The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-11-09
Republic.

Republic.
The Mountain Lion mill has closed
down. No cause has yet been assign
ed. The mine is running as usual.
At a depth OF 1886 1eet ore has been
encountered in the long tunnel of the
Review mine in the Myers creek dist
riot
A miner from the Belcher mine
shows piece or ore OF copper-iron sui
phide softer than chalcopyrite usually
lis and probably richer in copper.
1t has leaked out that a well-known
mining man in Republic has been try
ing to get control of the Trail and Ten
derfoot claims for the past six months.
Expert ID. G. Jackling has stated
shat the crushing machinery of the Re-
public mill was doing all that he ex-
pected of it. AS 10 the chemical treat
ment he is most confident.
The south drift on The 300-foot lev
eel of the Chico mine is in 1913 feet, still
running on the footwall, but breaking
partly in the vein, which, at the breast,
is said to be looking much better than
usual.
There is a deal now on foot at Grand
Forks which in magnitude eclipses any
that has been made in that section. 1t
embraces the consolidation of all the
claims in Franklin camp, and the
floating of them in England.
A shaft has been sunk on the Alpine
10 a depth of fifty feet, and it is the in
1ention of the company owning it to
continue until a depth of 800 feet has
been reached. The claim lies few
hundred feet east of the Chico.
The ore on Gold Ledge that is being
taken out is of high grade and the face
Of the drift, which is five feet wide is
all in ore. At 62 feet from the shaft
cross-cut has been started. 1t has
been driven only about three feet, but
is still in ore.
In the San Poll mine the working
force has been removed from the Wine,
now down 70 feet below the No. 2 level,
TO the south drift on that level. There
is a good body of ore at the bottom of
the Wine which Superintendent Crum-
mer reports is very good, with values
increasing. Some of 1t is very rich in
black sulphuret OF silver and assays
up in the hundreds.
By fall Of loose ground Miles Nc
Neill, a inucker in the B. c. mine at
summit camp, was instantly killed
last week. ~ Green, a shoveler, was
penned in by rock, causing a fracture
of the right thigh. The accident hap
pened on the third floor of the 15O-foot
level 1t took the rescue party two
hours to extricate Green, who bore the
intense suffering with courage.
The Butte & Boston crosscut was
driven 140 feet, striking the hanging
wall of the vein at 100 feet and running
10 feet through ledge matter to the
foot wall. Superintendent ID. l. Nick
asrson states that he came back and ran
80 feet south on the hanging wall and
struck two and one-half feet wide Of
handsome quartz. He would say moth
ing about values, but said anybody
could go on the dump and sake samples
of the quartz that wanted to .
1t. is rumOred that an important
ssrike has been made on the King Solo,
mon, near Bolster. A tunnel was
driven in to strike the lead at depth,
and this is about 225 feet. 1t is be-
lieved that this lead has been cut, as
it has been learned that orders were re-
Gently sent to Spokane by telephone for
any loose stock that could be obtained.
An effort to obtain information at the
mine or to personally inspect it
brought forth a refusal from Manager
McGowen. The mine is owned by Spo.
kane and Cheney parties, and several
thousand dollars worth of work has
been done on it.
In connection with the recent strike
on the Reco property at Sandon, ].
Morgan Harris. president of the Reco
company, gives some details of interest
The strike was made on the lowest lev
81 of the property. a tunnel having been
driven to tap the vein 200 feet lower
than had been reached previously
Some difficulty was encountered in
Sinding the lead a couple of years elaps
ang before it was definitely located
The lead is only IL inches wide, but in
places it is solid galena, carrying sill
yer up in the thousands of ounces. Al
other points the galena is mixed with
sulphide or porphyry. Where the ga