Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-02-27
ment semi-annually,
dition.
MINING NoTE 81


home or abroad. -esr'
The Chinese placer miners are al
ready starting out for the spring work
along the banks of British Columbia
rivers.
Circle City, Alaska, is deserted and
hundreds of miners have joined the
stampede to the new Tanana district.
near the Yukon boundary.
From Amalgamated interests is OBJ.
tanned the positive information that
the proposed merger Of the Lake SUI
perior copper properties will go
through.
D. M. Hyman, who is negotiating
the big 100000 deal for the consoli-
dalton of the Occur d'Alene mines, has
secured an extension of his option un.
til March 81.
The discovery of oil near Mount Joy
Square, Dublin, has created great in
terest and has raised hopes that the
old bog land throughout Ireland may
prove similarly productive.
"As soon as the 20 additional stamps
are installed at the Jumbo mine our
output will be $4,000 month";" said
Frank Brown, the manager of this Buff
falo Hump property, who was in Spo-
kane recently.
A company os being formed to invest
$150,000 in a Ignite coal mine at Will
liston, N. D., the output of which, it is
claimed, will be 1000 tons daily when
the installation of new machinery has
been completed.
Never in the history of the sampling
| works, below Wallace, Idaho, was such
large tonnage sampled as during
January. The amount treated was
| 10, 4S5 tons, which exceeds that of pre-
vious months by about 5000 tons.
Production of copper increased dur
ing the year about $4,000 tons; con-
sumption increased 108,50O tons, the
total being 100000 tons, against $751;
500 tons in 1901. the apparent increase
of consumption over production being
$4,000 tons.
Ten more stamps for the mill equip
ment Of the Jumbo mine. near Sites.
Idaho, will be installed during March
of this year, There is said to be $780,.
900 worth of ore in sight on this prop
osition and the owners claim the mine
is worth 100000.
A strike OF no small importance TO
the camp was made recently at Tyson,
Idaho, when the drill struck the ledge
in the lower workings on the War
Eagle claim, owned by the Tyson Con-
solidated Mining company, and ad-
joining the Richmond on the east.
Advices received from Hamilton,
Mont, say that H. L. HOLSTER, acting
for a syndicate composed Of Chicago
capitalists, has completed deal for
\ the Homestake G Idaho group of
claims, II in number, for $125, 900. The
properties are located on Beaver creek.
in the Thunder Mountain district, and
are among the richest in that section.
The people of Orofino, Idaho, are
preparing to handle the greatest bust.
ness in the history of the town. It Is
generally conceded that more people
will be in the mining districts this sea-
son than for many years and the placer
miners will have more water with
which to work than there has been
since the camps were first established.
o. P. Lee. a miner, aged "a years.
was crushed to death at the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine, near Wardner,
Idaho, recently, by large body of
rock giving way from the roof Of the
drift. He was engaged with another
man timbering the drift at the time the
accident happened, but his comrade es-
capped injury. Lee had been working
at the mine for year.
A $26,O00,0O0 mining deal is pending
in the Occur d'Alene silver-lead min
ing camps of northern Idaho. The
contemplated purchaser is the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company (the
lead trust). The negotiations involve
every great producing mine In the
Occur d'Alenes, with the single ex-
ception Of the Hercules, and the DOS
sible exception Of the properties of the
Empire State-Idaho (Chas. Sweeny's
company.
The greatest interest taken in the
eastern Oregon gold fields since the
palmy days of the Auburn placers In
the Cos is now evidenced on every
hand. More mines are on the produc.
ing list, more men are employed un-
foreground and more scientific work Is
being done than ever before in the his
tory Of mining in Oregon. Deep sink
ing is the order of the day and a num-
Der Of leading properties are now close
to the 1000 foot level.
Because the mine was not being
worked at sufficient profit 81 men
have been laid of permanently at the
Frisco mine, near Wallace, Idaho. The
day shift OF the mill has been closed
and from now on 1t will be run only
during the nights. A force Of ITS men
is retained, but previous to the layoff
yesterday morning another force had
been released. The real cause for the
reduction in the force, as given out
by the management, Is that the ore In
the upper workings is too low grade to
be mined at profit.
The big ore-shoot at the Goiconda
mine, near Sumpter, Ore, that has
been drifted on In the tunnel level and
explored $50 feet was picked nm last