The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-07-24

way with so passengers and $259,9OO
in Klondike gold. A number of the
were from the interior.
The vessel left Skagway on July IS.
Rumors of a copper strike about 10
miles northeast of Pierce, Idaho, is the |
latest, and J. b. Collins. one of the dis |
cOverers, and H. E. Ellsworth, who |
has examined the find, say it is on Elk !
mountain, at the head of Elk creek, a |
tributary of the ORC Grande, and 10
miles due northeast of Pierce, or about
16 miles by the old Moose City trail.
The ledge has been traced through
seven claims. 1t is a blind lead and
has been run over for years by pros
pectors. who have found the float.
William Martin, Familiarity known in
the west as Uncle Billy" Martin, an
old time placer miner and argonaut,
died recently at Missoula OF paralysis,
aged rs. He was in Alder gulch in
1868 and was sheriff of Kootenai coun-
ty, Idaho, from 1882 to 1856.
The milling plant being erected at
the California mine, in the Cable Cove
district, Ore, is rapidly approaching
completion. The machinery for this
ter and is therefore ready to be in
stalled as soon as the building is ready
for it,
Negotiations are now pending for a
settlement of the difficulty existing
between the large mineowners of the
Occur d'Alenes and Shoshone county,
regarding the taxes of the different
properties. 1t is now confidently eX-
pressed that a compromise will be eff
fected before the present session of
the county commissioners adjourns.
J. White, a member of the syndicate
owning the Clarence group in the Buff
falO Hump section, states that % men
are at work on the Big Buffalo group
in the Hump. Work has been recon-
menced on the tunnel on the ORC Elmo
claim. When Charles Sweeny and as
sOciates first became interested in Buff
falo Hump, the original plan of de-
velopment for the claims was through
tunnel 1000 feet long. where work
is now progressing. The present de
velopment is taken here to mean that
Mr.. Sweeny has decided to pursue that
plan of permanent development on the
Big Buffalo group which he decided on
when the properties were first pur.
chased
Preparations are being made to re
sumo work on the Effie r. claims, in
the Pierre Lake district, Washington
The Effie r. comprises three proper
ties, situated east of the First
Thought mine. Much shaft and tun
mel work has been done on these prop
critics. Gold is the principal ingre
dent of the ore.
Ore from blind ledge in the lowe
workings at the Opal mine near Che
saw Wash. gives values as high al
$500 in gold. The ore is four fee
wide and is running in the same direc
ton as the tunnel.
John Boyd is in New York and i
said to be arranging for the installa
ton of a 5000 horse power electrical
plant, and a half of a SIS drill air com
pressor, which is to be placed at tn
Palmer Mountain tunnel at LOOMS
Wash
On account of the shortage of Crow
Nest coke it was found necessary t
, close another furnace at Northpor
smelter. No. 5 furnace will be change
to side feeder, and will start up i
, 10 days. The intention of the mar
, agement is to run four furnaces unit
the coke famine is released.
? The Old Dominion concentration a
= Colville, Wash, with a capacity of 6
= tons Of ore per day, which has bee
t idle for the past six years. has bee
T. thoroughly repaired. and has starte
] with two shifts of four men, and wi
continue indefinitely. The ore bodie
heretofore opened up on the Old d.
5 miniOn have been uncovered. w. /
Kyle, the lessee of the property, ha
had % men busy during the sprin
and early summer months opening II
+ and timbering the old tunnels and III
r dergrOund works in various parts {
the mine and in starting new develol
t. ments where it was deemed nece
= sary The latest and most impOrta1
q development in the Old Dominic
, group is the opening of three feet {
chloride ore in the old Ella shaft, roc
o. from which carries 5000 ounces of 81
o yer to the ton.
4 The Rapid river district, in Idaho,
c Inc scene of considerable activity an
6 development. A gigantic hosting plaI
+ has been ordered for the properties
: the Iron Springs Mining company an
g is due to arrive in about a week.
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