Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-03
MINING NOTES.

A new oil district has been found at
Palouse City. Wash, and it gives splen-
/ did showings of gas and oil.
The Mountain View group, two miles
west of Northport, Wash, which has
been In continuous litigation since
1886, will soon resume.
| 1t Is reported from the Keep Cool on
Lake Pend d'Oreille that a crosscut
from the No. tunnel has exposed 20
feet of ore. The grade of the ore can
/ not be learned.
The Jumbo, at Buffalo Hump, is to
have stamp mill and concentrator.
The mill will be of ten stamps and the
l plant will be rushed in as soon as 1t can
| be got over the roads.
The tunnel being run to tap the Sim
mons claim on Bear gulch, near MUIR
ray, Idaho. is in over 200 feet and good
| progress Is reported. The group is I'M
der bond to the Murray Development
company.
The Cedar Canyon district is active
and looking we'll. A visit to the camp
proves a revelation of great possibili-
ties. Large quantities of high grade
ore are sacked ana on the dump ready
for shipment.
No. shaft at the Tamarack mine,
in the copper region of Lake Superior.
is one of the most notable pieces of
mining work ever undertaken. It is
| 1850 feet deep, and the work of sink
ing it occupied four and one-half years.
Although active operations can not
be undertaken for some time on ac-
count of snow, there lis every indica-
tiop that the coming summer will see
a great deal of life in the copper belt
that extends from Wallace, Idaho, east
| ward ito Iron Mountain, Montana.
Seven hundred and fifty employees at
| the East Helena plant of the American
Smelling and Refining company have
gone on strike. 1t is supposed the men
are dissatisfied because of a slight re-
duction made in their wages with the
introduction of the compulsory eight
hour law, passed by the recent legis-
| lature.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo-,
caved recently and burited five men at
depth of ITO feet and 70 feet from the
main shaft. The sounds OF tapping on
the steel rails gave their friends assur-
ance of life. Several hundred men,
working in relays, are striving to res
cue the entombed men but it will take
at least three days to reach them.
Ray Waylett, a miner employed at
the Tiger-P mine at Wallace,
Idaho, was killed recently by falling
about so feet down an ore shoot, strik-
ing on his head. He was single man
about 20 years old. His parents live
at Victor, Mont, to which place his
body was shipped.
AS a consequence Of the recent terri
BILE disaster in the coal mine at Cum
berland, B. c., the miners in Nanaimo
are circulating petition, addressed to
the legislative assembly of British Co
lumbia, asking that new law be pass
ed providing for the examination of
persons who wish to work in coal
mines.
John MacGinniss, assistant to F. Aug.
Heinze of the Montana Ore Purchasing
company, and stakeholder in the Par
rott, and Daniel Lamm, a stakeholder
of the PARROT company, have begun
suit in the district court at Butte, SINH
lar to that begun in Jersey City and in
which an injunction was issued. 1t is
set forth in the complaint that the Par
rott is about to transfer all its prop
critics to the Amalgamated; that the
affairs of the Parrott and the other
companies to the Amalgamation have
been handled by the officers of the
Amalgamated company in a way to
hunt the interest of the stockholders of
the several concerns.
Four million dollars worth of ore is
in sight in the Kendall gold mines near
Lewistown, 100 miles northeast of
Helena Mont. This deposit of gold is
the largest in the northwest.
The figures given are those of ex-
perts, made for Finch & Campbell of
Spokane, who few months ago took
bond on this property for $3.50, 900,
to be paid on May next.
They put a large force of men to
work and drove tunnel 400 feet into
the deposit. Crosscuts made at various
intervals show the deposit to be 140
feet wide, at least 400 feet long and
100 feet deep.
Samples taken show an average
value of $40 per ton, and there are, ac-
cording to the estimates, 100000 tons
blocked out. The ore is sedimentary
deposit, similar in character to that
of the famous Rand mines in South
Africa.
1t is in a contact vein, with lime as
a footwall and porphyry hanging |
wall, a remarkable deposit in many |
ways, which is exciting interest and |
attention of mining men all over the
west.
The ore is mined in an open cut on
the side of the mountain and is free
milling.