Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-01-17
BRITISH COLUMBIA,

The shipments from the Rossland
camp for the week ending Saturday
aggregate $3.50 tons.
1t is reported that S. Hockaday has
last his life in a blizzard on the Bond.
holder Hill claim, about six miles from
SLOGAN City. Thursday
The tonnage of ore smelted at the
British Columbia Copper company's
smelter, Greenwood. since 1t com
menced operations in February last ag-
gregates 1855 tons.
The chamber of mines at Johannes
burg has issued report showing that
the output of the mines FOR December
was 52,S97 ounces of fine gold. against
34.O75 ounces for November.
James Rutherford, engineer In
charge of the Lardeau Valley Mines.
Ltd, is taking $50 pounds of ore TO
England to test the oil process of re.
duction. Experiments are being made
on Snowshoe ore by the oil process,
which seem likely to prove successful.
or the English companies operating
liz the SLOGAN country, only two paid
dividends last year. One was the June
and the other was the Bosun, New
Denver. The latter property has had
phenomenal success and is in shape to
continue on a paying basis for years
tC come.
Maxwell Stevenson, Jr manager of
the Highland mining property near
Ainsworth. says: II have just put $50
tons of Highland ore through the mill
with satisfactory results. We expect
the Highlander to be in shape to make
regular shipments in the course OF the
next two months" .
During the two days Of last week
that elapsed since resuming operations
the CRANKY smelter treated to date
1874 tons Of ore. The total treated to
date is 291176 tons. The making Of
blister copper in one of the set OF con-
Ierters just installed will be commenc-
ed on Tuesday or Wednesday, Ex-
tensive shipments of matte from the
Greenwood smelter and the Hall mines
smelter at Nelson have accumulated
here.
When the smelters get the high
grade ores of the Republic camp 20 re
duce. it will be of considerable help,
both in the way of adding to the profits
If the smelters and in making the
matte turned out Of higher grade.
The turning out of blistered copper
at Grand Forks will also be Of help
there is considerable activity in rail
way building and altogether the con.
Gition Of the Boundary country is good.
According to the report OF d. r.
Young. managing director OF the Sim
ilkameen Valley Coal company. the as
sets OF the company are shown to be
1000 in cash available for devel
opment purposes: 10000 acres OF coal
lands, $4,000. 600 feet OF timber. a valu-
able water power and an electric plant
which cost $4,000. besides tools. ma
etc. There are no liabilities.
The company has ordered a diamond
drill from New York. The mine will
be operated under the super
vision of w. Plackmore, who has been
appointed consulting engineer. saw
mill plant, operated by the Tilman
Lumber company has been installed
en- the property. A contract has been
entered into with the Tillman Lumber
for the delivery of $4,000 feet
Il lumber per month.
J. l.. Parker, superintendent of the
and Stemwinder in Phoenix
camp IN talking about affairs in the
country. said: Il am salts
fed that the larger mines in this dis
t.ict will be able to weather the copper
panic and its consequent low prices fo-
that metal. With the large bodies OF
ole. the very cheap mining, and the
fact that the ore can be smelted at
such low cost. the companies can make
a profit even al the present prices"