Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-05-02
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

A syndicate Of Chinese merchant!
Of Vancouver, B. c., has entered intG
a contract labor speculation and plan.
the oriental invasion Of South AFRICA
Two hundred Chinese will be shipped
in bond to johannesburg, where they
are under contract to remain for five
years. When Johannesburg was taker
by the British government it was
found that almost all the mines that
had been in operation before the wal
had been abandoned, and in many
places had caved in from want OF
care and rotting timber supports. The
Kaftir laborers have become scattered
and there is great demand for cheap
employees.
At the annual meeting of the Crows
Nest Pass Coal company the directors
presented their report for 1901, show.
ing net profits of $27O.S4S. After pay.
ing dividends at the rate of 10 per
cent per annum a balance of $28,142
was carried forward to the credit of
the profit and loss account. The coal
produced during the year amounted to
425,457 tons, as compared with 22O,458
| tons in 1900. The company's present
output is largely in excess of any re-
quirements that have been made upon
1t in British Columbia
A strike has been made on the Hide
way group, adjoining the Queen mine
at Salmo. 1t is said a vein of free
milling ore, 10 feet wide, has been un-
covered, and from samples taken
across the full width an average of
$61 per ton Is reported The owners,
who are Macarthur, Waldbeser and
Broadfoot, are putting on three shifts.
and propose shipping at once to the
Nelson smelter.
In consequence of the change of
management caused by the resigna-
ton of H. E. T. Haultim, engineer to
the Hastings (B. CO. Exploration COM
pany, the Arlington mine and mill
have been shut down, but work will
be resumed in a few days. The &C.
ton brought by G. Porter against the
company for damages incurred, in the
accident in which the foreman ,lost
his life, has been settled out of court
for $500.
Captain Clifford, manager of the Hall
mines at Nelson, says that there is
no truth in the rumor that he has re-
signed his position In consequence of
the mine being practically played out.
He says that the oreshoots are open
ing out as expected and that for three
weeks Of March the net proceeds Of
ore smelted was $11,S11.
The official return from the white
water mine for last month shows that
5000 tons were milled, producing 536
tons of concentrates. The approx
mate profit on the months working
was $4935.
The first pig lead product of ore
mined, smelted and refined in Canada
has been produced by the lead refinery
erected at Trail by the Canadian
works. Early In May the
plant will be in full operation, with
sufficient capacity to refine all the
present output Of the works here. 1t
8 the first and only silver-lead refin-
'ry In the dominion, and its product is
he highest grade of manufacturing
cad, free Of all impurities.
In the examinations for the granting
II certificates for assaying within the
'rovince four of the applicants were
ualifed at Nelson, B. C. They are A.
). Rombauer of Butte, who has been
ngaged to take the position of head
hemist at the new smelter at Grafton,
n Vancouver island; Charles Hunter,
cad assayer at the Dominion assay .
nice at Vancouver; George Crearer,
Tho becomes assayer at the Sunset
meter at Boundary Falls, near Green ,
'ood' and L. E. Gooding. who for :
ing time was assayer for the Iron :
Task mine at Rossland. (,