The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-21
MINING NOTES.

General Manager Parrish Of the lie
Roi mine returned to Rossland after
a visit at Northport.
A 10 stamp mill has been ordered |
for the Snow Creek mine, Greenhorn
district, says the Sumpter American.
superintendent A. c. Barke of the
Northport smelter has returned from
Seattle where he had been for the
past week on business.
William H. Kells, a pioneer mining
man of Republic camp, has taken a
three years lease of the Little Cove
and Mob Hill mines, and has started
work on them.
The Mountain Lion company has set
tied with Ferry county for its delin-
quent taxes by the payment of over
$4,000, being 40 per cent of the delin
quent taxes.
A compressor plant and a 200 ton
concentrator are to be put in on the
Highland Chief mining property in the
Pine creek district of the Occur
d'Alenes almost Immediately.
A rich strike was made recently in
the Cracker-Summit group adjoining
the E. & E. near Sumpter, Ore. Ore
was found in a short crosscut run
from a drift to determine the width
of the ledge. This was found. to be
81 feet wide and the ore carries large
quantities of sulphurets and free gold.
At the Hump, Idaho, new buildings
are going up and an air of prosperity
is shown everywhere. At Concord
work is being pushed. The large boil
er for the Ajax is in place, and two
loads of machinery pulled in today.
When completed the equipment will
be second to none, and work will
be pushed
Advices from New York state that
an authority in that city says it is
true that Charles Sweeny of Spokane,
j. D. Rockefeller, Jr., Gould and 9th
ers have combined to control the
Occur d'Alene mines with a company
issuing $20,000000 in stock, of which
Mr. Sweeny will be president. This is
said to be the outcome of the option
Mr.. Sweeny secured some time ago
from Finch & Campbell of this city on
company it is said, will also control
the Everett smelter and the Monte
CristO mines on Puget sound. The
project of building a smelter is said
to be under contemplation.
For years miners have been endeav
oring by the use of different devices tC
save the fine gold that is known to b,
cn y,1n IL, 4.
Columbia river. 1t is now claimed
that system that will save 95 pei
cent of the yellow dust has been es
tablished. E. d. Reiter, Judge G. H
Neal, both of Davenport Wash, anC
j. lsaacs of IrOnton, Ohio, who ha!
had extensive experience in the placer
fields of California, have leased AZ
acres of placer ground from ]. S. No
Bile. The ground is on the north side
of the Columbia river in Ferry coun
ty near Hellgate.
Three hundred feet of sluice boxes
have been put in and water is pumped
from the river at a cost of 81 pc
day. After a 80 hour run a CLEANUP
was made and over 500 worth of dus
was secured. AS it was necessary fo1
all of the crevices in the boxes to fiji
with gold before the surplus coulC
be secured, the cleanup is remarka
BILE and mining men state that a grea
industry will spring up all along thu
Columbia river.
Charles Sweeny's original Coeui
d'Alene mining concern, the Empire
> State-Idaho company, will be turned
into his new Federal Mining & Smelt
! ing company on the basis of SIS, 100000
The arrangement for the sixth an
nual session of the American MINING
congress to be held at Deadwood, S
D., September 7-12 are about complet
ed. Secretary Shaw will be here al
!. the personal representative of tn
president and will address the con
: gress. The governors of Colorado
Idaho and South Dakota have alread.
secured accommodations for the dele
cations from those states.
The steamship Oregon has arrive
in Seattle from Nome, carrying $3.50
900 in gold and 139 passengers. TIL
Oregon arrived in Nome from Seattl
August 8, but there was such a stron
] wind blowing off shore and such
heavy surf that the passengers wer
unable to land, and the vessel had t
stand 10 miles out to sea. Next da
landing was effected by means of tn
small gasoline schooner Flyer. Sixty
five people were put on shore, togethe
n with 80 sacks of mail.
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