Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-08-02
mill was placed in operation as quickly

mill was placed in operation as quickly
as could be done.
News has reached Lewiston, Idaho
that rich strike has just been made
on the old Blue Dragon lead, in the Elk
City district, where five foot seam OF
ore assaying $40 per ton has been un-
covered on the 100 foot level.
The shipments from the Standard
mine at Wallace, Idaho, to the mill
for the week were 1920 tons, an in
crease of almost 400 tons over the
previous week. This brings the total
for the year up to 88,731 tons.
The souvenir number of the Western
Mining World, published at Butte, is
work of art. 1t contains many half
tones of principal mines and smelters
in the Northwest, as we'll as a world
of mining information. Send for it.
Word has been received from Lake
view, Idaho, that the new wagon road
to the Keep Cool mine has just been
completed, giving splendid means of
transportation from lake Pend d'Oreille
to the camp. The face of No. 5 tunnel
is all in solid ore, and in the winze the
miners are sinking from No. 5 in good
orr.
The Conjecture company has put its
full force of Is men at work on devel-
opment at it's we'll known Pend Oreille
property. Shipments have been sus-
pended for the present, but they will
be started again in about fortnight,
when it is expected that 60 tons week
will be sent to the Tacoma smelter.
A ledge of high grade ore has been
encountered in the Deer Trail No. 2,
which was abandoned by that COM
pany's superintendent some time ago.
For years ore was taken from this
claim by the Deer Trail company, but
it all came from blanket lodges en-
countered at numerous levels.
There is yearly as much money in
vested in mining as there is in bank
ing. but banking does not prove as safe
or as profitable as mining. In a time
of prosperity the average banking div
idends seldom exceed s per cent a year.
That mining produces quick
er and greater profits than any other
industrial pursuit is evidenced by the
scores of multi-millionaires."
The Apache at Nespelem, Wash, con-
tinues to improve and the ore is phe-
nominally rich. The last assay shows
total value Of $2,547.17 in gold, silver,
copper and lead. 1t was not an assay
from picked sample. Hundreds of
pounds of finer ore are being taken
from the shaft every day. Mining men
who have hitherto given Nespelem but
little attention are coming this way and
deals of all kinds are under way.
Passengers from Nome City report
rich strike in the Fairhaven district,
80 miles north of Nome, and say
stampede has occurred from Nome.
The Bluestone district is still frozen
and it will be some few weeks before
miners will be able to commence sluic-
ing. The Kougarock district is also
backward and 1900 men are in Teller
City waiting for the season to open.
Over half a million dollars has been
sluiced from winter dumps near Nome.
The silver-lead mines Of the Occur
d'Alenes and British Columbia contin-
ue to be the most profitable branch of
mining in the Inland Empire. In the
face of the depression in silver, and in
spite of uncertainties in the lead mar
ket, they keep on paying dividends at
pace that has never been rivalled by
either the gold or the copper mines of
the surrounding country. The divi-
dends paid the silver-lead mine owners
of the Occur d'Alenes and British Co
lumbia reach $12,OOO,OOO. That is over
three times the profits that have been
disbursed by the gold and the copper
mines, which have paid in profits a
trifie less than $3,500,000.