The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-11-20

including the Pittsburg district, show
that the agreement to curtail the out
put Of pig iron is rapidly being ex-
ceeded in tonnage by the voluntary
action Of the individual members to
the agreement. The last meeting of
the furnace operators showed that the
curtailment, instead of being rs per
cent, was 40 per cent. A week later
the curtailment will reach 60 per cent.
William Cary and Joe Anderson,
two miners seriously injured in the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine at Ward
morning as the result of blast going
off before they could reach safety.
The Pittsburg & Montana Smelling
company of Butte, which recently pur-
chased the John Olsen and Peter Ber-
quist group of claims, near Austin, Is
miles from Helena, has bought for
$4,000 two adjoining claims. owned
by John Olsen and w. M. G. Settles
OF Helena. The Olsen and Berquist
group of claims has yielded consider
able copper ore. which has netted
good profit. The Pittsburg company
will work the properties vigorously,
to provide pyritic ores for its Butte
smelter, now nearing completion.
Livingston, Mont.-The big Coke
dale coal mines. for years filed with
water, have been pumped dry after
slightly over six months of steady
pumping day and night. The collieries
are owned by the Amalgamated Cop
per company, and 800 men will be
put to work at once and coal will be
mined for the smelters of the big min
ing combine at Washoe, Great Falls
and Butte. The operation of the Coke
dale mines will lessen the production
of the coal mines at Diamondville,
Wyo., and Pleasant Valley, Utah,
where the Amalgamated company is
now getting the greater part of the
fuel used in the mines and shelters.
Buffalo Hump, Idaho.-A rich strike
has been made in the Miss Juneau by
Frank Stickner. This claim parallels
the Mother Lode and is particularly
interesting as it disproves the old idea
that the Mother Lode vein was the
eastern boundary of the mineral belt.
The coal miners Of Utah have been
granted an increase of 10 per cent in
their wages. Specials from the differ
ent camps show that the advance has
been general, the rate of pay being
raised from $3.50 to SITS per day.
The action of Governor J. X. Toole
in calling special session of the Mon
tana legislature has resulted in the
resumption of work in all the proper
ties of the Amalgamated Copper com.
pany in the state.
w. ]. Harris and Wellington S. Har'
ris have returned to Spokane from
Pierce City, Idaho, where the latter
has been doing considerable work on
the Horseshoe group Of three claims
all of which carry good values in free
milling gold ore. A tunnel on one Of
the claims has been run 100 feet and
the vein, which is about Is feet wide
has been followed the entire distance
Two crosscuts at the end of the tunnel
one of so and the other 100 feet, have
been finished. Values have been fount
| in both.
. Although little has been heard from
the Hoodoo mining district, which lie:
, along the Palouse river east of Pa
louise, Wash, the district has beef
moving steadily forward and give
promise of making record.
The anticipated partial closing dow
: of the Minnewau steel works. The
= plant of the Colorado Fuel & Irol
: company in Pueblo, COL, took plac
. recently, when nearly 5000 men wer
given their time checks with instrue
yttions to call at the Office Monday TO
l their money.
:. The men employed in the bar mil
$ of the Inland Steel company at Ind
: ana Harbor refused to accept re
duction of IL IL per cent in thei
wages, and the entire plant was shu
down. About 1900 men were throw
q out.
v Representatives of the miners {
r the northern coal district and the OF
9 orators OF Colorado have reached
s satisfactory conclusion, after being 4
conference for nine hours, and, in col
q sequence, the mines will beyond dout
n resume operations.
4 Republic Mines.