The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-01

The excitement in OIL in Baker City
was intensifei recently upon the re-
turn of Engineer ]. NJ. Meikle from the
Malheur helds. 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, lis 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 a conse-
quence there are 1000 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 liz 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 T..
was mistaken for ore, although it evil
IDENTIFY only carried what had leached
out into it.
Favorable reports on the condition
of the Iron Grown 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
ere, going about per cent in copper.
That is equal to a gross copper value
of 500 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
The Home Oil company, of Spokane
which had been drilling an oil we'll on
Wild Rose prairie, twenty miles north,
has suspended work. The plant was re-
moved last week to Colville. new
we'll has been started there on the Col.
vile river, about three-quarters of a
mile from the town, for the Pacific
States Oil company. Manager Will
liams of the Home Oil company said
yesterday: eve nave not abandoned
our we'll at Wild Rose. 1t is down Csc
feet, and for the past 100 feet we had
good indications of OIL"
Not since the days of Auburn placer
excitement Immediately following this
discovery of the first gold in Oregon
forty years ago, by Dan Griffin, in
what is now known as Griffin's gulch
have there been so many men at work
in the various camps, so much ma
chinery in operation, so much gold
coming out and so many supplies go
ing in as at present in Eastern Oregon
gold fields. Sumpter, which for more
than a year had felt the effects of {
bursted boom, is now on steady bus
mess basis and affairs never were 81
prosperous even during the boom a:
they are now.
Director Roberts of the mint has pre-
pared a statement showing the pro
duction of the precious metals for tn
calendar year of 1900. 1t shows tina
the production of gold in the worlt
that year was 12,457, 287 ounces, of tn.
value of 1857 ,514,700, a loss in value o
s49,070, 200 from 1899. The loss wa
mainly in the Transvaal field, and du
to the war. The production of Soutl
Africa in 1899 was of the value OF $73
77,100, and in 1900 $9,671,0O0 TIL
principal gains were $S,11S,OOO in tn
United States and S6,000,000 in Canada
The United States again heads the list
In the United States the principa
gains were by Alaska, Arizona am
Utah. The silver output of the worl
amounted to 17S,796,796 fino ounces
the largest ever known. 1t exceeds tn
product of 1899 by 11,527,513 ounce:
The United States again leads all ott
er producers with slight excess owe
Mexico.