Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-01-04

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main tunnel that will assay across the
face $45 in gold and copper. The width
Of the vein is not known, but the own
ers estimate, based on the surface show
ing, that 1t is no less than 30 feet.
Mining Notes.
The Ruth, in SLOGAN, has been shipping
steadily all summer and fall.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
Company declared dividend of 81, 900.
A number of Murray miners got em.
ployment at the Burton during last week.
The mining industry in the Newport
district, Idaho, is advancing in impor-
tance.
The Transvaal, South Africa, yielded
$57 ,5SS,6l0 in gold for the first nine
months of this year.
The dredge that has been in operation
near Warm Springs, Idaho, yielded $240
a day above expenses.
William Dashley has bonded the Tiger
lode in the Garnet district for $4,000 and
is sinking on the ledge
The first cleanup Of the Athabasca mill
produced gold brick valued at nearly
5000 in 2S-day run.
Michigan's great copper producer, the
Calumet & Hecla, has paid to date a total
Of $55, $4,000 in dividends.
Crows Nest Coal shares advanced SO
TO $40 during last month. None, however
are being offered at that figure.
Three tons of ore from the Pathfinder,
in the Boundary district, were taken to
Trail last week for a smelter test.
The first gold quartz mine operated in
California with machinery is claimed for
Col. Chiffon, near Placerville, in ls40.
The Homestake in the Black Hills, 8.
Dakota, has paid total in dividends Of
T,llS,750 and the Highland $3,784,7ls.
Two strong companies are said to be
negotiating for the Enterprise mine near
| Silverton. The owners value it at $780,
900.
The Roszana Mining Company has let
contract for $1,000 worth of work on
the property of the company in Republic
camp.
The Tiger Poorman Mining Company
Of Burke has declared its December .divi-
dend OF two cents a share, amounting to
$4,000.
The Payne, Of the SLOGAN, has shipped
about $1,000 tons Of high grade ore the
past year, which it is claimed will net the
owners 800 per ton.
Messrs. Ross and Fox have purchased
the Williams and Bell stage system, which
has been running between Grand Forks
and Marcus and Bossburg, Wash.
The wages paid by the lie Roi mine last
month was s27 900, and other expenses Of
running amounted to $1,000 more. The
number Of men then employed was 800.
The director OF the U. S. mint estimates
that the increase this year In the gold
production Of the United States, South
Africa and Australia will be $4,000 900
over that Of 1897.
. Republic camp is becoming popular In
Toronto. The daily papers Of that city
TEEN with advertisements OF brokers and
operators who have stocks and mining
interests in the camp for sale.
| The Last Chance, Frisco, Standard, You
Like, Morning, Black Bear and Mammoth
no doubt also pay dividends this month,
but they are not made public in most in.
stances until the close Of the year.
It is reported that 9.foot ledge was
struck in the Little Spokane tunnel, Troy,
Montana, district, Of which feet is ship
ping ore. Should the report be verified,
it will greatly stimulate mining In that
locality.
1t is reported that rich strike was
made in the 600-foot level Of the Lucky
Boy mine at Custer, Idaho,. last week.
The ore body is said to be nearly four feet
in width and runs from $I25 to $3.50 in
gold per ton.
The Morning Glory at Republic is far
richer than ever. Free gold glistens all
over the rock. The immensity Of the
strike almost surpasses belief. Specimens
taken from the shaft last week will assay
away up in the thousands.
The Crystal mine, half mile from Fort
Spokane, near the mouth Of the Spokane
river, is showing full face of galena ore
which runs 1928 across the ledge as far as
opened. This is the news which Superin.
tendent Gray brings down from the
property.
Work on the tunnel Of the coal mine
being developed by Messrs. James q Hop
per, on John Leavelps place, short dis
tance from Castle Rock, is reported TO be
progressing nicely, while the quality Of
coal is gradually growing better as great
er depth is reached, and Is said to be the
equal Of any coal mined in the state with,
perhaps, the one exception Of the Roslyn
mine.
While washing wagon wheel in Shirt
Tail gulch, twelve miles south Of Durkee,
on the Q. R. L n, thirty-eight miles from
Baker City, Or, the two Reteliff brothers
noticed colors Of gold in the dirt. They
Immediately started to wash out the
neighboring ground, and in three days
took out 1864 with rocker.
A number Of prominent mining men in
the Ruby and Slate Creek districts are
agitating proposition TO build state
wagon road from Marblemount, in Skagit
county to Methow, q distance Of sixty
miles. This would open up one Of the
wealthiest mining districts in the state TO
development, and would be Of great bene-
| at 10 the miners, as well as TO the state.
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This has been the best ice season that
western Montana has even seen. The
Northern Pacific Ice harvest that Ia being
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