The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-29
MINING NOTES.

MINING NOTES.
A deal involving the ownership of
the Flagstaff mine, six miles northeast
of Baker City, Ore, is being nego-
tiated.
Fred Burbidge and A. Burch of Spo-
kane are developing a gold prospect
at Winston, Mont, Is miles east Of
helena. They will sink a shaft.
A man named Murphy sustained
bad strain at the Standard mine re-
Gently and had to be brought to the
hospital His injuries are not thought
to be serious.
Frank Walters, an employee of the
Hercules mines at Burke, Idaho, had
massive piece of rock fall upon him
while he was in the stope. The leg
will have to be amputated.
The Gerber mine at Sand Coulee
Mont is making preparations to large
ly increase it's production of coal, for
which it finds a ready market with the
Boston & Montana smelters at Great
Falls.
John Boyd, general manager of the
L ,
has returned to Loomis, Wash, from
New YORK He is accompanied by
A. NJ Welles, a mining engineer of
Denver, Col.
Senator Clark recently inspected his
extensive plant at the United Verde
mine at Jerome, Ariz., and gave final
instructions for the completion of a
Leo, 81
miles south of Jerome.
The original boiler plate mills of the
Central Iron & Steel company were
destroyed by fire recently, entailing a
loss of 100000, and throwing a large
number of men out of work. The loss
is fully covered by insurance.
Since the strike made in the Glas
gov tunnel of the Highland group, in
the Rock Greek district, Oregon, a still
better grade of ore has been encoun
tered and this week the assays made
gave values of from $40 to SIS per ton
Excitement is intense at Pocatello
Idaho over a new strike of copper ore
in the Moonlight claim of the Pocatel
10 Gold & Copper Mining company 10
Gated nine miles east. A foot of Al
per cent copper has been uncovered
Several feet of ore averaging about
$25 a ton has been encountered in q
crOsscut from the 800 foot level of the
DAILY mine at Wickes, Mont 1t is pro
E posed to concentrate much of the ore
/ this summer, and the old mill at Cor
bin, several miles down the valley, will
be utilized for that purpose.
, The coal companies of the Lehigh
Pennsylvania, region have commenced
= the enforcement of the new age limi
: law regulating the employment o.
boys in and about the mines. 1t is
estimated that nearly 500 boys will be
: ineligible. The discharge will in some
/ cases work hardships on families de
: pendent almost exclusively upon theil
= minors.
The recent strike in the California
near Sumpter Ore, has proven to be-
the richest find made in that mine
J Essays from $50 to 1910; the balance
of the vein, which is over six feet wide
goes $22. The strike was made in al
upper crosscut which was started 1S(
: feet above the mouth of tunnel No
l. Since then No. has been driver
to point of intersection with the vein
) At meeting Of the Mill & Smelter
= m ems union held recently in Anaconda
} il is reported to have been decided tt
ask the permission of the American
2 Labor union to strike unless the mel
; recently discharged at the Washo,
smelter be reinstated 1t is the opin
ion of a majority of the labor leaders
? that there will be no strike.
A phenomenally rich strike has beer
made in the Sunnyside at Thunde
Mountain. In drifting on the ore bod.
at 400 feet from the point where tn,
tunnel cut the deposit, the level cam,
into very rich ore. Superintendent Alb
bolt has sent Manager Purdum sam
2 pies. which are estimated to carr.
$4,000 a ton. He writes that the en-
/ tire face of the level is N a rich or,
= and that the assays run from $3.50 Il
$4,000 ton. He had run into tn,
= ore only three feet when he wrote
| This discovery was nada in davaIop