The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-01

tions for metals which they may carry.
Seeing that the CRANKY works will be
as we'll arranged their ores, containing
an abundance of iron and lime. should
certainly be smelted somewhat more
cheaply.
The biggest mining deal that has
been put through in the Crawford creek
district for a long time was cOmplet-
ed last week, when e. X. Coy sold to
Rossland syndicate the X-Ray claim,
for, it is stated, $4,000 cash and partly
in shares of the X-Ray Mining company
which is to be registered.
The fact that the provincial govern
ment has appropriated $4,000 to build
the south fork wagon road from the
Black Fox mine to the Excelsior COM
pany's property leads further to the
belief that the district will hum this
fall. Never in it's history has the out
look for the south fork of the Kaslo
river been so encouraging.
The following is partial list of the
dividend-paying mines Of British Co
lumbia, as recently compiled: Camp
Mckinney paid up to June, 1899, $312,-
964; the Fern up to June, 1898, $4,000;
the Hall Mines, Ltd, up to May, 1899,
100000; the Idaho, up to January,
1899, $4,000; the Last Chance, up to
April, 1899, $4,000; the LIE Roi, up to
November, 1899, $1,3O4,000; the Queen
Bess, up to July, 1899. $4,000; the
Rambler-C ariboo, up to December, 1899,
100000; the Reco, up to January, 1898,
$29S,500; the War Eagle Consolidated,
up to February, 1900, $545,250; the
Ymir, up to November, 1899, 100000.
The CRANKY smelter is working to
perfection and not hitch has occurred
to mar it's success. But one furnace
has been blown in, it being expected to
get the other working next week. The
ore furnaces capacity is $50 tons daily,
but nearly 275 tons is being put
through owing to the self-fuxing char
acter of the ore. The ore being oper-
ated on comes from the Old Ironsides
and the resultant matte runs from As
to SO per cent in copper.
MINING NOTES.
The long tunnel of the Review mine,
near Chesaw, Wash, on Myers creek,
has been equipped with 500 feet of air
pipe.
Another section of the Hump has
proved to possess great wealth. Some
OF the richest prospects yet uncovered
have been located near the Clearwater
slope.
The operations of the Buffalo Hump
syndicate are on so large a scale that
the promise of great future for the
camp is as nearly assured as it well
can be.
Both the Magnolia and Little Giant
mills, at Granite, Ore, idle since the
financial reverses that last January
overlook w. l.. Vinson, are soon to be
started up.
The Buffalo Hump Tunnel Company,
which owns IA claims on the Hump and
which is developing them by long
tunnel, has stopped work until patents
are secured on the claims.
Good showings of free gold ore are
reported from the Clearwater slope,
about four miles north of Buffalo
Hump. There is considerable placer
ground in the same section.
The Puritan Mines Company, operat
ing at Loomis, Palmer Mountain dis
trict, is grading, blasting out rocks and
otherwise improving the switchback
road running to the sawmill.
An electric tramway is to be run be.
tween Grangeville and Buffalo Hump,
distance of SO miles, inside of eight
months, says E. M. Gilpin, prominent
mining man of Buffalo Hump.
1t is estimated by those who are sup
posed to know that the Buffalo Hump
Syndicate have expended 100000 in
that district, nearly one-half the sum
in improvements, the rest for purchas-
ing properties.
The once familiar Lost Cabin mine,
at the head of Fourth of July canyon,
in Wolf Lodge district, about Is miles
west of the principal mines of the
Occur d'Alenes, is to be reopened.
The belt of country known as the
lower Nespelum is one of the growing
young mining districts that are little
heard of outside. All that outsiders
appear to know of this part of the
South Half is that a mine called the
Rebecca is situated somewhere here
abouts.