Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-02-21

the month of January. TIE Geminl
leads the list with Sc carloads of ore,
followed closely by the Yankee.
The Elk City Gold Mining & Milling
company, composed Of Spokane men,
has recently encountered 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 WashOe
smelters at Butte are located presents
busy scene today. The machinery OF
two more buildings, rooster and rever-
berator, has been started up, and alto
gether four of them are. now in CON-
mission. Three sections Of the concen-
traitor are in operation, six furnaces
in the reverberatory plant have been
blown in, and eight Of the McDougal
furnaces in the roasting building have
been fred up. It will probably be sew
eral weeks before everything is run
ming at full blast.
The air compressor on the Charles
Dickens near Wallace, Idaho, is in op-
GRAFTON and development work will be
continued indefinitely, 10 or II men be-
ing employed. The property is under
bond to John M. Patterson OF Pitts.
burg, who visited 1t a few weeks ago
and made an agreement with the own
ers for 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 past
year, and had it moved from there to
the Charles Dickens, on Moon creek,
midway between Wallace and Ward.
ner. The old owners had q hoist OH
the property and had sunk about 100
feet, drifting from the bottom of the
shaft. The tunnel running east from
the level Of the creek will be pushed
on into the hill.
The trouble between the Victor Fuel
company and miners employed at their
coal mines at Chandler, near Florence,
COL, eliminated in an attack on the
Japanese miners who had taken the
places of the strikers and the demoli-
ton of the boarding house occupied by
the japanese. The mob drove the
Japanese out of the camp. The affair
occurred after a meeting of strikers,
at which it was decided to send an
ultimaturm to the Victor Fuel COM
pany demanding the removal of the
Japanese. A report was circulated in
the meeting, which was largely attend
ed, that 200 more Japanese were on
their way to the Chandler mines, and
this so enraged the strikers that they
decided at once to rid the community
of the Japanese.
The United States established a fine
record last year in the mining of prec-
ious metals. The product of gold and
silver exceeded that Of any other
country. The estimate of the gold
output is nearly million dollars in
excess of the population of 1900, and
therefore, the highest record the coun-
try has ever MADE. In silver. too.
there was much activity, in spite of
the low price, and the total output for
the year was nearly 100000 ounces
in excess Of that Of 1900. Copper
production fell off slightly, which is
not strange in view of the fact that
there have been several months of
juggling with copper securities and a
consequent uncertainty in the price of
copper stocks and of the commodity
itself. In the midst of all the trouble
Senator Clarke's great Arizona mine
has shut down, a fact that would in
evitably be reflected in the supply.