The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-16
BRITISH COLUMBIA.


The Wonderful mine, in the SLOGAN,
has started shipping ore and will try
to keep up regular shipments.
The CRANKY smelter during last week
treated 4463 tons of ore. The total ton
mage treated to date is 196,S7S IONS
The American Boy mine in the Slo-
can, is showing up well, and the COM
pany will increase its force in a few
weeks.
The Rambler-Cariboo directors make
glowing promises of a dividend every
60 days. They say improvement in the
mine has been nothing short of phe-
nomenal and the earnings will be
doubled.
For the last month or two the size
of the ore body in the Wilcox, as well
as it's average values have been stead
lily increasing until today it is unques-
tionably the richest shoot of ore in the
Ymir camp.
Foreign shipments from Kaslo for
the week were: Rambler-C ariboo, 100
tons, value 11,20; SLOGAN Star, 126
tons, value $12,2S6; Last Chance, AZ
BOuo, Ndlut 9l,JJ1. IOul IAOSSldnu.
Iron Mask, 1000 tons; LeRoi, $50 tons.
Another dividend of $4,000 has just
been distributed to the shareholders of
the Ymir Mines. This brings the total
dividend returned to shareholders to
date up to $4,000, out OF which s144,-
600 has been distributed during the
present year.
f,,oYN hoc q
over the mining situation in the SLOGAN
in the last three weeks, and the hard
luck stories are getting fewer. At least
200 men have been added to the forces
of the camp and the list of working
properties is steadily increasing.
A deal has just been consummated at
Vancouver, B. c., by which the Brit
ANNA mines, one of the richest copper
properties in British Columbia, has
passed into control of an American syn
dictate. The investment was made on
the report of George H. Robbins, con
sulting engineer of f. Augustus Heinze
of Butte, Mont, who after inspecting
the property acquired a controlling in
terest on behalf of his principals, hav
ms lnNVoJCQ PIOOyOOO III Dul lug SudI 6S
Under the new management the mine
will be actively operated and many i'm
provements made.
Amazing Improvements are undel
way at the lie Roi in Rossland anC
at the Northport smelter, where it
ores are handled. When the new ma
chinery is in place the handling of tn
ore will he automatic from, tho tim.
that it is broken down in the stope
until it lands in the furnace of tn
smelter. During all that time it will
not be touched once by hand, nor will
it be so much as shoveled. 1t is hardl
a stretch of language to declare tina
the ore will flow in an endless stream
from the slopes into the smelling fui
naces Is miles away.
The improvements at the lie Roi ar
practically completed. The new SUI
face plant, which cost a quarter of
million dollars, was started in Januar
last. 1t has a capacity for handlin
about 1000 tons of ore in 10 hours. S
completely has machinery taken tn
place of human labor that out of tn
late force of 700 men only about 20 pc
cent were muckers. The rest of I'll
crew was made up of skilled miner
engineers. mechanics and the Xix
When operations at the mine are REQ
ened the workmen will have one of IL
finest plants in the country.
The lie Roi is peculiarly we'll suite
for economical mining. l. has an il
mense body of low grade ore. Stop'
40 feet wide have been opened on Il
700 foot level. Ore is being quarrie
rather than mined across the whole I
that extraordinary breast. Thes o.
body extends with varying widths fl
a quarter of mile.
1t was once the practice to pick I
the ore broken in the slopes and thro
it into the ore car. Now, however.
chute is built underneath the stop
and all the ore falls into it. The ca
man opens a gate at the bottom of Il
chute and the ore falls into the ca
He wheels it to shaft and dumps it in