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

slightest Si6uS VI WSdheHluB, eltneT AT
home or abroad.
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 $6,000,O00 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.
"As 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.
A company os being formed to invest
$150,OO0 in Ignite coal mine at Will
!iston, 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
a large tonnage sampled as during
January. The amount treated was
13,485 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 10S,500 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,
600 worth of ore in sight on this prop
Osition and the owners claim the mine
is worth S1,000,000.
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 syndicate composed of Chicago
capitalists, has completed deal fol
the Homestake & Idaho group O.
claims, II in number, for S125000. The
properties are located on Beaver creek
in the Thunder Mountain district, ant
are among the richest in that section
The people of Orofno, Idaho, ar
preparing to handle the greatest bus
ness in the history of the town. 1t /
generally conceded that more peopl,
will be in the mining districts this sea
on than for many years and the placer
miners will have more water will
which to work than there has beer
since the camps were first established
o. p. Lee, miner, aged "a years
was crushed to death at the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan mine, near Wardner
Idaho, recently, by a 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 trusD. The negotiations involve
every great producing mine in the
Occur d'Alenes, with the single ex-
ception of the Hercules, and the pos
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 aVary