The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-02-21

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,
has recently encountered a two and
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
a busy scene today. The machinery or
two more buildings, rooster and rever-
berator, has been started up, and alto
gether four of them are now in com
mission. Three sections of the conceD-
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 fired 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 BIZ
( continued indefinitely, 10 or II men be
ing employed. The property is under
bond to John M. Patterson OF Pitts
burg, who visited it a few weeks age
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 pas
year, and had it moved from there t
the Charles Dickens, on Moon creek
midway between Wallace and Ward
ner. The old owners had a hoist OF
the property and had sunk about To-
feet, drifting from the bottom of tn
shaft. The tunnel running east iron
the level Of the creek will be pushe,
on into the hill
The trouble between the Victor Fue
company and miners employed at thei
coal mines at Chandler, near Florence
. Col, eliminated in an attack on tn
; Japanese miners who had taken tn
:
ton of the boarding house occupied
the Japanese. The mob drove tn
Japanese out of the camp. The affai
occurred after a meeting of striker
at which it was decided to send a
ultimaturm to the Victor Fuel con
pany demanding the removal of tn
Japanese. A report was circulated
the meeting, which was largely atten
ed, that 200 more Japanese were O
; their way to the Chandler mines, an
this so enraged the strikers that the
= decided at once to rid the communit
" of the Japanese.
The United States established fin
=, record last year in the mining of pre-
= ious metals. The product of gold an
), silver exceeded that of any otht
:, country. The estimate of the gol
: output is nearly million dollars
excess of the population of 1900, an
=, therefore, the highest record the cou-
q try has ever made. In silver. to
q there was much activity, in spite
O the low price, and the total output fl
n the year was nearly 100000 ounce
G in excess of that of 1900. Cope
a production fell off slightly, which
d not strange in view of the fact TIL
there have been several months
y juggling with copper securities and
g consequent uncertainty in the price
i copper stocks and of the commOdi
r, itself. In the midst of all the troub
o Senator Clarke's great Arizona mil
d has shut down, fact that would
y evitably be reflected in the supply.