The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-31
MINING NEWS.

Pacific Oil company at Newcastle, |
Wyo. The company is composed of |
Spokane men.
Senator Turner of Washington in
tends to take the necessary congress
of mineral claims on the Spokane
Indian reservation.
The Golden Chest property, near
Murray, Idaho, has been bonded to
Canadian men, but nothing is known
as to when they will take charge of
it. The price is reported to be $780,
900.
Men employed in the basement of
the Denver, Col. city hall discovered
what may prove a placer bonanza.
Profuse colors in a sediment of black
sand, which appeared after washing
in the old fashioned way, caused COM
motion among the city officials.
The air compressor and hoist which
were used last year on the Nabob,
Pine creek property, Idaho, have been
sold and will be installed for use on
the Charles Dickens.
An option on nearly all the stock of
the Charles Dickens Mining company
and work is to be resumed on the
property as soon as it can be put in
shape.
The American Smelling & Refining
company has advanced the price of
pig lead, putting it on basis of 4 ITO
| in Vnrly
advance of 10 cents per hundred.
President Nash says the advance is
the result of an advance in the Eur
opean market.
The Charles Dickens is situated on
Moon creek, midway between Wallace
and Wardner, north of and three miles
from the South Fork, and has been
developed by two tunnels above the
creek level and a shaft running 80
feet below the creek. All of the work
has shown an abundance of ore.
f. Aug. Heinz mas instituted another
suit against the Anaconda Mining com
pany, in which he seeks permission to
examine and survey the underground
workings of the Anaconda mine
Heinze contends that the Anaconda
Mining company is extracting ore
from the Belmont mine. which he
asserts is his property.
, The new silver-gold mining distric
of Tonopah, New, has produced 81,
= 900 900 of wealth since last May, bu
the mines are now practically at ;
D.. standstill on account of an epidemi,
, of disease caused by the long DIR!
spell. The miners are all leaving 70
: more healthful sections, said Samue
p Stockham, formerly of Gem, Idaho
T. who recently arrived from Tonopah
In the United States court at He
/ ena, Mont. Judge Knowles made al
p order dismissing the suit of A.
: Wright against the Central Montan
J. Mines company and discharging tn
e receiver. The order was the result o
e an agreement between the litigants
f The mines of the company are sitl
:. ated in Fergus county, Montana, hav
net output of $4,000 a month an
l. are valued at $1.000.O00.
0 Allan Stonebreaker had an cas-
t. trip from Thunder Mountain to Ell
Il City, Idaho and with but little work
r. permanent trail can be established a
A once. Supplies in the camp are a
s most exhausted. The last few sack
d of -four were selling at from $40 to So
n per sack. There are rs men in tn
re camp at present, but unless supple
are taken in at once most of thes
If men will be compelled to leave. FIT
s. men have left the last two weeks an
n others are still leaving.
e Jesse Coulter has arrived in Levi
e ton from Dixie, where he has Unstable
20 and superintended the initial run
lie a 10 stamp mill at the Ajax mine
n the Dixie district The property
il. owned by the Midas company,
d. which Finch & Campbell of SpokaT
o. have heavy interests. The mill bega
~ steady operations December II and
now handling 40 tons daily. The plal
% is working perfectly and so per Gel
of the values are saved on the plate
" concentrates being worth 800 per to
4 The Chickamuck group of minir
6 claims near Darlington, 80 mile
90 north of Seattle, Wash, was sold
Il John G., John T., and c. L. English
G. Danville. ILL.,, who formerly were ow
70 ers of the lie Roi at Rossland and wi
,r own the GOlconda mine in the Crack
" creek district in this part of Orego
f. Associated with the Englishes are
L. Rand, r. Eakman, A. ]. TrimbC
III and w. ]. Corners of this cOuntr
rTbo dao1 x.,ac concluded in Ralxar CIT