The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-09


and a half miles east OF the Bonanza
quartz ledge.
Reports of rich strike in the Home
stake and Nonpariel claims, owned by
Wilson, Robinson, Johnson and Benson,
came down to Baker City from the
North fork of the John Day river last
week. The new discovery is about six
miles west of Lawton, on a line due
north of the Red Boy and Concord
mines. Returns from the surface
gave average values of So per ton. The
Homestake ledge is II feet wide, and
the Nonpariel from So to $12. The
discovery has created considerable ex-
element and many prospectors are
headed that way.
Over three thousand men are idle
owing to the fires in No. Hecla shaft
of the Calumet nd Hecla mine. The
management decided to close down all
except the north Hecla and Amydolid
shafts on account of the gas from the
fifth, which has gone to all parts of the
Calumet branch and part of the Hecla.
1t can not be told how long the men
other parts of the mines.
J. G. Kurtz and Norman Smith, who
left Cape Nome March 16, two months
later than any other arrivals, reached
Seattle on the Bertha. They made the
trip overland, and caught the Bertha
at Kodiack. They refuse to tell their
detailed route, but claim to have cut
4 Il fcfo
miles They report that several thous.
and men are already at work on the
partly frozen beach, and taking out
good pay. Several new pay streaks
have been found and a number of rich
quartz strikes are reported. The min
ers have organized, and fix the amount
of beach territory each man shall have.
Every claim of any value in the entire
country has been staked and restaked
and the new arrivals figure that it will
take a years solid legal work to estab-
lish the ownership. The miners say
they will surrender the reins of gov
eminent to General Randall upon his
arrival.
A letter received from F. W. Rosen-
l.,
ing man we'll known in Washington,
gives the news of rich strike in Toro-
da camp of ore running as high as
SIS 70 in gold and 255 ounces in silver.
The Palmer Mountain tunnel has
reached over 1900 feet length and 1850
feet vertical depth. While the work
in the tunnel changes little from month
to month, there are always new feat
ures coming into the work.
The resuming of work on the Okla
hogan Free Gold Mines, following a
reorganization of the company, shows
about the same results with 10 stamps
the monthly returns being very uni
form.
An accident occurred in a little shack
at one of the Pitney Butte mines re
Gently. Three men had been drying
some giant powder in the oven of the
cook stove and on removing it stick
of powder was overlooked and left in
the stove. Later in the evening the
stick of powder exploded, completely
demolishing the stove and blowing
pieces of iron into the legs and bodies
| VI llt luICt II lCQ 1CbOA WtSs
standing over the stove at the time
His legs, from the hips down, were GU
and torn in a frightful manner. He
was also bruised on the breast.
John and Charles Taylor of Farmin
gton, have gone to the Mascot mining
camp, taking their families and full
equipment to spend the summer. Thes,
men are the discoveries and owners O
the Mother lode the original quart,
discovery of the district, on which the!
have a two-stamp mill.
Now comes the news that the famous
Dewey is again running into nativ,
copper. The ore taken from the uppe
tunnel went as high as fifty per cent il
copper, and it is believed that it will b.
even richer in the lower tunnel which
they are now working and in which
they are finding the native copper. 1
lies a short distance south of the Hum
boldt and also adjOins the new town
The Dewey is considered by m'ning ex
perts to be a wonder, not because o
the size of the ore body, but because o
the high grade ore found.
The Strike in st. Louis.
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