Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-07-31
BRITISH COLUMBIA MINES.

BRITISH COLUMBIA MINES.
The Last Chance mine, after a
years period of idleness, has resumed
operations.
The claims recently located by Mike
Kerlin in the Poplar Creek district are
looking up well.
| For a second week the ore ship
ments from the Boundary mines run
over 1000 tons per day.
1t is not publicly known. but the sIo-
can district has in prospect smelter
and refining works somewhere ada
cent to its mines, says the Review.
The Wakefield mine will shortly in
crease its force to 20 miners Man.
ager Lane expects to ship $50 tons of
ore per month and will make the first
shipment this week, when the car will
be sent to Nelson, says the Nelson
| News.
Patrick ]. Dermody, foreman of the
| CRANKY properties, reports that the
mine is working $50 men and will
probably work 100 more when furnaces
No. 4 and at the smelter start in
| about two months. Mr.. Darmody re-
ports that the new steam shovel at
the mines is working finely and is
capable 70 handling 1000 tons of ore
day.
The 80 foot steel plate smokestack
at the Greenwood smelter was top
pied over and its steel supporting ca
bles snapped like threads during the
high windstorm recently. The wind
also wrecked heavy plate glass win
dows, causing damage estimated at
$4,000, and blew trees and telephone
and telegraph poles and wires down in
all directions. Late in the afternoon
the wind came from the direction of
Boundary creek, tearing down trees
by the score and playing havoc with
buildings and other property. It did
not last half an hour, but during that
short time it attained great velocity
and brought with it clouds of dust
that darkened the atmosphere over
the whole of the valley.
The Velvet mine at Rossland has
suspended operations indefinitely. The
management has made no statement
on the subject as yet, but it is gen
orally understood from men arriving
in the city from the property that the
suspension will be lengthy and that it
is occasioned by the fact that the paya-
BILE ore under existing conditions is
exhausted.
The recent discovery of free gold ore
tain, overlooking the Nelson, near
Rossland, is apparently a genuinely
important strike, fully up to the stand
ard of the Poplar creek sensation,
which has drawn hundreds of prospec-
tors and mining men into the Lardeau.
Much interest is manifested in the
announcement that the Homestake
company has engaged Andrew G. Lar
son, a well known Occur d'Alene and
Rossland mining man, to make thor
ough examination and prepare geo.
logical plans for the mine. The prop
erty is located in the south belt of
Rossland and has been a sinkhole for
many thousand dollars in past years.
Shipments for last week from Ross
land are larger than usual, the LIE Roi
making up for the light output of the
previous week. Details are: Lee Roi.
1850; Centre Star, 1920; War Eagle,
1880; Kootenay, 351; LIE Roi No. 2,
$40; Velvet, 80; Giant, %; Jumbo, 1853;
total, 5000; total for year to date, $685.
992.
Dan McKinnon of Kaslo was brought
into town on handcar from the An
tome mine at McGuigan, almost in
pieces, from the effects of a missed
shot in blast. His right arm is in
ribbons and his body Is torn and cut
in innumerable places with pieces of
flying rock. His skull was punctured
and cut from the top of his head to his
neck. One cut was from the hair on
his forehead straight down his face
and neck to his side. That he still
lives is miracle. The doctors were
hours in removing the pieces of rock
from his body and have now good
hopes that he will recover. He is
well known and popular.
The big LIE Roi mine at Rossland
steadily continues to make money, ac-
cordlng to the report OF Manager s.
A. Parish, although production lately
has been somewhat cut down. The
ore shipped during April amounted to
1916 tons. containing 4S51 ounces
gold. 64sS ounces silver, S07, 532 pounds
copper; value per ton, $11.41. A por-
ton. $50 tons. containing 1853 ounces
gold, 209 ounces silver and 1858 pounds
copper, was sold to the Hall Mining &
Smelling company, limited, of Nelson,
B. c., for experimental purposes; the
balance was shipped to the smelter at
Northport. The cost of breaking and
delivering the ore on the railroad cars
was SAT- per ton. while the cost of de-
velopment was equal to So cents per
ton.