The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS MINING NEWS.


The building of 120-stamp mill to-
day receives less attention than of a
ten-stamp mill five years ago.
1t is reported that Clayton Miller
has sold an eighth interest in the Gill
pin, located near the Hecla at Burke,
Idaho.
The newest mining camp in Beaver
head county, Montanta, is known as
the Bonanza. The camp is located
about ten miles from Wisdom.
The Standard Oil company has
placed an order providing fc"
age of 700, 900 barrels of OIL for the
Kern river district in California.
The 350-ton cynide mill of the Ken
dali company is now running to nearly
its full capacity, and every department
is operating to the satisfaction of the
management.
Judge Belt of Spokane has signed
decree to quiet title to the Spokane
smelter plant. The decree vests the
title to the entire plant in Schuyler
Grant of Detroit, Michigan.
The marble mines of Munger gulch,
of Williams district, Oregon, are again
been taken up. This quarry is said to
contain the finest marble to be found
on the coast.
The Leadville, Col, output for July
was 900 tons, of which 10000 was
zinc ore. 1t is estimated that the av-
erage gross value of the ore is $14 per
ton.
During the last ten years Mexico has
enjoyed some of the greatest mining
devlopement in the world. Conditions
are very favorable there, and no longer
is one hampered by a tricky govern
ment.
The Sun Dance shaft in Ruby Basin
near Deadwood, S. D., is on fire. The
fire started in the stable near the bot
tom of the shaft and ~ mules were
burned. AS far as known all the
miners are out.
The Canyon green marble produced
by the United States Marble company
at its quarries near Onyx, in Stevens
county, Wash. has made so favorable a
impression in New York that an addi-
tiOnal contract has been made for a
large quantity of the finished green
stone to be used in the wainscoting of
the Guardian Trust building.
The production of platinum from
domestic ores in the United States in
1901, according to the report of DR..
Joseph Struthers, in Mineral Resources
of the United States, 1901 now in press,
United States geological survey, was
l, 408 Onnces, valued at $27, 1926; and
the production of asphaltum and BIZ
luminous rock amounted to 1874
short tons, valued at $685., 1886.
Nearly five years ago the Bunker Hill
d Sullivan company at Wardner,
i Idaho, began the work of driving a
long terminal through the mountain, a
distance of about 900 feet. Within
so days this work will be completed
and ore and supplies that are now car
ried over the moutain on a aerial tram
way will all pass through the long tun-
mel at a great saving cost to the COM
pany. Electric cars will be used to
transport the ores from the mine
through the tunnel.
w. T. Hales reports that he has
about completed arrangements for rails.
ing sufficient money from capitalists
of Pittsburg and West Virginia to op.
perate the placer properties at the head
of the st. Joe river and of Cedar creek
about 20 miles south of Iron Mountain
station, Montana. Extensive develop.
ments will be started Immediately
but the heaviest work will be com.
menced at the earliest possible date
next spring.
A strike is reported on the Great
Eastern, located ON the devide south
of Mace, Idaho. Rich galena was en-,
cOuntered at a depth of 800 feet. Con,
siderable work mas been done on the
property, much of it near the top OF
the devide, but no satisfactory showing
was made until the present discovery.
The groupe consists of IA claims. The
prospect work is being done by con
tract.
The massive dredge being installed
on Beaver creek at Delta, Idaho. ha:
been fioated
The men working at the Monte CristC
concentration near Everett, Wash. have
struck, demanding 81 for ~ hour,
work instead of SO. 80 which they now
receive.
Senator w. A. Clark is said to be al
the head of a syndicate that has pur'
chased the McVey property situated Oh
Joe creek, in the Siskiyou mountains