Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-07-07

Centre Star .......... ZoV Liz
/ Totals ............ .2,641 61,S9
The machinery for the Orc Denero II
Summit Camp has arrived at the mine
Twenty-Five carloads Of ore wer'
shipped from the Enterprise, In thu
SLOGAN, last week.
Machinery is being arranged for an(
during next month the Cliff mine, II
the Rossland district, will be running
full force.
The men are still busy timbering thu
shaft down to the 20O-foot level on the
Gertrude at Rossland.
The Porto Rico mill, in the SLOGAN
started June goth.
The Sunset property, in Deadwood
camp, has closed down in order to pre-
pare for the new improved plant thai
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
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
SOhIl6uOuo II dSIO VI lCn al C0 CdCu.
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 vein In qartzite, from which 3d.
559,5OO 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
'melter trust. AS yet no definite ar
engagements have been made whereby
he Everett smelter will join the trust.
The Tacoma smelter now has a capaci-
" OF 100 tons daily. With proposed
improvements it will be able to handle
500 tons daily, making it the second
argest in the country.
l.. M. johnson and Henry Summer.
amp, of Weiser, Idaho, have returned
% Boise from trip beyond Banner.
Chey went to examine a mine there.
me gentlemen bonded the property
Ind say it is one of the richest gold.
'earing claims they have ever seen. A
'old ledge has been opened. They
'rought down 400 pounds of the ore, in
Which gold can be seen with the naked
we. The ore goes several thousand
lollars to the ton, and rivals even the
lchest of Buffalo Hump.
A recent land decision is as follows.
IN the death Of homesteader, leaving
widow and heirs, the widow takes the
homestead right Of her husband free
rom any claim on behalf of the heirs
nd Is vested with full power to com.
'lete the entry for her own benefit or
relinquish the same If she SO elects
When estimating the $500 worth of
york necessary to secure patent anv
york done by former owners who had |
their claim can not be con.
ldered as part of the expenditure.
A survey OF mining claim made be-
pre- the date of recording the location
the claim cannot be regarded as the
fncial survey contemplated by law.
A mining claim is not subject to re.
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