Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-26

1 toih uio Lois e, uleu al lue providence
hospital.
Paul Benson is suffering at Wallace
from severe injuries received in the
Frisco mine. A large boulder struck
him on the back, partially paralyz.
ing him. His recovery is doubtful.
The Ruth mine, on Grouse Gulch, a
tributary of Nine Mile, Idaho, has re.
sumed operation. Two shifts are drift
ing on the ledge. The property is the
west extension of the California mine.
The Empire-State Idaho Mining COM
pany, operating in the Occur d'Alenes,
has declared its June dividend of $25,-
277 on the basis of &c share. The
total paid by the company to date is
$1.713,324.
e. l.. Tate of the Quilp Mining COM
pany at Republic, Wash, reports that
shipments are being pushed at the rate
of 100 tons a day. Ore is going to the
CRANKY smelter at Grand Forks, B. c.,
and the Tacoma smelter.
A. klockmann, managing director of
the Idaho Continental mines, on Mount
,nann, near Port Hill, Idaho, re-
ports that the lower drift in the Blue
Joe tunnel is in about 600 feet and
vertical depth of at least 400 feet has
been obtained. The ledge is 80 feet
wide.
Advices from Palmer mountain
WASH say that the Palmer Noun
tain Gold Mining & Tunnel company is
planning to put in stamp and cyanide
plant of 800 tons daily capacity, with
electrical power. The long tunnel
should be driven 5000 feet further, &C.
cording to present plans.
The gold output of Alaska, now $780,
100000 per year, will be greatly in
creased by the early building of new
railroad from the southern coast of
Resurrection bay northward to the Ia
mana river, definite announcement of
which was made in Chicago recently.
William Jones Of Northport was in
stantly killed about 1 o'clock in the
morning at the Northport Shelter,
while attempting to move boxcar to
clear a crossing for his pushcar. He
had been in the service of the smelter
for the past six months, and was work
ing on the coke line hauling to the
furnaces when killed.
The reason assigned by the smelling
trust for reduction of lead prices,
which means like reduction to the
miners, is the gradual decline of lead
prices in Europe, particularly that Of
$40 ton in Germany, where consump-
ton is smaller and the industrial sit
uation is unfavorable. One purpose is
to prevent imports.
Two carloads of ore have been
shipped from the North San Poll mine
at Republic to the Crofton smelter at
Vancouver, B. c. J. W. Mccain, the
lessee of the mine and vice president
of the company, says he expects to
ship three carloads a week from this
date. The Zala M. mine has COM
menced shipping ore to the railroad.
Jerry O'Donnell and A. Harma had
charged a round Of holes in the
Quilp mine at Republic and were COM
ing up the ladder from the bottom of
the winze, when one of the holes pre-
maturely discharged, and a block of
wood and some rocks caught O'Donnell
in the back, bruising him severely. He
got out of the way before the other
holes exploded. A defective piece of
fuse was supposed to Lave been the
cause Of the accident.
The vein on the Alameda mine, To-
Gated on the east fork Of Nine Nile,
five miles from Wallace, has just been
struck. The whole face Of the tunnel
is full of solid galena. The vein has
not been cut and 1t is not known how
wide it is, but it is believed to equal
in width the ledge in the upper work
ings, which is from 10 to rs feet wide.
The property is the east extension OF
he old Granite mine.
Holver Tweeton, miner, fell nearly
400 feet in the Morning mine st Mullan,
Idaho, recently and was instantly
killed. In company with other men
he was going on shift and all had
stopped to rest on one Of the levels be-
fore climbing to the upper workings
Tweeton started for the stope and had
only proceeded short distance when
he fell into an unguarded timber chute
and was dashed to horrible death
400 feet below. When picked up there
was not sound bone in his body. He
had only worked one shift in the mine.
A syndicate backed by J. j. HILL
president of the Great Northern rail-
road, after purchasing iron deposits in
various parts of Washington, has ex-
tended its operations to the Colville
reservation. R. w. Hummer Of Repub-
lie, representing the syndicate, this
week bonded the Combination and
Golden Zone claims, in VOLTS camp,
ona.balf mile from Curley lake. These