Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-08-30


ley.
About 1000 men are now working on
the railroad into Republic camp and
1900 more will be put to work as soon
as they can be secured.
The Last Chance mine at Wardner,
Idaho, has put all its men on day shift.
which plan is said will be maintained
for some time in the future.
Dawson is improving rapidly; mod
ern dwellings and warehouses are go
ing up, a new court house is about COM
pleted and work has been started on
the new administration buildings and
a residence for the governor.
The London Chronicle has obtained
from Lord Rothschild denial of any
connection with or knowledge OF the
reported American copper trust.
my firm has no copper mines" he
is represented to have said, land new
er before heard of Senator Clark"
Rice & Foss have bonded the Alice
group of 20 claims on Ruddy gulch, a
mile and half west Of Mullan. Idaho,
to Colonel Dewey of Nampa.
A. E. Mohr, the Ohio tenderfoot, who
made a rich find lately near Pierce
City. has had rock from his property
assayed, with startling results. The
assays Of two sets of samples run from
$4,000 to $4,000 to the ton.
Probably one Of the largest mineral
exhibits to be shown at the interstate
fair at Spokane in September, and one
that will exceed any previous exhibit
shown from any single district, will
be brought down from British Colum-
bia.
Former Lieutenant Governor Spriggs
Of Montana is back from a trip to
Prince of Wales island. He says pros.
pectors ask fabulous sums for mines,
and that placer mines Of Alaska are
outclassed by lode properties and its
wealth Is quartz.
The officers of the Methow Gold &
Copper Mining company. operating on
property ON Mckinney mountain, Okla
hogan county, WASH, have deceived
word from Superintendent Landers
that the men had encountered seven
feet of high grade ore in the upper tun-
nell
The sensational afidavits filed in Sill
yer Bow district court in the Minnie
Healy case, in which it is alleged that
Judge Harvey OF Butte was improper
ly Influenced in rendering a decision
1 favorable to Heinze interests have
! reached the supreme court through off,
cial channels.
The development Of the marble de-
posits around Valley, in Stevens coun-
ty, Wash, Is going rapidly ahead. The
interest which has been created in the
east through the exhibit of Washing
ton marbles at the Pan-American ex-
position Is already reflected here
through inquiries for marble and for
marble properties.
/ A letter and samples Of rich ore were
received recently in Spokane from the
Bill Nye mine, in Jackson county, Ore
gon. The samples just received are
from new lead just encountered, and
the ore is the richest yet found in any
of the other rich leads on the Bill Nye.
The ore Is hanging together with gilt
tering gold and the assays go up into
the thousands.
John Gray, superintendent of the
Crystal mine, says that the ledge which
the tunnel had encountered and which
was supposed to be the main lead has
proved to be another vein, and that the
tunnel Is now through 1t and has also
passed through another Of about the
same width. After passing through
these two veins the mother lode was
encountered, and both walls have been
cut. Shipping is to begin immediate
~.
Newton Hibbs has returned to Lewis.
ton from the Pierce City mining dis.
trict, where he examined some exten.
siye placer interests for eastern invest
Ors. He reports a general revival OF
/, the mining industry, throughout the
/, whole region visited, both in quartz
and placer mining. A great deal of de-
velopment work is being done on the
, established properties and new strikes
, are reported from every quarter.
Mining men of Denver accept as true
the reports that world wide copper
combine has been formed. and compe
tition in buying copper will no longer
, be known. The combine is said to
have been effected between the Anal
: gamated. Calumet & Hecla, Senator
Clark and the Rothschilds. Papers have
: been signed covering long term OF
years. The consolidation of interests
is said to be financed by the National
, City bank of New York. which is to be
made the dannSitnrv for tho nnn solid q