The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-05

luInD
the Montana Mining & Development
company, operating the famous Drum
Lummon mine, at Marysville, Mont
George Stonebraker, the veteran
mining man, has started for Thunder
Mountain from Sites.
A shipment of 10 tons of ore from
the Standard mine, in Pony gulch, Mad
ison county, Mont, received at the East
Helena smelter, assayed $325.40 ton
in gold. The property was worked dur
ing the winter by James Pollard, un-
assisted, and this was the first ship
ment from the property. Pollard is an
old timer and was among the first to
wash out gold in Last Chance gulch,
which is now Main street in Helena.
The Watseca mine at Rochester,
Mont, is now running full blast and
turning out gold at the rate of $4,000
a month. The Rochester Gold Mining
company, which has been operating a
claim in the same vicinity, has encoun-
tered at a depth of 200 feet ore run
ming 5000 ton in gold. The ore body
is reported to be of splendid proper
tons.
Shipping ore assaying from $S5 to
$50 ton has been encountered in the
DAILY mine at Wickes, Mont.
A deal is on for the purchase of the
old Alliance mine, in the Rapid river
district of southern Idaho.
An eastern syndicate, represented by
Hugo Frylor Of Corbin, has bonded
the Gaffney group of mines near
Wickes, Mont.
Three gold bars, with an assay value
of $4,000, were on exhibition at the
Lewiston mining bureau recently.
These are the result of a cleanup Of
a 80 days run of the Crackerjack mill
at Buffalo Hump.
vein sc feet wide and carrying
values in copper ranging from 10 to rs
per cent copper, has been encountered
in the Argo mine, in Hellgate canyon,
near Helena. The property is being de-
velOped by local firm.
The report that the Bald Butte mine
has been worked out and that the
stockholders, large majority of whom
consist of prominent Helena business
men, had dumped their holdings on the
Boston market, is emphatically denied
by the officials of the company.
The Hasmark mine in Granite coun.
ty, which is being developed by J. c.
Mcleod, is the scene of a rich strike
r in Montana. An immense body of ore
running $1,000 a ton in silver-lead
which is thoroughly impregnated with
+ ruby, wire and crystalized silver, was
: encountered.
; ID. T. Harrington, manager of the
; Trojan Mining company, operating
: near Orient, Wash, died suddenly re
}, Gently from heart trouble. Mr.. Har
rington was mining man we'll known
4 in nearly all the prominent camps il
k the west. He was about 55 years O
n age and unmarried.
S A financial crash in the affairs of tn,
a copper King Mining company, limited
u a London corporation, has at last takeI
e place, and it affects people prominen
It in San Francisco, London and Paris
D lie attorney Of the San Francisc,
d board of trade, on behalf of some of tn,
general creditors in San Francisco. ha
@ petitioned the United States circui
a court to declare the company an invol
t. untary bankrupt.
IT A resolution was adopted recently b,
k the American Labor union convention
e to appoint a committee to revise tn
6 constitution, with a view to completed,
1t remodeling the system of organization
n along lines similar to those of civi
II government; that is, to centraliz
n unions by cities, states and nation, AM
1t have divisions or departments govern
<. ing various classes of trades, and al
Is under a central head. V. ]. Devault
If who has the credit for originating thi
y idea two years ago, explained the pla
fully to the convention, and the resolu
ion evoked much discussion.
Two carloads of machinery for tn
p electric pumps to be used in the STAND
N ard mine have arrived at Mace, Idaho
lg The pumps will be placed at the 100
lie foot level. The company has been sinl
lg ing from the 500 foot level and wi
ct reach the station point in about al
other month. 1t is a three compar
la ment shaft and large force of men /
IS working on it. When the new electri
tie pumps are installed the steam pump
I'd will be abandoned. The power to OF
Id crate the new machinery will be oil
tanned from the Washington Wate
n Power cOmDanV which is running