Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-03-21

al stock is given as ss,75o.OOo. The
ncorporators and directors are Stan
ley Clifford and A. P. Heinze of New
York and Richard s. Harvey of Ny
ack. N. Y.
The Ben Hur company, operating
the Ben Hur mine in Republic camp,
will install complete plant, including
drills. air compressor. hoist
and pump, within the next few months.
Total cost Of machinery will be about
$1,000.
Increased mining activity continues
to be the order of reports from Repub-
lie camp. A drilling outfit has been
ordered for the Gold Ledge and will
soon be in operation, and operations
are being started on a larger scale In
Bodie camp and on the Princess Maud.
It is expected that the surveying
party for the Methow Railway &
Smelling company will leave Spokane
Immediately to begin work on the pro-
jected road along the Methow and
Twisp rivers. This company is also
planning a smelter at the mouth OF the
Methow river which will have ca
pacity of 400 tons per day.
The gold discovery on the farm OF
]. p. Crawford, three miles southwest
of Oakesdale, Wash, is showing up
we'll. The ledge as far as prospected
averages 80 feet wide. An assay OF
the ore taken from 1t went $14.1O per
ton in gold. The ledge is granite
formation.
Foreman Peterson and two compan-
ions from Martins rock quarry were
crossing the Columbia river bridge re-
turning to camp recently. Knowing
an engine was expected along at any
moment and thinking he heard 1t ap-
preaching, Mr.. Peterson stepped aside
to get out of the way and in doing SO
either slipped or stepped into space
and fell to the river, about so feet be-
low. He made heroic effort to swim
out, but was soon lost sight of and
was drowned.
A new strike said to be rich in sill
yer is reported from Cedar Canyon,
near Davenport, Wash. H. M Austin,
who bought quarter section from the
railroad company, proceeded to pros
pect, uncovering near the surface
rich galena ledge assaying over 100
ounces in silver. The ledge was en-
countered in an open cut which was
being made as the beginning of tun-
mel. The width of the ledge is not
known. The owner will sink a shaft
upon it.
About 100 men are in camp at Thun-
der Mountain. Provisions can not be
bought and packtrains will not get in
until about April /. Salt and sugar
are very scarce. There are no build
ings going up at present, on account
of the deep snow. Lumber for the
ferry at Salmon river is being packed
in from the Comstock mill, five miles
south of Dixie, at the mouth of Monu-
mental creek. There are two places
on the trail where camp is usually
made, where no shelter is obtainable.
At the other three camping stops there
are cabins.
Attorney General Frank Martin OF
Wallace, Idaho, has rendered a decis,
ion in the matter of taxing patented
mining claims which will have an i'm
portant bearing on taxable property
in Idaho. He holds that patented mines
must be assessed at their full value the
same as any other property. A striti
compliance with his instructions will
multiply the total assessment roll OF
Shoshone county three or four times
as the previous assessed valuation OF
patented mining claims was on the ba-
sis of SIS per acre regardless of the
known worth of the property.
F. Augustus Heinze has acquired Of
Dr. Burdette O'Conner, for the sum Of
$250O. his $2,O00,O0O damage suit
against the Anaconda Mining company
together with his interest in the Cop
per Trust claim at Butte O'Conne1
has two suits pending against the Ana.
conda company for alleged extraction
of ore from the veins of the Copper
Trust. The Copper Trust claim is 10
feet wide at the base and rs feet long
tapering to point. The claim is locat
ed in slender triangular plot OF
ground between the lines of Johnston
Mountain View and the Saint Law.
renee claims.
The strike inaugurated in the early
part of last summer by the Northport
Mill & Smeltermen's union, with the
approval of the central organization
of the Western Federation of Miners
has come to an end. The members of
the union who still reside in Northport
took ballot on the strike question
and decided by vote of 40 to 80 to
call an end to the long drawn out
struggle. 1t is understood that the
immediate cause of this action was
withdrawal of financial support by the
Western Federation. Without the
funds to enable the strikers to live
1t was deemed impossible to continue
hostilities.
The United States circuit court of
appeals, sitting at San Francisco, has
! just handed down a decision in the
famous Stemwinder case. The litiga
ton between the Empire State-Idaho
Mining company and the Bunker Hill
& Sullivan company, which owns the
Stemwinder, has been of long standing
and is the outgrowth of the present