Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-01-26

consummation Of new deals.
REPUBLIC.
The Gopher shaft Is 1870 feet deep and
is now in solid ground.
Fourteen men are employed on the
Mud Lake and Knob Hill claims.
Several loads Of Mountain Lion ma
chinery are arriving every day.
There Is two feet of the ore body In
the Butte Boston that averages s104
to the ton.
More machinery for the mines has
arrived in Republic the last week than
ever In its history.
There is report that work is to be
resumed on the Flag Hill within few
days, but this is not official.
The Stray Horse is giving employ
ment to six men divided into two
shifts. The crosscut is in 48 feet.
The Blacktail Is demonstrating its
title to the name of mine. 1t is one of
the big ones of the camp. The winze
which was lately started in the rich ore
shoot is down IS feet.
The Delta shaft is full of quartz, and
all is not taken out. The ore ranges In
value from So to $26 per ton. The shaft
Ia SO feet in depth.
At the Tom Thumb two shifts are
sinking the new working shaft and two
shifts are working in the south drift on
the 150-foot level. The face of the drift
is in quartz and there is several feet
| left on the wall.
The south drift on No. 4 ledge on the
Lone Pine has been driven so feet. The
ledge is six feet wide. The ore aver.
| ages $50 per ton. The north drift has
been driven 20 feet. The ledge Is FIVE
feet wide and the quartz averages $50
per ton. ~
The building of the Republic Reduc-
ton Company's mill is progressing rap
idly. About SO men are engaged in
framing timbers. The foundation is
completed and the timbers will be in
readiness to raise the structure in
about 10 days. There are three car
loads of machinery at Grand Forks.
The rest Is expected within the next
week. The mill building will be quite
| an extensive affair, being 210x90 feet.
Sixty men are on the Republic pay
roll. Some Stopping is going on from
No. tunnel. The ore is assorted and
sacked and will be sent to smelter as
soon as teams can be had to haul it to
Grand Forks. There is nearly 5000
sacks of ore ready. 1t Is difficult to es-
innate anything like its real value.
Some Of 1t Is fabulously rich and all Is
of high grade. 1t will undoubtedly be
the richest shipment ever made from
the mine.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The richest War Eagle ore is found
on the 750-foot level of the mine.
"a second ledge has been struck in a
crosscut from the south drift of the |
Gertrude at Rossland.
The Payne mine asks for protection, |
as 1t claims union miners in the SLOGAN |
have threatened employees.
The ore shipped over the Kaslo & Slo- |
can railway for the year 1899 was 25,- |
700,2 pounds, which shows decrease
of 16,602,891 from that of 1898, says the |
Kaslo Kootenaian.
A new lead furnace has been blown in |
at the Trail smelter. There Is stock
of ore on hand sufficient for several |
months. The furnace is large as any
thing in the United States.
The development of the Butcher Boy |
in Greenwood is by a shaft which has
reached depth of As feet. The ore
being taken out from the bottom of |
the shaft shows considerable arsenical |
iron, mixed with copper pyrites and
iron pyrites.
The first dividend of $50 900 has been
declared by the new management of the
Center Star, and 1t is probable they win
hereafter be monthly occurrence The
mine is shipping at the rate of 800 to
1000 tons a week, and will probably I
keep up this rate indefinitely.
A Greenwood dispatch of the 18th |
says: Two Boundary district mines
made their first shipments today. The
B. G. in Summit camp, the we'll known
mine which is the property of the same
syndicate which controls the Republic
mine in Republic, Wash, and the Payne
mine at Sandon, B. c., shipped three
carloads to Trail. It is a trial ship
ment, but the value of the ore has been
so well determined that the manage
ment has little doubt of the outcome.
The ore averages about $40 per ton. The
other shipper joining the rapidly grow
Ing list today was the Winnipeg mine,
In Wellington camp. One car went to
Trail. 1t is the first of a steady run
of shipments contracted to go forward
from this mine.
The Center Star in Rossland is soon