The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-22


46 years. and John Frank were the vic
tins. The canoe was overturned in a
swift eddy, and the men were thrown
into the icy water.
The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey has declared a dividend for the
quarter Of 81 per share. The CORE
spending quarter of last year the divi-
dend declared was $40 per share.
Four furnaces are running on the
lie Roi smelter at Northport. Wash.
The new manager, E. j. Wilson, is
having everything fed against the
blast, instead of to the center of the
furnace. Ten to II charges per hour
are going through. Fourteen charges
were worked on No. 5. but that could
not be kept up.
The spiller plates are in use again,
after an idleness of about nine months.
The low grade matte will be resmelted
and made high CRATE before sending to
the refinery. At present the matte
crusher is working entirely on low
grade.
A four foot ledge of enormously rich
free milling gold ore has been dis
covered about 80 miles from Ellens-
burg, Wash, on the western slope of
the divide between Swank creek and
Lyons gulch in this county. Frederick
J. Long brought down 25 pounds of
ore rich in wire gold visible to the
naked eye, and it will assay in the
thousands. 1t is thorght to be the
source of the placer gold that has been
L.
has been secured by eastern men.
The Oreano Mining company, oper
ating a group of claims just northeast
of the Standard property, near Wal
lace, Idaho, is pushing development
with all possible speed. it is working
a force of seven men in egiht hour
shifts. The long crosscut tunnel is in
ESQ feet. The company expects to en-
counter the first lead at a distance of
300 or 400 feet. There are two leads
on the property, and it may take a 1000
foot crosscut to explore both. The
company is about to install a larger
fan.
A. e. Palmer of Spokane has pur-
chased control of the Mountain Lion
property in Republic camp, securing
the stock held by Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
of Portland. The purchase covered
about 500, 900 of the 100000 shares
of the company, and the price paid is
said to have been in excess of 25 cents
per share. On this basis the valuation
of the property is about 100000.
Mr.. Palmer has closed a contract
with the CRANKY Smelter company for
the entire output OF the mine for the
succeeding two years at favorable
freight and treatment charge.
A stampede was precipitated recent
, ly at Baker City, Ore, by the report OF
a rich strike in the hills south of the
: White Swan mine. 1t leaked out that
two prospectors had discovered a three
foot ledge of $50 ore. A local assayel
betrayed the confidence and the pros
|, pectors are hiking for the hills. The
t assayer returned $500 per ton on Sc
lected samples. General Manager
= Mueller of the Standard Consolidated
, mines at Quartzburg announces tha
} he will build the biggest reduction
) plant in Oregon this fall to concentrate
} the ores for the Sumpter smelter. Fiji
} ty men are working at the mines.
A strike in the lower level of tn,
. California mine, near Republic, is re
e ported.
: Great excitement prevails on Green
S way mountain near Valley, Wash, OF
e account of the rich development of tn,
l. iron mines owned by Great Northern
t interests. 1t is said that development
: has been carried forward in the lowe
/ workings of the property until the or
t body has been demonstrated sufficient
ly to warrant the building of a railwa,
to the property and the erection o
such machinery as may be necessar
= for the permanent operation of tn
mine. The crosscut has been run 8
feet through solid ore, running over 6
=, per cent iron, with no undesirabl
v elements. A drift has been run alon
9 the vein for 60 feet, all in ore of tn
:, same grade.
l. The board of trustees of the ColC
a RADIO state school of mines has al
Il pointed Horace Bushnell Patton, Pre-
y fessor of geology and mineralogy, t
succeed President Palmer, who retire
n June 80. He was a leader of the Dol
/ ing faculty at the time of it's troubl
D with President Palmer
q AS the result Of a cavein in the lowe
l. level Of the Liberty Bell mine at TIE
II luride, Col, recently, two men wer
p crushed to death and two others wer
# badly injured.