The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-06-06
BRITISH COLUMBIA.


hardship Of this camp.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The Granny Mining & Smelling Com
pany has subscribed $3.50 towards the
Fernie (B. CO relief fund.
The owners of the Union Jacket
mine on Porcupine creek contemplate
installing compressor plant this sum
mer.
Ore shipments from Boundary for
1902 passed the 100000 ton figure last
week, or an average Of over $4,000 tons
per month.
At Ymir. at the annual meeting of
the Broken Hill Mining & Development
Company, operating the Wilcox mine
1t was decided to erect stamp mill.
It has been rumored that the War
Eagle and the Centre Star at Rossland
have made satisfactory arrangements
for the treatment of the ores and will
resume operations in the near future.
The Dominion Iron & Steel Company
and the United States Steel Corpora
ton are reported perfecting deal for
the purchase Of all the Independent
and c. p. r. coal claims of the Crows
Nest district and the principal iron
ore deposits Of Kootenay lake.
The Kaslo-Slocan Mining & Finan-
cial Company, with capital Of $780,
900. has Incorporated in British Colum-
bia and has taken over the properties
formerly belonging to the Chapleau
Consolidated, the Rene Landi and the
Mansfield syndicate. Operations are
to be commenced on an extensive
scale.
Returns received on the Queen mine
IA miles from Salmo, Indicate that the
Holmes syndicate. operating the prop
erty, has struck a bonanza. as the mine
has paid for its own development and
is now fully equipped, with stamp
mill available and all other mining ma
chinery required, without the expendi-
ture OF single dollar by the lessee Of
the property or the owners.
During last week ending the CRANKY
smelter treated 9276 tons of ore. The
total treated to date is 440.1SG tons.
Owing to a shortage of the coke supply
resulting from the recent Fernie mine
disaster. one of the five furnaces of
the CRANKY smelter was closed down.
The loss to the British Columbia
shelters by the temporary restriction
OF operations. 1t is intimated, will ex'
coed $25, 900.
j. p. Porter of Porter Bros, railway
contractors. states that his firm, In &C
cordance with the terms Of the con
tract recently entered into with the
CRANKY company. will start work quar-
rying ore from the surface of the Knot
Hill mine at Phoenix within fort
night. The preliminary contract calls
with proviso to the effect that II
work Is satisfactorily done second
contract for quarrying five million tons
OF ore will be entered into.
At recent meeting OF the share
holders of the Leroi Mining Company
concern of which Whitaker Wright
and the late Lord Dufferin were direc
tors, committee was appointed tc
investigate the past and present man
agement of the company and the pres
ent condition of affairs. The meeting
was uproarious and the management
was holly criticised. Some of the
shareholders charged that there hat
been official leakage of information, Of
which some one has benefited.
The Misunderstanding mine has re
sumed operations with over 100 men
all danger from slides being over
The concentration erected last fall has
been started and Is running smoothly
as is the new compressor plant. The
mill is operated by water. but boiler
plant is being ordered to replace the
water power when the latter falls off
as is the case late In the fall, as rule
The mill has a capacity of 100 tons
daily. The ore concentrates six to one
and the company is figuring on ship
ping concentrates carrying 200 ounces
of silver and about 55 per cent. OF
lead. The shipments of clean ore will
be continued as before. The mine:
product is divided between the Selby
smelter of San Francisco and the Ever
EFT (Wash) plant.
Up to Saturday 119 bodies had beer
recovered from the Crows Nest Pass
mine. About so are still in the depths
the greater part of which Is now under
water. The miners are now satisfied
that the inquiry which the government
has begun into the cause of the disas
ter will be thorough and impartial
The character of the evidence intro
duced at the coroner's inquest and the
attitude of the governments represen