The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1901-09-27

The Cougar mine, near Granite,
Ore, IL TO resume operations At an
early date, The property is owned
entirely in Spokane and was recently
incorporated as the Cougar Gold Min
Ing 4 Milling company, with capital
OF 100000 shares. par value 81.
Dynamite Is q deadly poison as will
be seen from q report Of mining
company In Montana. box Of the
usual giant powder was deyoured by
cattle, and In short space Of time
six OF them were dead. An autopsy
showed the presence OF the stun
The cleanups OF the mines OF Stump
ter. Ore. for August are estimated to
be: Bonanza. $4,000; Columbia, S70.-
1000; Red Boy. $4,000. and Golconda
$4,000. In addition to all this bullion
eight cars OF concentrates from the
same mines and four cars from the
Badger went out by freight
The superintendent OF the Orc Elmo
mine. situated at Alamo. Ore. few
days since reported by telephone that
an exceedingly important new strike
had been made. crosscut which
has been prosecuted for some time has
demonstrated that the westerly vein
at this new vein is l05z feet wide. all
in high grade free milling gold ore.
Work has closed down in the lower
workings OF the Conjecture mine at
Lake View. Idaho. In order TO drive the
big tunnel further into the hill. The
present workings on the lower level.
where ore was being taken out. has
been done at considerable expense.
and the management will stop ship
ments TO develop the property TO make
III dividend payer.
The following are the teams en-
tered in the rock drilling contest which
took place at the EIks carnival at Spo-
kane: Walter Bradshaw and James
Freethy. Butte. Mont: Frank Stevens
and Cash Patterson. Murray. Idaho:
j. r. Stevens and Peter Spaulding
Murray. Idaho: Patterson and Cum
mings. Oshurn. Idaho. W. NJ. Rosa and
@. S. Mcleod Rossiand. B. c.: James
Davey and Henry Stevens. Marysville.
Mont. and Thomas Bessler and Daniel
Dunn. Sumpter. Ore.
The men are all in the champion
ship list in their respective localities.
Bessler and Dunn hold medals for a
number OF matches won in the vicin-
fly OF sumpter and Baker City. Ross
and Mcleod have been practically In
v.ncible in British Columbia and the
three Occur d'Alene teams have each
won matches In their district and else.
where
The steamer Excelsior. Captain
Humphrey. arrived in Seattle recently
from Copper river and Cook inlet with
1876 passengers. bringing also $4,000
OF Chestochena gold. the first large
from that district Two men. H. Mil
Ter and E. Sandberg. owned $4,000
OF the total shipment Others had
amounts ranging from $500 to $4,000
each. In the Excelsior crowd there
were probably so men from the Chesto-
NhSh"- AhCs iSPoit tHS Nas1 NJ
scene Of great mining activity and
proving as to richness fully up to the
OF the more conservative
men OF the camp. Their opinion is
that the bulk OF the seasons output
Of the Chestochena will not reach Sc
attle for a month or six weeks. Good
reports are given. too, of the Cook ,
inlet placer diggings by Charles VIII
liam Gompertx. superintendent OF the
Pacific Packing & Navigation com
pany's Kenai cannery. Gompertz says l
he hydraulic mining plants. some
.hree or four In number. installed on
he tributaries OF Cook inlet and Turn.
again arm. are proving a success. The
Polly mine on Resurrection creek has
axain demonstrated itself one of the