The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-01-27

load 800 feet per minute from a depth
OF 1000 feet The building for the 40
drill compressor. Is in course Of cree.
ton.
Hmir District
On the Katie d. Green group at Erie
the shaft Is down so feet and shows fine
ore. from which the last samples assay.
, ed 1910.
The Yellowstone mine at Saimo Is
erecting 20-stamp mill.
The total output from the Silver
King mine for 1899 reached 32.7OO tons,
against 81 SOS tons in the previous year.
The long crosscut on the Big Horn,
owned by the Simcoe company, lie in
600 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 Console
dated Company.
Shipments are being made from the
Arlington mine. near Erie, and from
now on q carload Of ore will be sent to
the Northport smelter each day. The
ore is high-grade gaIena.
The Leo Gold Mining Company is &C
lively developing the Leo group. near
Hall siding. A shaft has been sunk to
depth Of rs feet, at which depth some
fine mineralized rock has been struck.
A 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
Ellensbnrg. Wash. report 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 Gilmore property on Haw-
kins mountain. about Is miles from 81.
lensburg. A blind ledge has been
struck containing very rich ore. A
rough estimate of its value places it al
$1,000 TO the ton in gold.
The Standard Mining Company at
Wallace is preparing to made some re-
pairs to its mill, and to build its Can.
yon creek fume a board higher, and in
order to facilitate the work the mill
will be closed down during the day and
run at nights.
The Queen OF the West group at Flor.
ence, Idaho. was sold by John Wells, c.
I. Cone and Evan Evans to eastern par.
ties for $4,000 cash. This group is
the only patented mine in the district,
and is developed by two vertical shafts
which have four and six-foot lodges,
netting from So TO SIS gold per ton.
Judge Beatty of Idaho has issued q
temporary injunction in the case Of J.
+. Forbis ct al VS.. the Buffalo Hump
Mining Company, restraining the Buf.
falo Hump company from disposing OF
ore from the Tiger-Poorman mine al
Burke unless 1t shall deposit one-third
OF the gross receipts in the bank sub
ject to the order Of the court The mo
ton for q permanent injunction has
been set for hearing on Feb. l.
The Hecla Mining Company at Burke
is charging its tunnel so that IL can
handle ore on an extensive scale The
tunnel was run mainly for prospecting
purposes. and while thousands Of dol.
lars worth OF ore have been taken out
through it the shipments for months
past running two carloads per day, II
is too small to work the mine on the
scale which it is proposed to work IL
this year. While this is being done
most of the men have been laid OF.