The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-05-03

have a stamp mill and concentration.
The mill will be of ten stamps and the
plant will be rushed in as soon as it can
be got over the roads.
The tunnel being run to tap the Sim
mons claim on Bear gulch, near Muir
ray, Idaho, is in over 200 feet and good
progress is reported. The group is I'M
der bond to the Murray Development |
company.
The Cedar Canyon district is active !
and looking we'll A visit to the camp
proves a revelation of great possibili-
ties. Large quantities Of high grade
ore are sacked and on the dump ready
for shipment.
No shaft at the Tamaraclk mine,
in the copper region of Lake Superior.
is one of the most notable pieces of
mining work ever undertaken. 1t is
1850 feet deep, and the work of sink
ing it occupied four and one-half years.
Although active operations can not
be undertaken for some time on &C
count of snow, there is every indica-
ton that the coming summer will see
a great deal of life in the copper belt
IndL e8IenuS lIOlu w dlldCt. luttllO, tdoC-
ward to Iron Mountain, Montana.
Seven hundred and fifty employees at
the East Helena plant of the American
Smelling and Refining company have
gone on strike. 1t is supposed the men
are dissatisfied because of a slight re-
duction made in their wages with the
introduction of the compulsory eight
hour law, passed by the recent legis-
lature.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo.
caved recently and buried five men at
depth of ITO feet and 70 feet from the
main shaft The sounds or tapping on
the steel rails gave their friends assur-
ance of life. Several hundred men,
working in relays, are striving to res
cue the entombed men but it will take
at least three days to reach them.
Ray Waylett, a miner employed at
the Tiger-Poorman mine at Wallace,
Idaho, was killed recently by falling
about 80 feet down an ore shoot, strik-
ing on his head. He was a single man
, about 20 years old. His parents live
at Victor, Mont, to which place his
, body was shipped.
, AS a consequence of the recent terri
BILE disaster in the coal mine at Cum
berland, B. c., the miners in Nanaimo
are circulating a petition, addressed to
the legislative assembly of British Co
: lumbia, asking that new law be pass
| ed providing for the examination OF
persons who wish to work in coal
l mines.
. A meeting of all silver-lead produc
A ing mlneowners of the west has been
: called in Denver, Colo, to decide what
shall be done about an ironclad con
tract submitted by the American
Smelling & REFINING Company. Every
y mining district in the state excep
where the product may be treated by
: mills, cyanide and chlorination works
g as is largely the case at Cripple Greek
e will be at the mercy of the trusts. TIT
l. trusts will have the mines producing
t. lead ores by the throat. The price o
l. gold is fixed at $19 per ounce, wherea
e the trust will receive $2067 per ounc
e for it, The rates are based partly OF
d the railway freight charges, and as tn
It railways are going into the hands o
+ trust will be in a position to make re
bates on freight to itself, while charg
x ing full tariff to the miner. An ore cor
81 tanning $50 worth of mineral and pay
D. ing $40 per ton freight will pay 81
y per ton treatment charges, thus leaN
c. ing the miner SO net out of which
r pay the cost of operating his mine an
Ell profit for himself. Such a mine mus
p close down at once. A $50 ore, payin
IS Sill per ton freight, will pay $1S.5
G. treatment charges, leaving $20.50 pc
re ton for the miner. The treatme1
20 charges are an increase on prevailin
1T rates. Owners of the two leadin
ID chemical gold reduction plants, with
lie capacity of 1900 tons daily, will go
De New York to complete the sale to tn
IL smelter trust They have been froze
III out by low rates.
lie Four million dollars worth of ore
C. in sight in the Kendall gold mines nee
Lewistown, 100 miles northeast I
IL Helena, Mont. This deposit of gold
the largest in the northwest.
ne The figures given are those Of e
at perts, made for Finch & Campbell {
of Spokane, who a few months ago toe
r. a bond on this property for $4,000
lg to be paid on May 1 next.
w They put a large force of men
he work and drove tunnel 400 feet in
en- the deposit. Crosscuts made at warrior
intervals show the deposit to be L
nd feet wide, at least 400 feet long al