The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-20
Republic.

Republic.
Republic longs for snow.
San Juan needs machinery.
The Quilp crosscut is still being run
for the foot wall.
There is no change of conditions at
the Tom Thumb mine.
The boiler for the Princess Maud
compressor has arrived.
company has been formed to take
over the Hercules claim.
The only work being done on the
Black Tail is in the winze.
Lone Pine grows wider and the ledge
improves as the drift progresses.
The Lone Pine holds to an average of
six feet in width. The average values
have improved some in the west drift.
Barbee & Co. have taken a contract
to sink a sixty-foot shaft on the Hercu-
les.
The Wine at the Black Tail is down
II feet and the bottom is five feet in
width of $12 quartz.
Contractor Dexter states that the
ledge has not yet been cut by the big
tunnel on the George Reed.
The Chico shaft was sunk to a depth
of 1876 feet and crossut was run for
the ledge. This was encountered A 1T
from the shaft.
The Columbia is making a fine show
ing. There is two feet of fine looking
steel galena. The average value of the
assays is $62.42.
The large stringer that has been fol-
lowed for the past 100 feet in the Cop
per Mountain tunnel grows wider and
, richer constantly.
The Rebate has six feet of ore in the
drift that is being driven along the
ledge from near the south end line of
the claim toward the Tom Thumb.
The ore body in the south drift of the
San Poll is about six feet in width and
the high values that were encountered
in the ledge some time ago continue.
Chas. F. Porter, Superintendent of
the Little Four and Golden Lion Con-
solidated claims, reports that work is
going steadily forward in the east drift
from the S0-foot level.
The Gopher Mining Company having
purchased the steam hoist of the Bodie
Company, it is being removed and will
probably be in full operation on the Go
pher within ten days. The Gopher
shaft is 125 feet in depth.
Galena of high value from the Davis
camp on the South half A surface
crosscut shows 12-foot ledge carrying
ore that is said to assay about $S5 in
silver, lead and gold. Claim is COM
bination No. 2, adjoining the Park and
Central.
The Republic Reduction Company
which is erecting a custom mill about
1000 feet south of the old mill of the Re
public Consolidated Company, has a
small army of men working. 1t is
claimed that every good carpenter who
applies for job, is given work.
Quilp's great ledge shows sixty feet
of ore from wall to wall 1t is the wild
est vein yet opened in Republic. The
ore is claimed to be full of paying value
across the full width. Deep develop
ment again proved necessary in Repub-
! lie.
Major f. G. Z. Leckie states that the
permanent working shaft on the Quilp
mine will go down from the top of the
hill. The compressor plant to be used
for prospecting purposes will be placed
in the gulch, near the mouth of the tun-
mel. The usual prospecting work is
going on and nothing new is reported.
Mr.. Jackling's coming to Republic
camp from Mercur, Utah, is of utmost
Importance, not only to the Republic
Company itself. but to every person in.
terested in mining in that camp. He
has assured the directors of the Repub-
lie mine that he can reduce the cost of
! reduction of the ores of that mine &c
nar cent and that ha can oaua OK nor