The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-29

ton. The company will make cement
at plant located at lone, Wash. 1t
will be in operation March 1, with out
put of 200 barrels daily.
Twenty-Five men dead is believed to
be the total of Smuggler- Union fatali-
ties. The body of John Nevella was
found on the slopes of the seventh lev
ell. Engineer Hugh O'Nein died after
two days of unconsciousness.
The Standard Mining company of
Wallace, Idaho, paid a dividend of
cents per share-$25, 000-last week,
making a total of dividends to date for
this company of $2,440,OO0. For sever
al months it's dividends have been uni
formly cents per share each.
The federal court of appeal sat San
Francisco has refused the application
of Charles Sweeny for a reversal of the
courts decision in the celebrated Skoo-
KUN case. The effect of the refusal is
to give Kennedy Hanley one-eighth
interest in the famous mine from
which the Empire State-Idaho com
pany is getting its richest ore.
An attempt was made last week to
rob the sluice boes of the Gold Nugget
placer claim at Tyson, Idaho. The
boxes had been running for iive days
without a cleaup, and as they are max
ing about four ounces a day, a consid-
cradle amount of gold was known to
be in them. Robert Neill, the owner.
was away. He left orders not to clean
up until he returned.
The body of Edward Riberly, the car
penter who went into Lake Superior
No. mine with the cavern OF ground
from the surface on August 20, has been
recovered. The Lake Superior iron
company spent nearly $4,000 in the
search for the body. 1t was necessary
to drift fifty feet and then sink a shaft
fifty feet through loose ground in or.
der to reach the point where the body
rested.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested at Spokane in the new oil fields
lately opened up in Southwestern Wy
oming and several parties have left
within the past week for the scene oil
operations. The fields are situate il
the vicinity of Kemmerer and Fossil
south of the Oregon Short Line, 16(
miles from Pocatello, and about tht
same distance northeasterly from Og
den. The oil so far found is of the fin
est lubricating quality, and it is sait
to command price of from IS to 81
per barrel
A sample of Trade Dollar ore at Re
public, Wash, was assayed recent
that showed a value of S32.71. A sam
pie said to be an average of the or
body, % inches in width, returned a.
assay value of $1074S. The vein O
rich ore is 80 inches in width, an
was much richer than any heretofor
taken from the mine. 1t was LITERAL
springled with native gold. 1t is b
all odds the finest gold ore taken on
in what is known as the porphyry bel
The ledge is the same that traverse
the Ben Hur and the San Poll claims.
]. G. Wilson, the owner of the famou
Apache group in the Nespelim distric
Wn., is in Spokane on his way east t
complete big mining deal whereby cas-
ern capitalists will take hold of sevel
al Nespelim properties and develo
them in the spring. He says the Ne
: pelim country has the finest surfac
showing of any district in the worlC
Nearly every expert who has visited th
r section has pronounced it wonderful
: The Apache alone took out enough or
in the first thirty feet to pay for tn
property. The ore is remarkably ricl
2 going from 1000 to 5000 ounces in 81
4 yer and from $3.50 to $3.50 in gold.
e The new constitution of the Wester
C Federation of Miners has been con
e pleted by the executive board after tw
D weeks of hard work. The board ha
I adjourned and will not meet again III
e til the Denver convention, In Ma,
Three important changes from u
terms of the old document are notet
5 The first is the organization of stat
declarations of miners from the loci
: unions of the federation. The secon
, change is the establishment or an insu
5 ance plan for all members of the fet
e GRAFTON. The third important clause r
:, lates to the ratification of the CONVEX
}. tion agreement for interchangeab
/ membership cards with the Wester
/ Labor union.
/ AT Butte, the Amalgamated compan
e through its branch, the AanaconC
/ company, has won the first victor
n against the Heinze interests for son
). time back. Judge Clancy issued
G temporary Injunction against the Nj