The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-02-10

A tunnel Is being driven on the Kitty
W. north fork of Kettle river, to tap
the lead at depth of 200 feet
The new plant for the Bonanza,
knights camp, North fork of Kettle
river, is being installed. 1t consists of
a steam pump, hoist, sufficient to work
the property to a depth of 200 feet. The
treasury stock has been largely sold in
Canada.
The recent strikeo con the Reservation
Rossland men think is a second Repub-
lic shaft 100 feet deep on claim
16 miles west of Bossburg Is said to
have opened ore of exceedingly high
grade The Commonwealth group has
been sold for $4,000.
The new plant for the Pathfinder
mine on the North fork of Kettle river
has reached Grand Forks. 1t will be
installed Immediately. 1t includes
3 IA Rand drill, a duplex pump with
capacity of 200 gallons per minute, a
so horsepower boiler and hoist Thos.
Parkinson, president of the company,
says the plant will be enlarged long be-
fore the 400-foot level Is reached.
Good progress is being made in run
ming tunnel on the Phil Sheridan
claim of the Earthquake group, IL
miles north of this city. Frank Sears,
secretary of the company, is confident
that the main vein of the Golden Eagle
mine will be encountered at a depth of
100 feet. The Phil Sheridan claim
shows two parallel veins, which also ex-
tend across the Golden Eagle property.
The control of the Gray Eagle, Ban
ner, Tiptop ana Triangle in Phoenix
camp has passed to Jay p. Graves of
Spokane and eastern Canadian sssOci-
ates. These claims adjoin and sur
round the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill
mines, and exploration work on these
two has proved that the lodges pass
through this new ground. Mr.. Graves
has completed the formation of a COM
pany in Montreal to acquire the group.
which will also be developed on large
scale, adding quite pay roll to Phoe-
nix. The new 4O-drill compressor or
dered by him is to be used Jointly by
all the properties in Greenwood camp
under his control.
MINING NOTES.
A new company is in control of the
Helena-Frisco mine.
A Libby Creek company has failed
and the Buzz saw mine is in the sher- /
ifs hands.
Paul Becker of Spokane is a pioneer !
in the world-famous Cape Nome camp
III Alaska, and says that 1t was In his
rocker that the first pay dirt was wash
ed on that wonderful beach.
The Silver King mill on Government !
gulch. near Kellogg. Idaho, is running
steadily night and day. handling about
so tons of crude ore daily and keeping
one team busy hauling concentrates to
the railroad at the mouth of the gulch.
A shaft is being sunk on the property. |
Hon. Joseph P. Gallaher, state sena-
tor from Clear Greek county, was in
stantly killed at Leadville, Col, by the
explosion of a blast which was supposed |
to have missed. Gallaher's home Is Sill
yer Plume, but he was working in the
Meyer mine at Leadville. He had been
a member of the legislature six years.
+. August Heinze has filed a petition
for the appointment of receiver for
the Minnie Healy mine in Butte. The
mine is most valuable one. and
Heinze claims that the Boston & Mon
tana Company has extracted ore to the
value of s100.00O from it by means of
underground workings from the Piccolo
and Gambetta claims.
The good ore in the 100-foot level in
the Black Bear is still holding out and
Is proving to be the best body of ore
ever encountered in the mine 1t will
average better than $50 a ton. At the
2OO-foot level the drifts are improving
every day. The drift from the bottom
of the shaft at $50 feet depth has been
started, and the cutting of the three
parallel veins will be watched with in
tcrest The ore bins are fast filling up
and the starting of the mill is becoming
necessary to make room for the ore
coming up each day.
Frank A. Launtz, a Monterey man
who has spent the past three years
prospecting in the Canada and Alaska
mining regions in the interest of the st.
Louis Mining & Development Company.
has returned home with news of the dis
covery of an exceedingly rich platinum
deposit in the Copper river district,
which at the surface yields S13 to the |
ton, at 1-2 feet the yield is $4,000 to
the ton. and at feet it is $4,000 to the
ton. Launtz. who is now in St. Louis,
will return about the middle of Febru-
airy and will at once begin the work of !
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