The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-01
shipments for the week ending June


Centre Star ........... ESQ 1,195
Totals z,o4l ol,o5f
The machinery for the Orc Denero in
Summit Camp has arrived at the mine.
Twenty-Five carloads of ore were
shipped from the Enterprise, in the
SLOGAN, last week.
Machinery is being arranged for and
during next month the Cliff mine, in (
the Rossland district, will be running
full force.
The men are still busy timbering the
shaft down to the 200-foot level on the
Gertrude at Rossland.
The Porto Rico mill. in the SLOGAN,
started June Goth.
A report from Ymir says it is only
question of few days when the Ymir
Gold Mines Ltd, the only mine in that
district holding out for $500. will
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 ]. I. Woodrow,
the owners of the Silver Shield on Key
stone Mountain, near Revelstoke, con-
template making a 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 25O-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
1 limestone or marble than for agricultu-
raj purposes may be located under the
1 mining laws.
= Miners can survey their own claims
r with considerable accuracy by using a
: common open-sight compass provided
5 with sights and by taking care in max
ing accurate measurements.
r The Ontario vein at Park City, Utah
>. is vein in qartzite, from which $13,
2 $50 500 have been paid in dividends.
b.. The Gold Boy group, in eastern Ore
1 gon, about 80 miles from Baker City,
r 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
o 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 trip beyond Banner
! They went to examine a mine there
: The gentlemen bonded the property
and say it is one of the richest gold
\ bearing claims they have ever seen.
:, gold ledge has been opened. They
\ brought down 400 pounds of the ore, IL
% which gold can be seen with the nakeC
- eye. The ore goes several THOUSAND
dollars to the ton, and rivals even tn
/, richest of Buffalo Hump.
10 A recent land decision is as follows
= On the death of homesteader, leaving
a widow and heirs, the widow takes tn
n homestead right of her husband fire
10 from any claim on behalf of the heirs
- and is vested with full power to con
plete the entry for her own benefit o
o to relinquish the same If she so elects
o,,rxav Of q mining claim made n,