The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-26

from his horse, died at the 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 it's June dividend of $685.
PIT on the basis of sc a 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 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
1mann, near Port Hill, Idaho, re-
ports that the lower drift in the Blue
Joe tunnel is in about 600 feet and a
vertical depth of at least 400 feet has
been obtained. The ledge is 30 feet
wide.
Advices from Palmer mountain
(Wash.) say that the Palmer Noun
tain Gold Mining & Tunnel company is
planning to put in a stamp and cyanide
plant of 300 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,
0OO,0 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 Smelter
while att empting to move a boXcar tC
clear a crossing for his pushcar. HI
had been in the service of the smeltel
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 a like reduction to thu
miners, is the gradual decline of LEAF
prices in Europe, particularly that o
$40 a ton in Germany, where consump
ton is smaller and the industrial sit
uation is unfavorable. One purpose il
to prevent imports.
Two carloads of ore have bee
shipped from the North San Poll min
at Republic to the Crofton smelter a
Vancouver, B. c. J. w. McCann tn
lessee of the mine and vice presiden
of the company, says he expects t
ship three carloads a week from thi
date The Zala M. mine has con
menced shipping ore to the railroad
, Jerry ODonnell and A. Harma ha
charged a round of holes in tn
> Quilp mine at Republic and were con
ing up the ladder from the bottom c
the Wine, when one of the holes pre-
maturely discharged, and a block {
, wood and some rocks caught ODonne
in the back, bruising him severely. II
got out of the way before the Othe
holes exploded A defective piece {
! fuse was supposed to have been tn
cause of the accident.
The vein on the Alameda mine. Il
Gated on the east fork of Nine Mill
five miles from Wallace, has just bee
= struck. The whole face of the tunn'
is full of solid galena. The vein ha
n not been cut and it is not known no
- wide it is, but it is believed to equ;
. in width the ledge in the upper worl
The property is the east extension {
the old Granite mine.
y Holver Tweeton, miner, fell nearl
4. 400 feet in the Morning mine at Mulla
i Idaho, recently and was instant
killed. In company with other me
{ he was going on shift and all ha
stopped to rest on one of the levels b
fore climbing to the upper working
Il Tweeton started for the stope and rs
only proceeded a short distance whe
he fell into an unguarded timber chuI
. and was dashed to a horrible deaf
, 400 feet below. When picked up thel
u was not sound bone in his body. +
had only worked one shift in the min
g syndicate backed by ]. ]. Hi
president of the Great Northern ra
II road, after purchasing iron deposits
/ various parts of Washington, has e
" tended it's operations to the Colvil
reservation. R. w. Hummer of Repu