The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-08


houses and business houses along the
route.
AS rapidly as funds permit topo-
graphic surveys are being made by the
United States geological survey of all
important mining regions in the west
ern states, and also of those regions
where the irrigation problem is the
most important enc
Director Roberts of the mint recently
purchased $4,000 ounces of silver on
account of the Philippine coinage at
SO 3-S cents an ounce, delivered in
San Francisco. The amount offered
was sos 600 ounces, ranging in price
from So 3-S cents an ounce to $O.5445.
Recent developments in connection
with the Turtle mountain disaster at
Frank. B. c., tend to indicate that the
damage TO the coal mine of the Cana
dian-Amer' can Coal & Coke company
is small il comparison with what 1t.
was first cared would prove the case.
The extensive plant of the Crescent
Powder company at Ganistock, Pa,
was recently wrecked by four explo-
sions OF the 80 employees nine were
killed outright and all the others were
badly injured by being blown about the
buildings in which they were en-
rloyed.
The Hunter Gold Mining company
at Mullan, Idaho, was forced to sus-
pend all operations during the greater
part of the week just closed owing to
a bad break in the machinery of the
air compressor. AS the result of the
shutdown about 100 men were thrown
out of employment.
1t is reported on excellent authority
that Senator w. A. Clark intends to
erect a new smelter at Butte that will
treat copper ores of which zinc is a
component part There are many good
properties here and hereabouts, the
ores of which are hard to treat be
cause of ,ne zinc contained in them.
Walter E. Dowlen, consulting en-
gineer of the Americana Coal
& Coke Mining company, operating
at Frank, N. w. T., has received word
from Ex-Governor A. E. Spriggs Nt
Montana, one of the directors of the
company, stating that he had been ali
through the mine and finds it entirely
uninjured.
Considerable excitement prevailed
in the mining circles at Wallace, Ida
no, when ii was reported that a strike
of no small Importance was made on
the Sonora property above Burke. A
two foot lead of good concentrating
ore, containing shipping rock, was en-
countered by the 500 foot crosscuC
work tunnel.
, While the cage was being hoisted
from the 1900 foot level of the st. Law
, renee mine at Butte recently the en-
CINE got beyond control. The cage
was carried into the sheaves, with An
, thony Gallagher on it. The rope broke
and the cage fell with Gallagher 10
the bottom of the shaft. Gallagher
was instantly killed.
There is great interest in New York
in the continued rise of silver to the
; highest price during this movement
If it continues the government is like
/ ~ to temporarily stop buying, as silver
would soon reach a point where il
. would be profitable to melt down the
proposed new sc cent Philippine dol
lar. The Mexican dollar is now worth
over 46 cents.
: David Mccoy, superintendent of the
/ Olive creek placers in Oregon, re-
/ turned to the diggings recently with
another crew to work on the placers
Three giants are employed steadily
, and a large amount OF ground is being
torn down into the sluices. There is
: PLENTY water now for all mining pur
I poses and the company contemplates
, a long and successful run for the sea
SON.
At Cripple Greek, Col, Judge Walter
n. Dixon has dissolved the injunction
by the owners of the Grace Arthur
extension claim to restrain the con
struction of the Eel Paso drainage tun
mel through that property and has
, awarded the tunnel company right
of way under condemnation proceed
:ngs. Operations were resumed at the
five headings of the big tunnel, which
, is intended to drain many of the mines
, in the district.
Thomas j. Edison has perfected q
device for separating gold from placer
gravel without the use of water. Ed
son employs an air blast to separate
the gold from the gravel and other i'm
rurities. The old placer system, with
a hydraulic stream, got out So per cent
of the gold, but with Edison's system OF
dry washing it is said SO per cent of the
gold is saved. After the gravel has
been eXcavated by steam shovel II
is conveyed to a mill, where it passes