Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

The old Virtue mine, without any
display of fireworks on the part of it!
present owners and managers, is fast
taking its place again among the bis
mines of the west, says the Bakel
City (Ore.) Democrat.
An important placer mining dea
was closed in Lewiston, Idaho recent
ly when d. T. Denton of Duluth ant
R. B. Hibbs purchased from Messrs
Snyder and Riley 200 acres of placer
ground on Snake creek in the Pierce
district.
A payment of $4,000 was made al
Boise, Idaho, recently on the Werden
hoff property, on Big creek. in the
Thunder Mountain region. The pay
ment was made by Ex-Governor Hunt
president of the Werdenhoff company
TO- G. A. Werdenhoff, C. L. Meyers OF
Warren, Jesse M. Jackman and ]
Prindle Smith. The payment is impor
tant, because it shows the company
is going ahead with the project.
The Union Pacific Coal company has
offered to settle with the relatives of
the men killed in the recent mine ex-
plosion near Hanna, Wyo., on the basis
of $3.50 for the unmarried men and
$500 to be paid each widow, with $50
additional for each child in the family.
The coroner's inquest over the remains
of the victims of the explosion will be-
gin Monday. 1t will be several weeks
before it is concluded.
The Mountain Lion, in Republic.
which has been closed down for over
a year, will be started again about the
middle of the month under the new
management of A. E. Palmer.
The nine mines of the Amalgamated
Copper company, which suspended
July 1, because of the incompletion of
the gigantic flues of the Washoe smell
tiers at Anaconda, by which it is
planned to remedy the smoke nuisance,
will resume the hoisting of ore about
August 20.
Patrick Clark has suspended opera
tons on the Blue Ledge mine in Siski-
you county, California, on which he
has bond for $25O,OO0. Mr.. Clark
says: Have stopped work on 'the
property. Development is not salts
factory for the price asked"
G. B. Dennis of Spokane has Sc
cured control of the famous Muscovite
mica mines, Is miles from Vollmer,
Idaho, and he expects to start opera
lions again within month.
I'VE shall work about 20 miners and
about 40 girls" said Dennis recently.
"There is ready market for our
mica, and believe that the Muscovite
mines will be in position to produce as
much high class mica as all the rest of
the quarries in mines in America put
together. The mine was worked regu-
larly until 1896, when 1t came under
the influence of the mica trust and was
closed. Two years ago l operated it
for time with about 10 miners and
20 girls. Now that l have secured COM
plete control l shall push operations
steadily.
Suit was brought In Spokane recent
ly by the Lucille Dreyfus Mining COM
pany to cancel $4,000 shares of false
and fraudulent certificates and raised
certificates held by about $50 people.
The complaint makes 1856 persons de-
PENDANTS and sets out in detail 1,1O9,-
900 shares Of false certificates, raised
certificates and stolen certificates
upon which the court is asked to pass
Judgment. " The action is brought to
secure a legal solution of the difficult
ties caused by the criminal acts of
Howard ]. Kressly, the absconding Sec
rotary of the company.
Bringing 1923 passengers and $780,
900 in treasure, the steamship Roanoke
arrived in Seattle from Nome last
week.
The owners of the Barnes-King mine
were made jubilant when returns from
their assay office showed that the
north drift from the 200 foot level was
all in ore of high grade, says the Ken
dali Chronicle. The whole face of the
drift averages s12 to the ton, and
which can be treated at profit of $40
per ton.
Leroy Masterson, foreman at the
steel works, Pueblo COL, was muir
dered recently while lying asleep. Sus-
picion rests on members of a gang of
laborers of which the dead man has
charge, and 16 of them have been ar
rested. Masterson had. the night be-
fore, discharged three men. The weap-
on used in the murder was shovel,
and his skull was fractured.
nnun1nnrnopt 10 T
mine, in Lump gulch, about ten miles
from Helena, gives indications that
that old time producer will soon rival