Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-10-30
MINING NOTES.

The very latest strike in the copper
belt teributary to Mullan is on the
Comet, one of the Stevens peak proper
ties.
A bad cave in occurred in the High
land Boy mine, near Salt Lake, last
week, in which four miners were en-.
tombed. After working for twelve
hours rescuers succeeded in reaching
and getting them out alive.
A. Stevens, manager for the Buffalo
Hump syndicate, has purchased one
third interest in the Cracker Jack
mine in the Hump district. The con-
sideration is the completion Of $50 feet
of drifting upon the south vein and the
installation of complete ten-stamp
milling equipment upon the property.
S. Markwell, one of the owners of the
Hercules at Wallace, says that recent
published statements regarding that
property and the prospects of selling it
have done it an injustice. He says that
so far as he knows the owners never
received any proposition looking ito it's
sale to Finch G Campbell, although
number of offers had been made by
other parties.
The excitement in OIL in Baker City
was intensified recently upon the re-
turn of Engineer j. M. Meikle from the
Malheur fields. He says that he has
located 5000 acres of oil land near
Vale and adjoining the lands taken up
by the Albrecht, Buckbee and Spokane
companies. "The whole country there"
said Mr.. Meikle, sis swarming with
people About 10000 acres of land, all
told, have been located for oil.
The Anaconda and Parrot mines in
Butte are closed down, and as conse-
quence there are 5000 idle miners on
the streets of that city. 1t is stated,
however that by Monday at the out
side work will be resumed in every
branch of the Anaconda Mining COM
pany's property in Butte.
Work was resumed i'm all the prop.
critics of the Anaconda Mining com
pany in Butte Monday morning.
The Snow Storm Mining company
has reached its footwall in the crosscut
tunnel near Mullan, Idaho, and since
then iii has been the Mecca to which
all the mining men in the country have
journeyed. The wall rock was pene-
trated several feet before it was certain
that the ledge was passed. The rock
was SO saturated with copper that q.
was mistaken for ore, although it evil
IDENTIFY only carried what had leached
out into 1t.
Malley and Chamberlin, Leadville
rock drilling team won first money,
$3.50, as a result of the contest which
ended in Leadvllle last week. They
drilled 40 1-S inches on Thursday nigh.
and this was not beaten. Freethy and
Davel, Of Bu.te. drilled 3S TIC inches
and divided third and fourth money
with Mckenzie and Make, of Leadville.
The second money goes to Ross and Nc
Leod, of British Columbia. A wager of
$1,000 had been made by Hupps and
Lindquist, of Ouray, that they could
beat the Butte team. They drilled to-
might also, but as they broke a piece
out of the side of the rock in the last
few seconds work, and as the hole
"AS e''S osahiC do ouIuC, 90 f-lO, UIlt tDtL
was declared off: The worlds indoor
championship in double handed
rock drilling now goes to Leadville.
Favorable reports on the condition
OF the Iron Crown group, on Prince of
Wales island, Alaska, are brought
down by James Harvey. Mr.. Harvey,
who is managing the property for Pat.
rick Clark, and associates, says that
development has opend a body of rich
ore, going about per cent in copper.
That is equal to gross copper value
OF $50 ton, and as the property is ad-
vantageously situated on the tide
water it will be an easy thing to ship
ore at substantial profit If body of
it should be uncovered.
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