Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-08-17
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

BRITISH COLUMBIA,
The Wonderful mine, in the SLOGAN,
has started shipping ore and will try
to keep up regular shipments.
The CRANKY smelter during last week
treated 4463 tons of ore. The total ton
mage treated to date is 19G,878 tons.
The American Boy mine in the Slo-
can, is showing up we'll, and the COM
pany will increase its force in a few
weeks.
The Rambler-Cariboo directors make
| glowing promises of a dividend every
SO days. They say improvement in the
mine has been nothing short of phe-
nomenal and the earnings will be
| doubled.
For the last month or two the size
of the ore body in the Wilcox, as we'll
as it's average values have been stead
lily increasing until today it is unques-
tionably the richest shoot of ore in the
Ymir camp.
Foreign shipments from Kaslo for
the week were: Rambler Cariboo, 100
tons, value $11,20; SLOGAN Star, 126
tons, value $12,286; Last Chance, AZ
tons, value 1891. From Rossland:
Iron Mask, 1000 tons; LeRoi, $50 tons
Another dividend of $4,000 has just
been distributed to the shareholders Of
the Ymir Mines. This brings the total
| dividend returned to shareholders to
date up to $4,000. out OF which $144,-
hoe Il ,1Ex
! present year.
A pronounced improvement has come
over the mining situation III the SLOGAN
in the last three weeks, and the hard
! luck stories are getting fewer. At least
! 200 men have been added to the forces
of the camp and the list of working
properties is steadily increasing.
! deal has just been consummated at
! Vancouver B. c., by which the Brit
ANNA mines, one of the richest copper
properties in British Columbia, has
passed into control of an American syn
dictate. The investment was made on
! the report of George H. Robbins, con-
| sulting engineer of f. Augustus Heinze
OF Butte, Mont, who after inspecting
the property acquired a controlling in
terest on behalf of his principals, hav-
! ing invested 100000 in buying shares.
! Under the new management the mine
Will be actively operated and many i'm
proyements made.
Amazing improvements are under
way at the lie Roi in Rossland and
! at the Northport smelter, where its
ores are handled. When the new ma
I chinery is in place the handling of the
ore will be automatic from the time
that it is broken down in the slopes
until it lands in the furnace of the
smelter During all that time it will
not be touched once by hand, nor will
, 1t be so much as shoveled. 1t is hardly
, a stretch of language to declare that
the ore will flow in an endless stream
from the slopes into the smelling fur
naces Is miles away.
The improvements at the lie Roi are
practically completed. The new sur
face plant, which cost a quarter of a
million dollars, was started in January
last. 1t has a capacity for handling
about 1900 tons of ore in 10 hours. So
completely has machinery taken the
place OF human labor that out of the
late force of 700 men only about 20 per
cent were muckers. The rest of the
crew was made up Of skilled miners
engineers, mechanics and the like
When operations at the mine are reop,
ened the workmen will have one of the
finest plants in the country.
The lie Roi is peculiarly we'll suited
for economical mining. l. has an i'm
mense body of low grade ore. Slopes
lao feet wide have been opened on the
700 foot level. Ore is being quarried
rather than mined across the whole OF
that extraordinary breast. The ore
body extends with varying widths fol
a quarter of mile.
1t was once the practice to pick ur
the ore broken in the slopes and throw
II into the ore car. Now, however. q
chute is built underneath the stope
and all the ore falls into it. The car
man opens gate at the bottom of the
chute and the ore falls into the car
he wheels it to shaft and dumps it int