Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-07-18


cylinders to keep them in motion and
to overcome the water pressure at the
point of entrance.
/ At one time in the United States a
roller in a rail mill, rolling iron or
steel rails, received about Is cents per
ton, turning out from 70 to 100 tons
per turn. Today, in some of the mod
| ern steel rail mills less than 1 per cent
per ton is paid for doing the same
work, and yet by the end of the year
the roller in the rail mill today can
make as much money as he did when
he received the above higher prices I'M
der the old method of working, and
that, too, with less physical labor. At
one time 45 cents per ton were paid
for heating iron for making iron rails.
Today very little more than half cent
per ton Is paid for doing the same
work. One of the most remarkable re-
suits in this direction recorded in the
history of iron and steel is the price
paid for rolling wire rods.
Kettle valley lines are preparing to
haul out ore from Republic.
A force of six men went to work on
the San Poll mine last week. A larger
ore bin will be put in, and the mine
prepared for shipping ore.
Four cars have been loaded with
California ore. Five cars are on the
track of the Kettle valley lines await
ing to be filled with Line Pine-Surprise
ore. A force of men has been break
ing ore in the mine. A force of men
will begin putting the Black Tail mine
in shape for shipping.
The four carloads of ore that were
shipped few days ago from the Quilp
mine have reached the CRANKY smelter.
The ledge on the Trade Dollar has
been cut at distance of SO feet from
the shaft. The ore is of fine grade.
The machinery for the Silver Dol
lar hoist has left Spokane.
The raise in the Tom Thumb con-
meeting the 265-foot level with the 800
foot level has been completed. The
mine is now ready to ship.
Unless the supreme court overrules
the decision of Judge Neal of Ferry
county, Wash, the tax assessments on
mining property there for 1899 and
1900 will stand, in spite of the suits
brought by eight Spokane mining cor
porations to have the levy declared
invalid.
Theodore Swartz a miner of long
experience, gained on the Pacific coast,
in Alaska and on the Salmon river and
its tributaries, has returned from
Thunder Mountain. He left there on
the 5th inst. When asked regarding
the famous camp he replied:
Men are leaving it rapidly. When
l left there were about $50 men in
Roosevelt and vicinity, about the same
number in Thunder City and about 80
in and about Marble City. There
were six men at work on the Dewey
and four on the Sunnyside."
Superintendent John M. Scrafford
and a force of 16 miners have left for
the Gold Bug, near Princeton, Idaho,
on the headwaters Of the Palouse river,
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start operations on the property.
According to the Scientific Ameri-
can 30,000,000 gallons of mixed paint
were sold in the United States during
1901.
The Medical Lake (Wash.) Mineral
Water company has completed its new
bottling works and is bottling 5000
bottles daily. This water is now
shipped east as far as Illinois.
The Pacific Sheet Metal Works, Fair
haven, have manufactured $4,000, 900
cans thus far this season.
The Champion Mining company, op-
Grating in the Williams district, Ore
gon, have just completed the work of
putting in new five-ton air compress
sor and other machinery and improve
ments at the Rising Star mine. About
100000 worth of new machinery has
lately been added to the mine.
Sameul Word, of Helena, is examin-
ing the coal beds of the upper Ruby
valley, Madison county, Montana, with
a view Of buying them for a COMPANY.
Patrick Clark, who developed the
Republic mine to a point where it
paid dividends of $4,000 per month.
has again resumed the presidency of
the Republic company, and operations
on the mine will be resumed under
his direction, probably within month.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Republic Consolidated Gold Min
Ing company in the office of Foster &
the following Spokane men
were elected to the board of directors:
Patrick Clark, W. M. Ridpath, Huber
A. L. Kempland, John Bres.
nahan. The five comprise majority
out of the board of nine. The other
four are eastern Canadians, and the
of the company will
therefore be in the hands of the Spo-
kane men in harmony with Mr.. Clark.
The directors of the company at 6. |
meeting Friday elected the following
officers; President, Patrick Clark;
Vice-president, Robert Jaffrey of Tor
onto; secretary, Mr., Landskill, of Re-
assistant secretary and treas
lrer, A. l.. Kempland of Spokane.
Mont Pelee I'm Eruption Again.
Paris, July l4.-The colonial ministry
has issued the following: