The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-05
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.
Items Cleaned From Isnte Reports
All Districts Are Being Developed
A Prosperous Year LIS Predicted
Mining Notes and Personals.
MINING NOTES.

ed states MARSHAL LOeIn ftduSeT OIL
Portland, who is at the head of strong
company of Pendleton PEOPLE. The
strike was made in No. tunnel, and
consisted of a two-foot vein of rich
pyritic ore, assaying an average of
.S333.50 per ton In gold, with additional
copper and silver values.
A rich strike has been made in the
-30O-foot tunnel on the Tip Top mine,
two and half miles from Bonanza,
on the Sumpter-Prairie City. Ore, road.
At a vertical depth of 80 feet 12-foot
ledge assays $25 across the face. Last
week an l8-inch streak was encoun-
tered which assayed 5000 per ton in
free gold.
S. II. Hayes, an old-time mining man
from Camp Mckinney, B. c., has pur.
chased the Oregon and Colorado claims
near Quartzburg. from l.. Lawrence, of
.Sumpter, Ore.
The exceptionally fine weather of the
past week has done much to improve
the condition of roads leading out of
sSumpter, Ore, to the mines. The Gran
lite road is still impossible, though the
sGeiser, Prairie City, Quartzburg, Can
yon City and Robinsville roads are
rapidly becoming good.
Three large deals are pending, two
son Palmer mountain and one on Mount
aCapacca. Details are not made public.
1t is known. however, that the three
deals will aggregate $3.50, 900 and will
probably be consummated within 30
days. The capital comes from Indian
spolis, Milwaukee and New York.
The 21st vein in the Palmer Noun
tain tunnel has not been crossed. AS
says are running well and the vein
promises to be of good width and to
give good values.
Contracts will soon be let for the
longest mining ditch in the world. 1t
will be SO miles long, beginning above
Rogue River Falls and terminating at
Gold Hill. southern Oregon. 1t will
drain 100000 acres of gold placer land,
and will cost 100000. considerable
portion of which amount is subscribed
by Portland capitalists.
A rich strike of chalcopyrite ore has
been made in the cross-cut at the 100
foot level in the Buckhorn mine in
Deadwood camp. The ore has an ex-
ceedingly rich appearance and the man
agement are well 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 1t adjoins.
The claim for the oldest copper mine
in the United States is made for Santa
Rita del CObre mine in Grant county.
New Mexico. 1t was worked by the
,Spaniards more than 100 years ago.
Governor Otero of New Mexico also
claims the first gold mining in the
United States was in that territory, on
she placers In the Taos valley, Taos
county.
The strike in the Park, rear Wallace,
Idaho continues to be the theme of
conversation among the stock invest
ors. The vein ON which the Park is
located is large one, which has been
traced for miles. There are four in
,corporated companies owing claims on
1t, the Park, Springfield. Comet and
Champion, with IL claims between
them, besides number not stocked.
Parties who have been over the ground
say that they all present the same gen.
seral surface showing.
The latest reports from the Chloride
Queen, near 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.
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 at Grangeville
last week
Activity in Granite, Ore, camp has
received a renewed impetus during the
past week through the starting up OF
the May Queen mill, a successful run
of the chlorination plant just installed
at the Cougar mine and big strike
at the Strasburg mine. The May Queen
mine, which is about hald a mile north
of the Red Boy. and about four miles
from Granite, promises to become one
of the large producers of the camp. II
begins operations with 10 stamps and
four concentrators, crushing about &c
tons of ore day, but the mill is sc
constructed that 20 more stamps and
eight more concentrators can easily bt
added. 1t is the intention of the man
agement to install this additional
equipment, as the mill is running like