The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-16


committee has given the national Off
GERS full power to inaugurate a strike
in the Colorado district if a confer
ence is not arranged with represent
atives who have refused to meet mine
workers representatives.
Miles McMalley, an old Spokane
mining min, is back from Nome. He
states that he saw there a number of
old Spokane men while there and
that they are all doing WELL Among
this number were l. Barlow, Gus Self
fert and Mike Samuels.
The motor and air compressor are
running at the Mountain Lion mine
at Republic. Wash, furnishing the
power for the machine drills which
are now employed above the 300 foot
level, where some prospecting is be-
ing done and ore is being stopped.
The plant of the American Sheet
Steel company at Struthers has been
closed and the employees paid in full.
The only statement made is that the
volume of business is not sufficient
to have the mill continued in opera
ton. The mill employs large num-
Der of men.
John M. Haley, mining engineer,
who mas been a resident off and on of
Republic for years, left with his fam
lily for Spokane. Mr.. Haley, who was
born and raised in Nevada, will visit
the southern part of his native state,
where the mining attractions at pres
ent are quite seductive.
The commissioner general of the
land Office will shortly be presented
with an appeal in the matter of his
recent ruling affirming the decision
of the Occur d'Alene land Office, de-
claring an area of 80 square miles be-
tween Wallace and the st. Joe river
nonmineral. The appeal is being pre-
pared by A. G. Kerns.
Samuel H. Smith, a mining man.
who arrived in Seattle from Dawson
the latter part Of September, met
death by falling into the bay. In his
pocket was found a certificate of de-
post for SITS, gold watch and 40
in money. Aside from these there
were no papers which would indicate
where the mans relatives live.
G. B. Davis, for the past seven
months superintendent of the Gold
Coin mill at Black lakes, Idaho, says
that the Gold Coin company have a
great mining property. Mr.. Davis
was for a number of years superin-
tendent of the Smuggler-Union cyan
ide plant at Telluride, Col, the next
largest plant of it's kind in the United
States.
John McAlpine was killed at the
Idaho continental mine, about "a miles
from Port Hill. Idaho, recently. While
he was sorting ore in the blacksmith
shop of the company some giant pow
der that the miners had left to thaw
out exploded killing Mr.. McAlpine and
injuring Eugene Stannard and two
other men who were working in the
shop. A horse was also killed.
The reported deal on the Orofino
property at Murray is all off. Frank
Aikan, who was after the option, re-
fused to pay per cent down and the
owners would not consider any other
kind of an option. The deal was on
basis of 100000, not for 100000 as
reported, and included two claims be-
longing to Sheriff Manley and lying
west of the Orofino.
Miners in Bear Creek district on
Portland canal on the northern border
of British Columbia, which is now
considered in United States territory,
are locating their properties in the
British Columbia mining recorders
office, fearing that the territory will
be awarded to Canada at the close
of the deliberations of the Alaskan
boundary commission, now in session
in London.
An additional abstract has been filed
in the Iowa supreme court by the ap-
pellee in the case of James Doyle
versus James f. Burns, involving the
Portland gold mine in the Cripple
Creek district. The abstract reviews
the circumstances of the alleged part
nership by virtue of which Doyle
claims Burns owes $4,000. He OBJ
tanned a judgment for s446,925 and
Burns appealed.
The Nighthawk Mining & Tunnel
company has 10 men on its property
north of ConcOnully, Wash. driving a
tunnel, which is 1850 feet in, and they
have just tapped a ledge of well min
eralized quartz. This makes the third
ledge the company has crossed in the
tunnel, the first ledge being so feet
wide from wall to wall, the second
about two feet, and it has gone 10 feet
in the third without getting through
The miners are drifting the first ledge
and have gone about 80 feet. Man