Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-06-06
british COLUMBIA.

| BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The CRANKY Mining & Smelling Com
pany has subscribed $3.50 towards thu
Fernie (B. c. relief fund.
The owners Of the Union JACKIE
mine on Porcupine creek contemplate
installing compressor plant this sum
mer
Ore shipments from Boundary fol
1902 passed the 100000 ton figure last
week, or an average of over AZ, 900 tons
per month.
At Ymir, at the annual meeting oil
the Broken Hill Mining & Development
Company, operating the Wilcox mine
1t was decided to erect stamp mill.
1t 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 & Steel Company
and the United States Steel Corpora
ton are reported perfecting deal for
the purchase of all the independent
and G. P. R. coal claims of the Crows
Nest district and the principal iron
ore deposits of Kootenay lake.
The Kaslo-Slocan Mining & Finan-
cial Company, with capital of $780,
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
has paid for its own development and
is now fully equipped, with a stamp
mill available and all other mining ma
chinery required, without the expendi.
ture OF single dollar by the lessee of
the property or the owners.
During last week ending the CRANKY
smelter treated 9276 tons of ore. The
total treated to date is 44O,1SO tons.
owing to a shortage of the coke supply
resulting from the recent Fernie mine
disaster, one of the five furnaces of
the CRANKY smelter was closed down.
Inc loss to the British Columbia
smelters by the temporary restriction
OF operations, 1t is intimated. will ex.
coed $25, 900.
j. +, Porter of Porter Bros, railway
contractors. states that his firm, in &C.
eordance with the terms of the con.
tract recently entered into with the
iranby company, will start work omar.
wing ore from the surface of the Knob
Hill mine at Phoenix within a fort.
hight The preliminary contract calls
or the extraction of 100.O tons of ore
WIN proviso to the effect that If
work is satisfactorily done a second
contract for quarrying five million TONS
u ore Will be entered into.
AT recent meeting of the share.
lolders OF the Leroi Mining Company
concern of which Whitaker Wright
md the late Lord Dufferin were direc
ors, committee was appointed m
investigate the past and present man.
cement OF the company and the pres.
mt condition of affairs. The meeting
vas uproar1ous and the management
vas notify criticised. Some of the
nareholders charged that there had
cen omc1al leakage of information. of
mich some one has benefited
Inc Rambler-C Caribou mine has 70.
umed operations with over 100 men
II danger from slides being over s
ne concentration erected last fall has
cen started and is running smoothly
is the new compressor plant. The {
III Is operated by water, but a boiler {
liant is being ordered to replace the t
ater power when the latter falls off $
Is the case late in the fall, as a rule 7
ne mlll has a capacity of 100 tons '
ally. The ore concentrates six to one i
al the company is figuring on shin. a
hs concentrates carrying 200 ounces s
silver and about IS per cent of a
ad. The shipments of clean ore will f
continued as before. The mines @
'oduct is divided between the selbv
nelter OF San Francisco and the Ever.
t (Wash.) plant.
UP 10 Saturday 119 bodies had been h
covered from the Crows Nest Pass n
Inc. About so are still in the depths t.
e greater part Of which is now under a
ater. The miners are now satisfied 4,
at the inquiry which the government
IS begun into the cause of the f]isas.
will be thorough and impartial
lie character of the evidence intro s.
ced at the coroner's inquest and the
dtude OF the governments represen. G.