The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-11-21

The Sweeny-C ulbertson interests of
Spokane have a long term lease on the
Wildman & Mahoney properties in
Amador county, California, and If
they take up the bond on the property
they will increase the mill from so to
200 stamps.
After over four years of continuous
rock cutting the Banker Hill & Sulli-
van company has connected every
opening in it's mines at Wardner
Idaho, with the long tunnel, the mouth |
of which is at the mill more than two
miles below The last connection was
made few days ago.
"If the Lucille Dreyfus near Repub-
lie shows the same body of ore at 200
feet depth as now exposed on the up
per level capital will be Forthcoming
for the construction of q smelter that
will handle nearly all of the silicious
ores of the Republic camp" says Col.
w. M. Ridpath of Spokane.
That portion of California bordering
on Nevada and consisting of Placer
Eldorado, Sierra and Nevada counties,
with their mines on "the State Belt,
forms a compact region that is fairly
seething with activity, and possesses
communities that are most exemplary
in their enterprise.
The strike at the Kearsarge mine,
one of the most noted gold producers
in Montana has been declared off.
The miners quit work two weeks ago
over the refusal of the management
to discharge a Chinese cook. The com
pany has agreed to employ nothing in
the future but white cooks and the
men returned to work.
After four years of work and at
cost of about $4000,000, the Michigan
Lake Superior Power company has
just completed it's water power devel-
opment at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, by
which, at the least calculation, $1,000
horse power will be produced. This
development utilities the waters OF
Lake Superior at the Falls of st.
Mary's river, which have a descent of
20 feet.
Judge Beattie in the federal court
at Moscow, Idaho, has given judgment
in the Skookum case for $175, S67.02
to Kennedy Hanley of Kellogg, Idaho.
The judgment is against Charles
Sweeny, f. Lewis Clark and the EN-
pire State-Idaho Mining company, and
is based on the report of the master
in chancery, Warren Truitt, who took
the accounting in the case.
Patrick Clark of Spokane has Sc
cured an option on a heavy control OF
the Jumbo in Buffalo Hump on the
basis of S225,0OO for the mine. If it
stands up under committeeman lit
tie doubt is expressed on that score
Mr.. Clark will take up the option and
will push operations. There is a four
stamp mill on the mine now, which in
10 months has produced 100000 in
gold bullion. 1t is expected that Mr.
Clark will replace it with a 20 or &c
stamp plant and rush operations.
Advices from Neal, Idaho, tell Of the
sale Of the Daisy mine, one of the
. principal producers Of Idaho, to the
T. Western Trust & Guarantee company
q The price, while not made public, is
understood to be in the neighbOrhoOC
y of $225,00O. A 10-stamp mill anC
l. concentrator is on the property. The
t mine has been sufficiently well ex
plotted to determine the existence o
p large, and, it is believed, a per
q manent body of ore. George Brede
= hoff, the former owner, secured thu
Daisy from Denver people for a sons
after they had expended much capita
!. in futile search for ore bodies. Tn,
$ first drift run by Mr.. Bredehoff eX
0 posed the payshoot.
Mr.. Truitt found damages to Han
o ley amounting to $265, 241.S3. He CAV
t Hanley the gross value of one-eightl
!. of the ore taken from the Skookun
e mine, in which Hanley holds an eight
interest, and refused to allow the de
S PENDANTS anything for the cost of min
p ing the ore which they took withou
Il Hanley's consent. Judge Beattie
n however, disregarded the recOmmer
datiOns of the master on that point
e While he does not allow the defend
S ants for mining up to the date tina
y Hanley brought suit, on March Is
n 1899, yet he allows them to deduct 70
mining after that date. His ruling
e based on the ground that Hanle
j. should have applied for an injunctio
g stopping the extraction of ore whe
is he started suit. Failing in that, h
holds that Hanley forfeited the rigf
lie to recover the gross value Of the or
lie mined after the filing of the suit