The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-09-26
The Cougar mine near Crapito

Ore. is to resume operations at an
early date. The property is owned
entirely in Spokane and was recently
incorporated as the Cougar Gold Min.
Ing T. Milling company, with capital
OF 100000 shares, par value 81.
Dynamite is deadly poison as will
be seen from report of a mining
company in Montana. A box Of the
usual giant powder was devoured by
cattle. and in a short space of time
six of them were dead. An autopsy
showed the presence of the stuff.
The cleanups of the mines of Stump.
ter. Ore, for August are estimated to
be: Bonanza. $4,000: Columbia. $40.
600; Red Boy. $4,000. and Golconda
$4,000. In addition to all this bullion
eight cars of concentrates from the
same mines and four cars from the
Badger went out by freight.
The superintendent Of the Orc Elmo
mine, situated at Alamo Ore, few
days since reported by telephone that
an exceedingly important new strike
had been made. crosscut which
has been prosecuted for some time has
demonstrated that the westerly vein
at this new vein is 1Ok feet wide. all
in high grade free milling gold ore.
Work has closed down in the lower
workings of the Conjecture mine at
Lake View, Idaho. in order to drive the
big tunnel further into the hill. The
present workings on the lower level
where ore was being taken out, has
been done at considerable expense
and the management will stop ship.
ments to develop the property to make
it dividend payer.
The following are the teams en-.
tered in the rock drilling contest which
took place at the Elks carnival at Spo.
kane: Walter Bradshaw and James
Freethy. Butte, Mont; Frank Stevens
and Cash Patterson. Murray, Idaho;
~. F. Stevens and Peter Spaulding
Murray. Idaho; Patterson and Cum.
mings, Osburn, Idaho; w. M. Rosa and
G. S. Mcleod. Rossland. B. c.; James
Davey and Henry Stevens, Marysville,
Mont. and Thomas Bessler and Daniel
Dunn. Sumpter. Ore.
The men are all in the champion.
ship list in their respective localities.
Bessler and Dunn hold medals for a
number Of matches won in the vicin.
ity Of Sumpter and Baker City. Ross
and Mcleod have been practically in
vincible in British Columbia, and the
three Occur d'Alene teams have each
won matches in their district and else.
where.
The steamer Excelsior, Captain
Humphrey. arrived in Seattle recently
from Copper river and Cook inlet with
1876 passengers. bringing also $4,000
Of Chestochena gold, the first large
consignment of treasure ever received
from that district. Two men, H. Mil.
Ter and E. Sandberg, owned $4,000
of the total shipment. Others had
amounts ranging from $500 to $4,000
each. In the Excelsior crowd there
were probably so men from the Chesto-
chena. They report the district a
scene Of great mining activity and
proving as to richness fully up to the
expectations Of the more conservative
men Of the camp. Their opinion is
that the bulk Of the seasons output
Of the Chestochena will not reach Sc
attic for month or six weeks. Good
reports are given. too, Of the Cook
inlet placer diggings by Charles VIII.
liam Gompertz, superintendent Of the
Pacific Packing & Navigation COM
pany's Kenai cannery. Gompertz says
the hydraulic mining plants. some
three or four in number, installed on
the tributaries Of Cook inlet and Turn.
again arm, are proving q success. The
Polly mine on Resurrection creek has
again demonstrated itself one Of the
greatest gold producers in the Cook
inlet district. Its output this season
reached $4,000.
It is interesting to note that in the
Butte and the Marysville. Mont, teams
are two members who formerly drilled
as partners and claimed the world =
championship. The two are James
Davey Of the Marysville team and
James Freethy Of the Butte team.
They were the winners Of the match
here i've years ago, when they drilled
through ~ inches OF solid granite in
10 minutes. Later in q contest in
Montana they exceeded this feat and
established a worlds record for dou-
, blehanded drilling.
Great Rail Game.
Chicago, Sept. 23.-Bostop and Chicago
Saturday played one of the greatest II