Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-06-27


Idaho, It Is said, has been sold to Col
onel Ridpath and a syndicate Of Spo-
kane and Eastern capitalists for $780,
600.
The famous Cornucopia mines. in
the famous Cornucopia district, among
the richest in all Oregon, and there
fore in the United States, has begun
operations.
The president has approved the res
olutions fixing the date opening the
Spokane reservation to mineral entry
upon the completion of allotments and
his proclamation thereof.
The Amalgamated Copper company
has purchased large tract of coal
land near Chestnut, in Gallatin coun-
ty, Montana, and has already begun &C
tive development work on the mines
The remarkable fact is shown that
there are more graduate mining en-
ineers from the University of Califor
MIA holding prominent positions in
South Africa than from any other uni
versity.
According to figures furnished by
Secretary Flagg, of the Calumet q
Hecla, to the Michigan commissioners
of mineral statistics, the production OF
the Calumet & Hecla during 1901 ag
gregated 74,510,557 pounds.
There will be strong fight at the
next meeting of the International Min
ing congress, which is to be held at
Butte in September, for the meeting to
be held in 1908. Nearly every state
in the Union will bid for it.
According to returns to the United
States geological survey from pro
ducers representing fully 81 per cent
of the entire coal output of the United
States, the production in 1901 amount
ed to 1872, 240,758 short tons valued at
$34S, S13,831.
There has been no development
work done to date except on the Fair
view group and at the Dewey mine. A
number of the big stock companies
established camps this week, and ex-
tensive development work will begin
soon on at least 20 different proper.
ties.
Pittsburg, Baltimore and Colorado
capitalists who recently purchased the
st. Joe placer mines near the head OF
the st. Joe river, Idaho, will expend
about $250,000 for machinery and
equipment and commence develop
ment of the properties ON an extensive
scale.
Upon the recommendation of the
committee on the school of Mines al
Butte, the board decided that the min
imum age limit for admission to the
school should be raised from 16 tc
IL years, and that additional work in
algebra and geometry be required fol
admission.
All the new towns are still collec
lions of tents, not a single house hav
ing yet been completed either for bus
mess or residence this spring. Many
log structures are in process of con
struction at Roosevelt, West Fork and
Marble Creek, the rivals for metropol
itan honors.
Regarding the Badgers plans, the
1OO-ton concentrating plant is expected
to be in operation by July 1. Fifty
men are now employed, sinking and
doing development work. The shaft
Is nearly 500 feet deep, preliminaries
having commenced for rounding out
the seventh level at that depth.
H. L. Frank of Butte, Mont, has
sold three-quarter interest in his
coal mines at Frank, Alberta, to q
French syndicate, for $1,000 900
About $4,000 is said to have been paid
down. Mr.. Frank got the coal mines
about two years ago. He is said tc
have spent about quarter of a mil
lion on the property.
The old Warren mining district
Idaho, from which so much treasure
was taken nearly half a century ago
is again attracting attention. It is the
confirmed belief of mining men thai
all the gold was not taken from the
earth by the crude methods of placer
mining in early days, and the district
Is again being carefully examined.
With the exception of the Home
stake mine at South Dakota, and the
mines OF Alaska, the two largest
stamp mills on the Pacific coast are
in Southern California. One at the
Golden Cross mines at Hedges. sar
Diego county, CAL, and the other al
the Yellow Aster mine at Randsburg
Cal.
7. combination of the great copper
mines OF the United States, similar in
scope to the Morgan billion-dollar stee1
combine, is now under the Leadership
OF the Rothschilds, whom Senator
Clark is now visiting. So far the
Calumet and Hecla, the greatest con
per company in the world. refuses te
come in. -.
W. F. Bradley, superintendent fo,
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Gold Min
ing company, which owns the great
Occur d'Alene mine and also recently
acquired the Badger of the SusanyilIe
district, passed through sumpter Of
Susanvllle properties he said there
were several of promising nature