Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-30

tnat the year 1898 was very prosper
GUS one for the mineral industry, the
production in nearly all the important
substances being the greatest ever re-
corded. The total value of the mineral
production of the United States in 1898
was $709,S16,750, against $64s,S04,S99
in 1897. OF the production in 1898
1914, $50 was the value of metals
against $272,17S,392 in the previous
year, and $433,659,141 of ores and min
erals against $407, 913.912 in 1897.
Republic.
Samson shaft is at last under devel-
opment.
Four men are employed on the Gold
en- Harvest tunnel. 1t is in 80 feet.
a double compartment shaft has
been completed on the Ben Tillman.
Princess Maud will soon be fully
equipped as the machinery is on the
way.
Development work has started on
the Baltimore and Boston.
Superintendent Yeargin has just com
pleted running 80 feet of tunnel on the
Rambler claim.
Work has been started on the Lucky
Boy and men will be employed in
shaft all winter.
The whole face of the south drift
runs about $40 in the Tom Thumb. The
ore body is reported 10 be showing
steady improvement in the drift
The station that was cut in the Chi
co shaft when the drift was started to
cut the ledge from the 200-foot level, is
being timbered.
The Quilp has 40 feet of fine quartz
in the cross cut from the 5O-foot level
in the Wine. The values remain as
previously reported, being an average
of about SIT per ton.
The Butte & Boston shaft Is down
So feet and has passed into the foot
wall, on which there was encountered
two and half feet of very fine looking
quartz.
The tunnel of the Copper Mountain
mine is in $50 feet and has passed
through two-foot stringer of sugar
quartz, which is heavily impregnated
with iron pyrite.
The Merrimac shaft, on the Lee Frac-
ton ground of the Merrimac company,
Is down 100 feet, and the sinking Is
progressing as usual, but the ground is
becoming harder.
The Republic Reduction Company
has completed its blacksmith shop, of
fee and storehouse buildings and has
a good force of men framing timbers
for the mill structure. The grading is
finished and ready for the mill, and
the foundations have been laid. A
good deal of the machinery Is in tran
sit from Denver The company expects
to have the mill building up by the
middle of January, and the mill will
be in full operation by the latter part
OF February, provided that the bad
condition of the roads between Marcus,
Grand Forks and Republic does not
present too many obstacles.
A tunnel 10 feet IN length has been
run on the Penn ledge. The Penn is
the property of the War Eagle company
and lies near the Rambler. on the west
side of Granite creek, and east of the
Ben Tillman.
British Columbia
Rossland capitalists have bought the
Old Abe claim in the Fort Steele dis
trict
The Evening Star has been reorgan-
lied under the laws of British Colum-
bia-
A strike on the City OF Paris in Cen
trail camp, has been made at the 300
foot level.
Durant keeps the Sheep creek falls,
much to the disappointment of couple
of rival claimants.
The Burnt Basin district is coming to
the front, and from the number of
leads of good ore that are being found
there, 1t would seem that it has a fu-
ture of no small Importance before it.
A rich strike has been made on the
Iron Mask at Rossland. The Wine cut
the vein at the 400 level. The fun size
of the strike is not yet determined, but
100 feet above this point the vein was
81 feet wide. The first assay of the Dor
ings shows satisfactory values.
J. B. Macintosh of the B. G.. mine,
Summit camp. states that within a few
weeks 40 men will be needed at the
mine to sort ore on the dumps, Regu.
lar shipments will then be made to the
Trail smelter. The main working shaft
has attained a depth of 220 feet.
The machinery for the stamp mill at
the Bunker Hill mine near Waneta has
arrived with the exception of one car
load. AS large amount of ore is al
ready in sight, 1t has been determined
to temporarily suspend the develop
ment work until the mill is ready to
treat the ore.
The long crosscut on the Big Horn,