The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-07-26
MINING NOTES.

The Snow Storm has shipped anoth-
err carload of ore to the smelter. The
Snow Storm is a copper property. stu
ated three or four miles above Mullan,
Idaho.
There is a growing impression that
the reported discovery of rich gravel
in the big bend of the Snake river near
Ontario, Ore, has more to it than has
been supposed.
It is rumored that w. A. Clark of
Montana during his recent trip to Eu-
rope came to st. Petersburg and Mos
COW incognito. and with a certain I'M
named count invested 100000 rubles
in Ural copper mines.
Murray Idaho, has been experiencing
a genuine stampede because of reported
discoveries of rich rock ''up the North
Fork" That is a very indefinite ex-
preston, but it is as good as can be
given by anyone who is not already off
on the stampede.
A most peculiar deposit has been dis
covered near Asotin and Lewiston,
Idaho. The product has a woody fiber
and burns with bright flame like dry
wood. There is on occasions a sputter-
ing like there might be oil in the sub
stance, but there is no book on btu
mems that treats of it in any manner.
Drifting has commenced on both
| lodges in the Humming Bird. near
Burke, where the strike was made in
the second ledge recently. While the
first strike was not so great as first re-
ported, the ore being largely concen-
trating instead of all shipping, yet in
both lodges there has been a marked
improvement since drifting began.
What is said to be one of the richest
strikes ever made in southern Idaho is
reported from Owyhee county, not more
than three miles from Silver City The
property is owned by another man
Robert Noble, the Owyhee sheep king
and another man. They have found a
ledge over eight feet wide and the ore
runs over 500 a ton.
According to the statement of G. A
Jones, a Spokane prospector, who has
5 arrived in Spokane from the Bitter
? Root district the country around Orc
fno, Wash, certainly contains a vari
l ETY. of minerals. He brought with hin
: some samples of onyx and magnesis
= which he SAYS he has recently uncov
T. cred within three miles of Orofino.
Charles Sweeny has been made de
: PENDANT in another mining suit involv
ing an eighth interest in the famous
| Skookum mining claim at Wardner
r Idaho The suit is similar to the cas-
r tried at San Francisco in which Ken
nedy j. Hanley was plaintiff. Thu
e plaintiff in the second suit which wa
' filed in the United States circuit cour
e at Moscow by Attorneys Graves
5 Graves, is w. G. Murphy, a wholesal
e groce: OF Missoula, Mont.
4 The Northport Smelling & Refining
company filed articles of incorporation
= with the county recorder at Wallace
t Idaho. w. B. Hepburn, E. M. Hepburn
t w. B. Sans, D. c. Corbin and James W
s Morrison are the incorporators. Wal
e lace is named as the principal place o
a business and the 100000 capita
e stock in 81 shares is all subscribed b.
l. the directors, w. B. Hepburn, Bernar
!. O'Neill, Louis Odell, Bernard Mcdonald
y and T. Mayne Daily. Mr.. Mcdonald, a
trustee, subscribed for 999,996 share
n and the other directors for one shar
e each
n Frank E. Johnesse has just come on
s from the Crooks Corral district, o.
d Salmon river Idaho, where he has bee
l. developing the Blue Jacket mine, o
a which he has bond. This is the PROF
# erty developed by Finch & Campbell
h who threw up the bond after exepent
} ing $4,000 in development work. Sine
n that time Mr.. Johnesse has run a cross
d cut from the 200 foot level, cutting tn
e ledge where it shows II feet of pa
D. ore. He has 500 tons of shipping ore o
e the dump and estimates that the stope
show S150,O00 worth of good smeltin
It ore which would all stand shipping
Is a steamboat should be put no the uppe
e. Snake river