capaci-
ty of 100 tons daily. With proposed
Improvements it will be able to handle
$50 tons daily, making it the second
largest in the country.
l.. M. johnson and Henry Summer
camp, of Weiser, Idaho, have returned
to Boise from a trip beyond Banner
They went to examine mine there
The gentlemen bonded the property
and say 1t is one of the richest gold
bearing claims they have ever seen. A
gold ledge has been opened. They
brought down 400 pounds of the ore, in
which gold can be seen with the naked
eye. The ore goes several thousand
dollars to the ton, and rivals even the
richest of Buffalo Hump.
A recent land decision is as follows:
On the death of homesteader, leaving
widow and heirs, the widow takes the
homestead right of her husband free
from any claim on behalf of the heirs,
and is vested with full power to COM
plete the entry for her own benefit or
to relinquish the same If she so elects.
A survey Of mining claim made be-
fore the date of recording the location
of the claim cannot be regarded as the
official survey contemplated by law.
When estimating the $500 worth OF
work necessary to secure patent, any
work done by former owners who had
abandoned their claim can not be con.
sidered as part of the expenditure.
A mining claim is not subject to re-
location by other parties until an aban.
donment by the original owners Is es-
tablished. Noncompliance with the
laws, federal and local, constitutes an
abandonment.