The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-02

pectors who were in search of gold in |
the vicinity of the present Greatest |
Copper Camp on Earth"-Butte.
The Northport smelter management
worked a coup upon the strikers at 4
o'clock Monday morning by bringing a
special train with AS nonunion men
into the works. The new arrivals come
from Leadville.
Confirmation reaches Grangeville
Idaho of the strike at Elk City in the
old Blue-Dragon, now the Alamance.
Last spring the mill burned but a new
mill was placed in operation as quickly
as could be done.
News has reached Lewiston, Idaho,
that a rich strike has just been made
on the old Blue Dragon lead, in the Elk
City district, where five foot seam Of
ore assaying $40 per ton has been un-
covered on the 100 foot level.
The shipments from the Standard
mine at Wallace, Idaho, to the mill
for the week were 1920 tons, an in
crease of almost 400 tons over the
previous week. This brings the total
for the year up to SS,791 tons.
The souvenir number of the Western
Mining World, published at Butte, is
a work of art. 1t contains many half
tones of principal mines and smelters
in the Northwest, as well as a world
of mining information. Send for it.
Word has been received from Lake
view, Idaho, that the new wagon road
to the Keep Cool mine has just been
completed, giving splendid means of
transportation from lake Pend d'Oreille
to the camp. The face of No. 5 tunnel
is all in solid ore, and in the Wine the
miners are sinking from No. 5 in good
orr.
The Conjecture company has put its
full force of 10 men at work on devel
opment at it's we'll known Pend Oreille
property Shipments have been sus
pended for the present, but they will
be started again in about a fortnight
when it is expected that 60 tons a week
will be sent to the Tacoma smelter.
A ledge of high grade ore has beer
encountered in the Deer Trail No. 2
which was abandoned by that com
pany's superintendent some time ago
For years ore was taken from thi
claim by the Deer Trail company, blu
it all came from blanket lodges en-
; countered at numerous levels.
! "There is yearly as much money in
vested in mining as there is in bank
ing, but banking does not prove as SAT
or as profitable as mining. In tim
of prosperity the average banking div
idends seldom exceed per cent veal
/, That mining produces quick
err and greater profits than any othe
industrial pursuit is evidenced by tn
L scores of multi-millionaires."
Passengers from Nome City repor
= a rich strike in the Fairhaven distric
n 90 miles north of Nome, and say
= stampede has occurred from Nom'
= The Bluestone district is still froze
and it will be some few weeks befor
= miners will be able to commence Slut
ing. The Kougarock district is ais
backward and $500 men are in Telle
. City waiting for the season to opel
- Over half a million dollars has bee
= sluiced from winter dumps near Nom
II The silver-lead mines CT the Coeu
s d'Alenes and British Columbia contil
: ne to be the most profitable branch
n mining in the Inland Empire. In tt
face of the depression in silver, and
Or spite of uncertainties in the lead ma
e ket, they keep on paying dividends
% a pace that has never been rivalled
q either the gold or the copper mines
o. the surrounding country. The div
], dends paid the silver-lead mine owne
N of the Occur d'Alenes and British c
ar lumbia reach s12,0OO,0OO. That is ov'
three times the profits that have bet
n disbursed by the gold and the copp
n. mines, which have paid in profits
re- trifie less than $3,5OO,000.
IN
~