The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-01-18
MINING NEWS.

STOUT ranch, 10 niles south Of Pen
dleton, has ceased and the drilling ma
u inery with all the apparatus has
0een moved away.
The shipments Of ore from the
Occur d'AleEe mines for the year 1901
we're 1850 tons as compared with
i7l,412 for the preceding year, a re
duction OF - per cent.
Active work is TO begin on the Prin-
cess Maud. in the Republic camp, on O /.
aDout Feb. l. This announcement is
made in the circular sent out to the
shareholders Of the company.
Edgar Boiling, who has large hold
iIgs in the Meteor camp on the Col
Vile reservation, says: "The begin
ing Of the new year finds Meteor camp
in a furnishing condition. A postof-
Ice has been established at the town.
e. w. Heron has been appointed
postmaster.
Word has been received from tn +.
Hewitt mine. in the SLOGAN district
toat new ore bodies had been run into
on the second and third levels. The
finds are richer than the old deposits
and the ore will assay about 70 ounces
Before. on these Levels. the men have
i'aen working on 40 ounce ore
The management Of the Snowshoe
Gold e. Copper Mines. limited, operat
ing the Snowshce group in Phoenix
camp. has decided to sink a shaft
which will at once be put down TO z
depth Of 300 feet. The property has
heretofore been worked through the
original incline prospecting shaft and
through the Railway tunnel
A large reduction plant to cost about
800 600 will probably be put in by the
Badger people near Susanyille. Ore
this spring. Many thousand tons o:
GRE are now on the dump and it IL
found almost impossible to make ship
ments because Of freiRnting expenses
- freight rates. At present the com
l.any is shipping chiefly concentrates.
The air compressor for the Amado-,
at Iron Mountain Montana, has ar
rived and will be taken up to the mine
soon. the load being in readiness fol
L. One carload of ore was shipped
several weeks ago and with the in.
stallation Of the compressor other ship
;dents will follow. although il is the
intention at present to confne oper.
atoms principally 70 development
work
Some fine development work has
been done in the Mammoth. near Wal
lace. Idaho. At present Manager Rich
ara Wilson's works are in two separate
ulaees. Those four tunnels numbered
from ! TO 5 are entered from the side
Till above Standard, while No. 6 starts
from the level Of Canyon creek I4C
feet lower than the level of the Stand
ards Campbell tunnel. The latter viii
| soon be the main workings, and il is
here that the works are established.
Three carloads OF machinery for the
/ hydraulic plant of the Occur .FAlene
Winning company have been hauled
overland from Sunset station to the
eompany's property near Murray. Ida
Il" Work on the plant is to be be
gun at once. 1t is announced that cleo
/ tIicity is to be generated to run the
4 dIltE EfNNdAAA. ONAHE " AilE Lac >
Of room the hydraulic elevator was un
satisfactory. By an endless chain car
Tying buckets and propelled by cleo
irlcity the gravel can be raised 10 any
heighth desired and dump room fol
The tailings will no longer be an OBJ
stacle.
A gold nugget that weighed S2.l'
ounces. troy weight, was melted at the
United States assay office at Helena
Montana recently. II was the larges
piece of virgin gold ever received a
that assay Office OF the government
Its value is estimated at about $1400
The nugget was brought to the assay
office by Thomas Raymond, who in
formed Assayer B. II. Tatem that h,
had taken il out of the diggings il
Alder gulch. An effort was made by
a local bank to buy it for exhibition
q. rposes, but an agreement could NO
Il had been assGyed.