The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-28
MINING NOTEs.

Iowa capital is becoming interested
ia the Hodoo, Idaho, district; the Blue
Bird is to be equipped; property may
be a shipper in six months.
A new placer find has just been made
midway between Bennett and Atlin,
and a stampede is on. Men have been
outfitted in Skagway anu quietly hur-
ried off in a feverish race to stake the
fields of gold. Not many have gone
from Skagway, but from Atlin quite
rush has taken place, and lumber for
the building of sluice boxes has been
taken from there.
At Wallace, Idaho, deed has been
ecorded conveying the Custer concen-
traitor. mill-site and water-rights from
Hale & Easson and others to A. B.
Campbell The consideration named
was $35 ZOO. The actual transfer was
made long ago and the concentration
thoroughly refitted for the use of the
Sixteen to One, but no record had been
made OF it.
Word has been received from Lake
Pend d'Oreille that the new hoist for
the Conjecture has been installed at
the collar of the winze from the main
tunnel. and that work has just been
started on the winze. All other work
in the mine has been stopped till de-
velopment to an additional $50 feet
depth has enabled more definite plans
of work to be made.
The arrangements for the display OF
minerals at the Spokane exposition are
rapidly nearing completion. Space has
heen allotted to the various exhibits
and special forms of display are being
designed by the superintendent of the
mineral department and those that are
, assisting him. The mine owners have
. given ready response to the requests
, of the fair management for exhibits
! and the promise is that this will be the
best exhibit ever given.
Midway between Wallace and Delta
Idaho, is Carbon Center, in the vicinit.
: of which are about 20 patent claims be
! longing to different members of thu
} Hill family of Minneapolis. Patent
5 were issued long ago and, except for
: little work last year, nothing has beer
5 done on any of them since 1895 until re
2 Gently, when they organized the Ro.
5 Mining company to work part of tn
2 group. An officer of the company cam
out here and let a contract to buil'
e a wagon road and run 300 feet of tur
1 mel. B. R. Creedon taking the contract
Harry Esperance, one Of the old-tim
miners who halls from Pioneerville, wa
III Boise the other day, on his way t
. the worlds exposition at Paris. Mr.. +;
\ perance came to this country fror
France when a mere lad, and made hi
S way to California, where he spent quit
e long time prospecting and placer mil
irg. He came to Idaho over II yeaI
l. AGO and was one of those who participa
v ed in the early rush to the Wood rive
country. Lately he has struck some pa!
J. ing claims and is now in prosperous eli
S cumstances, says the Statesman.
:. There is renewed activity in the Ho'
= doc mining district, Idaho, and consit
4 cradle excitement over the develol
ment of the Mother Lode mine. Or
a richer than anything ever known
! this part of the country, has been I'll
covered in the second tunnel of til
O mine. In prosecuting the ledge at
a depth of 100 feet below the origin;
= tunnel more than ton
:. ore that is believed to
4 worth over $4,000 was taken oil
1t fairly sparkles with free gold, plail
\ ly visible to the naked eye, and a
. assay of what is said to be an averae
n of the entire lot shows s67.60 to I'll
!, ton.