The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-26
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
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For the past week the Cranky smell
ter treated 44SS tons, or 144,6O7 tons
for this year.
The Velvet mine on Sophie noun
tain, near Rossland, has become pay
ing property.
Excavating has been started at the
White Bear mine at Rossland, for the
new gallows frame.
1t is reported from Camp Mckinney
that the stamp mill at the Waterloo
mine is running on ore from that mine.
Increased shipments and enhanced
activity is the record of Rossland
camp for the past week. The Giant
and the Nickel Plate mines resumed
work
w. w. Warner of Spokane is push
ing work on the Wonderful, in the
SLOGAN, where he has a heavy stream
of water employed in sluicing on the
surface.
The April returns from the Ymir
mine are out and indicate slight fall
ing off in profit, in consequence of the
heavy expense incurred in repairing
the wagon road and main flume.
The Cranky company, which has re-
Gently been operating only two fur
naces owing to the limited quantity of
coke shipped by the Crows Nest c. al
company, expects to blow in another
furnace shortly.
Camborne, in the Lardeau is said
to be one of the busiest towns in Brit
ish Columbia. There are at least $50
men working in and about town, draw
ing a daily wage of from SO to $3.50
These men board in town, taking their
midday meal with them to their work
Under the direction of M. r. Galu-
sha of Spokane, marked progress has
been made during the last month al
the Jumbo mine, in Rossland camp
and the prospect is that the property
will be shipping ore in considerable
quantities at an early date.
The strike at the Extension Goa
mines has been settled after IA weeks
fight between the laborers of the West
ern Federation of Miners and the own
er, James Dunsmuir, formerly premier
of British Columbia. The union by 6
large majority carried a motion to re
turn to work and end the strike.
For the fourth consecutive week the
Snow Shoe mine in the Phoenix CAM
has exceeded the previous weeks rec
ord for ore shipments, while this weel
the British Columbia mine has bea
all previous records in the same line
The total of the Boundary tonnag,
for the year to date is almost a mil
lion tons.
The Providence mine, bought b!
present owners for $4,000 less than 1.
months ago, has paid net returns o
more than $4,000 to the purchaser
and there is said to be $4,000 NOR,
ore now blocked out, with big pros
poets in sight for the future. TIL
Providence is the first claim for whicl
a crown grant was issued in Yale dis
trict.
The Wilcox mill, near Ymir, i
crushing from II to IA tons a da,
with four stamps and is making abou
one ton of concentrates a day w
are keeping the mill running with thre
men, and six miners are busy under
ground. The ore is averaging abou
SIS ton gold and silver and the cor
centrates go from $45 to $50 a ton, il
gold, silver and lead.
The lead has been cut at the II
: foot level in the Providence mine, thu
adding considerably to the known va
ne of this property. At IT'S feet tn
lead is about Is feet from the shaft
The vein is from - to Is inches il
width of ore similar in general appear
ance and character to that stopped a
the 125 foot level, much of which ra
$3.50 and upwards to the ton.