The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-18

OF 500 feet
The Bunker Hill company of Ward
ner Idaho, has brought suit in the
United States court against the En-
pire State-Idaho company for 1929.
242. alleged to be due as the value of
or extracted from the Stemwinder lead
apex. which has been adjudged as the
property of the plaintiff.
Underground resources of the In
land Empire will be exploited at the
Spokane Interstate fair. October to
13. as probably they have never been
displayed in the Northwest.
1t is feared the rise in the price Of
silver may drain the Philippines of
the coin recently shipped there.
Among the remedies proposed are ex-
tension of our coinage to the Philip
pines or a greater proportion of al
10y.
Burke, Idaho Sept. Zone OF the
greatest strikes in the Occur d'Alenes
in recent years was recorded recently,
when the Hercules broke into the ore
shoot in the lower tunnel. Across the
full face of the tunnel seven feet there
10 6ltGl Sdltlltt INC 0dAllC hA6h NAet'S
ore found in the upper workings. Shots
were put in the sides and there, too.
the rich mineral lay. This tunnel gives
a depth Of 1000 feet 500 feet below the
upper workings. The tunnel is in over
2400 feet. Only the crude ore is
shipped, the Hercules having no mill
The ore that is shipped gives a net
return of over $50 a ton. Before the
ore reaches the railroad a two mile
haul is necessary, entailing an eX-
pense of $3.50 per ton. According to
the sworn statements of the owners
the shipments of the mine last year
were 1898 tons, the gross value being
S394.629 The cost of extraction was
$685. 900 Other expenditures were
freight and reduction. s24O,330; repairs
and construction, $1S,s63. This left
net profit of $169,527 for the 499S
tons The Mammoth netted $349,3Sf
or 1900 tons-about IS per ton. 1t is
: stated that the Sweeny merger de
sired to take over the mine on basis
of $2,5OO,OOO The owner refused.
Paul Rossier, who has the contract
for tearing down the old Empire State
, mill at Wardner, Idaho found, in tear
ing out the old bins and chutes. thai
considerable amount of ore had &C
cumulated in them, and is making ;
shipment Of one car to the smelter
and has two more cars on hand al
r ready to ship.
/ w. H. Adams Of the Adams-Walke
4 company has returned to Spokan,
from the Elk City, Idaho, district
S where he has taken a two year work
. ing bond on the American City 70
l. $35 900 Mr. Adams has placed fiv
:. men to work on each group.
In a fierce battle in one of tn
[ drifts of the Watseka gold mine nea
< Virginia City, New, several hundre
e feet underground, Morris Gailor RAJ
T. the sharp point of his candlesticl
through the heart of Bud Brown hi
j., working partner, almost instantly kill
= ing him. The trouble arose over
r trihe, the two men disputing as t
n positions they should take in the slope
O Rrown, it is said, struck Gailor in tn
O face, who then made a terrible lung
O at his opponent. sending his candle
@ stick almost through him. Gallo
+ made no attempt to escape and is nov
in Jail.
e During the week 40 cars of ore, O
e about 1900 tons, were shipped fror
= the mines of Republic camp to tn
}, smelters.
At the Hump, Idaho, there are eigt
D inches of snow and everyone is busy
u General Charles S. Warren, the g,
NAL and corpulent general, is reporte
+ as having made an important strike /
D TOnOpah, New. A sharer of his goo
S fortune, John c. Ralston, M. E., ha
" received advices from TonOpah sayin
u that the Tonopah Extension Mimi
e company, operating the Grand Trunl
u has encountered eight fet of 5000 or
l. The strike is believed to have bee
made in a shaft at a depth of abOl
300 feet The Grand Trunk is an e,
tension of the Mizpah, the original bi
q thing in TOnopah. The company wa
s floated in Philadelphia by John n
g. Burke, but Mr.. Burke, after some trol
h BILE with the Quakers, left the cor
m pany. He is credited with having r
70 ceived from 40 to so cents a share f
le IS stock.
e. The steamship Oregon came I'M
d. seattle port recently from Nome wit
n POI passengers and $225,O00 in gol
d. OF the treasure $4,000 came as o
a. binary mail matter in bullion shal
n. inclOsed in mail pouches. 1t was co