The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-02-14

Idaho will receive greater attention
the present season than during any
year in the past and that there is even
good prospect of the activities de-
veloping into big boom.
At Pendleton eleven placer claims
were filed at the county recorders Of |
fee recently from the north fork of
the John Day river IN Umatilla coun- |
ty. 1t is only recently that this part
OF the John Day river has become
known as a placer mining country, but
25 or more claims have been located |
and filed on in the past month.
Word has reached Tyson, Idaho, of
an important quartz and placer strike
on Renfro creek, about six miles from
camp, on the opposite side Of the st.
Maries river. Mr.. Grihiths, of Tyson,
returned from the new diggings and
pronounced the find genuine. 1t is a
blush quartz, heavily charged with
black iron, much of which is oXidized.
The Apollo Consolidated Mining
company has filed an application in the
United States land Office at Spokane
for patent on fraction less than 255
acres of mineral land near Republic
The application is the largest ever
filed in the land Office there At S.
an acre the cost of the land to the
company will be $1275
Charles F. Robbins, president of the
Lone Pine-Surprise Consolidated Min
ing company, has returned to Spokane
from the property at Republic, and
states that everything is looking sat
isfactory at the mine. AS soon as the
company begins the shipping of ore a
five-drill compressor plant will be in.
stalled to sing a permanent working
shaft some place on the Lone Pine
ground.
The January receipts of gold at the
Helena assay office amounted to $780,
$50 SO, against $3.50 ,425 SO in January
1901, the largest receipts for that
month in the history of that office.
The gold was practically all from
stamp or cyanide mills, and the re-
ceipts from this source are likely to
grow rapidly this year, as more mills
will be put in operation and new mines
opened.
At Baker City the Is men from the
Columbia mine who were arrested re-
Gently on the charge of riot, because
they compelled two engineers who had
taken the place of the striking engi-
neers to leave camp, had a prelimi-
nary hearing before Justice MessiclI,
and were bound over in the sum OF
$3.50 each to await the action of the
Circuit court. The men all gave bonds
and were released.
The machinery for the new Jerico
quartz mill has been unloaded at Troy.
Idaho, and will be shipped to the mill
site near Elk Greek falls, So miles
east of Troy. The new MILL which is
three stamp plant with triple dis
charge, will have a capacity of 25 tons
day. Each stamp is a battery so
that if one stamp is disabled by acct
dent the other two can still be run.
Mr.. Jacobs has six teams of six and
eight horses each, to transport the ma
chinery.
Mining organizations in the west are
manifesting much interest in a bill in
trOduced by Representative Wood of
California, creating a department of
mining under a cabinet officer. Large
gatherings of the mining interests
held at Cripple Creek, Co.. and Boise,
Idaho, have urged the adoption of the
measure. The California Mining asso-
citation is also interested and the
minewOrkers are expected to speak
through their organization, the United
I Mineworkers. The members of the
California delegation and those Of
| other mining states are secOnding the
efforts of Mr.. Wood, who expects to
have the house committee on mines
and mining take up the question at an
early date
The executive officers of the United
/ Mineworkers Of America were reflect
ed last week without a dissenting vote
among all the thousand delegates at
tending the annual convention Of the
organization. They are: President,
John Mitchell; vice president, T. l..
Lewis; secretary treasurer, w. B.
Wilson.
The Lost Creek coal mine, situated
10 miles south Of Oskaloosa and three
miles north Of Eddieville, was the
scene last week of a terrible disaster
which cost the lives of q miners.
Eight others were seriously injured.
The bodies of the dead men were re-
covered from the mine.
J. w. Brown, a stone quarry man,
WAS recentlY bruised and crushed by