The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-27


sorted by hand. The screening will be |
done in the lower half of these from
mels, while the ore will be washed au-
tomatically in the upper half, instead !
of with a hose, as heretofore. The
steam hoist, which has been ordered,
will be capable of hosting a four-ton
load 900 feet per minute from a depth
Of 1000 feet. The building for the 40
drill compressor is in course of cree
ton.
lmir District.
On the Katie ID. Green group at Erie
the shaft is down 60 feet and shows fine
ore, from which the last samples assay
ed 1910.
The Yellowstone mine at Salmo is
erecting a 20-stamp mill
The total output from the Silver
King mine for 1899 reached 32.700 tons,
against 81, SOS tons in the previous year.
The long crosscut on the Big Horn,
owned by the Simcoe company, is in
coo feet and promising indications have
been met.
Three feet of pay ore has been uncov-
cred in the shaft on the Houston claim
owned by the Erie Mountain Consoli-
dated Company.
Shipments are being made from the
Arlington mine, near Erie, and from
now on carload OF ore will be sent to
the Northport smelter each day. The
ore is high-grade galena.
The Leo Gold Mining Company is ac-
lively developing the Leo group, near
Hall siding. A shaft has been sunk to
a depth of rs feet, at which depth some
fine mineralized rock has been struck.
good strike has been made on the
Union Jack group, owned by Dougald
Cameron and others. During the last
month the tunnel on the Queen claim
has been running in an additional 60
feet, making the total length $50 feet.
The Wilcox mine, owned by the Brok-
en- Hill Mining & Development Com
pany, will enter the list of shipping
mines this week. Arrangements are
being made for rawhiding the ore from
the Fourth of July shaft down to the
wagon road. The ore, which is a high.
grade galena, will go to either the
Northport or Nelson smelters.
MINING NOTES.
Parties just down from Frosty creek
the new mining district 20 miles from
Ellensburg. Wash, report a rich strike
OF white quartz, in which the gold can
be seen with the naked eye.
Another rich strike has been made
in the Cle-Elum district, and this time
on the Ida Elmore property on Haw
kins mountain, about 25 miles from Ell
lensburg. A blind ledge has beer
struck containing very rich ore.
rough estimate of its value places it a
$1,000 to the ton in gold.
The Standard Mining Company a
Wallace is preparing to made some re
pairs to it's MILL and to build it's Can
yon creek fiume a board higher, and il
order to facilitate the work the mil
will be closed down during the day anC
run at nights.
The Queen of the West group at Flor
ence, Idaho, was sold by John Wells, Z
T. Cone and Evan Evans to eastern par
ties for $4,000 cash. This group il
the only patented mine in the district
and is developed by two vertical Shaft
which have four and six-foot lodges
netting from $12 to s1S gold per ton.
, Judge Beatty of Idaho has issued
temporary injunction in the case of j
+. Forbis ct al. VS.. the Buffalo HUM
Mining Company, restraining the But
falo Hump company from disposing o
ore from the Tiger-Poorman mine a
Burke unless it shall deposit one-thirt
OF the gross receipts in the bank sub
. ject to the order of the court. The me
ton for permanent injunction ha
, been set for hearing on Feb. 1.
The Hecla Mining Company at Burk
! is charging it's tunnel so that it CA
p. handle ore on an extensive scale. TIL
tunnel was run mainly for prospecting
= purposes, and while thousands of do
lars worth of ore have been taken on
a through it, the shipments for month
: past running two carloads per day,
! is too small to work the mine on tn
4 scale which it is proposed to work i
this year. While this is being don
, most of the men have been laid off.
i Gold Rushed in Again.
e New York, Jan. 23.-The fnancia