Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-05-04

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country. Ore. near Prairie City. bring
/. PARTICULAR Of the recent rich strike Il
the Copper King mine. owned BY Unit
. Cd States Marshal Zosth Hauser o
Portland, who 10 at the head of stronl
company Of Pendleton ;sople. Thu
strike was made In No. tunnel. ant
consisted of . twofoot vein of ricf
pyritic ore. assaying IN average o.
e333.S0 per ton In gold. with additions
copper and silver values.
A rich strike has been made In the
s0O-foot tunnel on the Tip Top mine
two and half miles from Bonanza.
on the Sumpter- Prairie City. Ore. road
At q vertical depth Of 80 feet = 12-foot
ledge assays SIS across the face. Last
week an I8-lnch streak was encoun-
tered which assayed $500 per ton IN
free gold.
8. II. Hayes. an old-time mining man
from Camp Mckinney. b. G.. has pur.
chased the Oregon and Colorado claims
near Quartxburg. from l.. Lawrence. OF
Sumptcr. Ore.
The exceptionally fine weather OF the
past week has done much to improve
the condition OF roads leading out OF
Sumpter. Ore. to the mines. The Gran
Ito road liz still impossible, though the
GeIser. Prairie City. Quartxburg. Can
yon City and Robinsvllle roads are
rapidly becoming good.
Three large deals are pending. two
on Palmer mountain and one on Mount
Capacca. Details are not made public.
1t IL known, however. that the three
deals will aggregate $4,000 and will
probably DO contaminated within 30
days. Tho capital comes from Indian
ap0lis. Milwaukee and New York.
The 21st vein In the Palmer Noun
tain tunnel has not been crossed. As
says are running we'll and the vein
promises to be of good width and to
give good values.
rich strike Of chalcopyrite orc has
boon made In tho croas-cut at the 100
foot level In the Buckhorn mine In
Deadwood camp. The ore has an OK
ceedingly rich appearance and the man
agement are we'll pleased. 1t is ru.
mored that the Sunrise claim In Dead.
wood camp has been purchased from
Frost and Hardy by the Mother Lode
Company. whose property II adj0ins.
The strike In the Park. near Wallace.
Idaho, continues to DO the theme Of
conversation among the stock invest
ors. The vein on which the Park 10
located Ia a large one. which has been
traced for miles. There are four In.
corporatcd companies owing claims on
It. the Park. Springfield. Comet and
Champion. with II claims between
them. besides a number not stocked.
Parties who have been over the ground
say that they all present the same gen.
eral surface showing.
A transfer of half interest In the
Big Buffalo mine OF Buffalo Hump.
Idaho. by which Charles Sweeny OF
Spokane becomes the sole owner, was
practically completed ut Grangeville
last week.
Tho claim for the Oldest copper mine
In the United States Ia made for Santa
Rita del Cobre mine In Grant county.
New Mexico. II was worked by the
| Spaniards more than 100 years ago.
| Governor Otero Of New Mexico also
claims the flrst gold mining In the
United States was In that territory. on
the placers In the Taos valley. Taos
| county.
The latest reports from the Chloride
Queen. Hear Wallace. Idaho. are that
the amount Of ore In the face of the
drift shows steady increase. and for
the first time since the tunnel cut the
vein. over 500 feet back. there are two
clean walls to the vein. There has al
ways been one good wall. sometimes
the foot and at others the hanging, but
never both at once before.
Activity In Granite. Ore, camp ha,
received a renewed impetus during tn,
past week through the starting up Of
the May Queen mill. q successful rur
| Of the colonization plant Just installed
at the Cougar mine and big strike
at the Strasburg mine. The May Queer
mine. which Ia about hald mile north
Of the Red Boy. and about four mile,
from Granite promises TO become on,
Of the large producers Of the camp. 1
begins operations with 10 stamps ant
four concentrators. crushing about 8,
tons of orc q day. but the mill IL .,
constructed that 20 moro stamps an,
eight more conccntrators can easily b.
added. 1t IL tho intention Of the man
agemcnt to install thls addltiona
| equipment, ~ the mill IL running Xix,
clockwork and thcrc are about 100000
tons Of ore blocked out. At the Couga
mine. the flrst run Of the new chlorina
ton plant proved An entire success
Manager John Larkin has gone to Ev
erett with the result Of his IL days
run. which Ia valued At about $4,000
The Cougar 10 about three miles nortl
OF Granite. and also promises to TAX
its place among the steady producer
Of the camp.
During tho entire session OF tn
United States senate the 10th instan
the Alaskan civil code bin. proyidln
for the mining OF gold along the Alas
kan beach and other matters was M
der discussion. The measure was Ana
ly perfected and the following govern