The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-10-03

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employed in the mine.
The lately issued volume OF treas
ury statistics, embracing "a years from
1S77-7S to 1900-1901, show Mexico pro
duced during that period $1,e94,623,
1913 of silver and $67117,227 of gold
In other words, the production of sill
yer was over 16 times as much as the
production of gold.
The Empire State-Idaho Mining com
pany has started to repair $500 feet OF
the large flume leading to the Tiger
Poorman mine. The f1ume starts at
the large dam in the canyon over a
mile above Burke. A large amount OF
the timber has been shipped and it is
the intention of the company to work
as rapidly as possible SO as to COM
plete the work this fall.
A mining deal has been closed at
Butte, Mont, in which 800 acres of
coal land, embracing the Kearns group
in the celebrated Trail Creek dis trict,
Mont, have passed to the Inter Noun
tain Mines company of Spokane, Wash.
The property is secured of S. M. Wade
of Livingston, Mont, who still retains
an interest. It is understood that in
the neighborhood of $4,000 was paid
for the property.
Bids were opened on the 18th for the
construction of the Palace of Mines
and Metallurgy for the worlds fair.
This will stand near the Liberal Arts
and Government buildings, in the
southern part of the main group Of ex-
hibit palaces. It's dimensions are 525
by $50 feet, covering over nine acres.
The estimated cost is 100000. The
contractor will be required to have 1t
completed August 81, 1908.
Probably one of the best copper
strikes ever made in the Occur d'Alene
country was recently made on the
property of the Park Copper & Gold
Mining company, located on Stevens
peak, about five miles south of Mullan.
In many places the rock contains
streaks of native copper, and Che own
ers of the property, who have just ex-
amined the strike, say the vein is fully
10 feet wide. The owners are enthus-
astic over the new discovery.
The Northwestern Sampling & Mill
ing plant located about mile west of
Wallace, Idaho, has been sold by the
MineowneH' Association to the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company. The
plant was turned over to the new COM
pany on. October 1. The consideration
has not been made public. The plant
has been established for the past IL
or 1S years. All the ore produced from
the mines of this district is sampled
at the plant before it is shipped to the
refinery.
Tonopah, Nevada, is very quiet at
the present time. The leases on the
Mispah have all expired and the COM
pany is putting in new hosting ma
chinery and preparing to work the
mine in a systematic way. The Mis-
pah Extension company has struck
quite body of ore. The extension is
a group Of mines on the opposite side
Of Mount Oddie. This proves that the
ore vein runs through the mountain.
In the Gold Hill mine they are taking
out some very rich ore.
G. G. Carruthers and Howard B.
Dennis, general manager and foreman,
respectively, of the Old Dominion
mine, are exhibiting samples from the
new strike on that property that
eclipses the richest product of the fam
DIS mine in its palmiest days. The ore
s bromide and chloride of silver, and
hey say it will run as high as 800
ounces in silver to the ton, with a lib
'ral percentage of lead. The Vein from
Which the ore is taken lies in virgin |
and is prolongation of Solo.
mons cave, from which the rich ore |
vas extracted when the property was
lnder the management of the Kearney
'rothers IA years ago. One hundred
md twenty-six sacks of the ore have
'een taken out and shipments will be-
lin at once. The fumes and all the
machinery of both the concentration
nd the compressor plants are being
epalred as rapidly as possible, and
yer 1900 feet of the lower tunnel.
Which is over 5000 feet in length, have
cen cleaned out and the work of OPEN
ng up the tunnels will continue with
IL possible speed until completed
'wenty-six men are now employed on
ne property, and this force will be
Dubbed, possibly within the next two
veeks.