The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-28
MINING NOTES.

The Bill Nye mine, in jackson coun-
ty, Oregon, owned by Spokane men, is
proving a world beater in the bringing |
forth of rich gold deposits.
News has reached Baker City, Ore,
that John James remains had been
found in the mountains by a searching
party. He was lost in storm last De
cember.
Over 100000 miners are required to
produce the worlds supply of coal. OF
this number 1860 are employed in
Great Britain and 401 ,230 are employed
in the United States.
At Dixie, Idaho, the Mammoth-Grea
Eastern Mining company have made ar
rangements for the use of the Comstock
mill and is stopping 100 tons of ore with
which to make mill test.
BY far the best rock which has come
to light in the Myers Creek mining dis
trict has recently been unearthed on
the Lord Kitchener mine. situated on
the northern spur of Copper mountain.
Robert Wagner of Pierce City, Idaho,
says that rich strike has been made
near the Crescent mine at Pierce City,
and that ledge one foot in width has
been found in the prospect shaft that
is enormously rich.
]. G.. Cowen of Pierce City, Idaho, re-
ports several strikes Of Importance in
that section. 1t is now known that
they have eight inches of rich free gold
ore in a porphyry dyke IL feet wide on
the Wild Rose claim.
The recent visit of Henry M. Rich
ards and w. A. White to the Occur
d'Alenes has given rise to the rumor
that they are planning to extend an
electric power service from Spokane to
the mines of the district.
General activity prevails in Santa
Idaho, camp since the heavy rains
which have brought sufficient water fol-
rocking on most of the placer claims
) under development. Sufficient work
has now been done to assure the success
of the camp.
The first gold shipments of the sea
, son are now on the way from the Klon
dixie. Sums aggregating $1,500,00'
, were started from Dawson on June l.
: on the river steamers Canadian anC
q Zealandia, according to Geographic ad
? vices received in Skagway.
v It looks as if Prince of Wales Islant
{ will prove to be the biggest minera
r belt that has yet been discovered, sail
/ Sam I. Silverman last week at Spc
d kane. Mr. Silverman, who has JUS
returned from a trip to the Alaskan
island in the interests of Spokane min
ing men, is much pleased with the pro:
g poets
The Hercules, at Wallace, Idaho, cor
a. tinues to grow richer as the ore shoe
v is drifted on. Contrary to the first IL
tention, men we're set to drifting bot
!. ways from where the ore shoot was GU
% To the east the shoot has widened I
a seven feet, all high grade carbonat
ore, except for an occasional bunch
n waste.
n Henry Fish, the youngest son Of Co
n ]. NJ Fish of Kettle Falls. and jaime
!, Alldredge, a brother of William Al
- dredge, a we'll known mining man {
"A the same place, were almost LITERAL
Id blown to atoms by the explosion of
w charge of dynamite in the Acme min
Is miles west of Colville and near Ke
ID tie Falls, Wash, last week.
w The Engineering and Mining Journ
A. publishes a complete estimate of Il
a gold output in the United States and
the world at large last year. The fl
Id ures, s11S, 1862, for the Unit
sh States, and 1885, ,654 for the wor
70 ar large (cOmnared with 500 1873 z
es and 1911, sos, 94S in 1890, do not diff
II. materially from the estimates of sc
of eral months ago.
1T Stories of remarkable placer d
lp covery come from the Great Bend
rk the Snake river, near Ontario, Orego
it. A shaft So feet deep has passed throui
% feet of conglomerate that CARR
of gold in large quantities. 1t is said t
en- gravel carries $27 per cubic yard.
re- that is no doubt greatly exaggeratt
i'd People in the vicinity are much excit
an over the discovery and the ground
a being staked rapidly.
re- No agreement was reached at
protracted conference in New York c
&C. between Occur d'Alene mine owne
ed the American Smelling & Refining co
he pany (known as the trust) and
IA representatives of other lead product
in districts. For the present, at least,
ur- Occur d'Alene mines will be operat
he under the present plan Of restrict
of output. This is the report of John
Finch. who has returned to Spoka
the from the New York conferences.