The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-07-18

duty at the East Helena smelters ana
the list at the company's Office now
numbers about 200 men. All of these
have signed the agreement.
The very ingenious perpetual mo-
ton" invented by Daniel Quinn, an
aged mechanic, for display at the
Worlds Fair, consists of a tank of wa
ter through which an endless chain of
hollow cylinders runs, entering at the
bottom between rubber lips, going out
at the top and down the outside. He
depends upon the buoyancy of the
cylinders to keep them in motion and
to overcome the water pressure at the
point of entrance.
At one time in the United States
roller in a rail mill, rolling iron or
steel rails, received about Is cents per
ton, turning out from 20 to 100 tons
per turn. Today, in some Of the mod
ern steel rail mllls less than / per cent
per ton is paid for doing the same
work. and yet by the end of the year
the roller in the rail mill today can
make as much money as he did when
he received the above higher prices I'M
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that, too with less physical labor. At
one time as cents per ton were paid
for heating iron for making iron rails.
Today very little more than half cent
per ton is paid for doing the same
work. One of the most remarkable re-
suits in this direction recorded in the
history of iron and steel is the price
paid for rolling wire rods.
Kettle valley lines are preparing to
haul out ore from Republic.
A force of six men went to work on
the San Poll mine last week. A larger
ore bin will be put in, and the mine
prepared Tor shipping ore.
Four cars have been loaded with
California ore. Five cars are on the
track of the Kettle valley lines await
ing to be filled with Line Pine-Surprise
ore. A force of men has been break
ing ore in the mine. A force of men
will begin putting the Black Tail mine
in shape for shipping.
The four carloads of ore that were
shipped few days ago from the Quilp
mine have reached the CRANKY smelter.
The ledge on the Trade Dollar has
been cut at a distance of 80 feet from
the shaft. The ore is of fine grade.
The machinery for the Silver Dol
lar hoist has left Spokane.
The raise in the Tom Thumb con
Meeting the 265-foot level with the $50
foot level has been completed. The
mine is now ready to ship.
Unless the supreme court overrules
the decision of Judge Neal of Ferry
county, Wash, the tax assessments OF
mining property there for 1899 anC
,, 1900 will stand in spite of the suits
brought by eight Spokane mining cor
porations to have the levy declared
invalid.
Theodore Swartz, a miner of Ions
experience, gained on the Pacific coast
,, in Alaska and on the Salmon river ant
its tributaries. has returned from
Thunder Mountain. He left there OF
the 5th inst. When asked regarding
the famous camp he replied:
, MEN are leaving it rapidly. Whel
I left there were about $50 men il
Roosevelt and vicinity, about the sam
number in Thunder City and about 5
- in and about Marble City. Their
we're six men at work on the Dewe
: and four on the Sunnyside."
superintendent John NJ. Scraffor
=, and a force of 16 miners have left 70
the Gold Bug, near Princeton, Idaho
= on the headwaters OF the Paiouss river
- 90 miles northeast of Palouse City, t
start operations on the property.
According to the Scientific Amer
can SO.OOO,OOO gallons of mixed pain
were sold in the United States durin
c 1901.
q The Pacific Sheet Metal Works. Fai
II haven, have manufactured 100000
N cans thus far this season.
The Champion Mining company, o.
Grating in the Williams district, Or
IF gon. have just completed the work {
i. putting in a new fve-ton air compre
+ sor and other machinery and improv
ments at the Rising Star mine. Abol
n $50 900 worth of new machinery he
; lately been added to the mine.
? Sameul Word of Helena, is exami
-, ing the coal beds of the upper Rut
valley, Madison county, Montana, wit
view of buying them for a compan
=. Patrick Clark, who developed IL
- Republic mine to a point where
paid dividends of $4,000 per mont
has again resumed the presidency
- the Republic company, and operation
- on the mine will be resumed und
his direction. probably within a mont