Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-11-29
MINING NOTES.

John F. Costello has accepted the pos
ition of Office manager for the North
port Smelling & Refining company, and
has relieved Manager hussey, who re-
Gently rendered his resignation.
George Overfeld says Buffalo Hump
mines are producing well. Big Buffa-
10 is good payer. Mills are working
on several properties and will be kept
busy all winter. Are cleaning up good
money.
Officers of the Pacific Portland c.
ment company are on a tour Of inspec-
tion. The company will make cement
at a plant located at lone, Wash. It
will be in operation March l, with out
put of 200 barrels daily.
The Standard Mining company OF
Wallace, Idaho. paid a dividend Of 5
cents per share-$25, 00O-last week,
making total of dividends to date for
this company of $2,44O.OOO. For sever
al months it's dividends have been uni
formly cents per share each.
twenty-five men dead is believed to
be the total of Smuggler-Un fatali-
ties. The body of John Nevella was
found on the slopes of the seventh lev.
Ell. Engineer Hugh O'Neill died after
two days of unconsciousness.
The federal court of appeal sat San
Francisco has refused the application
OF Charles Sweeny for reversal of the
courts decision in the celebrated Skoo-
KUN case. The effect of the refusal is
to give Kennedy Hanley a one-eighth
interest in the famous mine from
which the Empire State-Idaho com.
pany is getting it's 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 five days
without 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
No. 6 mine with the cave-in of ground
from the surface on August 70, 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 shaft
| nifty feet through loose ground in or
der to reach the point where the body
rested
Considerable interest is being man!
tested at Spokane in the new oil field;
lately opened up in Southwestern wy
omlng and several parties have lef,
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 the
same distance northeasterly from o.
81. The Oil SO far found is of the fin
81 iubricating quality. and it is sal,
to command a price of from S. to 81
per barrel.
sample of Trade Dollar ore at Re
public, WASH, was assayed recentl,
that showed value of $32.71. a sam
pie said to be an average of the or,
body, % inches in width returned al
assay value of S107.4S. The vein q
rich ore is so inches in width ant
was much richer than any heretofor,
taken from the mine. 1t was LITERAL,
sprinsled with native gold. It is b,
all ODDS the finest gold ore taken Oil
IN what is known as the porphyry belt
me ledge is the same that trayerse
the Ben Hur and the San Poll claims
j. G. Wilson, the owner of the famon.
Apache group in the Nespelim district
"n., is in Spokane on his way east r.
complete big mining deal whereby east
ern capitalists will take hold of sever
al Nespelim properties and deve,o,
them In the spring. He saws the Nas
peiim country has the finest surfac,
showing of any district in the world
Nearly every expert who has visited RI.
section mas pronounced it wonderful
Inc Apache alone took out enough or,
IN the hrst thirty feet to paw for tn,
properly. The ore is remarkable rich
going from 1000 to 5000 ounces in sil
Yer and from $3.50 to sasn =,