The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-05-16

and shrinkage by filling the pores with
a proper varnish. They are then bound
with strips of metal and covered with
a metallic leaf that will take the cleo
troplate. The articles are then put into
the electroplating vat, and one pole of
the current is attached to the binding
metal strips and the other to the cleo
trolyte used. So "bronzed" doors are
made of wood.
William Douglas of Keller. Wash.
has three claims on the dixie. for which
he was offered bond of $4,000 by
Willard Kirkpatrick of Boise before he
had completed his location. The new
porphyry is crystalized. and has the
appearance of onyx. The new forma-
ton has been overlooked by all the
old prospectors. The pan tests of the
samples indicate good values in free
gold.
At Republic, Wash. William Rags
dale, engineer at the Trade Dollar
mine, was seriously wounded last week
| by being shot by his son. The boy,
who is years of age, had purchased
an old pistol. He was flourishing the
weapon when an older brother attempt
ed to take it from him. In the scuffle
the pistol was dicharged. The bullet
struck the father in the back near the
spinal column.
The Dixie Queen mine. in Central
Idaho, is to resume operations after
an idleness of several months. The
mill was shut down on account of the
short water supply, but the company
is now constructing a large ditch so
that in future there will be plenty of
water to run continuously. This is the
statement made by William Hye, chief
engineer and machinist of the Dixie
Queen.
An important strike is reported on
the west fork of Monumental creek,
: Thunder mountain district. The first
locations were made April Is. About
90 locations have been made to date
= The formation is blue porphyry. diff
ferent from any found at any other
place in the district. The dixie is one
and a half miles wide. "Curley'
n Brewer, Jake" Bebbendorf and George
!. BebbendOrf are the disc overers.
\ At Anaconda nine men were severe
~ llIul GU Out ldldliy, Ill dl ON DlOSlOi
y recently of a ladle containing FIVE ton:
of molten copper in the converter o.
the Washoe smelter. The accident
occurred at the noon hour, when the
big ladle was being emptied and i!
:, supposed to have been caused by cole
, water coming in contact with thu
y, metal. The molten copper was hurled
I with terrific force and had the acci
!, dent occurred during the WORKING
hours the list of casualties would hav
been considerable. Larry Dowrie
, whom it is believed will die was fright
% fully mangled.
y, The shoot of ore recently encount
- cred in the North Pole on the uppe
- level has proven the richest ever oper
u ed in the Sumpter, Ore, district !
was 65 feet long and from to
- inches in width. The ore runs fror
y So to $40 per pound, running up t
100000 for what ore was taken on
u and treated. Very little stopping wa
', done, only what could be done with
- out putting in a floor The inferno
" diate tunnel will have to be drive
4 from 200 to 800 feet before the shoe
# is encountered on that level The or
Is was a black sulphide similar in char
II acter to the rich ore found in tn
e Columbia and the Golconda mines
e which are located on the same weir
is known as the mother lode of the slat
a. belt. The f. & E. recently sold, lie
g between the North Pole and the C,
k. lumbia. At the Black Hawk mine, a
ID Robinsonville. the miners are cleanin
b. up an average of 800 a day with
g Tremain mill. The property was pu
chased last fall from J. Tracey, VIII
lie was in the habit of mortering out som
ia gold whenever he needed a little spen'
ed ing money, for $4,000 cash and tn
IN mill was erected at once. The pro-
x, erty is owned by r. w. Wheeler an
W associates. of Detroit. Mich. Repol
lie comes from Rabbit creek near Law
is ton of a strike of rich ore by n
is Dourty, owner of the Yellow Dais
lg group. The vein is only ten to fiftee
er inches wide, but the ore is worth Sc
he eral hundred dollars a pound. TIL
C. owners are erecting an arrastra on tn
e. ground and have an excellent waite
n power to operate it. They have su
w. ficient to keep the arrastra busy fC
r. several weeks. Nearly every piece
e. the ore shows free gold.
In a telegram from London Hem
ne A. Buffers of San Francisco report
90 that, together with John Hayes Han
p mond of San Francisco and Londo
IT. and F. w. Baker of the Venture Co