Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
MINING NOTES.

pany, with a capital of $2,500,000, was
chartered in Texas recently. 1t is
to prospect in 25. Texas counties fol
oil. The board of directors includes
Charles A. Towne of Minnesota and
Governor Benton McMillen Of Ten
nessee.
During the nine days which ended
last Saturday the Standard mined
1909 tons of crude ore. The total
produce for the year to date has been
71,S57 tons, and the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan company produced 5000 tons
of ore. The shipments we're 500 tons
of concentrates.
A strike has been made on the Her.
cules at Wallace. Idaho. and while its
extent is not determined, there is
enough ore in sight to show that 1t is
of great Importance. The ledge was
being crosscut when round of holes
were fired, showing two and half
feet of pure carbonate ore.
An assay on some of the ore from
the new strike in the Hercules at
Wallace has yielded 66.2 per cent
lead and 94.7 ounces in silver. That
is a little below the average assays
in lead. but is unusually high in sill
yer. In the little ore which has been
taken out since the strike was made
there number of samples of wire
silver have been found.
The big legal fight under way be-
tween Patrick Clark ct al. and Charles
Sweeny for property in the Occur
d'Alenes, said to be worth million
dollars, promises to be the biggest suit
of it's kind in the history of the north
west. There are giants ON each side
of the battle, and there seems no doubt
that they will carry the fight up to the
tribunals of last resort.
The smelling trust has suddenly
stiffened it's demands upon the mine
owners of the Occur d'Alenes. The
conference that has been held in New
York has been marked by develop
ments that have surprised the mine
owners considerably. Their surprise
is mixed with Indignation. Relations
between them and the smelling trust
are not of the most cordial nature.
The report of the United States as
say office at Boise. on the mineral out
put of Idaho for 1900, has just been
issued. 1t shows a much greater in
crease over the previous year than had
been supposed. The increase
amounts to. over so per cent. The to-
tails are: Gold, $2,O76, O36; silver, S.
46S,S39; lead, $76S9,974. Total, s1S,-
236,S40. For 1899 the figures were:
Gold, $2,119,71S; silver, $5,2S3,44
lead. $4,713,604. Total, $12,1O7, 765.
Increase of 1900 over 1899. $6,129, O75.
A bond on the Eagle group in the
Gilt Edge district, near Lewiston,
Mont, has been given by McEvony.
Runzler & Stephens to H. T. Kendall
Co. The bond runs for one year and
s for 100000. The group consists of
i've claims joining the Central Mon
ana mines on the eastern slopes of the
Judith range. The properties are
practically undeveloped, but enough
work has been done to show ore on all
If them.
The Butte & Boston smelter at Butte.
Mont. which has been closed for some |
weeks on account of the refusal of the |
ompany to grant outside labor the |
ight-hour day provided for miners and
will resume operations in
he morning. The machinists still re-
main out. The smelter employs 300
nen, but the starting affects many
lines that number in the mines.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining
Concentrating Company has filed
uit in the United States court at Boise
gainst the Last Chance Mining Com
any, tn eShoshone Mining Company.
nd the Empire State-Idaho Mining q
'eveloping Company for $4,000 dam.
ges. 1t is alleged that the defendant
have tunnelled into the
yler claim, owned by the Bunker Hill
Sullivan Company, and appropriated
re to the value of $4,000.