Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-03-23
MINING NOTES.

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Another big ledge, No. 10, has been
opened by Palmer Mountain tunnel at
Loomis, Wash. &
The report has been rife for some
time that important developments have
been showing up in the Tiger-Poorman
mines at Burke, Idaho.
Joe. Jeannot of Hope, Idaho, has fine
samples of ore from the drift which he
is running on Black Tail mountain on
lake Pend d'Oreille.
The possibility of the Beers destroy
ing the mines Is causing some anxiety
among French f1nanciers, who hold one
| third Of the shares.
The Dewey mine near Grangeville,
Idaho Is forging ahead. The threaten
ed litigation has been settled and 8
men are at work.
The crosscut tunnel by which the
Canyon Greek Mining Company is 60
ing to reach its vein from the old I'm
ion tunnel, is in over 100 feet.
The warm weather has taken the
| frost out Of the ground and started the
water until the placer miners are find
ing it a good season for work in Idaho.
The directors of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Company declared its regu-
lar dividend of 81 rs per share, and an
| extra dividend of rs cents per share,
payable April 80.
Some fine ore was brought in recent
ly from the Combination Mining Com
pany's property on the south half. The
mine Is in the Davis camp and adjoins
the celebrated Park and Central.
Another deal has been made by which
the property of l.. w. Nelson, who for
nearly quarter of century has work
ed the Nelson placers, six miles west Of
| Baker, has been sold to Baker City peo-
pie.
A fine lot Of ore from the Leslie
group was shown in Wallace, Idaho,
| last week. 1t is situated just over the
summit in Montana, it is about on the
dividing line between the copper and
lead belts.
Mayor Comstock, of Spokane, ap.
pointed w. ]. Thompson as delegate
from Spokane to the ans-Mississippi
commercial congress, to be held in
Houstin, Texas, from April II to April
81, 1900.
At the Northport smelter blast fur
naces Nos. and are running steadily
but the crusher is closed. No ore Is
coming in now, but there is plenty on
hand to run the smelter for 80 days at
least, and it Is nearly certain that ship
ments will be resumed by that time.
Sumpter, Or, mining camp, while
not unusually lively last month, still
maintained a good mining and milling
average. A total of 166 stamps pound.
ed throughout February, and the ten
mines in complete operation produced
round 100000 for the month.
The total output for the month, $196.
900, does not include the value of the
ore shipped to the Selby smelling
works at San Francisco by the Golcon-
da mine.
Altogether the camp has maintained
during the month it's position in the
front ranks of dividend payers of the
northwest.
One of the most important mining
deals which has been consummated
within several months was the sale of
the South Cougar group, consisting Of
five full claims, adjoining the now IA
nous Cougar mine at Granite, Or, and
on the same ledge within a few humid
red feet of the workings of the big mine
The purchasers are all Baker city peo-
pie.
Suit for 81, $50, 900 has been brought
in the district court of Butte by the
Montana Ore Purchasing company
against the Boston and Montana and
the Butte & Boston Mining companies,
the Lewisohons, G.. w. Hyams and 9TH
ers connected with the defendant cor
porations. It grows out of the pro-
ceedings of the case involving owner
ship to the Johnstown and Rarus.
claims.
At At feet from the shaft on the $50
foot level the Black Bear people have
struck their No. vein, at Loomis
They had three and one-half feet OF
quartz, and were not across the vein.
1t is a singular coincidence that at ex-
actly on the 250-foot level, veins Nos. 1
and 2 have been cut. The cutting of
these two veins puts the Black Bear in
to $50 feet of ore on each vein over the
level, upon which they can drift at
least 500 feet west and 1000 east, while
there is 1900 feet below them to the lev
ell of the Palmer Mountain tunnel,
where the same vein will be cut in the
adjoining claim, which is owned by the
big tunnel company.
Coal Oil Lamp Exploded.
Kalispell, Mont, March lS.-The store