The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-10-09
to make possible certain and necessary
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changes in the plant.
The Pearl, Lone Pine and Surprise
mineral claims, belonging to the Lone
Pine-Sunrise Mining company, have
been sold to the Pearl Consolidated /
Mining company, the original company
retaining only the Last Chance claim
free of all incumbrance.
Frank Stevens, well-known mining
man, died at the Jumbo mine, Buffalo |
Hump. He was a brother of w. A.
Stevens, one Of the owners of the Jum-
BIO, and also one of the best known |
mining men in the country. Frank |
Stevens was known to almost every |
mining man in the northwest. He was
early associated with the devel- |
opment of the Occur d'Alenes, and lat |
er went to Buffalo Hump, where he
has been an active factor in the devel-
opment of that camp. Several weeks
ago Stevens fell and broke several ribs.
Being careless in his actions, he
caught severe cold, which finally set
tied into pneumonia, and that was the
cause of his death.
Uren and Charles S. Frost, the two
miners who were blown to atoms in
an explosion at the Mammoth mine,
were held last week at Wallace.
Foreman Thomas Gibson of the Sun
set mining claim, just above Northport,
on the reservation side of the river,
reports rich discoveries in the pros
pect work and states that number of
men will be put to work to develop
| the property The ore consists most
ly of galena and runs high in silver.
| There is an unconfirmed report that
the Federal Mining & Smelling COM
pany has decided to take over the
Cleveland property in the Occur
d'Alenes.
Steam has started up at the Noun
tain Lion mine at Republic, Wash.
The machine drills are being put in or
der as rapidly as possible to begin stop
ing ore and the big pumps have start
I ed on lifting the water out of the shaft.
With bowed head and in voice
scarcely audible to those standing by
him, Howard X. Kressly, the once Wen
known Spokane mining broker and
man about town, pleaded guilty to the
charge of obtaining $3.50 under false
pretenses from F. Bowman.
Since the Hercules made the great
strike in the lower tunnel there has
been considerable demand, for stocl
in the Ajax property, which adjoins the
Hercules on the east.
A tunnel is now being driven which
will tap the ledge at depth of ovel
, 200 feet There is considerable stool
, held in Spokane.
The Post Lambert mine, in the
Mount Baker district, owned by Hair
l & Friede of Portland, made it's SECOND
: clean up Sunday for 26 days run. The
mill is crushing 20 tons daily of rocl
7 thought to go better than S35 per ton
The owners will install another II
: stamps and cyanide plant mex
: spring.
: A number of improvements are be
5 ing made at the Tiger-Poorman mine
at Burke, Idaho. A new dam is beils
t built on the upper lake, which will b.
27O feet long and 80 feet high. Re
pairs are also being made on thu
g fume.
f John Connors, superintendent of TIL
: Gold Crown quartz mine, who ha
: reached Portland, Ore, declares tina
f Mount St. Helena was in eruption Of
+ September Is, the date on which a
t earthquake shock was felt over the Pa
S cific northwest country.
President Charles Sweeny of tn
Federal Lead company says the gros
profits for September, which is tn
e first month of the merger, are 1881 900
e or a little over 100000 in net carr
a ings. But it took ten days to trans
fer some of the plants, so the STAND
i ard and Mammoth how for only two
, thirds of a month. The company
;. handling 1000 tons of crude ore pc
s day now and will handle 10000 pc
}, month when the full capacity
n reached, making 1900 tons of concel
e trates, with $125000 net earnings. Nj
Sweeny says no new railroad col
struction is contemplated at presen
1t is said the Federal lead tonnae
will be divided equally between tn
! railroads reaching it's mines an
, plants. -
Eleven hundred miners in tn
{ Springfield, ILL.,, subdistrict have struc
> because the operators have refused
, comply with the law providing tn;
the operators shall erect. washhouse
l, near the mines. 1t is believed the strih
o will not last long.
L Rapid progress is being made @
- the construction of the new SIS OF
II schoolhouse at. Mullan. 1t is expecte