Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-03
MINES AND MINING CAMPS
NEWS OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT
Items From the Rich Regions of the
Pacific NOrthwest-News From All the
Principal DistSicts-Mining Notes and
Personals.

The Oregon Bureau of Mines has
been incorporated at Portland and the
articles were filed recently. The OBJ
ject of the incorporation is to conduct
a mining stock exchange and to main
tain a general bureau of information
concerning mining interests of Oregon,
Washington. Idaho, Alaska and British
Columbia.
REPUBLIC.
The pump on the Butte & Boston can
not keep the shaft clear of water.
The Republic mine is to be we'll
quipped as it is to build another 200-ton
mill to be ready in four months.
A Butte Syndicate is negotiating for
a controlling interest in the stock of
the Admiral Dewey Company, and it is
quite probable that it will be successful.
The hanging wall drift from the 200
foot crosscut in the Chico mine is in so
feet. The ground in the drift is chang
ing.
The big building of the Mountain
Lion is full of loose machinery but is
fast getting into shape. Four tons of
rivets were used in putting up the big
steel tank.
The Rebate is looking better every
day. The drift Is being driven in the
direction of the Tom Thumb. The
ledge is said 10 be seven feet in width
and of high grade.
Gold Ledge face of the drift In richer
ore than ever. Water interferes with
development and machinery is needed
County records show that assessment
work was well done N Inc camp last
year.
Princess Maud plant is up and ready
for development on a big scale. The
winze is to be sunk 80 feet deeper and
then drifts will be run while sinking
continues. Twenty men will be EN-
ployed after February 1st.
Tom Thumb is wonder as the aver
age assays show a great shoot OF ore.
In the south drift the average from
Jan. 9Th to Jan. 26 was $4766, which
covers As feet of drifting at depth of
$50 feet Picked samples run much
higher.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Work is being pushed vigorously on
the Giant at Rossland
The Butcher Boy in Deadwood camp
is making good showing.
The Wilcox mfRa at Ymir has a large
quantity of rich ore and is ready for
shipping.
The Pathfinder is preparing for de-
veloping purposes and is putting in a
new plant.
A requisition has been sent to the
provincial government for an appropri-
alton of 900 for the completion of
roads and trails in the Ymir district.
Word has reached town that the force
of men working on the Mountain View,
adjoining the b. C. mine, in Summit
camp. had made fine strike on that
promising property.
rhe Evening Star at Rossland Is rich
The smelter returns show values of
$3.50 a ton. Ore in the drift at the
125-foot level is reported improving and
is said to run as high as $48 ton.
a claim owner in British Columbia
owns all the timber on his claim. Such
is the decision rendered by Judge
Spinks In the case of John Mulligan
versus Louis Blue, wherein Blue was
charged with taking timber from the
plaintiffs mineral claim.
! The following are the results of the
Hall Mines smelter operations during
December 1899: Copper smelling Is
days, of twenty-four hours, 1892 tons of
Silver King ore from the company's
/ NO nf
were smelted, containing approximate
ly: From Silver King ore, 60 tons cop
per, 40,0S0 ounces of silver; from pur-
chased ore two tons copper, 4140 ounces
silver and 1870 ounces gold.
sumpter, Oregon, Mines
Machinery for the smelter at Stump
ter has arrived.
The rich rock recently struck in the
Diadem, is being sacked for shipment
A late assay gave a total value in gold
silver and lead of $31SS0 per ton.
Manager A. l.. McEwen, of the hex
mine, at Sumpter Oregon, which was
recently purchased by Colonel S. W.
Ray, the Canadian banker and mine
owner, for 100000, is busy with a
force of 20 men pushing the lower
drift from depth of 210 feet to prove
the ore shoots in the upper levels.
Work is also being rushed on the tun.
mel in the Pyrites claim of the hex
group, in the hope of discovering new
ore bodies. The Silver Star group of
claims, in the Greenhorn district, has
been secured by w. H. Lancaster, for
merly of Spokane, and Erskne Smith.
the well-known mining operator
and engineer who has been in every