The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-07-14

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QuaFtzburg district In Oregon. Ten
tons Of ore have been shipped 70 Bum
pter.
Within less than 100 miles from Gpo-
kane and three miles west OF the town
Of Hope, Idaho, lies the Trestle Creek
mining camp. Quietly and unobstrne-
Ted development work has been going
on here for the last two OF three years,
but the outside world has heard but
little shout this part Of the Pend d.
0Teille mining district.
That . satisfactory agreement has
been made By the lead producers Of the
United States for the securing OF better
prices for their output at the meeting
held In New York recently. IL the Inn
p0rtant statement recently made by
John A. Finch. Of Spokane. t1f3
/ News comes from the Manila In KEEL
Ter camp that the ledge has been cross
ed for los fest and the wall is yet Ear
distant It has always been believed
that the ledge was close to 40 feet wide
and this seems not improbable. Some
are OF the opinion that the Cuba. which
IL near II. and apparently has the same
ledge a. the Manila. 10 destined to be
as good as the latter. Every practi-
cal mining man who comes from the
south half 10 imbued with, the idea
that that section win soon become the
banner mining region Of the state.
In the Palmer Mountain tunnel, at
Loomis. Wash. the last 30 feet driven
has gone through q formation highly
mineFaliZed. giving assays each day
running from t3.47 70 t37 in gold.
Yesterdays shot at the face broke into
blue quartz full OF mineral which may
prove one Of the most important In the
history OF the tunnel This ledge is
In a different formation from that Of
the other 20. and the good values pre-
ceding the cutting Of the footwaIl make
the crossing and testing Of this 2sd
i vein q matter Of special interest Az
all the mines close down to give the
men q three days Fourth OF July eele.
bration IL will probably be the nrst Of
next week before the importance Of
this strike can be determined
i As q result OF the latest move In the
Daly-Cl feud may come the closing
down OF ali. or nearly all. the smeltera
In Butte. Clark's latest move was d
put Daily in the worst kind OF q hole
Either way the latter moves Clark will
proft This Clark move IL the agita
ton for an eight-hOur day for the min
ers. mine laborers. smeiter men and
all others connected with that industry
here. II Is generally believed thai
August HeinEe. who Is now with Clark
originated the move.
Il Clark employs only about 800 people
In Butte. while DAILY and the corpora
tons in which he is interested employ
: between 1000 and 5000. Friends o
Daily assert that he has always KEEP
up wages despite Clark's efforts TO low
} er them. They say that Clark's BIZ
J force is employed in the United verd'
I mine. az jerome. Arix.. where the wag
scale is very loS and IN eighthouF dis
cussIon is discountenanced and frown
[ ed upon. Recentiy Clark and Heinz
!. have induced Butte labor men 10 star
}. an eight-hour day movement Mr.
. CLARK gracefully consents" to gran
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D ployes and IL egging on the unions b
!. force the Anaconda people TO grant tn
b same concession to all their thousands
win they do it2 lie the vital question
8 II they do Il will cut down the div
/. dends and the prestige OF Marcus Dial
with the eastern stockholders In hi
1 company. II they do not there Wi
/. probably be one Of the most seriou
r labor dificultIes ever had in the wesi
Anyway, Clark will profit His Unite
n Verde mine is = big copper produces
e The Anaconda copper is about 20 pc
e cent OF all produced In the Unite
/. States. II the Anaconda shuts dow
e the price OF copper win 90 up and clar
e will profit enormously In his, Unite
d Verde product As he maintains a To-
o wage scale there. his profits will be a
4 the greater. Any way the situatio
may be viewed. Il looks bad for Dial
N and may be serious for all the min
4. lAborers there.