Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-02-28


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.
ID. M. Hyman, who is negotiating
the big $6,000,000 deal for the consoli-
dation of the Occur d'Alene mines, has
secured an extension of his option I'M
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
las soon as the 20 additional stamps
are installed at the Jumbo mine our
output will be $4,000 a month";" said
Frank Brown, the manager of this Buff
falo Hump property, who was in Spo-
kane recently.
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
been completed.
Never in the history of the sampling
works, below Wallace, Idaho, was such
a large tonnage sampled as during
January. The amount treated was
13, 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
| 1900 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 $1,000,000.
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 adj
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 a deal for
the Homestake & Idaho group OF
claims, II in number, for S125,000. 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. 1t is
generally conceded that more people
will be in the mining districts this sea-
on 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 $26,000,000 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 pos
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 I'M
derground 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 num-
Der of leading properties are now close
to the 1000 foot level.
| Because the mine was not being
worked at sufficient profit 67 men
have been laid off permanently at the
Frisco mine, near Wallace, Idaho. The
day Shift OF the mill has been closed
and from now on it will be run only