The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-10-11

man mine at BURKE, ldanO, was killed |
last week by falling down an ore shoot.
Evidences have been found which es-
tablish the fact that the mines in the
Kougaro6 district near Nome were
worked many vars ago
The Valdez copper mining district in
Alaska is rich in copper. and has coal.
timber. fine water and power and all
other resources necessary Tor building
up a great mining industry.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining
and Concentrating Company. of Ward
ner, Idaho, has declared dividend No.
So, of $4,000. That makes the total
paid since January l, 1901, $4,000,
and the total to date 81, 263, 900.
At Tyson, Idaho, work on the Sunday
Morning Tunnel is progressing rapidly
1t is now down about rs feet of which
twenty-five feet was driven through SOL
id iron Gaping. At depth of thirty
seven feet a three-inch stringer contain
ing free gold was crosscut.
1t has leaked out that the Snowshoe
mine near Libby has been sold. The
proposition submitted by d. p. Bowers
some time ago has been accepted by the
Pacific Northwest Mining company at
London, England, and the papers nee
essary to make the transfers have been
forwarded to them by E. H. West, the
companys manager at Libby.
A company has just purchased free
gold proposition at Round Prairie, near
Baker City, Ore, and will move the
twenty stamp mill they have purchased
to that property. The price the com
pany paid for the mine Is given out as
100000 cash. There is already a five
stamp mill at the mine, and with the
addition of twenty stamps the Hoosiel
Boy company will crush great deal Of
ore.
The steamship Queen arrived from
Cape Nome, bringing All passenger
and 100000 in gold dust. The Queer
made a remarkable run of six days anC
! fifteen hours, which is the record ruI
from Nome to Puget sound. When thu
Queen sailed from Nome the disabled
steamer Nome City had arrived will
her crank shaft broken. The steame
| sengers from Nome report that th'
place is crowded with people awaiting
an opportunity to get out. Purser Cur
tbs reports that all accommodations o.
the Queen for the next trip from Nom
have been engaged, and the same ca
be said of all steamers which are sched
uled to make another trip The Gu:
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people arrived there this season, an
that 1000 have already departed.
What may prove to be an importan
discovery of vein of sand has bee,
made on the Columbia at Umailla, Ore
The location is a little below the sts
has been traced for. considerable di'
lance, many thinking it extends at leas
five miles. The quality is of the fines
? eminently suitable for mixing purpose
for plaster and for building sane
Should the find turn out as hoped, tn
, situation permits or, easy snipmen
, greatly enhancing the value of the veil
One of the biggest mining deals thu
, has taken place in Spokane for severe
years was started recently when tn
papers were signed for the bonding c
4 nearly all the Palmer Mountain claim
: and mines, not included in the Paine
Mountain tunnel proposition, to tn
: Washington Development compan.
Q with John Boyd of the Palmer Moul
> tain Tunnel company as the presider
2 of the new company. The price of tn
bond is 100000 and covers a period {
, II months. Mr.. Weston says that a
, he understood the proposition a de-
: had been made whereby the new syl
; dictate should use the present Paine
, Mountain tunne', and that gantic no
would be run clear through the moul
+ tain to the Rainbow. This would ia
= the lodges of the Ivanhoe at dept
. of 1000 feet and connect every mine o
the mountain with the one tunnel.