The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-17

The road from Northport, Wash, 10
the Velvet mine, on Sophia mountain.
will be completed about September Is.
The Essex, on Beaver creek, near
Delta, Idaho, has made a good showing
of galena in several places in its 700
feet of tunnels.
The Christina mine, which is owned
by the Kettle River Mining Company.
an organization promoted by S. T.
Langly of Rossland, is now in active
operation.
The Robinson Creek Mining Com
pany has been organized in Minneapo-
lis to operate the New Century group,
on Robinson creek, in the upper Me-
thow. Wash.
The wagon road into Buffalo Hump
has been completed and 1t is lively with
teams hauling freight into the camp,
according to advices received at the Of
flee of the Buffalo Hump Syndicate.
Word was received at Mullan, Idaho,
from the Stevens Peak Mining Com
pany's property, near the IS" bridge,
that the ore shoot in the drift was
widening and improving in quality rap
| idly.
First in magnitude of the shipping
mines on Canyon creek, Idaho, is the
we'll known Hecla, which is installing
new accomplishing plant and hoist
which will both be ready for operation
before long.
A rich cleanup of the five-stamp mill
of the Mammoth, on Slate creek, Me
thow district, has been made. Reports
say that the returns were equal to $3.50
per day, though the official figures have
not been given out.
Development of Importance is under
way in Methow camp. The Eureka
mill is doing good work. Ore in sight
for three years run. Mammoth vein is
seven feet wide and gives big aver
ages Tacoma's good showing.
1t is reported that a crosscut from
the main tunnel on the Humboldt, II
Keller camp, Wash, has encountered
several stringers of ledge ore, and it il
thought that the main ore body is no
far away. The crosscut is in 20 feet.
Work will soon be begun on a 1900
foot tunnel through which to carry tn
tailings at the placer diggings of tn
Milwaukee Placer Mining company
which owns 120 acres of valuabl
ground on Granite creek, about 81,
miles west of Granite, Ore.
The mineral exhibit at the Spokan
= exposition this fall is to be made o
. greater Importance than ever before
To that end Manager Hawley has tho
oughly organized the work of collectin
specimens and has representatives /
the various districts in the area aroun
= Spokane, getting the specimens read
a for shipment.
Good reports are coming from whs
. is almost new Occur d'Alene cam
= 1t is that on the boundary of Idah
- and Montana, near Saltese, Mont,
= which the Monitor is the leading pro
= erty. This camp is on the outer en-
- of the Occur d'Alenes copper belt. an
recent developments have brought
;. into considerable prominence.
. The Magnolia mine, four miles mort
= of Granite Ore, has reverted back
- the original owners-John Coyle
E Granite, P. A. Condo of Baker City al
Al JOUtS anu DIOlncI VI OullplcI. l
$4,000 payment due August 1, und'
. the option by w. L. Vinson, in the i
= terest of an English syndicate, failt
- to materialize.
y July was prolific in the way of
= velopment and has decided many que
e tions of Importance to LOOMS, Wasl
- district. The Palmer Mountain tunn
is in $3.50 feet, with 1850 feet vertic
depth. One vein, the 23d, was cut du
'e ing the month, and the finest quar-
ever found on the mountain is comiI
st from drifts on veins No. 81 and No.
p 1t is literally alive with free and vi
ible gold, which is the coarsest ev
lie encountered, while it comes from Il
De greatest depth attained anywhere
the state, 1000 feet.
Of An important mining commissiC
e, has been given G. M. Fassett of ST
pr kane. He has been selected by ;
N American company operating immen
n gold mines in Ting Van, the northe
IN province of Korea, to superintend t
or installation of cyanide plant to ire
the tailings from the mills at the min
ne and will go to Korea this month for t
p purpose.
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al Charles d. Lane, the well know