The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-02-22
MIScELLANEOUs MINING NEWS.

mas improved very materially and /
gives every promise of still create
improvement in the near future.
News has reached Boise from Sflye
: City that the Sinker Creek tunnel ha:
opened small vein carrying good ore
The tunnel recently passed through ,
porphyry dyke and has since cut thi-
VEIN 1t is two feet wide and has 81,
= inches of good ore like that taken from
the old workings OF the Golden Chariot
Inc Industrial development OF 81
IBERIA is largely dependent upon he1
production OF coal and iron, especially
the latter, and the data from an official
report show that Russia's huge north.
ern provinces do not lack rich depos.
its OF this metal.
Three hundred and four carloads OF
ore, thirteen carloads of concentrates
and four bars containg 5000 ounces.
about evenly divided in value between
gold and silver, constitute the shin
NETS from Tinto (Utah) points during
the month Of January. The Gemini
leads the list with Sc carloads of ore.
followed closely by the Yankee.
The Elk City Gold Mining & Milling
company, composed Of Spokane men.
mas recently encountered a two ana
one half foot ledge Of high grade free
milling ore on the property situated
near Elk City, Idaho A letter from
superintendent Coverly. at the mine
states that the showing is better than
ever.
The hill upon which the Wasboe
shelters at Butte are located presents
a ousy scene today. The machinery or
TWO more buildings, rooster and reyer
oerator, has been started up, and alto
gether four Of them are now in com.
mission. Three sections of the concen.
traitor are in operation, six furnaces
IN the reverberatory plant have been
oioWn IN, and eight of the McDougal
furnaces in the roasting building have
been fired up. 1t will probably be sew.
eraI weeks before everything Is run
ming at full blast.
Inc air compressor on the Charles
Dickens near Wallace, Idaho. is in on
Grafton and development work will h., |
continued indefinitely, 10 or IL men he
ing employed. The property is under
pond TO John NJ. Patterson OF pitts
burg, who visited it a few weeks ago
and made an agreement with the own
ers Tor nearly all Of the stock. At the
same time he bought the air compress
or which has been used on the Nabob
a Pine creek property. for the mast
year and had it moved from there tn
the Charles Dickens, on Moon creek
midway between Wallace and Ward
ner' Inc old owners had a hoist On
the property and had sunk about 100
Ieet, drifting from the bottom of tbs
smart The tunnel running east from
-ne ieWel OF the creek will be pushed
On into the hill.
Inc trouble between the Victor FueI
company and miners employed at their
,oaI mines at Chandler, near Florence
1ol., eliminated in an attack on tho
japanese miners who had taken the
places OF the strikers and the demo1t.
ION Of the boarding house occupied nv
ne japanese. The mob drove tbsl
japanese out Of the camp. The affair
occurred after a meeting Of strikers
II which 1t was decided to send an
llIlnaturm to the Victor Fuel com.
lany demanding the removal OF the c
japanese. report was circulated in
ne meeting, which was largely attend. !,
~ that 200 more Japanese were on
heir way to the Chandler mines and
mis- SO enraged the strikers that tbev a
lecided at once to rid the community D
Il the Japanese.
The United States established a ene
ecord last year in the mining of prec- ,
ous metals. The product Of gold and
liver exceeded that Of any other Il
ountry. The estimate Of the gold
utput is nearly a million dollars in n
xcess Of the population Of 1900. and ;,
lereiore, the highest record the coun. G
" mas ever made. In silver. too
mere was much activity, in spite OF u
ne low price, and the total output for q.
he year was nearly 100000 ounces a
excess Of that Of 1900. Conner in
reduction fell of slightly, which is n
ot strange in view Of the fact that
lere have been several months Of a,
ggling with copper securities and a &C
'nsequent uncertainty in the price Of at
PIPER stocks and Of the commodity CO
self In the midst Of all the trouble W
snator Clarke's great Arizona mine hi
Is shut down, fact that would in az
'itably be reflected in the supply. ca
1t Is stated on good authority that 10
e big copper war between F. Angus
s Heinze and the Amalgamated Cop a
n company is nearer settlement now Ri
an it has ever been. and that when b
e settlement is finally perfected Is
einze will be general manager of the an
nalgamated company. The informa- til
IN comes from a reliable source in ly
eW York. 1t is stated that the Anal Oh
mated and Standard OIL people have mi
me to the conclusion that II Is bet ire
to make use Of Heinze's remark
lie ability and popularity in Montana
an to continue the fight against him