The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-05-02

that place, near Loomis, Washington,
is making arrangements for putting in
a smelling plant at the mine.
The cross ledge on the Crystal
mine, near Miles. Washington, has
been encountered in the drift on the
800 foot level
The rush to Thunder Mountain
continues. Besides the large num-
bers going in from this section. thou
sands are also going from Utah and
Colorado camps.
c. F. Pence and B. r. Starr of Spo-
kane have taken $40 900 bond on the
Ida and Golden Curry mining claims
near Grants Pass, Oregon. Develop
ment work will be started immediate
ly.
The president has declared that
more than 70 townships in northern
Montana be withdrawn from public
entry for use in the big irrigation
scheme known as the st. Mary's canal
and Milk river project.
The great advance made in the ma
chinery and mechanical appliances
used in mining and it's associated in
dustries. even during the experience
of most living mining engineers, is
one of the phenomenal developments
of modern times.
Uncle Danl-So you says you is
minah now. Ell? is yo' coal minah
aw gold minah?
Chichester oneston-Nossuh, All
ain no COLE minah Ahse a kalse-
minah; das wat I Isl
A third large mill is to be installed
in Kendall, Montana, camp. The North
Moccasin Mining company, whose
property lies between the Barnes and
Kendall mines. have purchased ma
chinery for $50 ton mill.
A new rate for shipping copper from
Montana to st. Paul and the head of
the lakes has gone into effect. The
new rate will be six dollars per ton
which is a reduction of two dollars, the
former being eight dollars per ton.
The receipts of gold, and silver con-
tanned in gold bullion, at the Helena
assay Office in March show a remark
able increase over those for the same
month of last year. The total is $144,
651.3S, as compared with $123, 014.15
in March, 1901.
interpretations of the Minnie Healey,
the Belmont, and Cora Rock Island
mining companies were made recently
at Butte by F. Augustus Heinze. The
capital stock of the companies is Civ
en- respectively at 100000, $1,000
600 and $4,000 900
One of the largest mining deals that
has taken place in the northwest for
some time has just been consummated
by which the famous st. Joe placer
mines are sold from Roy Mcdonald
and associates of Iron Mountain.
Montana, to w. II. Hales and asso-
ciates of Wallace. Idaho.
A movement is on foot that will
probably be carried through within a
few weeks that will bring together into
one company. under one management
and one board of directors, with cap
italization of s6O,OOOOOO. the greatest
producing mines of the Cripple Creek
district, the Colorado Springs & Grip
ple Creek District railroad and the
Portland mill located in Colorado
Springs.
Great excitement prevails at Sand
Creek, Montana, over strike made
recently in the hills adjoining the
town. and scores of prospectOrs are
travelling the adjacent country, stalk
ing out claims The lowest assay of
samples by local assayers yielded re-
turns of ISL and the highest $4,000.
The gold in the ore is said to be so
pure that it can almost be cut with a
knife. In a pan the precious metal
is easily discernible to the naked eye.
suggestion was recently made by
Professor r. c. Mendenhall, of Provid-
ence, R. l., that the internal heat of
the earth might be utilized as a source
of industrial power. Professor William
Hallock of Columbia college. New
York citv, indorses the idea. Accord
ing to Theodore Waters, in the cur
rent issue of "The Worlds Work, d
there is a rise of temperature for
every foot of depth at a certain dis
lance from the surface of the ground
and in many regions intense heat is
> encountered at no great distance.
STATIONS independence Mining
company of Cripple Creek has filed
suit in the Arapahoe county distric
court against the Strong Mining com
pany, charging the latter company
with extracting gold and other valu
able ores from the Maggie Lode min
ing claim, which adjoins the Strons
DrOpartv and asking damappc m tht