The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-02-11
MINES and MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES,
Items CLEANED From the Late Reports
All Districts Are Being DevelOped-A
Prosperous Year IL Notwithstanding
Notes and Personals.

1t has been estimated ON good authority
that the output from Ymir will be close
ON 1000 tons for the month OF February
from the six shipping mines. viz; Ymir,
Dundee, Porto Rico, Tamarac, Blackjack
and Fern. In the summer there will also
have to be taken into calculation the
Fairmont, Bullion, Wilcox, Big Horn
(Simeoe) and Union Jack, all OF which
will be shippers. Ymir's future looms out
very brightly, as big interest win be TAX
en- in the camp as soon as the news
reaches London
hattie 20 Buffalo Hump.
There is considerable talk among local
miners and prospeetors about the Buff
falo Hump country and there is certain to
be small exodus from Butte in that di-
rection when the winter is little further
gone. Most of them will try to get in
before the snow is of the ground, as 1t
is comparatively easy travelling to the
almost impossible mud which comes
later.
U. $. Geld Imports.
The U. S. gold imports for the year
1898 were Sl5S,036,252 and the exports
$l6,lp4,954, or an excess of gold imports
in 1898 of Sl4l, Sal .29S, as compared with
an excess OF gold exports in 1897 Of $685.
SOC. The silver imports for the year 1898
were $50 ,Ose724 and the exports SIS,
lO4, an excess of silver exports OF ga
Td7 $50, As compared with an excess OF
silver exports in 1897 OF $25,57s,9SO.
Boa,On a Montana Dividend.
The Boston L Montana company win
reach the $4,000, 900 dividend mark be-
fore spring. Last Friday the directors
declared regular dividend OF 81 per
share. payable Feb, 20, to stockholders OF
record Jan. ~. This last dividend brings
the total dividend disbursements OF this
company up to the magnificent sum Of
$9,S75, 900. At the present price OF cop
per it is calculated that the company will
pay $24 per share this year. In 1898 the
company paid Sl6, and expended large
sum in improvements
The Sullivan strike.
News came in that an unlocked for
strike was recently made on the Sullivan
group properties at Fort Steele. b, C., dis
closing big ledge OF galena carrying cop
per and gold. 1t has not been determined
yet by assay the relative quantities and
values thereof, but the principal stock,
holders are laying low and are quietly
gathering up all the stock they can hnd
There IS no treasury stock now on the
81 = ~ h..l IA
ers, amongst whom are Col. VIM. Rid,
path, Frank Hogan, George Turner and
Ed Saunders, say that they would not
part with their holdings at anything less
than par-one dollar per share.
The Ria BunnIO Ledge.
The ledge on the Big Buffalo is said 70
| be ~ feet wide and 30 feet vi it will aver
age $50 per ton, while 10 feet will go $50
( A mill test OF the ore taken from a 10,
( foot hole sunk about the center Of the
ledge made at the Banner mill in Flor.
enee plated s20 per ton in gold. The con
eentrates were shipped to Tacoma and the
return was SRA in gold and sixty ounces
silver per ton. At Murray seventeen
property transfers we're placed on the
county records last week. OF these Sly
were for the nominal consideration Of 81
each, but the total Of the seventeen wa
| $685. 81. The Occur dAlenes are >,
we'll covered with old surface location.
that there has been little room for th'
tunnel site man TO get in his work, anC
claims of that nature are seldom recorded
r. ii. Britt, Mgr. Poorman mine at Silve
City, says the outlook for the Poorman /
brighter than it has been for years, an,
will soon again be a steady producer. Tn
mine has been thoroughly developed. A
depth Of 300 feet, $50 feet below the oil,
workings, a vein I to ) feet wide wa
encountered. From this $50 tons Of high
grade free milling ore was extracted anC
milled last year while the development
proceeded.