Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-08-15

Cal SOCicLy, anu also pTeSluoHL OI the
Alaska Geographical society, will
probably be one of the delegates to
the International Mining congress that
4 will convene in Butte next month.
| The consumption of pig iron per
capita in the United States, according
to the annual report of the Iron and
Steel association, shows an increase in
81 years from GIG to 464.4 pounds per
capita.
After negotiations extending over
several months, rich copper mining
property on La Touchre island, in
Prince William sound, Alaska, has
been bonded to New York capitalists
for 100000.
Mining and milling ore at the Ken
dali and Barnes-King properties in
Montana is going on with uninterrupt-
ed rapidity these days, and many valu-
able gold bars is the result, says the
Kendall Chronicle.
The 100-stamp will which was to
have been erected on the Dewey prop
erty in. the Thunder Mountain district
will not be erected this year, as it can
not be taken in to the mines until the
wagon road is completed.
1t is reported at Elk City. Idaho,
that R. A. Sims of Palouse City has
started development work on the prop
erty of the Tamilipa Mining company
near Orogrande. William Hogan says
that the Crooked River Mining & Mill
ing company's stamp mill at Orc
rande will be ready for operating in
three weeks.
The occurrence of explosive gas in
metalliferous mines is very rare, but
there are. instances on record at Pen
zance, Cornwall, where in tin and lead
mines the rock, when freshly cut,
gave off volumes of gas. 1t has also
been noted in opening up old levels
that have long lain under water.
Articles of incorporation were filed
recently by the Nicola Coal Mines, Ltd
The capital stock is fixed at 100000
shares of 81 each par value. The trus
tees of the company are S. A. Hart
man of Tacoma, John Kerr of Greens
burg, Pa; John O'Connor, J. w. Nc
Kune, John F. Firch, w. T. Hales and
Fred e. Baldwin, all of Spokane.
Neil J. Sorensen has sold the Max
we'll mine, in Oregon, and adjoining
claims to an Eastern syndicate for a
consideration said to be $145,000, a
portion of which was cash. The prop
erty consists of more than 20 claims
many of them carrying considerable
development. 1t is said that extern
sion work will be done on the prop
erty.
Nearly 5000 people have landed in
Nome since the opening of navigation.
but there is not much evidence of ad-
dition to the population of the town,
and the saloons and gambling houses
are complaining about the dullness of
| business. Aside from the fact that
merchants are filling big orders for
the creeks, there is not much more &C.
tivity in Nome than there was last
winter.
A syndicate, known as the Kimber-
| ly-Buhl syndicate, headed by P. l.,
Kimberly, of Sharon, Pa, who has
made three or four fortunes in iron
has at last succeeded in tieing up all
the iron mines near Cedar City, Utah
| John L. Jones, of Iron Mountain, Mich,
one of the best experts in the iron bus
mess, has just completed an examina
ton of the property and declares it is
the biggest thing going.
G. B. Dennis, president of the Old
Dominion Mining & Milling company
under whose management the Old Do
minion mine near Colville, Wash, was
developed, is authority for the state
ment that he has, on behalf of his com
pany, signed a lease covering a period
of three years to w. F. Kyle of Mime
apolis, Mimi, who, together with his
associates, also of Minneapolis, will
along the same lines as laid down by
Mr.. Dennis and by Professor King,
now deceased.
| Solomon Guggenheim, who is in
Denver looking after the interests OF
the American Smelling & Refining
company, of which he is an official
says that the company has just closed
the sale of 20,000,000 ounces of silver
to the Mexican government, in add
ton to 100000 ounces recently de
livered He declared that the first
sale increased the market price of the
metal cents and predicted a still
greater rise as a result of the late
deal.
DR.. George H. Slower, president OF
the Union Coal & Coke company
which owns the mine at Bowen, Col.
in which an explosion occurred last
week, killing IL miners, received ad
vices from General Manager Bowen
to the effect that the damage to the
mine is not so great as indicated in
press dispatches from Trinidad. DR.
Slower was informed also that the
powder magazine at the mine did moi
explode and that the accident was
caused by windy shot in one of the
side entrances.
Mrs. York Dragged to Death.
Helena, Mont, Aug. 11.-Mrs. Elizabeth
York. formerly a resident of Spokane