The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-04

Judge Clancy, in the district court
at BulIe recently, rendered the most
important mining decision of the year,
in which be granted, point by point, |
all asked by the plaintiffs, j. Augustus
heinze ct al, in the suit against the
Wasnoe Copper company and the Ana
conda company on the Nipper river.
The suit involved ore bodies under the
surfaces of the Oden and other claims
owned by the detendants. Heinze
claimed to own the ore bodies on the
ground that they were extralateral
portions of the Nipper vein. The
plaintiffs alleged at the trial that the
Nipper discovery vein crossed the Nip
per claim east and west and crossed
both end lines, and that it dipped
south through the south side lines,
the ore bodies sued for being portions
of the vein to the south. The defend
ants denied that there was any Nipper
vein at all in the Nipper mining claim
and at the trial put in evidence to
show that the only vein in the Nipper
claim was tfa Blue X fault assure,
and that it crossed the claim north
east and southwest They therefore
denied the plaintiffs had any extra
lateral rights or had any claim to the
ore bodies involved. Judge Clancy, in
his decision, adopted all the findings
of fact and conclusions of law pre-
scented by the plaintiffs and refused to
adopt any Of the findings or cOnclu-
sions of the defendants. The suit in
vOlved mining property to the value
of $l0000,00O. Exceptions to the judg-
ment of the court were taken by the
defendants and the case will be ap-
pealed to the supreme court.
The Yellow Aster mine, near Ba-
kersfeld, Cal, will attempt to reopen
September Is with non-uniOn miners
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan com
pany expects to commence the pay
ment of dividends next month at the
rate of cents a share, or $4,000 a
month" said F. W. Bradley of Sar
francisco, recently. He is at the head
II the d. o. Mills mining interests
which include the Bunker Hill & Sui
Ivan mines at Wardner, Idaho; the
well mines.
Articles of incorporation of the
, King Baldwin Mining company were
filed at Spokane last week. The com
pany is organized with a capital stool
of S1,OO0,O00 for the purpose Of carry
ing on the business of mining in thu
state of Nevada, and it's principal of
fee is in Spokane. The trustees are
W. Clayton Miller, e. j. Roberts ant
William j. Hall, Spokane, and Johl
King and c. A. Baldwin, Tonopah
New.
1t is understood that the Standar
> companys interests are secured b,
Charles Sweeny's new Federal Minin
= q Smelling company on the basis o
- S225O,OOO, half in cash and half il
preferred z per cent stock, with a be
nus of $625,000 in common stock. TIL
Standard company owns three
eighths interest in the Mammoth, an
. the purchase of the Standard include
that interest. The remaining five
eighths of the Mammoth is held b
Richard Wilson and Walter MacKa
of Portland. 1t is understood tina
+ they get $1,5OO,OOO for their holding:
. The Federal company has made
= demand on the American Smelling
. Refining company for a cut of 81
: ton on the treatment rate, and insist
on getting 1913 per cent fiat for leaC
. instead of $3.50, which is the presen
= rate. On a As per cent lead cOnceI
- trate that would mean a net differenc
of 1925 a ton.
The Occur d'Alene mines in the pre-
" nosed Federal merger produce roughl
GO per cent of the total output of tn
# Occur dAlenes or Is per cent of a
" the lead produced in the United States
Charles Sweeny says that the merge
Il of the Federal company took over tn
O various properties on September
The first payments are to be mad
then and the last payments are du
October 1.
: Word has been received from Pete
o Larsen, the millionaire mining man {
Il Helena, of the contamination of iarg
v deal involving an important group {
mines in Okanogan county, Washing
Il ton, in which Jerome Drumheller {
If Spokane, John Wentworth of Okan,
, gan county and a New York syndicat
have purchased Is of the most prom
@ Using claims in the Okanogan distri,
n for 100000.
e r. L. Boyle, president of the Kellt
& Indiana Consolidated Smelling cor
n pany, wishes to correct the statemel
IS that the smelter under constructiC