The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-06

the line of the Red Mountain Railway.
was started a few days since and a
trial run of four days had. The ma
chinery worked we'll.
long tunnel on the Ymir is to be
run 5000 feet to tap the rich ore bodies.
1t will be large enough for two car
tracks and will form the main working
entrance to the mine. Development is
to start on the Hillside group on Round
mountain.
The annual report of the Hall Mines
Company has just been presented in
London, and, somewhat to the surprise
of the shareholders, no dividend is to
be paid this year. The profits made,
however, have been fully as large as in
previous years.
The Nickel Plate, at Rossland, is run
ming with a full force. Two compart-
ments of the new shaft having been
sunk to the 400-foot level the third
compartment is being raised from that
level to the surface. AS soon as this
is done sinking will be resumed in all
three compartments.
The electric hoists are being assem-
bled and installed in the Black Bear
tunnel and at the Josie shaft, at Ross
land, and are expected to be in run
ming order within two weeks. The ex-
cavation for the hoist and the shaft
station in the No. 6 tunnel of the Co
lumbia-Kootenay is nearly finished.
The department of mines of the prov
ince of British Columbia has forward
| Oh af due
for exhibition in the provincial section
of the Paris exposition. The gold is
representative of all British Column
bias creeks, and among the specimens
is a nugget worth $4,000 from Storm
creek, Cariboo.
MINING NOTES.
In the Cascade range, 20 miles north
of Gle Elm. are the Mount Stewart
mines. The ores are copper-gold.
A big strike on the Alamo was re
Gently made at Sumpter. Ore. Seven
feet of quartz with visible gold
throughout.
Another rich blind lead was struck
last week on the Iconoclast, near Kel
Ter. The extent or richness of it has
not been determined.
There is accommodating evidence that
the Miller mountain gold district
northeast of Boise, discovered last
, summer. is one of the best found in
this state.
The town of Buffalo, it is reported
now has one resident-the postmaster
In this connection it is said he is get
ting so tired of himself that he is go
: ing to move.
The Mammoth concentrator at Wal
q lace, Idaho, is nearly finished, only ;
few connections of spouts being yet t,
be made. The water has been turnet
on the wheels and the machinery Il
o running to get the roughness off Will
the jigs and spouts are soaking up t
\ stop leaks.
, 1t is reliably stated that the Decem
Der output of the Bonanza mine will
! be tie greatest in the history of tina
4 great producing property, which in on
s instance not long since cleaned up il
o one month nearly 100000 says tn
n Baker City Democrat.
n News reached the Office of the Re
n cut which is running from the bottom
I of 60-foot shaft near Keller was il
l. AZ feet with no sign of wall and SOLE
q copper ore all the way. The ore look
6 alike and it is said to show values quit
a uniform and sufficiently high to max
4. shipping possible. The mine is consid
o cred one of the wonders of the soutl
l. half.
q The Boston Montana Mining Com
n pany has brought suit in the distric
4 court against the Montana Ore Pun
d chasing Company to recover 100000
n. value of the, ore alleged to have bee
J. taken from veins of the Pennsylvani
claim by the defendant concern in tn
last four years. This is looked upo
as another phase of the big controvers
between the two companies, which wa
, decided by the district court yesterda
= in favor of the Montana Ore Purchai
- ing Company.
n A correspondent from Mount Idah
says ]. r. Wolfe, the assayer froI
Buffalo Hump, reports that big strik
=; was made in the st. Louis mine las
- week. Mr.. Wolfe reports that develol
ment work is proceeding satisfactory
on the Mother Lode, Fortune and othe
\, claims in the camp. The snow is no
six feet deep there, but excellent weatl
>, er is prevailing. The trail to the cam
. is packed hard and is in excellent col
dition for travel, snowshoeing not b
n. ing necessary.
Judge Clancy in the district coul
!, AZ Butte. Mont, has handed down n