Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-05-04


The Jumbo, at Buffalo Hump. is to
have stamp mill and concentration
The mill will be of ten STAMPS and the
plant will be rushed in as soon as It can
be got over the roads.
The tunnel being run to tap the Sim
mons claim on Bear gulch, near Mur-
ray, Idaho, is in over 200 feet and good
progress Is reported. The group is un-
der bond to the Murray DEVELOPMENT
company.
The Cedar Canyon district is active
and looking well. A visit to the camp
proves revelation of great possibili-
ties. Large quantities of high grade
ore are sacked and on the dump ready
for shipment.
NO. shaft at the Tamarack mine
In the copper region of Lake Superior,
Is one of the most notable pieces of
mining work ever undertaken. 1t is
4,6SO feet deep, and the work of sink
ing 1T occupied four and one-half years.
Although active operations can not
| be undertaken for some time on &C.
count OF snow, there is every indica-
ton that the coming summer will see
great deal Of life in the copper belt
that extends from Wallace, Idaho. east
ward to Iron Mountain Montana.
Seven hundred and fifty employees at
the East Helena plant of the American
| Smelling and Refining company have
gone on strike. 1t is supposed the men
are dissatisfied because of a slight re-
! duction made in their wages with the
introduction Of the compulsory eight
hour law, passed by the recent legis-
! lature.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo-.
caved recently and buried five men at
a depth OF ITO feet and 70 feet from the
main shaft. The sounds or tapping on
the steel rails gave their friends assur-
ance of life. Several hundred men,
working in relays, are striving to res
cue the entombed men but it will take
at least three days to reach them.
Ray Waylett, a miner employed at
the Tiger-Poorman mine at Wallace,
Idaho was killed recently by falling
about so feet down an ore shoot, strik-
ing on his head. He was a single man
about % years old. His parents live
at Victor, Mont, to which place his
body was shipped.
AS consequence of the recent terri
BILE disaster in the coal mine at Cum
berland, B. c., the miners in Nanaimo
are circulating petition, addressed to
the legislative assembly of British Co.
lumbia, asking that new law be pass
ed providing for the examination Of
persons who wish to work in coal
mines.
John MacGinniss, assistant to F. Aug.
Heinze of the Montana Ore Purchasing
company, and a stakeholder in the Par
rott, and Daniel Lamm, stakeholder
of the Parrot company, have begun
suit in the district court at Butte, SINH
lar to that begun in Jersey City and in
which an injunction was issued. 1t is
set forth in the complaint that the Par
rott is about to transfer all it's prop
critics to the Amalgamated; that the
affairs of the PARROT and the other
companies to the Amalgamation have
been handled by the officers of the
Amalgamated company in a way to
hurt the interest of the stockholders Of
the several concerns.
A meeting of all silver-lead produc-
ing mineowners of the west has been
called in Denver, Colo. to decide what
shall be done about an ironclad con-
tract submitted by the American
Smelling & Refining Company. Every
mining district in the state except
where the product may be treated by
mills, cyanide and chlOrination works,
as is largely the case at Cripple Creek,
will be at the mercy of the trusts. The
} trusts will have the mines producing
J lead ores by the throat. The price OF
gold is fixed at $40 per ounce, whereas
, the trust will receive $2067 per ounce
for it. The rates are based partly on
the railway freight charges, and as the
railways are going into the hands OF
, the same financial kings, the smelteI
} trust will be in a position to make re-
= bates on freight to itself, while charg
/ ing full tariff to the miner. An ore con
J tanning $50 worth of mineral and pay
: ing $40 per ton freight will pay $lI
per ton treatment charges, thus leaV'
: ing the miner SO net out of which to
! pay the cost of operating his mine and
, profit for himself. Such mine must
t close down at once. A $50 ore, paying
{ s11 per ton freight, will pay $l6.oo
: treatment charges, leaving $2O.5O per
: ton for the miner. The treatment
: charges are an increase on prevailing
> rates. Owners of the two leading
/ chemical gold reduction plants, with a