The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-02-11

owners, the Gold Bug Co., to an Eng
lish syndicate represented by p. c. Stoess
The advance in lead from about So 30
TO 81 40 will enable a great many silver
mines in this country and in Colorado TO
resume operations, and should the prices
hold up a few weeks more will see ac-
tivity in the galena camps.
The Spotted Horse and Lone Star min
eral claims situated on Red mountain at
Ymir, have been sold for $500 by T. A.
Coutts to Hank Noll, both of Porto Rico
Siding. The transfer has been recorded
in the gold commissioners office at Mel
son.
j. H. Spiking last Monday put force
of men to work on the Josie, Big Horn
and Little Giant claims in Sheridan camp,
lying about mile south of Snyder's camp
and near the Uncle Sam. This group is
owned by a Trail, B. c., company.
The Reindeer Gold Mining Co. of Re
public has been working continually and
has tunnel in seventy five feet, with an
approximate distance of forty-fve feet
more to the ledge, when the ledge will be
cut at depth of Ninety feet
A crew of men have started to work on
the Tenasket claim, about three miles
southeast of Republic. A short tunnel
will be run to tap the lead so feet deep
and if the result is satisfactory a deep
tunnel will be run, the site having been
selected.
The Fontenoy, in Camp Mckinney, has
been bonded to DR.. j. f. Reddy and as
sociates for $4,000, ten per cent of which
has been paid. This claim is located l20
feet from the famous Cariboo mines and
there is S3-foot shaft on the property
there is 83-foot shaft on the property.
Among the most promising mines of the
Newport district in Idaho is the Pride
of Idaho. The owners of this property
are running a tunnel to tap the vein at a
great depth, which they expect to strike
about the first of February They are
now in about l25 feet and sending it
through as fast as two shifts can push it
News comes from Republic that good
ore is being encountered in the workings
on the Noble Three Republic group. This
group of claims lies Immediately in the
heart of the belt, and within 1900 feet OF
the Republic mine, adjoining the Jumbo
Anaconda, Dora and Troubadour, and
gives promise of making a good mine.
The Twin Sisters NINE near Centerville
has been secured by Pittsburg people in
terested in the Trade Dollar at Silver
City. The new management is working
a number of men. 1t is the intention t.
explore the property during the winter
and if it proves as good as it now indi
Gates, large mill will be erected. Their,
is 5-stamp mill on the property.
Ezra Baird and r. D. Williams returned
to Lewiston recently from Spokane. They
had been called to the mining metropolis
says the Florence Miner, on deals con
nected with their Buffalo interests, anC
made some transfers for large figures
. The Buffalo Development Co. has ac
quired additional interests by its lat
deals, and is displaying great energy il
developing the interests of this new ell
dorado.
Krennerite, a mineral not previously
identified from this country, has beer
found in the Independence mine at Grip
pie Creek. 1t occurs in brilliant crystal
, of pale yelowish bronze color, but tin
white on cleavage faces. Eliminating tn
insoluble matter, an analysis shows tn
mineral TO contain 1896 per cent gold
2 0 as per cent silver, and So SO per cen
tellurium. The crystals are small am
about as broad as long, and the prismati
e faces are striated. They have a perfec
5 basal cleavage, which is prominent Tea
\ ture of the mineral. The lack of any ap
e preciable quantity of silver in the Grip
( pie Creek ores, as shown by the return
of the smelters( is proof that much if no
; nearly all of the mineral passing as syl
, vanite is either krennerite or its sub-spe
cies, calverite. Krennerite ranges fror
2 silver white to brass-yellow in color, an
1 is so near sylvanite in its physical prop
critics that frequently the eye cannot dis
tinguish one from the Other.-George
town Colorado Courier.
I All the great copper mines of the Unit
e ed States We're discovered by acciden
{ rather than the wit of man, says the Boz
! ton News Bureau. The pigs uncovere
5 the Calumet & Hecla. A wandering COY
is responsible for the Quincy. The Tan
/ arack was piece of bull luck by reaso
{ of the fact that its vertical shaft struc
the Calumet vein in richness, just unde
the only large worthless spot found in tn
Calumet vein. Had the great tract {
D barren ground separating the Calume