The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-10-11
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

at Nanaimo last week.
Officials of the Rossland Miners I'M
ion declare that the lie Roi mine strike
will be fought out to the bitter end.
Development work at the st. Eugene
is going steadily ahead. No shipments
are being made, but there are still IS
men on the company's payroll.
There is quite an excitement over
the striking of placer gold on Lamb
on the west side about a mile and a
half north of town.
"A. C. L. Nelson the miner injured re-
Gently in the Knob Hill mine, Green
wood camp, died in the hospital at
Greenwood. He was injured in the bacl
and his skull was fractured. He came
from Monson, Me.
Billy Pool, manager of the Great
Western Mines, Ltd, was down to Trout
Lake recently. Speaking of the Ajax
he says this property is conceded by
all who have seen it to be one of the
most remarkable N the country.
The management of the Athabasca
ing it's stores from the mill to Nelson.
The result of this action is understood
as indicating that the two mining prop
critics will be shut down indefinitely.
Marysville, B. c., has been selected as
the TOWNSHIP for the new smelter works
of the Sullivan Smelter & Refining COM
pany. The site is on the St. Mary's
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The TOWNSHIP will be operated separate
ly from the smelter works.
John Harris has returned from a Wis
it to the Schilo mine, operated by the
Silver Crown Consolidated Mining com.
pany, lin the Ymir district, near Dun
dee mountain. He says that the tunnel
is now in about 210 feet and that rich
stringers of ore are coming into the
tunnel. From all Indications the main
ledge is only about Is feet ahead.
While grading on the V. " & E. rail
way through field on the ranch of
Jay P. Graves of Spokane recently a
ledge two feet wide was discovered
The discovery was promptly staked by
one of the graders. The first assay gave
$40 in gold and silver values. The To-
cation is in the valley about a mile
north of the international boundary
Thomas Beamish, charged with in.
timidating non-union employees of the
Northport smelter on August 10, was
sent to the provincial Jail at Rossland
for two months at hard labor. This
confirms the decision of the police judge
on the initial hearing of the case The
case created great interest and the
courtroom was packed with spectators
A run for life through underbrush
and over boulders for a distance of 2
quarter of mile and then chased the
whole distance by band of ferocious
wolves, numbering at least a score, is a
synopsis of the tale told by George
Skinner and Peter Starrett, two pros
, pectors just returned from an expedi
ton to the north end of Vancouver isl
and.
"A large strike was made on the Au
rora, across the lake from Moyie, las
week. In sinking a shaft the ledge wild
ened to seven feet of solid galena. TIL,
shaft is down Is feet in depth and il
/ in all the way, but the ledge has beer
ranging only from six inches to a foo
in width until a day or two ago. TIL,
Aurora is owned by Thomas Roder, o
]. Johnson and Captain l. B. Sanborl
and has been steadily developed during
the last three vars. Besides the shat
there is a tunnel in over 300 feet, which
also has a good showing in the fore
The property now seems destined t.
become equally as valuable as the ST
Eugene.
Yesterday the body of G. F. Andrews
I an old prospector 70 years of age, wa
found in the south end of Nelson, B
c., with the head blown off above tn,
chin. He had been in hard circum
stances of late, and in a pitiful lette
to Mayor Fletcher, found in his pos
session, he described his poverty ant
asked for interment in the potter
field in a rough box or sack, as he wa
too poor to buy either box or a cot
fin. He also described his mode of exc
cution, to avert the necessity of an in
quest, stating he would use three stick
OF giant powder placed on top of hi
head, with a couple of fiat stones OF
top of same, hoping he would make
good job.
/ MINING NOTES.