Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-01-23
says that a strike

mill and putting In power.
Returns from the recent D
duced by the first run of the
can Eagle mine show that it was
fine and ran $16.14 to the ounce The
value of the two bricks is accordingly
$3434. 79-considera more than had
been estimated.
At the Black Tail mine at Republic,
drift is being run on an oreshoot on
1.-The intermediate level, and the ores
broken in course of development will
be run out to the railway cars as soon
as enough is accumulated for ship
ment.
The new quartz milling plant recent
| ly finished by the North Pole COM
pany in Oregon is now in operatisH
Twenty stamps are kept const1 NV
going. The old plant of 10 std mus
will be changed in position BE More
starting up again.
At the conclusion of the Overdon
and Langley fight at Wardner last
week, at which the latter was knocked
out in the third round, Ed. Berry OF
Butte challenged the winner to finish
fight for 5000 purse. Overdorf said
he would accept the challenge.
The report that the Amalgamated
Copper company was contemplating a
new issue of $6O,000,0OO Of stock for
the purpose of taking over the United
Copper company or the Copper Range
and Tri-Mountain properties, is denied
| by one of the highest authorities in
| Amalgamated affairs
| About 100 men have been given a
short lay-off by the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan company. The decrease in
the force is due to the upper slopes
of the Stemwinder claim being well
worked out, and the lower ones not be-
| ing opened sufficiently to accommo-
date the full force of men.
Difficulties between the Cedar Can.
yon Mining company and the Yarwood
Bros. over settlement of ores ship
ped from the Elephant and the Legal
Tender claims in Cedar Canyon, Wash.
in which they are joint owners, have
been settled out of court. The case
has been in litigation a long time.
The Stray Dog mine, in the Meteor
district, Washington, has let a con-
tract for hauling four carloads of ore
from the mine to the landing on the
Columbia, where it will be taken on
board a steamer and shipped to We
natchee. At that point it will be
transferred to the railroad and sent
to the Tacoma sme1ter.
The Fisher Maiden company has
shipped three carloads of ore to the
Trail smelter. This is the seconE
shipment of ore made this year frol
the mine and they will be continued
steadily throughout the winter. The
ore is said to be of higher grade
than the last though the men are
still shipping from the dump.
A deal has been closed at Boise.
Idaho, by which the Bull Run group
of mines, including mine claims and a
10 stamp mill is transferred to the
Leonard Taylor company of Albany,
N. Y. Sixty thousand dollars was paid
today and $4,000 more is to be paid
in installments. The principal owner
was A. H. Smith of Tuscarora, New.
At recent meeting of the stock
holders of the Gold Ledge CONSOLIDATE
slider the offer of an eastern capitalist
to put the property on a working Da-
sis, 100000 shares were represented
out of total of 100000, and it was
unanimously agreed that the PROPOSE
ton be accepted. The Gold Ledge
mine is near Republic, Wash.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and
the leaders of the mining community
at johannesburg have arrived at an
agreement in the matter of financial
settlement. Under this agreement the
Transvaal war contribution will
amount to $150.000,000. A guarantee
also will be given for an imperial loan
:" of $150,000,000, which is to be expend-
ed in reproductive public WORKS in the
Transvaal and in the Orange River
colony.
| Wallace, Idaho.-Richard Daxon,
one OF the principal owners OF
the Tarbox, silver-lead producer q
short distance north of Saltese, Mont,
who has returned from inspecting the
property, reports strike of five feet
OF shipping ore. Some of the speci-
mems he brought back with him run
from 40 to 20 ounces in silver and
about 20 per cent lead. The strike was
made in the west drift, a distance OF
2S5 feet from the bottom of the shaft
which was sunk some time ago. The
drift will be driven another 100 feet.
At Ell Paso, Tex, Chamberlain and
Make of San Pedro, Mexico, broke the
worlds record in the double-handed
miners granite rock drilling contest
for purse of $1,000, by making
score of 43A inches in IA minutes.
The worlds record was Al 5-32 inches,
made at Bisbee in 1902 in ID minutes.
In the single-handed contest Fred
Yockey of Boulder county, Colo, broke
the worlds record by drilling a hole
in the granite 23A inches in Is min
utes. The worlds record, made at
Leadville in 1899, by Richard Conley,
was 211s inches
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