The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-03-24

MINING NOTES.
Another big ledge. No. 10. has been
opened by Palmer Mountain tunnel 1t
Loomis, Wash.
The report has been rife for some
time that important developments have
been showing up in the Tiger-P Poorman
mines at Burke, Idaho.
The possibility of the Beers destroy.
ing the mines is causing some anxiety
among French financiers. who hold one
third Of the shares.
The Dewey mine near Grangeville,
Idaho Is forging ahead. The threaten
ed litigation has been settled and
men are at work.
The crosscut tunnel by which the
Canyon Creek Mining Company Is 60
ing to reach its vein from the old Un-
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 1t good season for work In Idaho.
At the Northport smelter blast fur
naces Nos. and 2 are running steadily
but the crusher is closed. No ore 10
coming in now, but there is plenty ON
hand to run the smelter for 60 days ct
least, and 1t is nearly certain that ship
ments will De resumed by that time.
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.
Joe. Jeannot Of Hope. Idaho has nne
samples Of ore from the drift which he
is running on Black Tail mountain on
(, lake Pend d'Orsille.
The directors of the Anaconda Cop.
per Mining Company declared It's rsgu-
lar dividend of $1.25 per share. and an
extra dividend Of rs cents per share,
payable April 80.
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.
Mayor Comstock. Of Spokane, ap-
pointed w. J. Thompson ~ delegate
from Spokane to the trans-M Mississippi
commercial congress. to be held in
Houstin, Texas. from April II to April
21, 1900.
4 A fns lot Of ore from the Leslie
group was shown In Wallace. Idahs.
last week. 1t Ii situated just over the
summit in Montana, 1t II about on the
dividing line between the copper and
lead belts.
i Sumpter, Or. mining camp. while
not unusually lively last month, still
maintained good mining and milling
average. A total of 166 stamps pound
ed throughout February, and the ten
mines In complete operation produced
a round 100000 for the month.
The total output for the month, $196.
600, 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 its 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 f.
nous Cougar mine at Granite, Or, and
!. on the same ledge within few hund.
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
D ceedings of the case involving owner
Y ship to the Johnstown and Rarus
claims.
+ At At feet from the shaft on tho 26(
s foot level the Black Bear people have
+ struck their No. vein, at Loomis
They had three and one-half feet o.
quartz, and were not across the vein
8 It is a singular coincidence that at ex
. actly on the 250-foot level, veins Nos.
r and have been cut. The cutting o
o these two veins puts the Black Bear In
!. to $50 feet of ore on each vein over tn
level. upon which they can drift .
. least 500 feet west and 1000 east, Will
= there is 1900 feet below them to the lev
! ell of the Palmer Mountain tunnel
: where the same vein will be cut In tn
, adjoining claim, which is owned BY tn
big tunnel company.
MCK Kfnley,n Trim.