Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-03-29

at Murray, Idaho, by Eastern parties,
for a sum in the neighborhood of $780,.
600.
The owners OF the Buckhorn group
in Northern Idaho are installing
stamp mill
The Standard Mining company has
paid a dividend of five cents per share,
making total to date of $3.50 .00o.
The st. Maries and Santo stage is
loaded every day with people bound
for the Tyson mining camp in Idaho.
strike OF remarkable richness Is
reported in the Riverview mine. in
Custer county, Idaho. a ledge of lead
silver ore being encountered which
measures forty feet across. the whole
body of which will pay to smelt.
1t is reported that there is four or
five feet Of snow on Thunder noun
tain, and that provisions cannot be
bought for any price
Miners in the Tyson gold mining
| camp, Idaho, are excited over the dis
1overy Of some rich strikes that were
| reported within the last few days.
! F. r. Culbertson has returned to
Spokane from Dedrick. Cal, where he
has been looking after mining inter
ests in which he and Charles Sweeney
are associated.
1t is reported that the Sunnyside
property at Thunder mountain has
been sold by the Caswell brothers to
the Belle OF Thunder mountain com
pany for $125 0o0.
/ Articles Of incorporation of the Wa
meta Gold Mining & Milling company
have been forwarded from Republic
! its principal place Of business to file
with the secretary of state at Olym-
/ pia.
Placer mining at Tyson. Idaho. is
! being carried on to the full extent of
the water and miners are enthusiastic
over the result. The shipment of gold
! dust from the camp last week was
about $4,000. s.
DR.. Jacob May of the Mineral Hin
/ Mining company before leaving Coz
cOrnully, Wash. for his home at
Bridgeport, ConO.. said that the build
ing and machinery destroyed by fire
last week at the Mineral Hill property
would be replaced as soon as possible.
The ClimaX Cold Mining company.
ORGANIZED last year by snokane men
and operating on the Climax group.
in Eastern OREGON. will erect a forty
STAMP mill at the mines this year.
George c. Brewer, who arrived re
Gently in Boise, Idaho. from Thunder
mountain, brought some very interest.
ing information concerning develop
ments there. On the Fairview prom
erty. he states, the crosscut tunnel was
into the ore something over 100 feet
when he left.
The friehtful accident which oc
CURED in the Alnine drift Of the Trade
Dollar group in Idaho on February Is
caused by the explosion Of a powder
I, thawing magazine, has resulted in the
adoption of an electrical thawer bl
the management, the device being in
vented by Engineer Stewart of the
= company.
Mining men owning properties in
Cedar canyon are concentrating build
ing a smelter in the vicinity of Spring
dale. Wash. for treating the ores from,
the Canyon district. The Deer Trail
and other shipping mines viii begin
Transporting sack ore when the roads
are in shane for hauling, which will be
in about three weeks.
The senate committee on mining has
made a favorable report on the house
hin tho y1rntan4inn If II,
the territories, amending the bill SO
as to avoid the requirement for the
use of shot fires in lighting fires and
inserting in its place a requirement
that the dust in mines shall be settled
hv the use of water or carried out of
the mines.
At Republic. Wash. the Trade Dol.
lar is attracting more attention than
any other mine in the camp. The dis
coveries of the past week have been
nretty general theme of converse
ton Ore in which gold was plainly
seen has been exhibited for several
DAVIS. 1t is richer than anything here
tofore found in the mines in the north
end Of the camp.
! lHlOTmdtiOH mas DoeH TecSlFeu lFoiu
the Fast to the effect that Pittsburg
companies interested in Thunder
mountain have contributed $4,000 to-
ward the completion of the wagon road
TO the gold camp. This subscription
is in pursuance of an agreement I'M
der which $4,000 has been raised
among the people of Boise for the pur-
pose. 1t is believed that stages and
teams can go into the camp before
/ July !.