Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-06-07
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The CRANKY Mining & Smelling Com
nany has subscribed $3.50 towards the
Ternie (B. CO. relief fund.
The owners of the Union Jacket
mine on Porcupine creek contemplate
Installing a compressor plant this sum-
rner
Ore shipments from Boundary for
1902 passed the 100000 ton figure last
week. or an average of over AZ 900 tons
per month.
At Ymir. at the annual meeting of
the Broken Hill Mining & Development
Company, operating the Wilcox mine
i was decided to erect stamp mill.
It has been rumored that the War
Eagle and the Centre Star at Rossland
have made satisfactory arrangements
for the treatment of the ores and will
resume operations in the near future.
The Dominion Iron e Steel Company
and the United States Steel Corpora
tion are reported perfecting a deal for
the purchase of all the Independent
and C. p r. coal claims Of the Crows
Nest district and the principal iron
ore deposits of Kootenay lake.
The Kaslo-Slocan Mining &c Finan-
cial Company, with capital of $2,500,-
600 has Incorporated in British Column
bia and has taken over the properties
formerly belonging to the Chapleau
Consolidated, the Rene Landi and the
Mansfield syndicate. Operations are
to be commenced on an extensive
scale.
Returns received on the Queen mine
IA miles from Salmo, indicate that the
Holmes syndicate, operating the prop
erty has struck bonanza, as the mine
mas paid for its own development and
Is now fully equipped, with stamp
MIL available and all other mining ma
enlnery required, without the expendi-
lure OF single dollar by the lessee of
'ne property or the owners.
during last week ending the CRANKY
Smelter treated 9276 tons of ore. The
wal treated to date is 440,1S0 tons.
oWlng to shortage of the coke supply
resulting from the recent Fernie mine
disaster, one of the five furnaces of
.le uranby smelter was closed down.
me loss to the British Columbia
'nelters by the temporary restriction
y operations, it is intimated. will eX.
coed s25, 900.
. r Porter Of Porter Bros, railway
states that his firm, in ac-
sOluance with the terms Of the con-
cael recently entered into with the
sIanpy company, will start work quar-
mug ~, ore from the surface of the Knob
'n nine at Phoenix within a fort
sae The preliminary contract calls
-, NJ, the extraction of 100000 tons of ore
".'n proviso to the effect that if
nuA is satisfactorily done a second
!, ~ act ior quarrying five million tons
: ore will be entered into.
M recent meeting of the share
,sets Oh the Leroi Mining Company.
ana noerh OIL which Whitaker Wright
to-. Tue late Lord Dufferin were direc-
irn a committee was appointed to
.nsesligate the past and present man
e 1taent OF the company and the pres
NO. eohoition of affairs. The meeting
was uproarlous and the management
shs he notly criticised. Some of the
ha asenolders charged that there had
whios onicial leakage of information, of
Tsa some one has benefited.
: sn, me Rambler,Caribou mine has re.
an ~ operations with over 100 men,
rba aa from slides being over.
been .noentrator erected last fall has
az ,s ssarted and is running smoothly.
min y = sne new compressor plant. The
plant operated by water. but a boiler
water : being ordered to replace the
as Is ~ power when the latter falls off.
The ,o, s ease late in the fall. as a rule.
daIlv l, y, has a capacity of 100 tons
and ~ ne ore concentrates six to one
ping cona company is figuring on ship
Of sIlya" entrates carrying 200 ounces
lead y. and about SIS per cent. of
be cont, ne shipments of clean ore will
eu as before. The mines