The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-24

Captain +. K. Rodgers came down
to Orofino, Idaho recently from the
Mascot mine with gold brick valued
at 5000, the proceeds of 30-hour run
with seven stamps, working ore from
the new strike at the mine.
According to Jacob Rice, one of
Patrick Clark s experts, from Elk City,
Idaho, the first cleanup of the Hogan
property, near there, resulted in five
bars of gold, worth about $13, 900. The
returns are considered phenomenal, as
the Hogan has huge dyke of porphry
of a size that has not yet been calcu-
lated, and if the ore runs as it would
appear to run from the first cleanup,
the Hogan is a wonder.
Oil as fuel has proved such a sue
cess ON all the lines of the Southern
Pacific that general orders have been
issued for the conversion of all the en-
gines to oil burners as soon as possible.
Coal will be abandoned absolutely.
1t is learned from reliable authority
that the CRANKY smelter has signified
its intention of taking $50 tons per day
from the Republic camp, where the
supply of coke on hand is sufficient to
warrant operating the plant to the full
capacity.
f. A. Bell, formerly treasurer of the
Issaquah Coal company, and well
known shipping agent of Seattle, was
arrested recently charged with the en-
bezzlement of SIS, 900 from the COM
pany. He was released on bail.
The strike at the coal mines of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad COM
pany, which has been in force for the
past 10 days, has been settled and
1900 men will return to work at once.
The terms of the settlement were not
given out.
The strained situation that has ex-
listed at Globe, Arizona, for the past
two weeks between the Old Dominion
Copper company on one side and the
miners union no the other and which
threatened troublesome complications
has been adjusted.
Authenticated reports from the Green
horn district in Oregon show a state of
wonderful activity in that section.
Nearly all the prominent properties
have made great progress this season
in the way of development and the es-
tablishment of plants for the reduction
of ores.
The Guggenheims have secured opt
ions ON all the mines around Parral,
Mexico. 1t is reported that they con-
troll the importation of gold and ex-
change throughout the republic. 1t is
reported options were secured in con-
nections with scheme in which the
coinage of $50, 900, 900 worth of silver
will form part.
Tacoma offers to take Republic ore
at 81, Vancouver, B. c., at So per ton
freight and treatment, and the CRANKY
smelter has given assurance of taking
a much larger tonnage at Sc. so per ton,
thus practically giving a market for
all the ore the camp can produce for
the next three months.
If a satisfactory agreement is reach
ed at the meeting of the directors of
the Frisco mine, at Occur d 'Alene to be
held in New York on Monday, at
which the matter of issuing bonds to
the amout of $4,000 to pay off the
Indebtedness will be considered, i'm
mediate preparations will be made for
starting of the mine
Last week recorded the closing
down of another of Arizona's big
smelters, the plant of the Shannon Cop.
per company, near Clifton, in Graham
county, making the third big producer
to cease operations in less than three
months. But the shutting down of the
Shannon company will be only temper
airy.
An announcement has been made
that the Colorado Fuel e. Iron com
pany had decided upon a general in
crease in wages to the 10000 Goa.
miners in its employ. The INCREASE il
in the nature of a readjustment and il
some cases amounts to % per cent Of
the present scale. The action of the
company is entirely voluntary.
The Cracker Oregon mill near Stump
ter, Oregon is rapidly being built. The
heavy frame work is up and the work
of roofing and inclosing the building
will soon be finished. Active develop
ment is being prosecuted in the tive
main tunnels by drifting on the ledge
The run is being stripped and the or
blocked out to be in readiness for min
ing operations as soon as the mill i
completed.
After having extended the drift OF
the ore shoot at the 200 feet level dis
lance of over 800 feet the management
of the O. K. mine near Wardner, Idaho