Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-11
MINING NOTES.

opened to Thunder Mountain district
this fall.
There is war between Edward c.
Allen and other mining property own
ers and some alleged timber men who
have gone on the mining property and
located it as timber land by the use of
scrip The mining property is located
Just outside the western boundary of
the Blue mountain forest reserve at
the head of Beech creek, Oregon, the
principal property being the Black
Butte Mr.. Allen, owner of the Black
Butte, has started court proceedings.
Mrs. Henry Arkwright Hutton of
Wallace, Idaho, has left to attend the
mining congress at Deadwood, S. ID.
Royal p. Jarvis of Silver City, N,
NJ. has been appointed professor of
mining in the Washington Agricultural
college at Pullman, which opens the
fall term September "a.
The remains of NJ. II. Primm. who
was found dead in the Last Chance
mine at Wardner, Idaho. recently, were
shipped to Bonnie Terre, Mo-, for in
terment. The coroner's inquest exon
Grated the mining company and its
employees and found that deceased
came to his death from being caught
by skip n result of his own careless
ness.
Walter Clark. electrician at the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine at Ward
ner, Idaho, who had narrow escape
from death recently, when he received
severe electric shock, is rapidly re-
covering. One arm was badly burned
and his body is still sore.
Governor Peabody of Colorado has
decided, after receiving the report of
the committee which he sent to Grip
pie Creek to investigate the strike
conditions there, to dispatch troops
to the gold camp.
Louie Anderson, Swede workman,
was severely injured about the face
at Casey's camp, near Hope, Idaho,
recently. Anderson drilled into a
missed hole. An explosion followed
and sand and dirt were blown into his
face.
One of the most important strikes
made lately in the Buffalo Hump camp
is reported by e. A. Parisot, superin.
tendent of the Atlas, who came out
from the Hump recently. Mr.. Parisot
brings word that the second shoot of
ore has been met in the Atlas at a
depth of ISL feet in the tunnel at a
point 635 feet from the portal, and it
is considered almost certain to be the
second shoot of ore which was being
driven for, although it was not ex-
pected for some distance further.
The Prize Mining company of Seat
tie. owning group Of % mineral
claims on the southeast side of Mount
Elemeham, nine miles north of Loom
is and about half mile north of Pal
mer Lake, WASH, has perfected ar
rangements for building an electrical
chlorination mill, having secured a
water right and 233 acres of bottom
land on the lake for millsite. The
mill is going up as fast as lumber can
be procured. 1t will have a capacity
of 20 tons per day, and the machinery
is on the way from Seattle.
The Washington congressional par.
tv. consisting of United States Sena-
tors Foster and Ankeny and Congress-
man Jones, were shown about the
Northport smeiter recently and in the
evening addressed meeting of bust
ness men and citizens.
1t is announced on the best Of au
thority that the mines of the Amalga-
mated Copper company will be started
Tuesday. Notices have been posted
summoning the men to work. Nine
properties, with the big Washoe smell
ter at Anaconda. will resume, employ
ing about 5000 men.
Sam Capirori, miner at the Hunter
mine at Mullan, Idaho, recently re-.
ceived a painful injury to his hand,
The member became caught between
two cars Of an ore train and several
Of his fingers were crushed.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan com.
pany is firing back at the Sweeny in
terests in connection with the suits
for damages over the ore extracted
surreptitiously. Myron A. Folsom, rep
resenting the Bunker Hill, has brought
suit against the Empire State-Idaho
in the federal court at Moscow, Idaho,
charging the Empire State with ap
propriating ore worth $129,242 from
the Stemwinder ground. The suit
claims that the ore was taken about
two years ago.
"Jim Wardner", is better. His ply.
stefan at Milwaukee reports favorably
on his condition. He was poisoned by