The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-31
MINING NOTES.

MINING NOTES.
The long tunnel of the Review mine,
near Chesaw, WASH on Myers creek,
has been equipped with 500 feet of air
pipe
Another section of the Hump has
proved to possess great wealth. Some
OF the richest prospects yet uncovered
have been located near the Clearwater
slope
The operations of the Buffalo Hump
syndicate are on so large scale that
the promise of a great future for the
camp is as nearly assured as it well
can be-
Both the Magnolia and Little Giant
mills, at Granite, Ore, idle since the
financial reverses that last January
overlook w. l.. Vinson, are soon to be
started up.
The Buffalo Hump Tunnel Company,
which owns IA claims on the Hump and
which is developing them by a long
tunnel, has stopped work until patents
are secured on the claims.
Good showings of free gold ore are
reported from the Clearwater slope,
about four miles north of Buffalo
Hump. There is considerable placer
ground in the same section.
The Puritan Mines Company, operat-
ing at Loomis, Palmer Mountain dis
trict, is grading, blasting out rocks and
otherwise improving the switchback
road running to the sawmill.
An electric tramway is to be run be-
tween Grangeville and Buffalo Hump
| s.to &c In IF iohf
months, says E. M. Gilpin, prominent
mining man of Buffalo Hump.
The once familiar Lost Cabin mine
at the head of Fourth of July canyon
in Wolf Lodge district, about 10 miles
west of the principal mines of the
Occur d'Alenes, isl to be reopened.
1t is estimated by those who are sup
posed to know that the Buffalo HUMP
, Syndicate have expended 100000 in
that district, nearly one-half the sun
in improvements, the rest for purchas
ing properties.
The belt of country known as the
lower Nespelum is one of the growing
. young mining districts that are little
} heard of outside. All that outsider:
appear to know of this part of the
South Half is that a mine called the
Rebecca is situated somewhere here
, abouts.
The mineral department at the Spo
kane exposition this fall will eclips'
everything in that line which has evel
: been shown in the Inland Empire be
fore. The management has announced
J the complete list of prizes for the min
avhi re WI oh mill
thing from precious ores to building
= stone and clays.
= The richest copper strike yet mad
> in the Colville reservation was mad
last week on the Comstock claim. TIL
, strike was made on the Comstock nea
, the Flat Creek camp on Mineral noun
| tain. The property is near the Exami
r ner group and in rich district, wher
several good strikes have been mad
f within the last few weeks.
!. The Bellingham Bay & Columbi
r Railway company has started out a.
o engineer corps to ascertain if a praC
ticable railroad can be had through tn
l. Cascade mountains in northern Wasl
J. ington. In case one is found the raj
6 road company expects to extend its lin
which now terminates in the heart G
r the mountains, through into the OkaI
ogan country, tapping the Slate Cree
v mining district en- route.
e The Caswell boys, discoveries of tn
l. Thunder Mountain district, Idaho, hav
q made the final deposit in the Unite
States assay Office of gold from thei
l. run this year. The total taken OF
n by them during the seasons run wa
n S10,203.57. The actual running tim
q was 80 hours. They have water onl
for few days. But next year they wi
be able to make much longer run, {
Z they have arranged for storing til
/ stream from the melting snow. TIL
n placer mining is simply the sluicin
n of the surface of mountain of or
e The ore slakes when exposed and the
/ sluice the same ground over and owe
1 year after year. They have been wor
is ing the ground in that way for sever
10 years