The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-09-08
BRITISH COLUMBIA,

The Giant resumed shipping this
week from the upper ledge and it is an
ucipated that the shipments will be
kept up indefinitely.
The Center Star will commence ship
ping to Trail on Tuesday. The ship
ments will be at the rate Of 300 tons
per day at first.
There Is much assurance that il will
not be many months before Dead wood
camp, at the present rate Of progress,
Will attract the attention it merits,
Active development is in progress on
nine properties in Deadwood camp,
near Greenwood, and there is every
reason TO believe that by the close Of
the year three Of the mines. at least
Will be on a permanent shipping basis
The disputed ledge on the Iron
Mack and Center Star at Rossland is
being stripped for some distance in
preparation for the continuance Of the
litigation between the two companies,
which will be shortly.
The CRANKY smelter continues to run
very smoothly. Although its nominal
capacity is only $50 tons per day. it
established a record two days this
week by producing BIG and BIS tons of
ore respectively in twenty-four hours.
This is due to the fact that the ores of
the Knob Hill and Old Ironsides, now
being treated, are self-huxing, not re-
curing the addition Of limestone. The
second car load OF matte will be shipp-
ed to New York on Tuesday.
The output for the last week which
Is not as good as for the preceding
week. The lie Roi sent 457O tons. the
lie Roi No. 2, 255 tons and the Giant
40 tons, or total Of 1851 tons. The
decrease was due to several causes.
There was a slight breakage on We'd
nesday morning, which caused a delay
OF the lie Rofs gravity tramway. In
addition to this the smelter yard at
Northport is crammed to a point of in
convenience, so that at present it Is not
desirable to ship more than the smelter
can well handle
The War Eagle mine in Phoenix
camp has made another excellent find
OF ore recently. Workmen began sink.
ing in an old prospecting shaft east Of
the maip shaft about IT'S feet 1t had
been decided to continue this old shaft
to the 100-foot level, as it was known
that there was some ore there. As
sinking continued the ore grew better
and wider and miners have been work
ing all week In fine grade Of copper
sulphide ore. So far they have sunk
over 80 feet and are still in good pay
ing rock. The entire bottom Of the
shaft Is in excellent chalopyrite. Res
tdent Manager Buck says that In the
new find the ore Is OF better quality
than that found in the west raise
short time ago. where tests resulted in
securing values Of $3.50 In gold, and
copper.
Since the Old Ironside and Knob Hill
began sending ore to the CRANKY smell
ter at the rate Of 10 car loads. or 900
tons per day a week ago, Phoenix has
made Jump to the second camp In
British Columbia in point Of ore ship
ments. Phoenix itself and the camps
TO which 1t Is the nearest banking and
business center are shipping $500 tons
OF copper-gold ore per week, or 132,5OO
tons per year. The Knob Hill and
Old Ironsides are shipping at the rate
Of 2lOO tons weekly, which will be again
doubled in about two weeks. when the
new Knob Hill compressor is installed
and at work breaking down ore. The
B. c. mine is shipping $50 tons daily. or |
over 1000 tons weekly, over the Phoe-
nix spur. Other mines near here. |
such as the Golden Crown, Winnipeg,
and Athelstan, are also shipping stead.
.ly But one mining camp in the prov.
nee now exceeds Phoenix in point Of
and that Is Rossland.