The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-06
the San Poll mine is again running in

feet.
The entire bottom of the Mabel shaft |
is in SIT ore.
Surface work is still in progress on !
the Surprise claim.
The Insurgent claim is down 20 feet
and is passing into the footwall.
The Republic mine is looking as usu-
al, and is in a fine quality of ore.
Work has pee. resumed on the Gold
en- Chariot and Golden Chest claims.
The Gold Leaf tunnel is in 420 feet.
Zinc air pipes are being put in for ven
tilation.
The drllt on the Summit-Republic is
being advanced about four feet each
"a hours.
The Kate Hayward tunnel is in 1873
feet and has about 81 feet more to run
to cut the vein.
The Princess Maud is still looking
fine and there is no indication of any
break or pinching.
The shaft on the Delta is being sunk
rapidly. The ledge is reported as look
ing as well as ever.
A fine showing is being made on the
several veins of the Black Tail mine,
by stripping and sinking.
Four cuts have been made on the
Dora vein, which show strong and
we'll defined ledge of quartz, from 8 to
10 feet in width.
The management of the Mabel mine
feet of s66 ore at the bottom of the
shaft.
The Dora crosscut is in about eight
feet but no quartz is visible. 1t is not
improbable that the ledge is still %
feet away.
The Reindeer tunnel is still being
driven and has attained a length of
nearly 200 feet 1t is believed that
the ledge is not far from so feet dis
tant.
British Columbia.
A contract has been let for sinking
the shaft of the Arlington in the Slo-
can country, another 100 feet.
Work on the Golden Wedge on Lem
on creek in the SLOGAN is still under
way, and they intend starting up theil
new stamp mill this week.
The lead stack at the Hall Mines
smelter at Nelson, which has beer
running for some days, is giving every
satisfaction, and the big copper bias
furnace will be blown in at the end o.
the month.
The parties having the contract fol
the 140 feet of tunnel on the Minnie
NJ, near Fort Steele, have completed
their contract. They report that thu
property is looking we'll and that Their
is eight feet of galena and carbonates
, that recent assays give a total value o
$84 to the ton.
The Noble Five concentration wa
expected to commence work about tn
1st of May.
: Information has been received fror
: an authoritative source that the Mont
Chisto mine at Rossland will resum
: operations in a few weeks. The prof.
erty was shut down in September las
: for the purpose of being examined
The result of the examination by tn
expert has not yet been made public.
The owners have been prosecutin
/ the work on the Calumet and Hecla i
the SLOGAN, all winter. They hav
driven a crosscut in 220 feet, cuttin
the ledge at ITO feet depth, where tn
ledge is 80 feet wide.
The Nickle Plate, at Rossland, dul
ing SO days in February and Marc
last with two machines working tw
shifts, drove TIC feet, an average @
over six feet day being accomplished
: Preparations are now being made o
. the Josie, near Rossland, to resum
: sinking in the 300-foot shaft, and low
,, er levels will be reached as rapidly a
possible.
The Antoine, in the SLOGAN, has n
: sumed work with a fairly large force
: The hoisIIng machinery at the Dun
dee mine, near Ymir, is now in ruI
ming order.
, The amount of the weekly shil
ments from the Rambler-Cariboo ha
been doubled and another dividend
expected June LIST.